From a french point of view…
QOTD: Hope with 2008 this kind of program will keep on… wltv viewers will always keep an open mind considering their wine purchases, hope gary and his team will not follow the wine trend and will keep on helping me to define better the customers’ attitude and feeling about wine.
2K8 is supposed to be balanced gary just look at this perfect figure 8
Thank you for educating and entertaining us gary !
a french viewer joyeuses fêtes…

2008 forcast? I will co-host the wltv show and bring the THUNDER!!!!!

QOTD:

You’re going to do an episode focusing on bottle-to-bottle variation. You’ve panned wines that others liked (you know, the Duoro).

I’ve bought cases where most bottles were really good, one was crap, and one was awesome. Where does that come from? I know you’ll say mind-set, but there’s more to it than that.

It would be interesting to do three bottles of the same wine. (Or maybe, just talk about your experience with this phenomenon)

Rockin show Gary, some really great wine !!!!

QOTD: I hope nothing changes with the thundershow in 2008, I love it the way it is.

QOTD: What’s up in 08′? (or should consider)
1) Build a new food pairing channel on WLTV. Different host (must have GV flair but have credentials with food. GV guest stars once in a while.
2) When GV travels do more road shows with local people/wineries. Aids in the marketing of WL.
3) Is a Food Network special on tasting somewhere in the near future?
4) More focus on “value” driven wines. Would bet the majority of viewers would like to be able to buy 10$-20$ wines. We can experience more variety with the modest priced wines.
5) Continue your efforts in demystifying French wines. More education.
6) More segments with 4-pak mystery wines. (Christmas pak like.)

Great shows, has really helped me identity different wines to try that I wouldn’t have ever known before.
B

QOTD: What’s up in 08′? (or should consider)
1) Build a new food pairing channel on WLTV. Different host (must have GV flair but have credentials with food. GV guest stars once in a while.
2) When GV travels do more road shows with local people/wineries. Aids in the marketing of WL.
3) Is a Food Network special on tasting somewhere in the near future?
4) More focus on “value” driven wines. Would bet the majority of viewers would like to be able to buy 10$-20$ wines. We can experience more variety with the modest priced wines.
5) Continue your efforts in demystifying French wines. More education.
6) More segments with 4-pak mystery wines. (Christmas pak like.)

Great shows, has really helped me identity different wines to try that I wouldn’t have ever known before.
B

Love Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc! We kind of miss the goosenberry; you may coin that word. Great review on the Whitney’s; looks so seducing and inviting. You had too high spectations on the Quinta do Crasto. The color and tint on the El Nido Clio!! What is the score on the Quintessa? Did I miss it? Great show, five solid wines, very successful episode. QOTD: Double the amount of viewers, half the amount of lurkers, Capt M as guest on an episode, more and exciting contests, Lizzy will be expecting. Merry Christmas Gary and Family!

food network take note . GV will be starting the wine network next year!

old school baby old school .thats all i got to say

why not wine network? someone tell me why not? or lots tell us why!

gv leader of the vanernation. you guys know that the lakota nation declared their independence on wenesday from the USA,right? look it up!(link it up?)

Too bad that Douro was disappointing, Portugal wines are usually great.

QOTD: Gary stays true to his fans and, dispite his better business judgement, gives free shipping on all items!

Good show, Gary! Very let’s-focus-on-the-wine. Too bad about the Quinta do Crasto Reserva. I bought a bottle of the 2004, but I haven’t tried it yet. I hope it’s better than the 2005. I have to say that I tried a bottle of the non-reserva 2005, and I didn’t think much of it. In the past I have thought that their non-reservas have offered good value, but not so much lately.

QOTD. I don’t know what to predict. I think HeadWino had some good suggestions.

QOTD: Gary hosts his own show on the Food Network and decides to have a mystery 4 pack of wine every month so viewers can tune in and taste with him AND we get a ‘Mott Link It Up’ T-Shirt! Happy Holidays!

QOTD: I’m getting a vision…there will be two vacation/tours available where Vaniacs from across the globe can gather with their savant guide GV for a few days to enjoy 1) an unspecified region of CA, and, 2) the crush in NZ…or France…or Italy…or Spain…wherever. Hell, Amsterdam has some interesting bars!

QOTD: I hope for more road shows. But Gary you need to do whats right for you! Hip and Heart, right????

I have forwarded this episode to two dozen of my friends. You validated my opinion of the Clio. I thought it was fakey and no heart. Not even a tin mans heart. Good wine, but hollow, it simply had no soul. I of course got verbally drawn, quartered and TRASHED at the tasting by my colleagues as a result. Thanks for the honesty. Keep it Real!!!

Lush

PS: I want a MOTT LINK IT UP shirt!!!!! Unfair.

Seriously one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen (next to the eating of Jersey’s terroir)…between the Clio description (abridged version of War and Peace) and the cozy Quintessa…it was a friggin’ riot- Bravo Vaynerchuckle…I loved it!

I’m so sad about the Mott tshirt! If you’ve already trademarked it on the chalkboard, then why not put it on a tshirt?

QOTD: Stuff that’s on the road (Vayniac Cab anyone?), more older wines, and perhaps an international trip?

Gary, hope you keep your format the same. Do other things but keep the Thunder Show the way it is. My prediction is that you will.

GV,

Great EP, can not beleive how nervous I was about you tasting the 05 Clio! Even though you were slighty down on it’s “over the toppness”, we will still look forward to drinking ours when we are in the mood for a new world fruit bomb. Cause once in while that is exactly what the doctor orders and there are none better than the Clio!!

Funny to hear you complain about $8.00 Pommegranite juice and then tell us how much you like $100 grape juice…..:)

The Mahi SB sounded wonderful and might make me pull the trigger on one more 2007 shipment!

Loved the flint reference..yabba dabba doo!

QOTD – You are going to do a 2008 episode of WLTV in the Hoppers kitchen when we win the Firstgiving prize!!!

Happy, Healthy New Year to all!!!

Hopper

QOTD: I would say that in 2008 you will make some top ten list for Americas most Facinating people…. You are growing so fast it is scary….. 🙂

You know, I ALMOST bought that ’05 Quinta Do Crasto the other day, but opted on a different choice. Thanks for affirming that I made the right choice! Espcially since it is 35 bucks at my favorite retailer.

QOTD I don’t know! LOL I mean, you’re going in the right direction, obviously, by having variety in your show… guests, restaurants, vineyards around the world… what more can we ask? Of course, the integration of corkd.com is looming, so I guess that will probably be the first “big” change, which I’m looking forward to. Maybe you can so some tastings from random picks from people’s cok’d cellars. Mine is in there, so maybe I’ll get lucky [finally]. 🙂

OH, I forgot! Of all the T-Shirt possibilities so far, Mott Link It Up would be the one to make my buy one. I think it is an excellent idea, and SHOULD go forward!

I predict that in 2008 the show will go on network TV and that Gary will sell the wine library and go into the hot tub business.