LOVE LOVE LOVE the show. I was surprised to see a picture of my husband and I in the first ten! I think you should do a tasting pack once a month so that we can taste with you. We did that with your Christmas Eve episode on Christmas Day with the family and had so much fun!

i’ve told many friends to log onto wltv… the wife and i have just recently been getting into wine. we did the whole napa tour last spring and are planning a russian river / sonoma tour this spring!

keep the thunder comin’!

love from humboldt, ca

-joe o’

Happy New Year!

We starting watching in about July and have expanded our knowledge of wine soooo much. We have tried lots of wines – many we had never heard of.

Happy New Year to everyone, and Hafa Adai from Guam, where I’m R&Ring with my boyfriend n’ BF!!! I did not toast in the New Year 14 hours ago, as it dawned here, but I’m about to, now!

OK. 2 cover 2 epidsodes of QOTDs in 1 comment to Gary:

1.My wine resolution is to become better at expressing what I’m smelling/feeling/tasting when evaluating my wine purchases. In other words, I want to become better at writing wine reviews.

2.For Gary & Mr. “Mott Link it Up” (TM), I’d like for y’all to think very hard before making WLTV episodes too long—I actually think that it would be better if you split very long episodes into 2 or more successive days of episodes, instead. For instance, while I enjoyed the slideshow, it would have been better to watch portions of this over, say, these past 2 weeks. Also, since people would have been uncertain about when their wristband pic would show up, many people would have watched every day until their pic(s) showed up.

BONUS: Of course, you WLTV can never go wrong by offering more FREE shipping…. 🙂

Happy New Year to everyone, and Hafa Adai from Guam, where I’m R&Ring with my boyfriend n’ BF!!! I did not toast in the New Year 14 hours ago, as it dawned here, but I’m about to, now!

OK. 2 cover 2 epidsodes of QOTDs in 1 comment to Gary:

1.My wine resolution is to become better at expressing what I’m smelling/feeling/tasting when evaluating my wine purchases. In other words, I want to become better at writing wine reviews.

2.For Gary & Mr. “Mott Link it Up” (TM), I’d like for y’all to think very hard before making WLTV episodes too long—I actually think that it would be better if you split very long episodes into 2 or more successive days of episodes, instead. For instance, while I enjoyed the slideshow, it would have been better to watch portions of this over, say, these past 2 weeks. Also, since people would have been uncertain about when their wristband pic would show up, many people would have watched every day until their pic(s) showed up.

BONUS: Of course, you WLTV can never go wrong by offering more FREE shipping…. 🙂

Awesome way to wind up 2007–onto 2008!

Happy New Year to all!

Thanks for a year of interesting and informative blogging. I am a recent viewer but I have almost watched half of the episodes just because you are so good at your blog. The biggest thing I have taken away from the thunder show this year is you will not know until you try it out. So I started to keep a wine journal and started writing my own tasting notes just because I can never remember the wines I loved. Please have a safe and happy holiday
-Tstank

Thanks Gary for the tribute! I’ve enjoyed the shows for almost two years. Have a great New Year! See you in 2008.

Best wishes for a continued success for the program. I know you hear (or read) this all the time, but I am so very grateful for the time and passion you put in to this program.

As to the QOTD I will continue to watch and learn as much as I can and expand my limited horizon regarding the wine world.

QOTD: ignore almost all suggestions on how to do the show, including most of mine, just shoot from the hip and go with your gut, it might not be perfect but trying to please everyone else will kill your joy for the show and without that there is not show

I love to see WLTV hold on for an entire year. That’s a long gig, and a goal not to be taken lightly.

Also, make WLTV DVDs I can send to people as gifts!

Excellent year, keep it up.

I think you should do a wine tasting marathon. Maybe as a party for an entire night tasting a bunch of different wines. Invite me too. ;p

QOTD: Totally agree with PaulM just keep up what you are doing and go with your gut:D

awesome stuff. brought tears to my eyes, the love, the family. very cool. happy new year everyone! be safe. be healthy.

QOTD: Great PR (Conan and Ellen especially)
Excellent variety of wines
Memorable descriptions/evaluations
Pretty much unflagging enthusiasm (don’t let the Jets drag you down)
Appreciate the leads on new wines

Fun ending – I saw Babyface and me.

Happy New Year!

Gary, Mott,

I am so thankful for finding you. I knew there was a nation of wine heads out there who shared the love for wine like I do and you bring us together in such an enthusiastic and original way. I only recently found you, so another resolution I have is to watch as many back episodes as possible. Thanks for all you do, I’ll keep watching and drinking. Syrahhhhhhhhh

Gary,

С НовÑ?м годом!
(Ask Sasha if you have any problems with the above.)

Watching WLTV has become a ritual, a real highlight to my day.

Thank you (and Link It Up – that is Mott’s first name, isn’t it?) for all that you done.

Happy New Year Gary!

QOTD: You know my rambling thoughts from that email I sent a few weeks ago. Other than that, the one thing you did that I really enjoyed was the Bordeaux Episodes, rough though they were, and the New York sommelier’s interviews, and the Jeffrey Davies interview. I truly appreciate these rare glimpses into the realities of the wine trade.

LOL @ Bigfoot!

Happy New Year!

QOTD: Agree with Yoni below (was talking about this with someone a few weeks ago) – make “Best Of” DVDs so we (and our gift-receiving friends) can kick back
late at night and watch great episodes of WLTV on TV monitors in our living rooms.

Sweeeet show…..HAPPY NEW YEAR

QOTD: I have always wanted to get into wine but without direction and knowledge it is a hard thing to do. I had always drank a bottle here or there and always disliked the wine at the time. What a turn off.

Then along came WLTV and now it is a whole new world. THANK YOU Sasha, Gary, Mott and the crew at WL and WLTV for all that you do. 2007 has opened up my wife and I’s life and marrage in a way we never knew could or would happen. You all have become part of our family. Thanks again……..

Try the Chateau Musar – Lebanon. Thanks for the New Year’s episode! Thanks for a wonderful year filled with good memories and great tastings. QOTD: I’ve expanded my palate, and learned a great deal more. Resolution for this year for WLTV: let’s put more effort into cork’d. Reward people who put more input into it. Happy New Year!

Gary:

Happy New Year from Singapore! Just stumbled on your site while looking for reviews of an Insoglio from Campo di Sasso and enjoyed all the reviews and some for the videos! Also enjoyed the great comments from the posters.

Keep up the great work!!!

Andrew

QOTD: I’ve only been watching the show for a couple months, but I have gone back to watch a lot of the older episodes. I think what you’re doing is really awesome. The variety lately has been incredible, the wine bars, cheeses and steaks, contests, etc. I love all that stuff. I think could do a few more “focused” shows, where you have about four or five wines and no distractions. But I ain’t complainin’! You always have some really cool ideas, so don’t let anyone else tell ya how to run the show, just go with your gut and stick to your guns. You said you wanted to do more food related episodes next year, and I think that would be awesome. Anyway, just want to say thank you, Gary, Mott (Link it up! [TM]), and the whole WL/WLTV crew! Have a great New Year!

CMA

Fantastic shout out to all of the Vayniacs in the latter part of the Ep.

QOTD: I gotta echo the aforementioned suggestions to keep being real, unpretentious, down-to-earth, and educational as you shoot each episode from the…well, from the palate- actually THAT should become a coined WLTV phrase: “Just shoot it from the palate”… I like that.
I would also definitely like to see more “on-location” shows outside of your WL office because the week that you did out on the town in restaurants in NY was, in my humble, veteran Vayniac opinion, the best stretch of shows in the history of WLTV. Each show was focused and brought us all into another sector of the wine world; where wine lists have been put together and you tasted them with a specific theme in mind. Keep it up, and keep being creative to bring education and insight into wine with fresh new locations and themes while upholding your incomparable style. Cheers and Happy New Year, Big G.