QOTD: I have a NON Crocs pair of shoes and a real Crocs. No comparison once they are on your feet.

GREAT SHOW. I like that you are throwing in more educational stuff!

QOTD – I have a real Swiss Army knife and a fake one. I don’t even dare use the fake one, lest it cause an accident of some kind.

Nice intro Lars….
QOTD – Twins….I have cousins that are twins but are so diabmetrically opposed it is scary!

QOTD: All of my dress shirts. Its amazing that one manufacturer can get so much variation in the same template.

my feet……….but one hurts more than the other

Lars- You pretty much nailed it at 21-3. Actual first quarter score was 14-3. I’m just a little unclear on what Mrs. Lars was snorting…

Lars personified the Northern Minnesota or Wisconsin archetype with panache. Nice winestein too. Excellent football prognostication skills. Not bad for preseason.

Gary, you will get me to taste more New World wines and change me at least with your creative descriptors. I was just innocently standing by… The two pictures on the labels are quite different as one is the traditional garb of a clergyman and the other sort of a 1950’s film noir Marlboro Man.

Many grape varietals have a local name that is used only regionally. The Fume Blanc episode on Thursday related the famous Robert Mondavi marketing ploy. In the Loire region Sauvignon Blanc grape can be called Blanc Fume. I’m sure they get their share of fog too.

Two wines that have similar names are the Pouilly-Fume (pooyee-foomay)and Pouilly-Fuisse (pooyee-fweesay) but one is the Loire Valley crisp Sauvignon Blanc and the other the rich Maconnaise Chardonnay.

Dale Cruse — Wow! What a rip off! Gary get on that!

longtime lurker….i know, sorry.
congrats on making the front page of itunes.
love the podcast.
QOD-http://www.knockoffproject.com/

Look alike externally but are all different internally!! Great idea for the show…
I’ve got 2 daughters who very much look alike but boy have totally different personalities..
Cheers..

OK, now that you are back in Calli, are you going south to T country????????
C-mon man, you know I’m still waiting. . . . . .

Mike

QOTD: My black cats Cleo and Quincy look pretty much the same but Quincy loves Pavo, who adopted him when he came into the household as a kitten, and Quincy is always trying to suckle Pavo, which is usually well tolerated by Pavo – he’s very nurturing. Cleo is very friendly, but refuses to be picked up and doesn’t have close friends among the other cats.
Also, I took a bottle of Ridge Monte Bello 2000 to a friend’s house for dinner the other night, and I’ve always loved the Monte Bello, but this one was a revelation – it couldn’t have been more perfect – it started with cigarette ashes in the nose and evolved to cherries and berries welling up to the surface. Last night I went to a restaurant where we ordered a bottle of Wolf Blass gold label shiraz, and it looked much the same given the different lighting and different glasses, but I found myself comparing it with the Monte Bello (I know that was wrong of me to compare 2 diffrent grapes) and it fell very very short. I wondered why anyone bothered planting the syrah grape. Of course the Monte Bello was 6 times as expensive.
I added a C. onto my name as I noticed that there are some more Robins signing on. My best friend is named Robin; we travel together a lot and everyone always loves it that we have the same name. We went to a restaurant in town for lunch and the waiter said that we were the 6th and 7th Robins to come into the restaurant that day. Everyone was enchanted. It must have been a slow day.
Very nice show. Gary seems so mature. Nice shirt.

QOTD Well there were these twins I knew… but I’ll keep this PG and go with Leberkase (liverwurst) and Duck Fois Gras. Duck kicks pork’s ass every time. Speaking of ass those twins…I digress.
I thought it was rather ironic that the wine in the Rhone style syrah bottle tasted like (according to Gary) a Bordeaux, and the one in the Bordeaux style bottle did not.

Gary … these wines look a lot like the Tallulah Syrah you reviewed a long while back (that I bought, and is very good). Take a look …

Lars makes this episode. Hilarious! Then it went down hill with GVs silly ranting. Not good.

QOTD: The Backstreet Boys and N’Sync.

So what’s a snort, anyway?

QotD: Me and my brother, although 5 years apart in age, look almost exactly alike. And though many of our mannerisms are alike, our personalities are completely different.

QOTD: There are two musical artists: Henryk Gorecki, who composed his Symphony No 3, and Feist, a modern singer, who have amazingly similar record covers, even though their music is amazingly different. To see the covers, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Henryk-Gorecki-Symphony-Sorrowful-Songs/dp/B000005J1C/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9713547-1144025?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187710831&sr=8-1

Then here…
http://www.amazon.com/Reminder-Feist/dp/B000NPE7YC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9713547-1144025?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187710888&sr=1-1

Julie

OMG, Lars was great in this episode!

The Lars Monster in the hizzy!
QOTD: wholesale customers (buyers) and retail customers (consumers). I have to bend over much more for the wholesale customers. At least the retail customers give a reach around 😉

Nice to see LARS in da Hizzy!!!!!!!
Even drinkin’ some of da local
(Temecula) wine, don’t ya know…..
🙂

Great open Lars!!!!!

Check out the Tallulah Syrah bottles, very close looking to these as well.

very funny answer about the punt but really what purpose does a punt on a wine bottle serve?

Sacrificing, and sacrificing for a loved one. They may look the same from the outside, but they are totally different motivations.
Kathleen
Albany, NY

QOTD: I have two VW Corrados. To the casual bystander they’re identical (most folks think I have only have one). They’re completely different beneath the facade. Separated by only three years, they have different everything (interior, engine, transmission, wheels, etc.)