QOTD: you mean, besides watching you spaz out on today’s episode? Probably listening to some upbeat postive vibes from Chicago (the band, not the town) on the way home from work this evening, feeling the DC heat & humidity, and knowing that there’s always love to be found just around the corner.

QOTD: Dessert…vanilla ice cream with blueberries, raspberries and whip cream…yeah…that’s how I roll.

QOTD: the explanation…….we have been hanging for that??

Great to see you bringing the energy back after a long trip away. We had the 2005 Water Wheel Shiraz Bendigo tonight, it was really good–surprised me because I’ve never really gotten excited about Shiraz in the past.

I respect you not revealing the wines since one of them was your own, but why couldn’t you show the other ones? If yours was the last, couldn’t you just show everything up to that point? Regardless, how many private label Cabernets does WL carry I’m sure the forum will be all over that.

QOTD: I liked your second video from Eat, Drink, or Die. Hearing you curse made me smile.

Gary: Understandable you did not want to run the episode. The biggest “card” the Gary V debunkers like to play is that you taste wines you sell — which means that your rating of the wine has to be fixed in your economic favor. Off course it’s not true. However, airing an episode where not just a wine you sell — but a wine you have a bigger stake in than all the other wines you sell — wins a blind challenge, would create a stronger appearance of a conflict of interest. It’s sad that many will cite the fact that you did not air the ending as proof of that you are on the take, but thats better for you than airing it and taking even more heat.

Gary, your honesty and integrity is something to smile about. My girlfriend made me smile earlier. Plus I made a kick ass stew in this ridiculous heat in Boston that made me smile.

Don’t slap me…. but cabernet’s aren’t my favorite varietal anyways (especially cheaper ones) so I’m not so sad we missed it! There are plenty of other good episodes on here. I don’t think people should wine about free entertainment so much.

QOTD: My new daughter’s smile when I got home from work (5 weeks old) today.

I’m buying the explanation- you are right, I was invested. I had notes on scratch pad for each wine on my guess for what you’d score each.

Bull shit — simply edit out all references to the one wine — if what you say was true.

I srongly suspect that you simply aren’t telling the truth.

why would anybody ever tune in to the munchkin’s happy hour again?

so much for inegrity.

Bull shit — simply edit out all references to the one wine — if what you say was true.

I srongly suspect that you simply aren’t telling the truth.

why would anybody ever tune in to the munchkin’s happy hour again?

so much for inegrity.

QOTD: Ob La Di Ob La Da by the Beatles playing on the radio.

And thanks for the B-day shout out @19:20 🙂

Great to have you back Gary. I was disappointed with all the conspiracy theory jibber jabber and I appreciate your explanation. I never questioned your integrity or honesty. Still, as the face and leader of WLTV, don’t include Mott or anybody else in any error explanations in the future. You’ll gain the respect of the Vayner nation. I refer you to the recent resignations of USAF military and civilian leadership after multiple errors at the local level, yet they made no mention of errors made by subordinates and accepted full responsibility. Obviously, the degrees are different, but the principle still applies, and they still have my respect. Keep up the great work and thanks for educating this Vayniac.

QOTD: I hung out with my Dad yesterday and took him to see the new Indiana Jones movie. He’s 61 and got a kick out of the new flick. Lots of laughs and good times. Cheers.

Great to have you back Gary. I was disappointed with all the conspiracy theory jibber jabber and I appreciate your explanation. I never questioned your integrity or honesty. Still, as the face and leader of WLTV, don’t include Mott or anybody else in any error explanations in the future. You’ll gain the respect of the Vayner nation. I refer you to the recent resignations of USAF military and civilian leadership after multiple errors at the local level, yet they made no mention of errors made by subordinates and accepted full responsibility. Obviously, the degrees are different, but the principle still applies, and they still have my respect. Keep up the great work and thanks for educating this Vayniac.

QOTD: I hung out with my Dad yesterday and took him to see the new Indiana Jones movie. He’s 61 and got a kick out of the new flick. Lots of laughs and good times. Cheers.

Gary,

Since I know how much you like messages, and people who think for themselves:

Give us the end of the damn blind tasting !!! Air ALL of ep # 477 !

I appreciate your pointing out of your conflict of interests. Conflict noted.

As you said, I am invested in the episode. I want to know the ending. I care. And since you care about your fans, you should care too.

Show us the end of the blind tasting! Not showing the end is NOT a solution!

Air Episode #477 ! Air Episode #477 !

THE FANS DEMAND IT !

Until the ending airs, I am and will remain a very disappointed vayner-fan 🙁

QOTD : Tell you what I really think.

Gary,

Since I know how much you like messages, and people who think for themselves:

Give us the end of the damn blind tasting !!! Air ALL of ep # 477 !

I appreciate your pointing out of your conflict of interests. Conflict noted.

As you said, I am invested in the episode. I want to know the ending. I care. And since you care about your fans, you should care too.

Show us the end of the blind tasting! Not showing the end is NOT a solution!

Air Episode #477 ! Air Episode #477 !

THE FANS DEMAND IT !

Until the ending airs, I am and will remain a very disappointed vayner-fan 🙁

QOTD : Tell you what I really think.

Glad to have ya back Gary! Great energy on the show.

I think John D. made a good point, and it might not have been a good idea to mention the private label winning if you aren’t going to show anything.

I’m not hurt though, and I still love ya!

QOTD: My nephew.

CMA

You cannot un-ring a bell.
You cannot un-light a match.
You cannot un-pub a blog.
We get it, it’s not supposed to be a winelib commercial. So what was the lineup- and I’d like to see the art on your label anyway.

I live in Tulsa and sometimes none of the wines you mention are available…e.g. the Zinfandels a couple of weeks past…
the Chilean Cabs were right with my embryonic (even though 61 year old)palate.

QOTD: My kids all the time, so I will pick out one quote from my 3.5 year old daughter which really made me smile yesterday. When we were in the car driving home she said, “cars don’t poop because they don’t have tooshies.”

I agree with some of the other comments about redoing the blind tasting minus the private label. It’s great to have you back!

QOTD: My kids all the time, so I will pick out one quote from my 3.5 year old daughter which really made me smile yesterday. When we were in the car driving home she said, “cars don’t poop because they don’t have tooshies.”

I agree with some of the other comments about redoing the blind tasting minus the private label. It’s great to have you back!

QOTD: 3. G. iPhone.

The last thing that made me smile was you.

JT

Hmmm… Seems a lot of people are already beating you up over carelessly mentioning that your house brand was indeed the winner. I’ll just let that go then. 🙂 Hope you enjoyed your time here in Houston. I wish I could have made it to at least one of the events you were at. I live just south of The Woodlands dang it! As to Spec’s, while I enjoy shopping there, they’re really the only game in town, and they usually don’t have a lot of the wines you review on WLTV, and if they do, the price here is usually such that it’s cheaper for me to order from your store and pay the shipping then buy it locally. Not always, but quite often. Ooops…don’t print that part. Heh.

QOTD: biting into the blackened chicken breast I just seared in duck fat… Awwww yeeaaah…

Your shoutout to my son for his birthday……Thanks more than you know!

QOTD: hahahaha “a little fakey fake in the back end like kim kardashian!!” that quote has to be put on one of those montages.. instant classic!

Yeah, I get it, but I wonder if you could show the results and the notes (minus the house label) on Chris’ spreadsheet. You liked some under $10 cabs – I’d like to know what they were. I’d like to see the end of the show, but I have a feeling it might have gone off the rails when you saw the house label. I think your reaction to that would have been explanation enough, but I guess we’ll never know. I hope you’ll send Chris the scores, though.

QOTD: Watching my son’s little league baseball game!