Now that I’ve calmed down I realize we’ve been snookered, the old bait and switch. Vaynerchuk asks us for a dime, adds an extra show and ends up with his hand in our pocket for an extra 2 cents.

I’ll teach you GV, I’m not commented tomorrow, OR the day after! Take that!

Gary, great show today, I just happen to be drinking a California Chardonnay ( 2005 Insatiable Chardonnay) while watching the Friday couch edition of WLTV. I can’t agree more about trying different things regardless of other peoples opinions, if Robert Parker jumped off a bridge would you? that is what comes to my mind when I hear people buying based on other peoples ratings. I have a friend that was only drinking about two different wines and it drove me crazy. I have had him over to dinner a couple of times and he is now expanding a little, he has moved out of Australia and into spanish wines, I even have him seeking out different Priorat wines, something he had never heard of. ( I hadn’t heard of them before the Priorat episode but I gave it a shot)
QOTD- Icewine, just went to Toronto and went tasting around the Niagra area and I was wowed, they have other wines that I really like as well but I have never really tried the icewine before, it is yummy!!!

Gary, great show today, I just happen to be drinking a California Chardonnay ( 2005 Insatiable Chardonnay) while watching the Friday couch edition of WLTV. I can’t agree more about trying different things regardless of other peoples opinions, if Robert Parker jumped off a bridge would you? that is what comes to my mind when I hear people buying based on other peoples ratings. I have a friend that was only drinking about two different wines and it drove me crazy. I have had him over to dinner a couple of times and he is now expanding a little, he has moved out of Australia and into spanish wines, I even have him seeking out different Priorat wines, something he had never heard of. ( I hadn’t heard of them before the Priorat episode but I gave it a shot)
QOTD- Icewine, just went to Toronto and went tasting around the Niagra area and I was wowed, they have other wines that I really like as well but I have never really tried the icewine before, it is yummy!!!

Between this and the cold episode, could be a new extreme sport, the dangerous art of wineglass catching…

First time viewer, thanks to chez Pim’s sharing, and holy good god are you one talented ‘expletive’. I hope you’re seriously proud of what you’re doing. I have a lot of viewing to do to catch up on all the previous episodes – can’t wait!!!

As this show demonstrates the wine world is a vast and unpredictable territory. We need guides like gary and robert p. and others to blaze trails and report back to encourage us to visit ourselves. I am sometimes relieved to hear that a certain wine is a pass. That saves me time and money to try other highly rated wines. This is positive not a negative. It is hard to keep up though. Here in Maryland we have a difficult time getting wine shipped directly unless a vinyard is so small that they don’t mind. I would also appreciate knowing who the shipper or importer was of the wines tasted. If a wine is really excellent I would like to know who the winemaker was so he or she can take a bow. I have found a lot of interesting information from the websites of wines I’ve tasted recently. Sometimes their web address is already embossed on the cork….

There are now after only a month of watching Gary many wines I want to try that I haven’t found yet but the fun is also scouring the local wine shops for them. Even though I could be happy in the Old World I am curious what’s going on elsewhere too. Gary has definitely accelerated my wine appreciation.

QOTD: I saw a bottle of 2004 Alamos (Catena) Bonarda. This varietal was originally imported to Argentina from Italy. I didn’t recognize it so I had to buy it to discover what it tasted like. I’ll post a review when I do…Thanks for the Dolcetto and Albarino suggestions. Innocent Bystander has still eluded me…Cheers

If you want shoulders, you need to get the Mourat Collection Red, that stuff’s got Carl Sandburg shoulders. Oh, and the wine ain’t bad either.

I love the topic of california chardonnay. it my short but intense introduction to the wine world my views on cali chard has varied the most. at the earliest, i kinda enjoyed the movie popcorn buttered orville redenbacher flavor profile. this gave way to discovering old world chard and not paying any mind to new world styles. i know appreciate both and find a suitable situation for either. i get my kicks in seeing peoples faces light up when enjoying a burgundian stlye cali chard….when there previous statement is “i’ll drink any white but a cali chard.”

QOTD—-watch out kids for Monsant’s!!!!!! having recently received D.O. status, the monetary value of these wines is so under par! Montsant is the region surrounding the coveted Priorat D.O.C. which lies in the Cataluna region of spain (in regards to QOTD….i could not decide between Montsant or Cava ;-p )

Why can’t y’all ship to Maryland? Admit it – it’s a Ravens-envy thang, aint it?

alrighty right… QOTD: favorite new discovery: DARK chocolate Nestles crunch miniatures.

Caw! Caw!

QOTD: My favorite recent discovery is my love for some california cabernets. For the longest time I wouldn’t try any because of a few bad experiences with some horrifically oaked wines. Now I have found quite a few that have great fruit and a nice subtle oak integration. I’m still kinda mad that I think you’re going to ruin this albarino thing for me (j/k). By the way, how would adding more bastions of the wine establishment be advancing our goal?

Oh yeah i just really got into monstant as well, and you get priorat quality for alot less dough. But there are great value wines all over spain.

My favorite new discovery is NOT Springsteen (blech). It is definitely Jamison 1780 Whiskey poured over some cubes in a nice glass. Yum.

Favorite new discovery: Podcasts, from the Onion, to Savage Love to BBC news to Car Talk to Philosophy Bites, it’s all good. Great way to pass the time waiting in line.
I think I’ve discovered a renewable energy source: attach electrodes to Gary-the man is a walking triple espresso a veritable ferret on crack.

Favorite new discovery: Podcasts, from the Onion, to Savage Love to BBC news to Car Talk to Philosophy Bites, it’s all good. Great way to pass the time waiting in line.
I think I’ve discovered a renewable energy source: attach electrodes to Gary-the man is a walking triple espresso a veritable ferret on crack.

Favorite new discovery? This show!!! And the band, Beirut, and Piave Vecchio cheese!!! WOW!

Springsteen is the Robin Williams of music; he just won’t get off the stage.

Love the bobble head!! Weekend is screaming for a road trip to the WL. C u soon!

Linda in NJ

So much more comfortable now that I know you are going to be around awhile…

QOTD:
Michael Perry and the Long Beds Album Headwinded Check it out!

Have a great weekend ya’ll. 🙂

Shoulders: Oh man… Once upon a time I was browsing the wine section of a large grocery store when I saw bottles of Silverado chardonnay. I had never tried Silverado anything before, and the wine was on sale, so I picked up a bottle. Then I heard a woman next to me (a fellow shopper, not a store employee) say, “Oh, have you had that before?” I said “Nope” and she said “Ah, I seeeeeee… You should try that wine instead [pointing at some bottle of cabernet sauvignon].” I asked if she had tried the cab before and she said: “No—but it’s got shoulders, so it MUST be better than that wine [pointing at the Silverado].” And I thought, “Shoulders? The hell? Does she mean legs? What the—oh wait, SHOULDERS, on the BOTTLE!” And I laughed and laughed.

On a separate occasion, someone told me he won’t buy or drink any wine that comes in a narrow bottle. “The wider the bottle, the better the wine,” he claimed. I asked if that meant I’d find nothing but jugs o’ wine in his kitchen, and I think he took offense to that. I guess a glass jug doesn’t qualify as a bottle, I dunno. So I asked him for examples of wide bottles, and he named some pinot noirs and said “I don’t drink anything that comes in a bottle skinnier than those.” I told him he was missing out on a LOT of wine. He disagreed, citing some non-pinots that he sometimes finds in “those big double-sized bottles, I’ll drink those.”

People have bizarre wine selection methods, I tell ya.

QOTD: Beets. For years and years I stayed away from beets. They were on my Yucky Foods list, right up there with okra and liver. Turns out I had just never tasted well-prepared beets: earlier this year, a friend cooked me a beet dish that rocked. That led me to research beets and the various ways to use them. And now I like ’em.

Also: That Alamos Malbec from a recent episode, and malbec in general. I recently visited a Whole Foods and found one bottle of Alamos left. (Heh, there must be many WLTV watchers here in Chicago!) I took it home and tried it. At first it was a little off—it tasted kind of bitter and a little too sweet—but it improved greatly as I let the bottle sit open for a good long while. Now I’m exploring malbecs. See what you did? It’s all your fault.

One more thing and then I’ll shut up: A wineloving acquaintance of mine likes to pick on me because I rarely capitalize the names of grapes. Were he to read this comment, he’d get all bent outta shape because oh my gosh, it’s Capital M Malbec and Capital CS Cabernet Sauvignon, and don’t even think about shortening it the “cab” or “Cab” or “cab-sauv”—oh, the sacrilege! I like to remind him that there are better things to worry about, even when it comes to wine, than the case of a grape’s name. I suspect he wouldn’t try the best bottle of chardonnay in the universe if lowercased “chardonnay” was printed on the label. Wine selection methods, man… crazy.

I’m know others have asked but I’ll throw it out there anyway. What about people who want to order the Vayniac Cabernet but don’t have shipping to their state? Are we just out of luck or are we going to have to use this as an excuse to make it out to SF?

QotD: Wines. I’ve been enjoying really delving into good coffee, tea, beer and whiskey for quite some time now. I had tried some wine in the past and had decided I didn’t (and wouldn’t) like it. Over that last six months or so I’ve been trying to get my hands on as many types of wine as I can and I’ve been loving it. Now that I’ve found WLTV it’s only getting better!

Not your best. Answer to the ‘shoulders’ was aweful. OK review of the chards. BUT – You continue to talk to the camera guy — why? Because he prefers Diamond over the Boss? Because he is a living bottle head doll, nodding his head in agreement to everything you say? Because he loves when you rant? Or that your bottle head doll reminds him of his mother?

QOTD – belly buttons

QOTD – belly buttons

I’m with Mott, Springsteen is soooo overrated. His 1970’s stuff is passable, but Born In The U.S.A. is offensive. I like the guys from his band though.

QOTD: I’ve really only been going at wine for like 4 or 5 months, so I’d have to say wine and the whole Gary V. Experience. Before that, CIGARS! Cigars helped me stop the pack and a half a day habit. And, I don’t care what people say, a good cigar and the right wine is a great combination.

QOTD: New discovery, shoulders don’t matter.

Alright just kidding, I’d say that my newest discovery is that I may want to try to write a book some day. Never thought I would, I’ve had a poem publish, which I have no idea how I pulled that one off. But I think I may start with a couple of short stories and work my way up to a book.