Differant and nice episode………

QOTD: Friday work, Saturday work, Sunday work……..My weekend starts on Monday and lasts thru Thursday.

So “my weekend” plans are;

Monday: Coffee with Mom and Dad, rest up from the 36 hours of work out of the 72 hour weekend, play with the wify wife and dog children.

Tuesday: Coffee with Mom and Dad, work on putting up some siding on a barn I am building at the farm, take the dog children and wify wife to the lake for a walk or two, take a drive to Shreveport to have dinner with my sister.

Wednesday: Coffee with Mom and Dad, wify wife and I are volunteering our day at the local Animal Shelter to help do some cage relocating along with some remodeling and painting. Give some of those dogs and cats shots and groom and bath some also. Wine tasting that evening at a local wine shop.

Thursday: Sleep in till 9AM. This is our nothing day. Wify wife and I will just sit back, maybe watch TV, take dog children for a walk at the lake, maybe visit local wine shop to talk about wines tasted the night before, after getting home maybe sit in the recliners and drink some more of those previously tasted wines or just explore something new on our own, then maybe have the kids and the grandkids over for dinner, basicly Thursday is our Sunday. Not much going on on Thursdays except family and friend stuff. If any of this falls through the cracks, then maybe we won’t do anything at all.

Other than watching WLTV that’s it for this “my weekend” weekend.

Gary, here is a tasting idea:

Retaste the 2003 Franciscan Cabernet (available here: http://www.bargainliquors.com/wine/detail.php?products_id=815) and splice in the original tasting notes from 2006. It will give the Vayner-nation a clue about what aging can (and cannot) do for a wine. I’d really like to see this one.

Thanks.

– Mark

I can’t even taste anything but rotten grapes at this point!

QOTD: Wine tasting party Friday night that got waaaaaaayyy outta hand. Saturday I was at school helping out with orientation. Sunday will be a lzy day… hanging with the wife… drinking some vino… relaxing before another crappy week at work! Peace! Go GIANTS!

Love the green shirt! My favorite color is also green, as long as it’s got a lil gold mixed in baby! Go Packers!!! Since you like green, how about cheering for the amazing Green Bay Packers??

QOTD: Snowshoeing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire followed by soup and a good Bordeaux.

Nice show, no surprise on the Cali Sauvignon Blanc.

Q: Relaxing with the wife and friends, also watching some football.

Jags and Seattle won last night, going with Titans and Giants tonight.

Great laid back friday. QOTD painting two bedrooms this weekend blahh.Dude the best bottle swill ever at the end nice!!!Thanks Gary and WLTV crew.

great episode today gary! i like the intensity. no writer’s strike here!!!

weekend is over at this point, sorry. i did drink some stuff though. had fun drinking a 2000 Beaujolais that my friend’s mom gave to him. nothing special but fun checking out an 8 year old gamay.

Fun laid-back show today.

I’m watching WLTV after all of the football games have ended (sorry, that was plan numero uno for this weekend). I would’ve predicted our Seattle Seahawks win this weekend! Seriously, first you stop shipping to Washington State and then you don’t pick the Seahawks? Where’s the love!

In my efforts to experience new grape varietals I spotted the De Long’s wine grape varietal table (like the periodic table of the elements for wine), found it pretty informative and thought if you haven’t seen it yet you’d get a kick out of it!

Well, the weekend is almost over, but I spent a fair bit of time planning a wine tasting based on the 100 Top Bordeaux Under $25 list — for my American Wine Society chapter. Other than that, I climbed a small mountain. I know nothing about football :-).

I haven’t liked SBs from California either; I agree that they seem to make them like Chardonnays. We have some better ones here in Virginia, actually. (I’m putting a couple in my tasting, along with some Virginia Meritages, for people to contrast to the Bordeaux.)

Laid back show. Enjoy watching the videos’, but please hide the horse balls.

Since the weekend has expired, I suppose I’ll share with you my “attempted plans” vs. what really happened.

Plans: Take it easy, maybe drink some wine.
What happened: Ended up working the whole time.

Oh well, there’s always next weekend!

Weekend Plan:
Emerge from the shadows
Shed the podcast lurker status
Join the Nation
Mission Accomplished with :51 remaining to the west coast weekend
Tony B. in SOCAL

Well, my weekend consisted of a poker night paired with a pretty good Chat-du-Pape.

As for a football prediction, the NFL games are over, so I’ll give you my prediction for Monday night’s NCAA championship game. I’ll be pulling for LSU (southern loyalties, even though I’m not an SEC fan in particular), but I think Ohio State will not let last year happen again. I pick OSU in a close one.

LOVE to see you back on the couch!!! Enjoyable laid back ep!!!

QOTD: Had a wine tasting on Sat…was ok, but got to ride my horse on Sunday! It reached 52 here in the frozen tundra and I had to take advantage of it! Of course I opened a wonderful Bordeaux to end the weekend!!

Not a football guru!

Have just seen this episode on Monday morning, 3 out of 4 ain’t bad. Worked all weekend.

Great to get LBF back.

QOTD: well, it’s monday, but this past weekend I went to Wine Club on friday and had a great time (as always). other than that, I put away christmas decorations, saw Sweeny Todd (which was gorey but awesome) and went to my boyfriend’s hockey game (where he kicked butt with FOUR goals)

great show gary… glad you’re getting back to questions since i always find them amusing

TRY the ST.Julian Sauv. Blanc out of South-West Michigan…..I think it would dominate Cali as well!!!!

I’m liking the JAGS,GIANTS,CHARGERS,AND SEAHAWKS>>>

Go Patriots!!!!!!!!!

I liked your comments on “playing” a wine. I did that recently with a Douro wine and was blown away after an hour of it sitting in the glass. I really enjoyed it after it sat a while. Keep giving us the great insights!

QOTD: I’m just back from a two week vacation and the weekend is over. But I was surviving the wicked winds!

â?¦In California, the nation’s largest wine producer and the state with the least wine sales regulation, the Legislature in 2005 passed a law — supported by distributors — that prohibited Californians from purchasing wine from out-of-state retailers. The state attorney general’s office has put enforcement of the law on hold until the end of this year to give the Specialty Wine Retailers Assn. a chance to persuade lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow out-of-state retailers to ship into California. “If we are unsuccessful it is entirely possible that Californians will be prohibited from purchasing wine from out-of-state retailers,” said Wark of the retailers’ groupâ?¦

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wine7jan07,0,6113134.story?coll=la-tot-business&track=ntothtml

That annoys me to no end. I think I’m going to give some support to the Specialty Wine Retailers Assn, because they are fighting against these lame wine shipping laws. http://www.specialtywineretailers.org/standfor.html People like me in CA should be able to buy wine from anybody anywhere – including from Wine Library! If this law passes, I won’t be able to buy from Gary anymore. In this day and age, it makes no sense.

I know Gary isn’t trying to make this site political, but these politics are directly threatening his bottom line.

â?¦In California, the nation’s largest wine producer and the state with the least wine sales regulation, the Legislature in 2005 passed a law — supported by distributors — that prohibited Californians from purchasing wine from out-of-state retailers. The state attorney general’s office has put enforcement of the law on hold until the end of this year to give the Specialty Wine Retailers Assn. a chance to persuade lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow out-of-state retailers to ship into California. “If we are unsuccessful it is entirely possible that Californians will be prohibited from purchasing wine from out-of-state retailers,” said Wark of the retailers’ groupâ?¦

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wine7jan07,0,6113134.story?coll=la-tot-business&track=ntothtml

That annoys me to no end. I think I’m going to give some support to the Specialty Wine Retailers Assn, because they are fighting against these lame wine shipping laws. http://www.specialtywineretailers.org/standfor.html People like me in CA should be able to buy wine from anybody anywhere – including from Wine Library! If this law passes, I won’t be able to buy from Gary anymore. In this day and age, it makes no sense.