QOTD: 1st biggest surprise was to see that WLTV was doing a show on wines from my home state Oklahoma!!!!! 2nd biggest surprise, really thought the biggest damn surprise, THAT AN OKLAHOMA WINE SCORED 90+ POINTS ON WLTV!!!!!!!!!!! Surprised because I have tried many wines from Oklahoma and they are mostly very poor wines. The wine industry here is very much in the infant stage but, with each step making ground! Don’t think we will ever be known as a “wine state”, but would be great someday to know I can pick up a nice bottle of the home state vino and to be proud that it’s a nice wine!

Dean Ho and Tony Garea!!!

Gary- Great show as always. Major props to the Chapel Creek CKCs(?) for pumping out some serious vino!

Hey! Maybe it’s just my pet peeve, but since this *is* a wine vlog I thing your team should be able to spell “sauvignon” correctly. Everywhere in the program and in the links you guys have got “sauvingnon.”

Only two letter n’s in sauvignon, even in New Jersey! 😉

OK WTF?? I was a judge at the Oklahoma City state fair wine taste off six years ago, and what a mistake I made!! They were so bad!! How did you find the one drinkable wine from Oklahoma. PS. I have never heard of the chapel creek and I live here and worked in the biz for a long time. WOW all I can say is WOW. when i saw the title to the show i was horrified. I am glad we had at least one winner. PPs. Texas still SUCKS!!

Hi, gary, nice to watch the show again!

QOTD: My biggest surprise of the year, till now, it is that I have been in a New Media Exhibition as a volunteer translator and then become a special member of a net art group. Actually, this experience help me understand the meaning of pure work(as money issues are not involved) to me and of money(as I have no income this month). That is very educative, and I like it.

All the best!:)

Hands down…biggest surprise within the last year…App State Mountaineers beating Michigan Wolverines! Go Mountaineers!!

I just caught the Oak Monster bit on Revision3!! Too dang funny!

Gary,

You should check out alot of the wineries in up north Michigan, particularly surrounding traverse city. There is alot of interesting stuff up there

Got to find that Chapel Creek deal…

Great episode!

Too bad that I’m going to be in Northern CA with my family and leaving on July 10th!!!

I’m curious, Gary.
Do you think it was the quality of the fruit, or the winemaking that made the Community College wine so exceptional? Thanks for the energizing show – that’s why I watch!

I agree with Mark. Maryland wine show would be interesting. Elk Cove “Sweet Katharine” is quite nice.

QOTD: I’m too old for surprises. Nothing shocks me anymore.

See ya Thursday G-Man. Now THAT will surprise me. 🙂

Cheers!

Best tag teams:
Road Warriors, Hart Foundation, Steiners, Midnight Express, and because I loved them – The Killer Bees.

Wow, that was amazing: I have the slightest clue that people in Oklahoma made wine.

QoTD: I was somehow convinced (by people I didn’t know, actually) to try diving — which, even a few years ago, is something that I’d have *never* seen myself doing — in December … and I *loved* it. A few hours ago, I dropped in at a scuba school to register to do my certification in a few weeks :~}

What’s also surprising is that you (GV) are going to be in Seattle soon!

The Chapel Creek was a major outlier – who would have predicted? Did some reading – Redland Community College – they won an NSF grant to implement the program. sound like the professor knows what he’s doing.

However, other wines I have tried from the midwest are lousy table wines that are far too sweet or just completely off. Because of the cold weather, the choice of grapes in the midwest are so drab – nothing like California.

The Nasty Boys were awesome!!!! And up the Community College Kids!!!

Suspicious, Oh yes. Just a bit. I think so. It freezes there quite solidly, then drenches, then fry’s, then humidifies, then drys, did I mention wind? The vines have to survive at least five years of this kind of love! Vitus Vinifera? Outdoors in Oklahoma? I am just a bit suspicious, that’s all.

QOTD: Northern Italy (Friuli and Alto Adige) has been shocking me lately, specifically with Traminer and Blaubergunder).

QOTD: Biggest shock I’ve had this year was in a book. No, not yours, sorry. It was none other than Moby Dick. I never thought I’d read it, but I did and I was shocked by how insanely awesome it was.

Aug. 7 the Cleveland Browns will bring the thunder against your Jets. Owned.

Biggest surprise this year—that I actually went to the Holy Land. Never in a gazillion years did I think I would seriously entertain the thought, let alone do it, because, wellllll—who wants to go to the Mideast??!! It was the most awesome experience of my life (almost—the birth of my son still ranks above it). WOW!!

Hey, thought I would leave a comment today based on the fact that I have been mostly a lurker since watching your show, maybe posting once or twice, but understanding that you can’t pigeonhole me since my ip address changes every so often because we roll with Comcast(who I hate). When are you going to do a PS?(Petit Sirah)? I have watched at least a year’s worth of shows, but the only Petit Sirah you have done has been part of a blend with CS, PV, and others. I know it would be hard to do with the long decant times and the planning involved, but it would make us PS nation fanatics very happy if you did. Let’s do it on a laid-back Monday! That couch needs some PS up in its grillpiece, and I’ve got just the prescription for it: MORE PS.

QOTD: Biggest surprise…12 ft. snow banks in March.

QOTD: My boyfriend winning an all inclusive week long stay in the south of France. Hello French Riviera!

Great Energy, Great Show !!

QOTD: Nothing has “surprised” da Ol’ Buck lately……… 🙂