Can’t wait for the 80 minute Bordeaux video!
QOTD – My wife….she has a better palate than me and she helps me to pick up the subtle flavours.

Ahhhhh, now we’re talking. “Dead grasshoppers”? I remember in my youth when I would catch one and it would ooze tobacco juice. At least that’s what I thought it was a great Old World Bordeaux would emulate that grasshopper juice.

Great, great show and you hit it on the head that there’s nothing like the bouquet of an Old World wine, i.e. earth, tobacco, leather, chocolate, black currant. The French know how to make good wine.

QOTD: Though I do not get the opportunity to taste/drink wine with him, my buddy DrWo, is the person to whom I really enjoy and appreciate drinking wine. He is much more knowledgeable than I and I sometimes feel intimidated but it is still a treat. We both appreciate fine wine. I just with the little woman (wife) enjoyed something other than Gatorade! 🙁

Bring on the Reignac!

Au revoir!

QOTD: My friend Heidi; not only do we have fun, but she has about the same level of knowledge that I do, so we can have really great conversations about it. And we come up with really funny descriptive phrases!

QOTD: My friend Heidi; not only do we have fun, but she has about the same level of knowledge that I do, so we can have really great conversations about it. And we come up with really funny descriptive phrases!

We need to be able to edit our posts. I see typos and can’t correct them!

“I just with the little . . .” should be “I just wish the little . . .”

Never been first before so that was cool. Drinking wine with Canuckchuk. The 1997 Sterling Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is one that comes to mind. But there have been quite a few. Funny thing about this episode is that I enjoy the bordeaux but Canuckchuk is not as big on them. Great episode Gary!

Great episode Gary – I had the Martinens a year after release, and it was pretty good, but even then I remember it to be a bit light.

QOTD: My wife.

QOTD: Probably my buddy Charles. He’s the only other person I know who would bother to try to figure out what makes a wine tick.

G,
Great shout out to your mom.
It seems (although we have not met) she raised a great guy.
QOTD: Brian…a good friend of mine I will see in Cali next weekend.
Just a good soul and anything we drink together tastes better.

My brother Patrick at our family get-togethers. He brings the Barolo and I bring the Bordeaux. Life is very, very good:-)

The thunder was brought today, Gary. Great ep. I love how you always announce that big news is coming, but you never tell us the news. 🙂 Reminds me of that old joke: How do you keep an idiot in suspense for 24 hours?

QOTD: My girlfriend C-dog and my buddy ‘enzo. Our palattes more or less lie on the same spectrum, but we’re each sensitive to different parts of it.

Speaking of eating grasshopers, any of you ever eat a cooked silk worm? They’re popcorn buttery, not unlike some chardonnays (if chardonnay was a giant slug cultivated for human consumption).

QOTD: My girlfriend C-dog and my buddy ‘enzo. Our palattes more or less lie on the same spectrum, but we’re each sensitive to different parts of it.

Speaking of eating grasshopers, any of you ever eat a cooked silk worm? They’re popcorn buttery, not unlike some chardonnays (if chardonnay was a giant slug cultivated for human consumption).

QOTD: My wife.

QOTD: With a complete stranger.

Thanks Gary

Happy Birthday Ma Vay-ner-chuk!

If the measure of a person is how much joy you’ve brought to the world you done good gal!

Gary is a bright light in a sea of fog (even if his passion on football teams exceeds his common sense)

P.S. – don’t let him see this, for fear he’ll become more humility-challenged.

‘fess up,did you break many wooden spoons over his noggin growin’ up?

Great episode, Gary!! QOD: Actually, it’s my husband. He has an amazing nose and palate and wine tasting is a great experience with him.

Gary- The stuff around the pie filling is goo. I’d also like to pass on a Happy Birthday your Mom, who is really the mom of all Vayniacs. So Cheers Mom!

QOTD- Tim, who has a lot of wine and is fun to drink it with, and all the Vayniacs at the Chicago party, with a special shout to BDB and LP. Let’s do it again.

Awesome Sode GV!
Happy birthday Mrs. v.!

QOD: My wife.
HEY GOTTAGODRINK-right back at ya big guy!

You seemed to move pretty quickly today. Normally that seems like it would have taken 20 minutes. Good job on squeezing it into 15!

QOTD: definitely my dad.

I have been holding some 2000 Bordeaux, but now I realize that it’s time to actually drink some.

QOTD: My lurker wife of course! Wine makes her so damn happy.

Another fine Bordeaux episode! I am intrigued to try them all.

Happy B Day to mamma Vayniac. My B Day is Monday the 7th, so WHAZZUP MAY BABIES!!

Have a fantastic weekend Mr. VAY NER CHUK and likewise to all the Vayniacs out there. Enjoy some fine wine and some fine food, I know I will.

John W

Gar,
QOTD : My brother in law/friend Doug . He got me into wine and got me to taste it rather then just gulp it down. I am forever in his debt!

G

I didn’t find the perfect partner… actually , he found me.
Before meeting Claudio, my ‘winelife’ almost didn’t exist.
Right now, we are drinking our wine nº 94. 🙂
Thanks, babe, for introducing me to this wonderful world.