QOTD: 2000 Groth Cabernet 750ml for $14.99. Of course, it was on sale. 🙂

Brave episode,Gary. 6 out of 7 wines that you would never drink again, incl the worst ever on WLTV.

QOTD – best bargain must have been from WLTV – 2 Up Shiraz for 10 bucks!!

Brave episode,Gary. 6 out of 7 wines that you would never drink again, incl the worst ever on WLTV.

QOTD – best bargain must have been from WLTV – 2 Up Shiraz for 10 bucks!!

Hi Gary,

Good choice on the episodes today. One thing I have learned about buying wine in general, is that the “botique” wine stores, or wine specialty stores that aren’t chain grocers seem to have better deals.

For example, when I go into Trader Joe’s, it seems like the same wines are always there. Further, I have yet to find a great QPR value in the 10-15 dollar range at TJ’s, something I think you should be known for.

The reason why I think you can find better wines and deals at smaller non-chain wine stores is because the large stores like Trader Joe’s are carrying basically the same inventory at each of the stores, thus limiting the ability to bring in interesting wines not wholesaled by a mass distributor or importer.

At TJ’s, I can go in and know exactly what I’m going to get, whereas at a wine specialty store, I’m more likely to find great QPR, but most likely that wine isn’t going to be in the inventory 8 weeks later.

I’d like to hear what others have to say about this, but the wine industry to me seems to be one of the few where little guys can compete with the big boys – I don’t know a lot about the business of wine, WHICH IS WHY I WATCH WLTV! My statements are merly a hypothesis.

QUESTION OF THE DAY!

The best deal I have ever gotten was when I bought a 4th generation iPod at Best Buy with a product REPLACEMENT plan, and got 100% in store credit for the comparable 5th generation iPod when the battery died 10 months later.

Good deals don’t always last, like this one – when I got my free upgrade to the 5th gen., I could only buy into the product Service plan.

Hi Gary,

Good choice on the episodes today. One thing I have learned about buying wine in general, is that the “botique” wine stores, or wine specialty stores that aren’t chain grocers seem to have better deals.

For example, when I go into Trader Joe’s, it seems like the same wines are always there. Further, I have yet to find a great QPR value in the 10-15 dollar range at TJ’s, something I think you should be known for.

The reason why I think you can find better wines and deals at smaller non-chain wine stores is because the large stores like Trader Joe’s are carrying basically the same inventory at each of the stores, thus limiting the ability to bring in interesting wines not wholesaled by a mass distributor or importer.

At TJ’s, I can go in and know exactly what I’m going to get, whereas at a wine specialty store, I’m more likely to find great QPR, but most likely that wine isn’t going to be in the inventory 8 weeks later.

I’d like to hear what others have to say about this, but the wine industry to me seems to be one of the few where little guys can compete with the big boys – I don’t know a lot about the business of wine, WHICH IS WHY I WATCH WLTV! My statements are merly a hypothesis.

QUESTION OF THE DAY!

The best deal I have ever gotten was when I bought a 4th generation iPod at Best Buy with a product REPLACEMENT plan, and got 100% in store credit for the comparable 5th generation iPod when the battery died 10 months later.

Good deals don’t always last, like this one – when I got my free upgrade to the 5th gen., I could only buy into the product Service plan.

Now here’s a dare: a jug wine tasting? Wait … that might not be fun even as a joke.

You put figurines in your underpants?
QOTD – In Desert Storm when my first child was born. Total bill – I got refunded $175 by the government. Am I in trouble also?

QOTD: From West Coast Trader Joe’s,… drum roll please…ABRAZO Del Toro! 2005. 80% Garnacha-20% Tempranillo, from Carinena, Espana. Only 13% alc. $3.99. Leather, leather, fruit’s a bit dumb, but the finish saves the day. Screaming qpr.

QOTD: From West Coast Trader Joe’s,… drum roll please…ABRAZO Del Toro! 2005. 80% Garnacha-20% Tempranillo, from Carinena, Espana. Only 13% alc. $3.99. Leather, leather, fruit’s a bit dumb, but the finish saves the day. Screaming qpr.

Two Buk Vaynerchuck 😉

Best deal: twin fraternal girls for $100 copay.

Second best deal: inheriting Lucent for free and selling it in 1999 at $65/share

Third best deal: 2004 Numanthia Numanthia for 44 bucks/bottle

I enjoyed the episode and now I know what wine to serve to my mother-in-law next Christmas. She normally makes me buy a box of white zin for her, now I can spend the same amount and impress her with the bottle.

QOTD – It was actually my Dad’s bargain but I was there. It was 1982, I was 15 and looking for my first car in the used car section of the local paper. I wanted a 67 chevelle and was willing to spend $2000.00. I worked all through my sophmore year and the following summer and was ready. I spotted an ad in the paper that stated “67 chevy $900”. I called the lady who happened to live one section over in Levittown and arranged to see the car in an hour. I called my Dad who was an auto mechanic and he drove home to take me over there. Well, that day my Dad bought himself a 67 corvette for $1000. The lady’s son died in Vietnam 12 years priior and the car had been sitting in her garage ever since, it had 6000 miles on it. There was no chance I was getting that beautiful car and though I didn’t understand at the time, I get it now. I did buy a 67 chevelle that year for $500 and totaled it the following year. That was one smart move by my Dad.

QOTD: in terms of wine, probably $7.49 for the 2004 Kenwood Sauvignon Blanc. This was a fantastic summer wine. I bought 6 bottles before it sold out.

QOTD

Best wine deal – Half case of 1986 Blackwood Canyon Pinnacle (a Trockenbeerenauslese level Riesling) on close out at Fred Meyer. Still have a few bottles left â?º

Two Buck Vaynerchuck….hmmmm lets hope your wife does not call you that.

QOD – WLTV hands down the best value in the history of the world. Gary thank you for doing the show, it has enriched my life and my wine world….Thank You

NICE episode!

I didn’t even know Charles Shaw did Shiraz. Now I feel like I have to try it just to appease my own curiosity, but for god’s sake, I’m not made of money!

56- cuz you hate Lawrence Taylor? Your getting cut…I’m going to send in a bloody Pat O’Brien jersey, along w/ a badly burned Broadway Joe picture to show you how much I loathe the little green pukies. Don’t talk trash in my town- Brandon Jacobs will split you in half!

Thanks for the episode….I will try some of the 2 buck wines….Qotd, if these wines pan out it could be the best deal ever….

I loved the returning the Shaq figures bit. Charles Shaw isn’t wine, it’s Kool Aid w/ alcohol. BUT, if it gets people interested in wine that wouldn’t normally have been, it’s a good thing.
QOTD- Best recent wine bargain was ’03 Don Melchor for $37.99 at a shop in Aberdeen. Cheapest other places is close to double that since the WS Top 100.

QOTD: It’s gotta be Australian Shiraz, right?

QOTD: Now we all know why K-Mart filed for bankruptcy! For me, I would say anything I buy at Costco.

Love the episode. Especially because I have 3 bottles of the Shiraz and 3 bottles of the Sav. Blanc in my “cellar.” Both of those grapes can make good wine makers out of nearly anyone, so they are the ones that I get of the 2 buck Chuck.

Thanks Wine Guy for takin’ one for the team.

QOTD: It was the summer of 1998 and there was a gas station selling 87 unleaded for 92 cents a gallon. At the time I didn’t know it but that was the best bargain I have ever had. =)

Never tried those….by the sounds of your ratings though not such a huge deal. I’ll give them a try though for kicks sometime when I get down south.
QOTD – My wife….not idea how I scored that one?

I never had 2-3-4 Buck Chuck and now I know not to let my curiosity get the better of me. I wonder why the bother creating vintage wines – it seems to me they would be much better off blending across vintages – I can’t imagine them getting passable excess juice in every vintage …

QOTD: ’98 Vieux Donjon CdP for $19.99.

I never had 2-3-4 Buck Chuck and now I know not to let my curiosity get the better of me. I wonder why the bother creating vintage wines – it seems to me they would be much better off blending across vintages – I can’t imagine them getting passable excess juice in every vintage …

QOTD: ’98 Vieux Donjon CdP for $19.99.