Great show Gary! Another out of the ordinary episode that absolutely worked perfectly this time! The best advice I got from you from the past episodes is to keep coming back to an opened bottle of wine that one didn’t like the first time around. The come back and analyze how it evolves, and if it doesn’t get any better for your palate…at least you get a better feel for what you don’t like, and therefore stronger understanding of what you like! I’m hoping the 7 more episodes comment doesn’t mean what the vaniacs are fearful of…if it is…I might have to drive up and bring some hurtin’ (more than whatever that chocolate massage thingy costs…)…I mean, you can’t expect me to go to Parker for wine advice if you’re gone…the dude looks like a caveman…

I hope you’re BSing us GV. 7 more shows?!? Just when the Vayniac nation is rolling strong. Come on, you must believe this has tremendously helped WL. I’m happy to purchase wines from WL – you put out a great show and educate me. Therefore, I buy my wines from you.

Please keep it up!

That is What i love about the show Gary, you really keep it real. Each pal is very different so I am glad you keep reminding us about that.. What do I love to do well one of my favorit things is hanging out with great friends and drinking wine or whatever,. Oh and I love watching the show as well keep up the great work…

couple of things:

stop with 7 more shows forever. N puh-leeze.

still no NYG shout-out? forget EricG and let GlennL take you to the Big Blue. you don’t have to suffer for the next decade dude. you really don’t.

what is up with meh and redonkulous? online poker terms? you a player???

love the idea of revisiting these wines manana. very cool. i also think Ferrer has priced itself out of the marketplace and if i am spending 3-figure coin in Oz it’s on Grange.

remember, Blue is for you. suffering is overrated!

great show…just got back from some night skiing….that’s what I love to do in the winter…ski, then pour a nice glass of wine and watch your show. Mix in a different wine as much as possible and try something new.

QOTD: I love to eat….I better not finish that thought, this is kinda a family show! I love sundays..They start with family breakfast at a diner, football, seeing my niece for dinner.
I love Ana Ivanovic and watch here play tennis, so gotta go Australia open is on.

QOTD: I love to eat….I better not finish that thought, this is kinda a family show! I love sundays..They start with family breakfast at a diner, football, seeing my niece for dinner.
I love Ana Ivanovic and watch here play tennis, so gotta go Australia open is on.

QOTD: I travel incessently, both for work and for relaxation.

Also, I’m hoping that the “7 more shows” comment isn’t true.

I hope you just mean 7 till 400. I have had the Torrebeck and hated it. It really isn’t wine in my book. I’m posting at 11:30 at night because my friends and I each brought a bottle of Gruaud Larose from 1976-1999. This was wine and at the time these were bought they were almost give away. In 1978, no one was predicting these wines would be any good in 5-10 years much less up to 30 years. None of these were $150 wines and still aren’t but well made. This was a winery in decline until 1976 when they were bought out and a new winemaker brought in. This also shows what you can do with putting wines away. Almost nothing in my cabinet gets drunk prior to 2 years and most 5. And it doesn’t have to be expensive to last.

is it the comments? thats why your not doing anymore shows? I promise I will post more coments more often 🙁

QOTD: Pair wine with Kansas Basketball and/or the NCAA tournament. I love to open something nice and watch Kansas play. Throw in spending halftime with my girlfriend who puts up with my love for both, and I think they call that heaven.

QOTD: Enjoying a nice bottle of wine at home with my husband on a chill weekend night with a good meal. So relaxing!

Yes, I HOPE the ‘7 more’ comment isn’t true, but I know you mentioned something big for 400. I guess we’ll have to see what you have up your sleeve.

I love drinking scotch, and wine, also bourbon. And watching the THUNDER SHOW! 7 shows? Your soul would implode if that happened, and we love you WAY too much for that to happen.

Waiting for the tasting tomorrow.
I just had a full bodied Zin with 14.8% alcohol that totally overwhelmed the palate the first day but after a day or so it was great. A lot of dark fruit and a very smooth wine which I enjoyed tremendously. Also had on the same schedule, a new world fuit bomb (also Zin), medium bodied, which tasted fine the first day but wasn’t anything to write home about a day or two later.

QOTD: Eating Great Foods and Golf

Silly Gary, 7 more shows? How can you give up this advertising, I bet the sales volume immediately following a rave episode goes through the roof.

Let’s hope GV means 7 eps until the big 400th, right?

QOTD
Shopping with “the girls,” having lunch, listening to opera with favorite wine on Sunday afternoon. Big family dinners when everyone brings stuff.

QOTD: I love reading to my 2 and 4 year old, hanging out with my best friend (wife), cooking for friends and sharing great wine with them, and finally, incising and draining oral abcesses.
Cheers

has gary mentioned the 400th being his last before this episode? i just started watching less than a week ago, and i am hooked. listening and learning from someone so excited, and accessible is extremely exciting. contagious even. i hope he doesn’t stop at 400…

Tired. Work has been crazy. Going to my first Vayniac offline tomorrow night. Haven’t commented much in the past week, will leave $0.02 x 5 late tomorrow or friday.

Gary, great show! Not by choice, but by practicality, it’s been taking me 24-48 hours to finish a bottle these days! Lately, it’s been shiraz/viognier– and I’ve enjoyed most of the bottles more on day 2.

qotd – cooking with friends while listening to great music and enjoying wine
sub.qotd – fresh, firm bing cherries

woah GV holy smokes!!!! your only doing 7 more??? crap i dont know weather to look forward to 400 or not. wow, i never thought it would come to this. you gotta kepp going man… your a great alternative to the other boring critics man. your pretty much the one that got me hooked on loving wine, and because of that i got my friends into wine. please clarify tomarrow

Nice show Gary…..

QOTS: If I had to pick one thing that I like to do I would have to pick, “talking with the wiser generation”. Sitting down and having a conversation (really listening more than talking) with someone over the age of 65 or more. Especially someone in the mid to late 80’s and older. These folks have so much wisdom and I always learn so much from them. I am 50 plus and I still can sit for hours and listen to the stories and view points of a 90 year old person. Just unbelievable. These folks are a dying breed. The good Lord doesn’t make them anymore.

That doesn’t mean he’s retiring the show at 400, does it?

Whaddya mean only 7 more shows? I just got into this a couple of months ago… you can’t stop!

I love to laugh, and I love to be with good people. I guess you could take all else but the bare essentials away, but leave me those two things and I’d be OK.

Gary don’t threaten to only do 7 more shows – I’m sure you’ll end up with crazy stalkers (I’ll start the fund – first paid stalkers :P).

Loved the show – oh so aching to try one of those Torbreck’s – might have to find an excuse to indulge – perhaps I might be able to find one ;).

Playing w/ wine is an excellent idea! I’ve been doing it over the past two months or so thanks to you – and highly recommend it. I wonder if thats where sangria came from 😛