Nice show Gary. I enjoy laid-back Fridays. You’ve piqued my interst in the Prunotto. The cheese with the truffles sounds delicious.

I know you’ve been struggling with dropping “profound” into every description. I thought I would help by giving you some synonyms for the word:

abstruse, acroamatic, deep, difficult, discerning, enlightened, erudite, esoteric, heavy*, hermetic, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, mysterious, occult, orphic, penetrating, philosophical, recondite, reflective, sagacious, sage, scholarly, secret, serious, shrewd, skilled, subtle, thorough, thoughtful, weighty, wise

QOTD: Enough of people crappin’ on golf. I’m keeping an eye on Justin Rose

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

FYI-I’m sure that it’s not quite as tasty nor complex as the cheese Gary was having today but for those of us with a more modest budget, Trader Joe’s (at least the one by me) has just started stocking a truffle cheese that’s really really good. I think I might pick up another chunk of it along with a Barolo tomorrow and indulge in a poor man’s recreation of today’s WLTV.

Did someone forget to mute Apple Mail.app?
That tone haunts me and I heard it throughout the show.

Trust my palate? What happens when my palate and my wallet have the all-out battle royale? Remember the head to head QOTD you asked when doing the Pine Ridge wines? Well the best head to head combat (besides Ali-Frazier, US v. USSR, etc.) is my wine palate battling my wine budget.

Harold, thanks for the tip — I’ll head to our local Trader Joe’s tomorrow, to see if they have any of that truffle cheese. One of my other faves from Trader Joe’s is a chile-mango cheddar.

You are welcome Cindy. BTW-the cranberry (they also have blueberry) stilton is one to check out as well.

Awesome speech, G! Inspiring! Empowering!!
(fill in the blank)ING!!! Bravo, muh man! 😀

Hey Gary,

Been away and trying to catch up on episodes. Love those Barolos as do you. Hope to see you at WL tomorrow. Must try that black truffle sardo if any left by afternoon. Would love to put it out on Easter for the crowd. Hope you had a lovely Passover with your family.

#44’s comment is the best! Go ‘head, Kahuna with yo’ bad self!
I just LOVE being around men & women who make me laugh. (So do my kids, who have just laughed their heads off about Kahuna’s posted “photo”)
Sor-ry Gary, I know that it IS a boring prediction that you ordered us not to make, but I’m a-feared that it’s going to be Tiger yet AGAIN sporting the green jacket and ordering his dream meal this time. Yes Vijay is back, but IMO he is not yet fully back on his game, whereas Tiger, on the other hand, seems to be running sort of on the hot side lately, plus, remember that Tiger does have an established rep as the come-from-behind-when-it-all-seems-to-be-over man. Just my 2C’s here, so don’t punch the messenger Ms Trish da’Dish in the neck (boy, you DO get some weirdos on here, don’cha?)….

QOD Henrik Stenson

Hey, Gar’ – Terrific episode. What I like about the Couch Friday Q&A is that it gets you away from the daily pourin’/swirlin’/sniffin’ & spittin’ – and allows you to chat with us, to riff & rant with us.
To actually learn something about bottle variation, WSE and CMFW – and trusting yourself – well, it just makes Couch Fridays special.

And the Black Truffle Cheese & Barolo combo REALLY made me lust for Velveeta & Lancers!

QOTD: If Vijay Singh doesn’t take it, it’s gotta be Fred Funk.

Happy Easter, Gar’!

Bill V.

Hey, Gar’ – Terrific episode. What I like about the Couch Friday Q&A is that it gets you away from the daily pourin’/swirlin’/sniffin’ & spittin’ – and allows you to chat with us, to riff & rant with us.
To actually learn something about bottle variation, WSE and CMFW – and trusting yourself – well, it just makes Couch Fridays special.

And the Black Truffle Cheese & Barolo combo REALLY made me lust for Velveeta & Lancers!

QOTD: If Vijay Singh doesn’t take it, it’s gotta be Fred Funk.

Happy Easter, Gar’!

Bill V.

I love it when you get up on that soap box man…you rock!
QOTD – Who cares…..it’s golf? A better question is who will win the NBA championship? Answer being my raptors!

Gary,

I think the word you were looking for in the middle of the episode there was … “strateegery.”

Great show.

QOTD: Honestly, I have no idea.

But who’s finally going to give Univ. of Florida a much-needed dose of humility this weekend (on the baseball diamond)?

The Carolina Gamecocks of course!

They already won today’s game 12-2!

Gary, good show. Don’t stop! Even my three year old tells me she wants to watch the wine guy!
QOTD: Tigger!

can’t wait to try the prunotto! i’ll have to look for that cheese, too! i’ve had a truffle cheese but it wasn’t the half & half kind you had. sounds heavenly. QOTD: huh? oh, i must’ve fallen asleep.

Hey Gary,
Great episode. You put a lot of heart and soul in to it.
Have a good weekend.

I became a blue cheese fan only after I had it paired with a Sauterne. That’s when I understood. A revelation. What was the cheese on today’s episode again?

Have fantastic weekend!

Building my wine self esteem every week. I don’t know who will top the leaderboad on Sunday, but “The Course” has been the winner of the first two rounds.

The cheese stroke is brilliant (and an excellent way to skirt the cholesterol issue in such a public way). I’ll be passing by the WL for the first time on Monday and may pick some of this cheese up. I have no opinion about golf, but the Mets are still unbeaten.

QOTD: Longshot Cinderella story *Bill Murry Voice* …Bradley Dredge

QOTD: UF, they win everything

QOTD: Lefty…. 🙂

Mmmm, I’ll have to pick up some cheese with my next bottle. Great show!

“Profound” episode today Gary. I love Barolos. Love the cheese pairing. I wish we could buy some cheese online from you. Anyone know of a great online cheese place?

I also agree with Mbannon’s comments about at least having your reviews or Parkers or a trusted friend you can rely on when buying wine. While I can afford to buy several at once (once in a awhile), I too am looking for what I like and certainly hate wasting money on things just to try; i.e. new world fruit bombs. I’ve tried a few, and just not my glass of wine.

Also, wanted to say thanks for your rant on trusting your palette. I’d love to see you spend more time talking about such things and answering more wine questions, and perhaps limiting the wines to two. Maybe do that once a week or so. I’ve been into wines for 10 years, but only seriously the last two, and since watching you over the last 8 months, have learned so much. Thank you.

Keep up the great work you do Gary.