Great EP!

QOTD: Never reached a tired palate yet, but my nose gets overloaded to the point I can’t discern things quickly. Especially if I can;t figure out what the component is that I know I have smelled before.,

Like the off view, thanks for gutting out a Thunder show after a THUNDER Tasting!

My toungue looks like that every night after only drinking one bottle of wine! Thanks alot for still giving us a show after a long hard day, don’t think that it goes unappreciated. The most wines i’ve had at a tasting is about 80 and I was impressed at how my palate held up. The last thing I did was the blind table and won it. Now I always swallow them so I think my head would leave me before my tongue!

My palate is dead after about 6 or 8 wines – even if I’m spittin’ the whole way.

Hi!!!

Just to congratulate you for your show!, i think that is a great idea what you are doing and all my circle of friends and me aprecciate your effort. You once answered me about a naive question and i aprecciate that you did it. By the way, I’m writing from Helsinki-Finland…I’m suppose i’m not the only one but anyway is nice to know that your show it’s seen all over the world!

Cheers

Arttu

I have heard one should not attempt to try more than 20 wines to effectively taste without palate fatigue. I have experienced a change starting around there. My problem has been at big tastings where I don’t sit down first and pick out my top 25 that I really want to critique for myself, my eyes get too big. After about 40, I feel I’m not being fair to the wines, my customers or myself, so that’s when I relax, have a glass or two (to drink) and NOT critique and relax and enjoy myself because I don’t want to look and feel like GV did in this video. Hey GV, I know.

why is there a Pennington jersey on the wall? Why not Testiverde next to it!!

QOTD – I only go to 1 or 2 tastings a year with more than 100 wines and rarely have time to try them all but, I’d say 40-50. As the bad/boring wines begin to blend together, it’s harder to distinguish the flavors. But even then I can still spot a great wine, and can distinguish the flavors in it – balance is the key.

QOTD: By the second or third bottle

Palate fatigue sets in for me at/around 10 wines. Even with spitting. I’m working on increasing that number, of course….

Gary-Is that Erik’s baby?????????????? 🙂

QOTD: After about 30 wines!!! 🙂

First bottle. What can I say? I’m only in my 4th week.

Yoooo GeeVee!!!
It’s a Tuuuff Job (tastin’ 140 wines), but somebodys
gotta do it!!! Hey, Ya need any help over dhere?? 🙂

QOTD: Fatigued Palate?? I never got close to 140
wines….dat would be a little much…. Most I ever
did was maybe 20 and da tongue was hangin’ in dhere,
dhouh i was slightly Crocked………

Thanks for the heads-up on the Sojourn; it really sounds like a winner.

QOTD – Concerning palate fatigue: I used to think I would be good for about 15 wines before losing the ability to distinguish various tastes and nuances. After I had the opportunity to attend a vendor tasting I found that I was not having problems differentiating even after 40+ wine samples. It was a fantastic opportunity and really taught me quite a bit about my palate.

QOTD – well I drink wines, not just taste them. So I’d say around 10 to 20 or so. Don’t call me a lightweight either because I’ll pound a few yager bombs and go straight back to drinking wine. Anyway, pallet fatigue is good times.

Wow I actually was writing a paper when I watched this episode lol. Gary have you considered being a psychic?

Wow I actually was writing a paper when I watched this episode lol. Gary have you considered being a psychic?

GV- I like an episode here or there with a different format and with wines you have tried already. QOTD: 5-10

I showed up today and Gary still liked me.

The Oak Monster

I have not exceeded 100 too many times, but at one IMPORTANT tasting I hit the wall right around 100. And i was not able to do my best with the cotes de nimes, and the languedoc.

QOTD: Depends on the day. If we end out tasting a bunch we like, I can go through about 2 dozen before everything starts tasting the same. If we end out not liking a bunch of stuff we’ve tasted, then 6 to 12 will be about the limit!

QOTD: i did about 100 to 120 wines over the period of 4 to 5 hours and by the end, my mouth was kicked. the best thing was that i spit pretty much the whole time except for those really nice ones, i felt bad spitting. i will say though that after 100 wines , there were some wines that i tasted that blew my sox off . i ran to my friend and said, you must try this st. emilion!

peace
j

Nice episode, probably the only one I’ve watched where I kept having to remember to re-focus back on you and what you were saying, the cute baby pictures on the Mac in the background were ace!

QOTD – I’ve only made it to a couple of large wine tastings, each about 40 bottles. By the end I was glad it was over, I think I was still OK to taste, but couldn’t have gone on much longer.

What a TROOPER!

QOTD: I’ve only tasted perhaps 40 different wines in a sitting and didn’t feel palate-fatigue, per se, then, BUT … if I swallow every time, THEN I admit that it is harder to discern the layers of complexity, though I can still tell swill from elixir!

Thanks GV for all you do … as I always say: You’ve changed OUR wine world … rest assured that what you do makes a big difference.