P.S. You know I think you’re awesome, though, Gary.

This is a crossroads episode for sure, man this is gonna be a sleepless night, I need to rethink, I am clearly not doing the RIGHT thing like I thought, 🙁 I respect and thank everyone for their thoughts, I didn’t have my fastball today and might need to go on the 15 day DL

first off, great show – love your style.
comments about the wines (the ones on your “free” show, not the myface one (ha ha, my joke about the facebook myspace etc phenomenom) – no big surprise to me that the shiraz dominant wine stands up to the full blown treatment than CS or merlot – the aussies always seem to overblow the shiraz the best.
too bad we will never see this stuff north of the border in canadastan, would be fun to compare notes.

Gary I’ve read alot of the comments this evening,and everyone brings up some good points.I’ve been watching the show since about maybe 130 or so. I’ve learned a ton from it and likewise have been very entertained by it.Your definitly changeing the wine world as I know it and i appreciate it very much.As you may have read from me in the past I’m not very computer literate and needless to say it has been very difficult for me to participate in all the new formats . I’m trying my best though.I guess what it boils down to Gary is just do the show the way you feel it needs to be done..If people want to be on board great if they don’t great.I think people at times get alittle overwhelmed or feel a little left out if there not into FB or myspace or Twitter.Just do what you feel is best and realize not everone will follow all the time and that’s all right. It’s different strokes for different folks Gary Keep up the good work and I’ll try to keep up here..QOTD Gary Vaynerchuk.

Can’t do Facebook. Just stay with WLTV Please.

QOTD: Wine budget lately and amount of time spent at WLTV. Maybe moving WLTV to facebook will free up some time for me. Facebook: Pazzzzzzzz

Wow! Enough with the Cork me up, Badge me up, Face me up, Friend me up, etc. You’re gonna be the 1900th most popular show on the internet, very soon. Thanks for the memories. Just when you think you know a guy….

You’re back! And so is the SF Vaynerglass!

Yeah, I’ve badged ya. Here’s a link to my myspace page.

QOTD: The most over-the-top thing in my life is my brand new reading chair. I have some pretty nasty problems with my back, so I needed a good chair to enable me to study for hours and hours on end. But it looks way too fancy amidst the decor of my apartment. It’s a $600 Herman Miller Eames Plywood Lounge Chair. High design. Beautiful. But it makes everything else I own look like junk.

GV…this is a shout out from a long time lurker and recent first time poster. I absolutely love what you are doing here!! I don’t think I totally realized it until there were two days this week where I did not have a new episode to watch during lunch. Nonetheless, there are a lot of posts today questioning what you are doing with the vlog these days and I have to jump in and say that I think you are doing a fantastic job. I have been drinking wine for a little over a year now and had it not been for your videos I do not think I would have the enthusiasm for wine that I do today. I started out drinking only sweet sugary wines and thanks to this show I have completely expanded my viewpoint. I make sure never to get tied up in a single wine/grape/etc and am constantly searching for new flavors/experiences in the wine world. It never ceases to amaze me the diverse range of flavors that can be produced from a single fruit. The world of wine is such a wonderful experience and one that I may not have found had it not been for your show. Recently, I was about to purchase a case of wine that I personally enjoy and instead decided to buy 6 bottles of my choice and took a chance on 6 additional bottles based upon the recommendation of one of the clerks that worked at the store. Personally, the wine that he liked was not what I was looking for, but that being said it was a good wine nonetheless and I feel that I benefited from considering the opinion of another person. This leads me to my point. While some people here may be waiting for you to pass on all your wine knowledge to them so that they may go about the world as Gary Vaynerchuk clones, I think it may be more useful to them to consider your opinion as a means of learning more about wine. Simply watching and listening as you describe your experiences with various wines has opened my mind to being more observant of the different flavors and characteristics that wine can offer. So, to summarize, while I think some here expect for you to hand feed a wine education, I believe that the best way to learn from you about wine is to observe your journey/tastings and apply your experiences to those of our own. In other words, learn from the best and learn from yourself. Thanks from the bottom of my heart!

Hey ChuCK VaynerCHUCK- Looks like you got taken to the woodshed!

I’ll second that Stephen S, that post sums up everything I love about the show.

Dude, you’re gettin’ hammered on this Facebook thing. Can’t say I disagree with the disgruntled. In general, I think you’ve gone a bit overboard with all the “____ me up” stuff. It is getting old. But I know you’ll take the punches and bounce back. Just remember man, WLTV is a special thing. Don’t cheapen it. And you don’t have to apologize when you miss a few days here and there. We all could use a break. I actually wish you’d take more breaks. I worry about you sometimes. As always, thanks for the great show. P.S. The recent Chile show was an instant WLTV classic, IMO.

Awesome Gary! Mollydooker?! You brought the thunder!

Gary, you gotta cut back on the number of shows. You (and likely your audience) are going to get burned out! There aren’t many places that offer contnt 5 days a week. I would think a MWF schedule is about perfect (can always throw in some bonus material). With things like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Corkd, etc. you have plenty of opportunity to stay in touch with all the vayniacs on the off days. Heck, Tuesday and Thursday could become strictly blog/comment days where you could comment on cheese, other beverages, a killer meal, the Jets (especially NC State alum Jerricho Cotchery), how you wasted money on the iPhone, and so forth. Personally I find it hard to keep up with the 5 episodes a week at times (get a few behind and you have to allocate a good hour).

Oh, and I don’t mind the Facebook stuff. Its a hell of a lot better than MySpace.

QOTD: Well, the wife is still in jersey on work (going on 3 weeks now) so the laundry pile is WAY over the top.

Please people…are you really that dense?

You have enough Internet savvy to vies a video blog on wine but you do not have enough savvy to have great Spam control? This is what your worried about with facebook? It was a six minute extra, you missed out on nothing, and you feel like challenging Gary? What a disgrace…this Vayniac is going nowhere…..

Cept to Kahuna’s house to steal a bottle or two!

OH YA……how many of you have made an effort to hang with Gary? Do that….then talk smack, cowards!

OH YA……how many of you have made an effort to hang with Gary? Do that….then talk smack, cowards!

OH YA��how many of you have made an effort to hang with Gary? Do that�.then talk smack, cowards!

I’m with Brandon M about all of you that complained about the V-Chuck doing facebook, or too many episodes, instead of APPRECIATING all of the daily work Gary puts into the show. TO BIG G.– Keep it up… all of it- every last video, “____ – me up” link, and whatever else you feel like doing at in the spur of the moment. This is your show, and I’ll continue to love whatever your gut tells you to do with it.
As a (recently graduated) member of the CKCs and a GARY VAYNERCHUK FACEBOOK FRIEND, I’m SO pumped to watch the bonus footage there! Good move, BIG G.

QOTD: To be honest, my choice to move away from my family on the East Coast, my current restaurant job, and my LIFE in Boston to completely relocate and start a life in LA is probably the most stressful, difficult, scary, insecure, and OVER THE TOP thing in my life right now (or in a month). I don’t have a job lined up yet, but I have contacts at a previous internship, and I gotta go to LA if I want to work in the business that I studied at Emerson College (TV production). Wish me luck.

gary,

you are a legend. the show is awesome. its your show and you can do what you want. personally, im in the forget facebook, twitter, friend me up camp. but i wont stop watching you taste wine even if you keep asking us to friend you up. easing up on that stuff a little would be appreciated by a certain portion of the audience – though some dont seem to care. that stuff is not whats changing the wine world.

you and your show are changing the wine world…or at least you’re massively influencing my wine world. its your personality, your palette, your experience, your humor and wltv and winelibrary.com and free.winelibrary.com.

i remain shocked and impressed by how much i’ve liked the wines that i decided to try based on your reactions. anyway, i love your show. if you’re burnt kick back to less eps a week. its not all about the education, its about the tastings. and they dont all have to bring the thunder. just keep being gary and tasting some wines. really, take a break if your burnt. balance is as important in life as it is in wine. if my guess is correct, you’ll need a lot of sleep to go with that balance in 40 days when the newest vaynerchuck starts keeping you up all night.

oops, meant vaynerchuk

Wont everyone stop complaining! Gary, long time lurker been watching since ep 20 or so… I have def. learned a ton about wine through you and appreciate you taking time out of your busy days to do the show. Dont listen to the whining and crying feminists. Its garbage. Seems like some people have gotten spoiled…

Thanks for doing the dirty work and reviewing m-dooker. My people call it “Valvoline.” oh well!

Weirdest coincidence I’ve bumped into yet watching WLTV â?? I was literally at the store earlier today, and noticed the Blue-Eyed Boy and realized I hadn’t tried it yet, and thought maybe I should. I’m guiding a Shiraz tasting on Monday, and have two empty slots still, but I figured I would check around and see what the consensus was before buying it. Then I get home, check out WLTV, and lo and behold, you’ve drunk it for me. After seeing it, I do think I’ll give it a whirl, price and all.

QOTD: How did it get so close to crush already? Uh oh.

These are darn young wines. I feel lured to try them out. The Facebook Bonus Episode was a lot of fun too, thanks! I’m having my Wine Tasting meeting this evening, and will post some pictures of that on Facebook as well. Please comment on some of them. QOTD: my Honda CBR1000RR superbike motorcycle is the most over-the-top item in my life. Delivering 172 hp of deadly power, it’s just too much hp pushing a 400-pound bike. When you’re reaching close to 300 km/h (188 mph), it’s an over-the-top rush of adrenaline. Just going from cero to 60 in just shy of 3 seconds is an overpowering rush.