Best wine moment had to be in August 2006 sharing a bottle of ’97 Beaulieu Georges De Latour cab with my dad to celebrate the birth of my firstborn.

Just so you know, the podcast version of this episode was messed up. When I tried to play it through iTunes it wouldn’t work, when I tried using Quicktime that didn’t work, using VLC, the video dies at the 12:40 mark, so now I’m trying to watch from the website.

Mott, you gotta do something about this for the people who want to download and watch this later in the week.

Love the show guys, see you at Bounce, I’m be there tonight!

Yo! Yo! you guys hooked it up today!! Nice show, the best guest as far as chemistry with you in some time! He just pimped all the ladies with his “wine moment” question! LOL!!

I’ve had so many great moments, it would be hard to do one! But they all include friends or family and I am looking forward to so many more….:), yes I am greedy for the great moments!

Qotd: Four Vines tasting room with my Dad.

Matt, I don’t want to clog your email, but congratulations on graduating from medical school. I’m still waiting to hear back from schools and hoping that I’ll get to start med school this fall.

REally liked the show.. Got home today with my 3 thats “Three” Vaynerchuk books from Amazon. Thought I was really lucky till I saw the sit in Guest. Nice.

Favorite moment – 21st anniversary, great restaurant also by the Monterey Bay we split a bottle of 1996 Dom with great food. What a Night

Great show, nice guy. Congrats on MD. Now the real fun begins.
QOTD: Would have to be riding my bike crosstown in Augsburg, Germany with a basketful of champagne waiting to meet then beau, now beloved spouse.

Great Show GV can’t wait to see Conan tonight!!

Gary, Pomum is now sold out thanks to your rec!

QOTD: My best experience I probably forgot, or blacked out! But the best are always shared with special people. There are so many, Dinner with Bruno Borie (Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou winery owner) always pops in my head as being most memorable.

Matt youre pretty cool…and how awesome that you pulled-out a romantic wine moment as your best!

QOTD: My best wine moments so far have been both a romantic setting and times with friends ..once while lost in Spain at night, walking along the train tracks with friends..drinking, laughing..and freaking out!!!!

Actually, I think we’re always searching for the best wine moment, every time we open a new bottle!
Great great show..I LOVE THE BUBBLES!!! Always have, always will!
Thanks Gary!! Thanks Matt!

congrats on graduating dude

QOTD – my favorite moment has to be when I took a two week trip to south america last summer. I was having dinner in a small restaurant in Rio de Janeiro with four of my best friends and I bought a bottle of cabernet sauvignon to go along with a plate of seafood pasta. I can’t remember the producer, but I just remember it being one of the best bottles of wine I’ve ever had.

Another interesting episode. Of course he picked an expensive bottle! I would have as well. How often do you get to sample FREE $100 bubbly?

QOTD – Graduation dinner last week with family. The dinner was excellent but the Merlot sucked.

Gary – I’ve got the TiVo set to record Conan and I’ll be watching it as well!

Gary – I think that the shaved ice dessert you’re talking about is Filipino. Possibly Halo-Halo. Shaved Ice, sweet milk, beans, and sometimes ube (purple yam) ice cream.

great show gary! Can’t wait to see you rip it tonight on Conan.
QOTD- my favorite wine experience was when I took my first trip up to the fingerlakes on my 21st birthday. I tried somewhere in the ballpark of 60 wines and eneded up with a tremendous hangover at 4pm in the afternoon!!! haha

Excellent episode with the Doc! Congrats to you completing Med school, you were fun to have on the show. Can’t wait to see you Gary on Conan, but it’ll have to wait till tomorrow, it’s just too late for me having to get up at 4:45 to go to work like I usually do. Best wine moment was camping with Edie and having a Moscato D’Asti in front of the camp fire before we ever got very serious about wine. Still our favorite type of wine. Thanks for everything Gary! Oh and by the way, I see Amazon shipped 2 things to me today and I’m excited to read them 🙂

GSGYTR!*

QOTD: It was with a girl, on her birthday. Neither of us knew anything about wine, but we had some great cheese out (I believe it was ossau-iraty, manchego, and possibly dubliner), a loaf of ciabatta, and some fruits. We had picked out two wines – mostly for their labels. ’05 Cycles Gladiator Pinot, and ’04 Barrel Monkeys Shiraz (McLaren Vale). We opened the pinot first, and found it soft, light, and pleasant. Sitting in the dimming light on summer evening, with the descending sun entertaining us through a window, I cared less and less about the world outside that room. When we opened the Barrel Monkeys, I was taken aback! While the pinot seemed to be one, pleasant flavor, the shiraz was deep and dark, and changed as it ran over my tongue. By now the light had become appropriately dusky, and I imagined a cool Persian night, with perfumed breezes and rustling dunes… and a campfire (I smelled smoke in the wine). We talked late into the night.

——Duplicate of an Email I sent:—————-
Subject: 1947 Cheval Blanc
Dear Gary,

I’m curious: Have you had the ’47 Cheval Blanc, and what was your experience? I’ve read that it is “technically” flawed, with low acidity, high residual sugar, and excessive volatile acidity, but that somehow it works transcendentally! Did it knock your socks off?

Maybe you could do a show where you simply talk about a few great wines that stand out in your memory – the circumstances, with whom you drank them. It could be the first wine-less WLTV show!

*Great Show Gary! You Totally Rock!!!

QOTD:

I have a couple: 1.)Early 1990’s my bride and I went to Paris, the first evening we stopped at a sidewalk cafe and had a kir royale. 2.) First son’s 21 birthday 1983 Sandrone Barolo. 3.) Second son’s 21 birthday 1985 Calon-Segur.

QOTD:
I was in Germany for an Orchestra tour and one family I stayed with brought out a bottle of wine to go with dessert. I don’t even remember what it was (possibly a rarely seen stateside red Rhine?). The taste was rich, complex and paired well with chocolate. Most importantly, I was able to spend the moment with some great German people.

QOTD:

Drinking Jacques Prieur Burgundies, vertical of Clos Vougeot, naked in the tank of clos vougeot…

Only in France you can do that!!

Congrats on med school!

QOTD: March 2006 I was traveling through southern Italy with some friends from architecture school and on our last night in I Sassi, Matera we decided to stay up all night to climb through the gorge at the edge of the town. Around 4:30 AM we stopped halfway down one side of the ravine and we broke out some random bottle of white wine, and laid on the rocks looking up at the shadowy silhouette of the Sassi above and a church carved out of a pinacle of rock. We stayed there in complete silence, listening to the river at the bottom of the gorge, passing around the bottle of wine. There was nothing to be said for the moment. When we decided to move on, I took the empty bottle, wrote our names and the date on it, and placed it a niche in the rock face rising above us.

Definately my first date with my girlfriend. Went out to a park, brought 2 wines and had a wonderful time. Nature is great, but its better with wine and a woman.

Definately my first date with my girlfriend. Went out to a park, brought 2 wines and had a wonderful time. Nature is great, but its better with wine and a woman.

Oh, and yes, it is Korean. Unless the Koreans got it from somewhere else. But I’m pretty sure it’s widely known as being Korean. I’m already starting to see it in all the restaurants over here. It’s pretty much just a summer food.

QOTD–Luckily for me, my best wine moment lasted about 3 days…

What I remember of it goes like this…Visiting family in San Diego, my wife and I left our daughter with the inlaws and flew into San Fran, rented a convertible and took off for Napa and Sonoma. Stopped for lunch at the Oakville Grocery, visited a couple of wineries nearby (Groth and Silver Oak, I think). We then took a twisting, winding road (The Oakville Grade maybe?) to our next stop, which was Landmark Vineyards. Had tour of the winery with the director marketing, sampled a little wine and checked into our room at Landmark. Had dinner at a little restaurant near the winery and went back to the winery for the night. Played Bocce Ball until it got too dark to see. The next morning we took off and hit several other wineries that I don’t remember. I remember trying to go to the tasting room at Rodney Strong, but they didn’t open until 10am. What’s wrong with a wine tasting for breakfast? I think we also hit Seghesio that morning. The we had lunch and tour (with barrel tasting) at Chateau Souvrain. After that it was off to Jordan for another tour and lodging for the evening. (If you ever look at the label, the far right windows on the 2nd floor of the winery is where we stayed. Our room had a view into the barrel room. I didn’t get much sleep that night. I kept trying to figure out how to get in there! Before retiring back at Jordan, we had dinner at the Healdsburg Charcuterie–Wow!!! The next day we headed back to Napa, visited several more tasting rooms, including Grgich and Kunde. Lunch was at the La Famiglia winery (Mondavi) on a terrace overlooking an olive grove. After a tasting at Opus One, we had a private tour at Mondavi, which included a tasting which included Tok a lon vineyard I-Block Sauvignon Blanc (Maybe fume blanc?). Anyway, we headed to the FEDEX in Napa to ship the wine home. After 3 days of amazing food and even better wine, we were really in the mood for something different…McDonalds it was!

As an amazing final note, when I returned to work on Tuesday, we hosted a wine dinner featuring Rodney Strong. He was an amazingly funny man.

Sorry it was so long, but I wrapped up just in time to turn Conan on!

Dave