Not sure Conan was the best place to cut your TV teeth, GV. Old School Johnny Carson minted this shtick more than a half-century ago. A late night show is an immediate consumable. All confection, zero calories.
Further, the distinction is not between selected nasty e-mails and your efforts. I’ve talked with numerous sommeliers around the country, all have been enthusiastic about your efforts, all are open to new approaches. The fact is that ‘changing the wine world’ is not exclusive to you. Many are straining on the same wheel.
Not sure. Not sure.

tough qotd, but it would probably involve a leg of lamb and a bottle or three of Failla Pinot Noir with my parents, my girl and about 7 of my boys.

YEAH GARY. Washington wines are kickin down Cali’s door.

And, once again, I support all of your nuttyness. Keep on keepin on.

QOTD: Beef baked in yogurt(a rough translation of a curry dish)

Terra Blanca Block 8 reserve Syrah

The perfect woman (who I have most definitely not met yet)

How many of those critics have a top rated video podcast? Must be doing something right.

Washington wines were some of the first wines I ever drank and it’s nice to see them getting some respect!

Great show Gary, keep it up!

Great show Gary.

I wish I could have been at some of those parties you mentioned. Also, I definitely have to try some more Walla Walla wines. I’ve been limited to Chateau Ste Michelle, Snoqualimie, and a few others. I’ll seek them out.

QOTD: Best dinner. Every dinner needs to fit it’s context, so I’ll give the context I’m dreaming of now.

Dinner outdoors with my wife and about six good friends. We have a view of the sea and the coastline at sunset on the southern Italian coast. It could be Vieste, Capri, Ravello, Taormina, Cefalu, Agrigento, or any number of places… it doesn’t really matter.
Primo: Spaghetti ai frutti di mare with some spicy red pepper mixed in. The wine is Fiano di Avellino.
Secondo: Grigliata mista with various types of fish and definitely calamari. wine: Vermentino
Cheese: a top notch pecorino Sardo
Finish off the meal with a chilled, crisp limoncello.

GV- This show is why people love ya. Seriously…keep pushing. And thanks for sending the love to WA state. Walla Walla rock on.

QOTD: a) Anything that Crush (Seattle restaurant) wants to serve me with b) any wine that Chapoutier thinks would pair well with the meal with c) my sweet wife.

QOTD: favorite meal is probably steak at Mastros with mushrooms, Goldeneye Duckhorn Pinot Noir, Caymus Special Selection Cab. Sauv. 2004. After that, spicy Asian or sushi with cool Riesling.

SOON… 267 days in the countdown? Hmmmm. C’mon, GV. Is it a boyniac or a girlniac? You must’ve done the ultrasound. 🙂

And cut the ‘family’ crap. You’re too young to be the father of us all. LOL.
Here’s a living breathing metaphor of your predicament: http://youtube.com/watch?v=B-_W18CWypE
Come West, young man, come West.

Greetings from Washington state, Gary. Walla Walla red wines (Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah, and related blends) need to find more delicacy and balance; the fruit and alcohol is often too dominant. I want more finesse, more terroir, and a lower price for those better wines! Hard to find a good QPR. And hard to find a nice Cabernet that can develop with age. Like from everywhere else, there’s also a lot of mediocre wine from our state. As good as Napa? Yes, there are some excellent reds from eastern Washington, but they haven’t shown me reds that develop as well as the better from Napa. BTW, I favor the old world wines.

A good meal: amuse bouche of a couple lightly seared scallops with faint mandarin orange sauce, entre of eggs meurette with that lovely and rich beef-based sauce, main plat of thinly sliced duck breast with duck blood sauce, followed by simple salad of crisp limestone lettuce with a little endive and a mustard seed vinegar dressing, then cheese plate with maybe bleu d’Auvergne, well-aged Comté, and tomme aux noix. Finally, for dessert, a plate of vine-ripe strawberries arranged on a splash of creme anglaise. Of course, we’d have superb French bread during the meal. Wines? Champagne to start, perhaps 1998 Mumm. Then that Droughin 1966 Richeborg with the eggs meurette. Then a 1982 Cos d’Estournel with the duck. And with dessert, I’m going back to finish the Mumm.

Are we hungry now?

QOTD: ‘s gotta be a large cheese pizza at Newbury Pizza on Newbury in Boston…”Big-ups to Boston”, with my lovely wife Liska, sipping on (2005?) Hess cabernet sauvignon.
-P.S. Gary-I’ve got a Thundercat comin’ your way boss.

Gman You are changing the wine world And they are scared of change !! Don’t let anyone tell you how to do your thing G . If they don’t like it then they can SNIFFY SNIFF the RATS ASS ! Vaynerfreaks Rule !!!

Hey Gary I could tell you were excited that your buddy Eric was there hahaa.

I’d like to call YOU out on this Gary… if you have time to look at these comments after you answer your thousand emails a day.. What’s YOUR answer to the question of the day.. I’d like to know (I’m sure everyone elses would too).

QOTD:

– Boboquivaris Restaurant’s (San Fran, CA) Bone-In Filet Mignon (with a bit of melted blue cheese on top)

– TANTARA Pinot Noir from Bien Nacido Valley (You guys should cary this, it’s absolutely ridiculous).

– Robert Parker.. but only to tell him “I wish it was Gary Vaynerchuck that was sitting in your chair hahaha”

Hey Gary I could tell you were excited that your buddy Eric was there hahaa.

I’d like to call YOU out on this Gary… if you have time to look at these comments after you answer your thousand emails a day.. What’s YOUR answer to the question of the day.. I’d like to know (I’m sure everyone elses would too).

QOTD:

– Boboquivaris Restaurant’s (San Fran, CA) Bone-In Filet Mignon (with a bit of melted blue cheese on top)

– TANTARA Pinot Noir from Bien Nacido Valley (You guys should cary this, it’s absolutely ridiculous).

– Robert Parker.. but only to tell him “I wish it was Gary Vaynerchuck that was sitting in your chair hahaha”

No more rants. Bored to tears.
Do what you do best. Nuff said.
This is what I do: http://youtube.com/watch?v=axnCMV-on9Q

Oh, I forgot to add the vegies for the question of the day above: Grilled Asparagus with Hollandaise sauce for dipping. 🙂

No Thunder Cats Here.

Great show!

QOTD: A good fillet, potatoes, asparagus, and bread pudding for desert with my wife. Oh the wine would have to be something I have never had before like a Caymus Special Select.

QOTD:

I’ll just go main course, because my ultimate dinner would be a 12-course extravaganza.

Venison tenterloin roasted rare with reduction of demi-glace, blackcurrants and raspberries. Dream wine with it? 1945 Mouton-Rothschild

Choosing one person would be tough. My wife, Lauren. My dad. My buddy Darshan. My boss, Eamonn. My colleague, Mark. Tough one.

I love the rants, definately don’t stop them.

Since you’re such a football man, why don’t you score wines based on a 16 game season. For example, a 100 point wine is a 16-0 season. So you’re 90 point could be a 12-4?

Wow what a way to stand up for us…the Vanernation loves you!!!! Keep up the great time…wine is suppose to be fun and thats what you make it out to be!!!

QOTD: I would love to have dinner one more time with my father…he always loved Italian food, brought him back to his roots. Although he would drink my uncles wine I would rather share a bottle of Nebbiolo, and since I’m a vegetarian I would want to have a grilled salmon with a holadase sauce covered with asparagus!!! But if I had to pick a living dinner companion it would be you GV…what an awesome time we would have!!!

ROCK ON GV!!!

Gary, I think that is the closing line you should use from here on out…”Whether you like it or not!!” AWESOME!!

QOTD = Caesar salad, a porterhouse for 2, creamed spinach, hash browns and a bottle of Caymus Special Select with my Father.

but rigatoni with meatballs, sausage, bracciole in home made tomato sauce and a bottle of Reserve Brunello with my Father in an absurdly close second.

This was the best show ever. Not the most of anything but just balanced (Equal parts angry, knowledgeable, crazy, serious, loud, and soft spoken and all genuine) like a good wine.

QOTD – 4 course italian – Mussels with a Chablis or Muscadet; pork stuffed ravioli w/ blue cheese/walnut sauce and a pinot grigio; osso bucco on polenta w/ something authoritative from Piedmonte; pears poached in chianti for dessert. All with my wife, sister and brother-in-law.

Speaking of dessert wines, I had an Pellegrino Passito a couple months ago. People should seek it out if they’ve never had it – awesome.

looking back that’s 1 french course and 3 italian. 🙂

Great show. Backlash and angry emails only mean that people are worried that you are onto something. Clearly you are building this into something much more than a “wime show”. Keep it up. I think you have a lot of fans out there.

QOD-Ultimate meal-probably a veal dish-with cabernet reduction sauce, risotto, and asparagus For wine Ridge Montebello Cabs from the 80’s and for dessert Ch. Yquem!

Sticks and stones can hurt my Beaunes…