OK, OK, OK. I learned my lesson. I bought two of the secret 4-packs to share with neighbors & friends (not that they are mutually exclusive), but have not been able to enjoy their tasting due to one thing or another. So I take a major pazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz on the secret 1- and 2-packs, and what happens: you come up with a fantastic (90 point) white bordeaux and two (repeat, two – not one, but two) reds from Languedoc-Roussillon. And one of them is even a Fitou wine. And you hit all my hot buttons with words like cassis and cheese. And you know they’re good by your body language: drinking directly out of the bottle and sharing both reds with the Mottster. I mean when something is so good that you just have to share that goodness with someone, you know it’s good.

It was a hard lesson to learn, but I will get the next secret pack no matter what.

great episode, gary! I don’t hang out- I’m in law school!

QOTD: High, high in the mountains in or out of my humble abode with my sweet, sweet pooches and my wonderful guy.
I’m tasting tea in the wine I’m drinking. First time, surprising, and pretty good.

QOTD: The local pub down the road. Nothing better than hanging out with friends, awesome bar and waitstaff, and just enjoying a few beers. Too bad the wine bar is so far away. 🙁

Hopefully there’s another secret pack soon! Bring it!

Interesting show.

QOTD – Don’t really hang out. Used to hang out at Tom Bergin’s in L.A. One of, if not, the oldest Irish pub in L.A.

I hang out in our local library with all the beautiful people heh heh.

Fun show and educational too. Excellent wine selection GV! I mean what the hell is better than WLTV Secret Packs and girls with pock marks? 🙂

LOVE the taste along Gary!!!!! keep them coming. QOTD- I hang out on the riesling isle around the corner from the Montefalco bin. PS. that is the closeout section for all you CALI snobs

Great job picking the wines Gary. I’ve said it before and I will say it again louder YOU NEED TO DO THIS ONCE A MONTH! I love how you broke up the pack so that some of the people on limited budgets could taste along. The secret packs are fun. Next time though I am going to get two sets. I think it would be fun to put some of the wines away and see how they evolve.

QOTD: We live in Downtown San Diego. we roll around and live the cafe life.

Thunderous show, I love the secret pack tastings it really helps compare tasting notes with someone else. Keep on bringin it.

QOTD: Gym, a local bar Evening Star Cafe and a local brew put called Rustico that I can walk to and has a sick amount of obscure beers available.

Great show….wish I could have had the white Bordeaux…sounds tastety.

QOTD: Wow…um, I usually hang out at the local wine store….or in the library while I’m writing a paper…

GV- great show

QOTD- I like to hang out at my friends place with my friends. There is a nice little wine bar in Lubbock called LaDiosa its a great place to hang out and relax with friends and enjoy a bottle of wine!

I should have bought the secret pack while i was at WL on Saturday… but it was fun just the same…
QOTD: I hang out at friends houses and nice bars…

Great show. I didn’t buy the paks but I have purchased other wines you have liked from the wl. then I will get a friend pour the said wine and play the episode and taste with Gary, a private tasting. My sis and I drank the secret de cardinal with Gary and had a great time!!
Hang out in the backyard by the pool in sunny Santa Cruz Ca..

I hang at home at the kitchen island drinking wine and watching WLTV. Yes, I have no life but its tasty and fun!

Time for a sniffy-sniff!

Go Kansas!

Pleazze do these more frequently.

QOTD: In my kitchen…or in on the water in my kayak in the summer.

Great Show!!!

QOTD: If I’m not at school or at home, I generally hang out at a local tea house. (kinda like a starbucks but independent and focuses on loose leaf tea instead of coffee.)

–RH

QotD: I hang out in of the computer then TV

Great show! I really wish I would have had the reds, but I only bought the single pack (just my wife and I).

I agreed with a lot of what you thought. It was funny, because I was telling my wife things and you immediately backed me up online!

Here are my notes:

Lemon and dandelions on the nose. There’s also a bit of smoky wood there. I was surprised how much body this wine has! Rather complex. I taste some lemon which transitions to interesting cheese flavors…perhaps some blue cheese mixed with a smoked cheese. There are some apple components as well. Rather long finish that leaves a bit of a chalky feel and taste on the palate.

2003 Chateau Brown is still my favorite white Bordeaux.

QOTD: I hang out at home with my beautiful wife and our puppies!

Hey Gary

I CAN”T BELIEVE YOU SAID THE WINE IS NOT SERIES BECAUSE IT IS SEALED WITH A SCREW TOP – TOO ME THIS SUGGESTS A WINE MAKER WHO CARES ENOUGH ABOUT HIS WINE TO PISS OFF THE CONSERVATIVE BOUNDS OF TRADITION AND SEAL THEIR WINE WITH AN EFFECTIVE AND PRACTICAL SEAL RATHER THAN OUTDATED BIT STUMP OF TREE BARK.

Apart from my above whinge, great show. I’m a big fan of Fitou.

QOTD: New York Cafe, Yuen Long, Hong Kong

Andrew

QOTD: We hang out on the deck. In the winter we hang out in the dining room, wishing we were on the deck.

QoTd
I hang out in school as a elem. teacher during working hours. Off hours I hang out in my yard trying to grow things in a high desert climate.

Good show! Although a tad off – but maybe it’s just me!

Qotd: Local wine shop or with my wife and daughter (doesn’t matter where as long as they’re there)

Great show. Crazy you mentioned that book! Selling a Good Time is bound to be an underground classic. Anyone whoever did anything in sales (and hated it) in their mid to late twenties will “get it.” Oh, and we hang out wherever the wine flows…yeeeehaaa!

Friggin AWESOME show!

QOTD:Hmmm… I can usually be found at school, IHOP, Starbucks parking lot, in front of my comp, or with my boyfriend!