Hmmmmmmmm…. iPhone to whomever can….. something to do with internet links to WLTV from NON-WINE websites, and hits from redirections from those links, as logged by Google, or however. I.e., reward for directing more traffic to this site from internet communities OUTSIDE the wine ‘world’. To get more non-wine people (like me) hooked on wine and obsessing over your show.

QOTD: nothing yet. Only been here for 3 weeks. I’ve been telling all my friends who drink wine about it. No stories that are particularly interesting or amusing yet.

Caw! Caw! (sept 16)

Unfortunately I do not have any crazy stories to tell, but I wanted to show some love and whenever that funny/cool story comes along I will share it!
I cannot wait to try some of the wines you had today, they seem totally up my alley.

Here’s my two cents for today and I promise I’ll get in a dime’s worth of comments by the end of the week. Keep your head up, little flower!

QOTD: Immediately after my first post in the forums I was invited to a get together of Seattle Vayniaks and got to meet a truly great group of peeps.

Don’t think I have had a Pauillac yet so I will put it on my list of things to try.

QOTD: My oldest daughter refers to weekend days as “Daddy Days” because I do not work. And she knows that I watch “that wine guy” on my computer on work days. Occasionally when I am behind on WLTV episodes and try to catch up on the weekends she chastises me and says “the wine guy is for work days not Daddy Days, stop watching and play with me”, which I do.

Gary, borderline Lurker here reaching to you, BTW been here from day 1. Great show, thanks for reving up the education again in the show, Love it! Thanks so much for the Bordeaux show. I am very new to Bordeaux but have consumed lots of good Cali Cabs over the years and thought I had been drink great wine, little did I know. I have to tell you I ordered my first Bordeaux from WL, several weeks back,the 03 Ch.Sansonnet. So I decant the wine for about 3 hrs, pour a glass and Holy SH$%^&&*&%$t! A nose like I never experienced, mouth feel amazing and intense Blueberry and cedar, oh my God!.How could any one go thru life with tasting Bordeaux. Hook, line and sinker. Thanks so much for all you do!. “A little bit of you is change my wine life”, Thanks Scott

I hope you are reading this 😛

Iphone giveaway idea:

Pick 5-10 wines (common enough so people of diff areas can access them)so like 1-2 for each major area. Ask people to select ONE wine to taste and send in a small x word count description. Tell them what to mention: nose, taste(attack, mid, finish) emotional associations w/e. You know what I mean. They send it in.
You taste the wines, select the entries that not only nailed it, but do the very thing you do: teach you to see a specific wine in a different way, maybe even help you enjoy it more.
You can have a show with 3-5 finalists and their respective wines, and do your thing and talk about why you liked each finalist’s take.

That would be fun. Anyway there is my dime ^^;

Love the show.

jg

I hope you are reading this 😛

Iphone giveaway idea:

Pick 5-10 wines (common enough so people of diff areas can access them)so like 1-2 for each major area. Ask people to select ONE wine to taste and send in a small x word count description. Tell them what to mention: nose, taste(attack, mid, finish) emotional associations w/e. You know what I mean. They send it in.
You taste the wines, select the entries that not only nailed it, but do the very thing you do: teach you to see a specific wine in a different way, maybe even help you enjoy it more.
You can have a show with 3-5 finalists and their respective wines, and do your thing and talk about why you liked each finalist’s take.

That would be fun. Anyway there is my dime ^^;

Love the show.

jg

Pichon Lalande is near and dear to my heart. First time that I tasted it was at the old old Le Cirque in NYC (where was that, somewhere in the 70’s, between Fifth and say Lex?). My wife and I had a bottle of the 1978 (this would have been in 1986). It was wonderful– with beef filets and venison. Glad I am on-board for the 2005.

Funny WLTV story… I had my college-age son watch an episode last year, I don’t remember what wines you were tasting, maybe Rhones, and you were talking about lizard-backs and worm-heads and poopy mushrooms and… well, he loves to taste any red now and say, “Nope, no worm-heads here. No poop.”

Nice to hear about the earthy, dirty, vegetal, graphite, etc. components of these wines. I think these qualities, odd at times, nevertheless make these wines soooooo interesting in the palate…

would have liked to have heard something about the difference between the pace at which these types of “big reds”, as opposed to many new world reds, travel through your palate- Napa cabs are often like race cars in your mouth and then they crash! A good Bordeaux slowly but surely leaves its complexity on the mid and back palate, rewarding the patient.

G-squared!? You rock, Gary!!

New Vaniac here! Make sure to watch the latest Diggnation, Kevin does an uncanny Vaynerchuk impression. Of the wines I’ve tried so far I seem to really enjoy some of the African wines. Anyone have some favorites from that area?
The only bad thing I’ve found about wine is that there’s so many, and I want to try them ALL!

HUGE rinse on the Pichon. Thought you were skipping the rinse and going straight for the sniffy snif. This is the first comment I’ve made on any of your shows after watching quite a few Gary. Feels good to get out of the lurchbox. Keep up the good work.
ps I live in Cal. and wish your store were closer, I would order more wine from you but I get killed on the shipping. Thanks again. -Kanjimoti

Sorry I didn’t comment on Friday; to be fair, you didn’t ask a question. I love watching the show at work. Now everyone in the office pretends to talk like Gary Vaynerchuk!

Sorry I didn’t comment on Friday; to be fair, you didn’t ask a question. I love watching the show at work. Now everyone in the office pretends to talk like Gary Vaynerchuk!

Awesome show! I can’t wait to try a few of these.

QOTD: WLTV has completely changed my wine world, particularly with regards to oak. The oak monster and I used to be friends, but now I can’t stand him. Thank you for elevating my game.

GV– I’m new at this posting thing here — apologies if this lands here twice — I’m not the best navigator — anyway, I think newbies and long time Vaniacs should have an equal shot at the iPhone! suggest you ask lurkers to come forth NOW and win the chance to be in the game — we could snail mail you a postcard with our screen name and you could do a random drawing. just my two cents!!

LOVE WLTV and … belated congrats on the 300th!!!!!!

Linda

GV, you stopped asking for comments as much in your shows. That’s why you’re not getting as much love with the comments. Today’s request for comments is why you’re now getting tons…

Anyway, I did want to tell you that my pops turned me onto your site. You got a 59 year-old guy who couldn’t turn on a computer until seven years ago to clue me, an Internet media exec, onto your video blog. We head out to Napa/Sonoma every May. So, your site was a godsend to us!

I’ve been watching for two months (lurking), and I just wanted to say that I wish my magazine editors could develop the kind of compelling content that you do. The VH1 Behind the Vlog bit was hysterical!

Great show

QOTD Story : My 2 year old totally blocks the world out when his favorite TV show is on. We can scream his name and he will not move. When I flip open the laptop and start WLTV and he hears “Hello everybody and welcome…..” he runs over to the computer and says “Gary” We may have to start using your voice to get him to the dinner table.

ALRIGHT alright, alright, i don’t want to see you cry either, so here’s my comment(s). (unrelated to todays show, i know, but hey- at least i’m commenting) we’ve been big fans since reading the article about you on slate, and i’ll tell you that i’ve never felt more confident walking down a wine aisle than after listening to you talk about wine for some weeks. we went into our local wine shop to find a few of your recommendations (the 4 vines chard, las rocas garnacha, and the jonsey port) which the lady working there recognized as endorsed by gary. so our cover was blown, we didn’t get the credit for picking out good wine on our own, but it was great going in there knowing what we were looking for! it was really useful drinking with you, and being told what it was that we smelled and tasted

And add me to the list of people who can’t do the swish and spit without choking themselves and getting wine up their nose… maybe you could do an episode on that, if you haven’t already…

next time i’ll try and have a comment relevant to the day’s show.

ALRIGHT alright, alright, i don’t want to see you cry either, so here’s my comment(s). (unrelated to todays show, i know, but hey- at least i’m commenting) we’ve been big fans since reading the article about you on slate, and i’ll tell you that i’ve never felt more confident walking down a wine aisle than after listening to you talk about wine for some weeks. we went into our local wine shop to find a few of your recommendations (the 4 vines chard, las rocas garnacha, and the jonsey port) which the lady working there recognized as endorsed by gary. so our cover was blown, we didn’t get the credit for picking out good wine on our own, but it was great going in there knowing what we were looking for! it was really useful drinking with you, and being told what it was that we smelled and tasted

And add me to the list of people who can’t do the swish and spit without choking themselves and getting wine up their nose… maybe you could do an episode on that, if you haven’t already…

next time i’ll try and have a comment relevant to the day’s show.

Hey Gary,

Great job, looovvveee Pichon Baron and Lalande, just kick ass big time!!!!
I just feel bad when you “kill”these babies before they are due, at least you are doing that, allowing me not to do it !!!

here is your comment my delicate little daisy…now you can do me a favor…please try this on an episode…
http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=30061

great episode, looking forward to saving a few $$ and making my way into some higher end bords…

just a quick note to say thanks Gary, you crack me up and I love how seriously you’re committed to this. I’m buying some wine from winelibrary just because of the show, so you can know its definitely working.

I’d love to see an episode on some related topics like decanting, serving, various tools etc. Any plans for one?

Thanks!

Congratulations on #300. One of the many benefits of your show is that you are all over the map. Sometimes I really wish you had one to pull down behind you but that would be so old school.

Thanks for lobbing one into my wheelhouse. I live for Bordeaux. I want to taste every one of the 5,000 or so Chateaux before I exit the stage. Once you get to know the Bordeaux region you find that there are really two of them. The left bank of the Gironde river (Medoc and Graves) and the right bank of the Dordogne river before they join up(St Emilion and Pomerol). On each side there are distictive districts that have their own traditions. The Grand Crus were established in 1855 for the Medoc. They were divided into 5 classes of growths. The most first growths were located in Pauillac. The Segur family started many of the vinyards but wars, revolutions and other events saw these Chateaus change ownership with the Rothschilds family branches eventually becoming the prominent owners. Everyone as far back as Thomas Jefferson knew about Chateau Lafite. Next came Chateau Latour. In 1973 Baron Phillipe Rothschild lobbied successfully to become the only Chateau to be advanced to first growth status with his Mouton Rothschild…

As Gary demonstrated today the second growths of Pauillac have excellent pedigree and an even higher QPR. The description of fleshy plum characteristics is usually found in the right bank wines (St.Emilion) which use Merlot as the highest proportion with a few notable exceptions. Cabernet Franc is the biggest constituent of my favorite Chateau Ausone and in high degree Chateau Cheval Blanc in St. Emilion. The left bank (Medoc)is usually higher in Cabernet Sauvignon. An interesting side note is that Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc are the proud parents of Cabernet Sauvignon.

The 2001 Pichon-Lalande was unique in comparison to other vintages. It was a blend of %50 Cabernet, 36% Merlot, and a robust 14% Petit Verdot. The PV gives a lot of ruby backbone for this wine to mature with.

The Pichon-Baron property lies across the road and has been managed by Christian Seely who happens to be English since 2001. It has a higher percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon ranging from 65% up to 80%. The rest is mostly Merlot.

Another Pauillac property worth mentioning is the fabulous fifth growth Lynch-Bages which in good years like 2000 can be extraordinary.

The next district south is the approachable wines of finesse from St. Julien. These are not as famous or as big but have velvety rich fruit that is worth seeking out. The pricing is moderate in comparison to Pauillac.

Another classic show for the Old World guys! Thanks GV.

Thank-you for my birthday present. After all these years I am excited to find a phenomenon that I must have and share with others. My husband and I then my sons and a girlfriend. Then my sister. Her ex, a caterer.Former football coach. They bought me wine…good wine. We watch. We are hooked. We have seen maybe 4 or 5 episodes. Where have you been? We are with you now. You are something else.This Montreal family has been touched by your wise and brilliant (just a little scary) foray into the jungle that is wine.

Hey Gary, Great show. Love Bordeaux. QOTD: I went in BevMo with my oak monster T-shirt on, and one of the employees recognized the shirt and watches the show too. After talking with him, I found out he’s a lurker. I thought that was funny.