Good episode, and BTW I love Smacks. How can you not love a cereal with a slickster frog as mascot?

QOD: Man, I work in the only county-run emergency room in Las Vegas and the stuff that routinely rolls through the door is often enough to scare the s*** out of you. I am lucky everyday that I have a good life, a good job, good health and plenty of love in my life. I am lucky I am not a victim of the ‘system’ as much as so many of the folks I routinely care for day to day. My heart goes out to all of the people affected by the VT tragedy, may we pray for a day when we don’t have to fear things like this happening…ever.

Haven’t tried much S. African wine other than Mulderbosch – have always found those wines to be good values.

QOTD: we are definitely fortunate to be where we are in life – I cannot even begin to imagine what the families of those poor folks are going through – thoughts and prayers are with you, VT.

QOTD: Gary, we are so lucky, and blessed beyond, aren’t we? Puts everything in perspective, for sure.
You weren’t thinking about honey bunches of oats, were you? Or honey nut cheerios? Or… SUGAR SMACKS! I’ll bet that’s the one.

A little late on the gun. Woops.

QOTD-Beyond words…

Nice episode, I knew nothing about SA wines.

QOTD: We are lucky to be wine drinkers and vayniacs. Our kind are too busy catching a light buzz and spending hours watching wine videos online to be out shooting innocent people.

Marshall Faulk is the best #28 of all time.

Yeah, it was definately Sugar Smacks. With the cracked out Frog. Don’t dip in the product. Someone should have told the poor frog that. How blessed are we? Shoot, where to begin? I just hope that people change for the better after these types of events: change how we live, how we treat each other, how we treat ourselves, etc. The list is infinite. And to be blessed with a community like this where open minded people can share freely their ideas on wine. Mad props to GV and everyone else on WLTV and only the best vibes and thoughts to the people in VA.

QOTD: Words can’t describe somedays.

QOTD: Words can’t describe somedays.

Gary, is “zingy zangy tangy wangy” a techinical term? Interesting episode, a little local restaurant that we frequent hosts monthly wine dinners, the theme for next month is
Sout African wines and we are thinking about going, this month is Australian and I am all australianed out for now.
QOTD We are so lucky to live in the greatest country and society that has ever thrived. We are allowed to achieve what ever we want with no limits, we have businesses that make more than some countries because we are free. We are also allowed to fail and try again. Tragic events like yesterday let us know that our freedom is not without a price but there are millions of people still trying to sneak in for a small piece of what we have. I was not born in this country but I proudly call myself an American with great pride.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
Yeh we’re lucky!

way to be harley, most people born here take it all for granted and don’t appreciate what we do have, even in times of tragedy.

Touching intro, count me among the lucky.

SUPER LUCKY

QOTD: Gary, great question of the day.

In 3 weeks, I will be graduating from architecture school, which has literally been my life for the past 5 years. It has been an amazing experience and I have found myself reflecting upon it quite a bit recently, so eventhough I have no direct connection to VT, I found the whole incident pretty upsetting. It really made it hit home how lucky I have been. A professor at my school lost his college-age daughter to a skiing accident two years ago, I think, and it devastated him. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be a family member of one of the victims. My thoughts go out to them.

QOTD: I am very lucky. Everyday I am reminded as to how lucky I am to have a loving wife (20+ years, baby!) two great kids, a job I like, and discovered wine recently. I am very grateful to all those who endeavor or sacrifice to make this a great country. Even to those I do not always agree with. We all want the best end result, we just disagree at times on how to get there.

South African wines? My experience with SA has been very dull. Very little thunder. With so much to choose from out there, it may be a while before I returen to a SA bottle.

QOTD – Every time I go home to my wife I have a moment that reminds me how lucky I am. Everytime I try a new wine that kicks ars I have a moment that reminds me as to how lucky I am. If you’re living and breathing and have people around you that you care about and care about you, you’re a very lucky person. Cheers GV!

QOTD – Every time I go home to my wife I have a moment that reminds me how lucky I am. Everytime I try a new wine that kicks ars I have a moment that reminds me as to how lucky I am. If you’re living and breathing and have people around you that you care about and care about you, you’re a very lucky person. Cheers GV!

I just bought a bottle of Goats do Roam YAYY, haha. Can’t find many good South African Reds at the shops around me.

I just bought a bottle of Goats do Roam YAYY, haha. Can’t find many good South African Reds at the shops around me.

I had the Rustenberg Merriman when in London at Xmas, it was available at the Thresher (chain of small liquor stores) on the corner. We go through lots of food and wine each year when visiting family there, but from what I remember it was big, complex, with lots of tannic structure…nicely paired with lamb. Enjoyed by all at table.

QOTD: Lucky to be still kicking and able to reflect on and enjoy the small wonders in each day. Like Daffs finally blooming after a nasty early spring in Chicago.

QOTD: Incomprehensibly fortunate. Blessed and thankful for it everyday, every moment.
Wasn’t this the first “corked” wine caught on WLTV?
P.S. Gary, the aluminum bat to the mouth/teeth reference took me way back, although my personal experience was wood bat to mouth and lost some teeth for it (fortunately they were “milk/baby” teeth at the time). I still haven’t come across that “blood, enamel, wood, tears” flavor profile in a wine yet (and I’m not sure I want to).
Our family’s most sincere prayers for the families affected by the tragedy in VA.

Re: the scent that you couldn’t identify in the first wine, was it juniper? That’s pretty common in Chenin Blancs (and air fresheners).

QOTD- so very lucky are we, that we should all just sit and think about all of those things in our lives that makes each one of us feel lucky. We should all take the time to kiss our spouses and tell them “I love you” everyday. We should sit down with our kids and talk to them about what is important in their lives and spend quality time with them despite our busy schedules. We should say “Thank you” whenever someone holds the door open for us and look them in the eye. We should stop at a stop sign and occasionally give up the right of way so as not to rush all the time. We should all know the name of the person we buy our morning coffee and paper from, and thank them by name. We should tell our parents “thanks for everything”, for all they gave us throughout their lives. Yes, we should all just sit and think how very lucky we all are.

“I feel like a frog was involved.”….Has to be THE most wackiest statement I’ve ever heard on WLTV!