Great show guys!
QOTD: According to my own experience and what i saw in the last few years, i think the Mollydookers can turn a wine drinker into a wine lover. However i understand is transitional. I don’t like them as much as i used to, but it was a great start.

QOTD 1 – Vega Sicilia Valbuena 2001…. totally amazing, like heaven in a bottle….. will turn anyone into drinking wine!

QOTD 2 – YES! grow some handlebars! lol

I gotta admit, this guest host had no clue what he was doing or talking about.

Pretty weak episode on the whole. At least get people who know how to swirl wine!

As always Gary you sparkle with guests, as it really shows off your compassion and true friendliness which is endearing to your fans.

QOTD – von Hovel riesling. or some good german riesling as it is fun and has a friendly flavor profile. Most good champagnes are too acidic and dry for the young palate.

I am flying into Portland on Wednesday afternoon and it will be tight, so stay late a Powell’s in Beaverton. I will try to make it. It would be a highlight for me!

GV – We’ll be seeing you in Seattle this weekend! Looking forward to it.

I have to say if the wife doesn’t like facial hair I wouldn’t go there. (Made that mistake once.)

With my wife and I BEING wine n00bs, I think I can safely say that our untrained palates are still leaning more towards the Moscato d’Asti’s and Rieslings of the world.
And with the price range that we feel comfortable with, most of the Cabs taste more like vinegar to us, at least right now. (We’re trying, but ponying up 20 bones a pop for something we may think is a dumper now is just not much of an option) Hell, that’s why I watch this show, to try to find the super sweet fruit bombs that we enjoy.

And my wife actually cried some years back when I took a job that I had to shave my goatee off. That, along with the fact that in 31 years I have NEVER shaved my upper lip makes me just a shade biased to the mustache and goatee look…

Go the whole beard !!!

Nice job Vaugn, you handled the pressure well. That must be a pretty hot seat.
QOTD: I’d have to go with the wine that converted me, and opened my eyes to the beauty of wine: Quintessa. I had the 98 and 99 at the vineyard, and it completely changed my outlook on grape juice. It’s very expensive (100 bones), and these days I’m enjoying a lot of 10-20 dollar bottles, but I think it sometimes takes a really special wine to kind of slap someone in the face and say “See! Look how awesome this stuff can be!” Because prior to that I’d had a bunch of “okay” wines, and in effect my idea of wine was that it was just “okay.” It took a great wine to wake me up.
QOTD 2: The only way it might be cool in my opinion is if you suddenly have a full beard. Like next time you go on vacation or something, and you come back and viola! Full beard. And then, of course, you shave it off immediately.
Great show as always! Thanks guys!

QOTD 1: I’d probably go with a Riesling to get someone started.

QOTD 2: As for facial hair, asking the question made me realize I’ve worn it for over 50% of my life now–aging! I’d say Gary tries the mustache. No handle bars, just bushy.

Great show “Aye”? This show made me want to take off to the great white North. It’s a beauty way to be!

QOTD#1: I didn’t want to go to a casino after I went to the BINGO hall down the road, but I did after I went to Ceasar’s Palace in Atlantic City. So I’d say if you’re going to convert someone…go big..roll out the red carpet… and give them Opus One.

QOTD#2: Gary should rock the “Abe Lincoln” or maybe a skinny aboriginal stache and beard.

Hi, I figured since that was a very funny show, I’d quit being a lurker and say something!

By the way, I’m Iuri, I’m from Brazil (despite the russian name) and I’m 27.

QOTD 1: I think to convert someone I’d go with some nice champagne (I’ve actually done that before), something like Bollinger NV or Pol Roger vintage rosé.

QOTD 2: Gary should grow an old style, solo mustache, which by the way is making a comeback at some places here in Brazil.

Please keep up the good work Gary, your show really brings the thunder!

P.S.: Sorry Winelibrary doesn’t ship wine to Brazil, I’d like a lot to taste some different stuf you’ve got up there.

Q-Perhaps a sparkling wine, one that’s not crazy dry and has plenty of fruit. Prosecco would work.

Q2-NO.

Like the new intro.
qotd1: for a white, i’m big on verdejo these days, which seems to usually have some tropical fruit going on, and I think that’d win some people over. for red, maybe cline cashmere, only because the last time I brought it somewhere the person I shared it with started buying it by the case.
qotd2: hmm, that might be up to the wife.

QOTD 1 – Trevor Jones Boots Grenache for a red and Shannon Ridge Viognier for a white

QOTD 2 – Keep the wife happy (You don’t want to chaf 🙂 )

QOTD 1 – Trevor Jones Boots Grenache for a red and Shannon Ridge Viognier for a white

QOTD 2 – Keep the wife happy (You don’t want to chaf 🙂 )

QOTD #1: I think that a Williams-Selyem pinot noir would bring an outsider in to the wine world. There is a lot of flavor but no excessive weight or dryness. People always like that stuff.
QOTD #2: I agree that a soul patch (aka ‘flavor saver’) would be a good look for GV.
Good show.

QOTD1: Muscat D’asti from Italy. The slight frizzanti action will appleal to everyone.

QOTD2: Lamb chop sideburns.

Great show, love the score differential.

Great show…cool guest “You hoser!”

QOTD #1: A fruity Rose would be a good starting wine for the virgin vayniac.
QOTD #2: Rock the flavor saver…… 😉

QOTD1: White: Verdejo…Casamaro Blanco, Rueda
Red: Amisfield Pinot Noir (Central Otago) or Saintsbury Pinot Noir (Carneros). or maybe a yummy Rhone blend, Domaine Jaume, Vinsobres.

QOTD2: Meh

I don’t think that there is one wine that could please everyone’s pals. Beer drinkers might like a really dense Malbec. White Zindfandels drinkers may like a really well made Rosato. A well made white Burgundy will convert many people to wine drinking. Can’t see GV with a full beard. He might look like a muskrat. A soul patch would go well.

I work with a lot of new wine drinkers, whose intro is Moscato or other sweet wines, so I’m inclined to see either Lambrusco or perhaps Beaujolais as good intros due to their lower tannins an juicy fruits as good bridges to more serious (especially red wines). For Red wine drinkers who don’t drink white, I like to give them a good Viognier, with nice lime fruits and chalk on a hot day to show them the Thunder whites can bring.
And I’m all for the handlebars – ride them hard.

qotd1: I’ve been trying to convert a friend of mine for a while now, and the one category that he really likes is dessert wine. I think it was a Niagara Peninsula icewine that really turned him on to wine at all. I hate to say this, but I also think Andre brut sparkling wine (I wish they would take the C-word off of the label) could be another candidate. It’s just so darned fruity and cheap.

qotd2: I agree; a soul patch or goatee might work for him.

Great episode!

QOTD1: Depends a lot on the person. I think most often a really big shiraz bomb.

QOTD2: If GV gets a goatee I may be unable to distinguish him from Joe Hachem: http://www.tourneyblog.com/images/TN3726_EPT-Monte-Carlo-Hachem-2.jpg I also think he might look a bit like he’s in the Mafia.

QOTD 1 – whites would be a vouvray, demi sec with a few years on it or a voignier
reds would maybe a 1990 chateau beaucastel or a 1990 pichon baron

QOTD 2 – gary needs a uni-brow like bert