qotd:

I have always loved food – the flavors, the textures, the people. There is always new food out there to try and explore. To me, wine is like that food that you tried and didn’t like, but came back to and didn’t know why – almost like coffee in that sense. And then it grows on you, and you learn to love it.

Variety, to me, is the spice of life. And nothing comes more varied than bottles of wine – even the same bottle on a different day, from a different glass, with a different person. That and it’s such a labor of love – from the people whom make it, to those whom save up to buy it. What can I say? – wine, like food encapsulates everything I love about life!

QOTD: Wine is an excellent companion with foods.

QOTD= Wine for some reason has a unifying effect on those who I have shared a great, and sometimes, not so great bottle of wine that is unlike anything else in my life. And because it taste yummy

by the way the shirt, the hair, the jewelry, WTF??? Surely he is the one from Jersey!! he is scary like clown scary. If GaryV was a hot chick i would have expected to see this on http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com

Great episode!!! Love to see more Vayniacs on the show as well as higher end bottles. Even before watching I thought the Giacosa would show much better but that’s how it goes sometimes. Kudos to Joe G and you as well, Gary. The party at WL looks like a blast.

QOTD – Why do I drink wine? It stirs up emotion, thought, is damn tasty, and creates beautiful memories with loved ones. What else can you ask for?

Great play Joe!

QOTD: Because wine is everything but boring!

Great show, I hope I can make it for the next one.

Gar,
I really liked the show format, tasting table on the wine sales floor. It reminds me of the 3 tastings (2 are blind) that I go to each week. Joe G is a great guest, maybe other knowledgeable reps in the future?

QOTD:
Wine brings people together and it stimulates brilliant conversation whether it’s about the wine or taboo topics like politics, religion or s*x. It’s truth serum at its best.

Gary & Chris & Joe, SUPER energy on this episode. VERY sorry that I couldn’t be there to meet you Joe!!! I hope that we can meet soon………………..We were at WL at different times……:(

qotd…… wine, is like a box of chocolate…. you never know what you gonna get + more

QOTD: First and foremost, I like it, it tastes good (well most wine does anyways). Its a great way to unwind in the evening and its great to pair with a nicely cooked meal. But also, wine is a hobby. There’s things to learn, there’s people to share it with, there’s things to say, opinions to have; it’s involving. And as hobbies go, its accessible, I can pick a bottle at the liquor store, my family in particular as always had it, and it’s convenient in the sense that well I’m gonna have a drink with my meal anyways, so I might as well have a drink that I can think about and share.

Nice show. Loved the energy.

Joe definitely has it down. Nice shirt too.
QOTD: 1. Aromatherapy – the nose can be invigorating, calming, meditative
2. The Taste – I like fruit and it doesn’t have to be big. I like to ferret out the other flavors 3. Entertainment value – for example I had a Michael David Petite sirah last night and I hated it at first, but it kept changing from flavor to flavor and bringing me along with it. It was a challenge, and it made me like it. 4. Always the hope that it will bring an entirely new experience or match an old favorite experience. 5. The sociability – it’s more fun to drink with someone who enjoys it too.

Gary + Joe = Wine Nerd thunder!!! Sweet episode!

Why do I drink wine? I like to read and I feel like every bottle is a story!

QOTD: Taste! I really, really, really enjoy (get excited perhaps) good food and wine. Photographing it even makes me happy.

QOTD: Because I get to challenge my knowledge/senses and drink at the same time.

Awsome show guys, loved everything about it!!
Top 8 I would have to say.

QOTD: I love wine because your not just drinking “wine” your drinking the earth, your drinking “god”. Wine is like science it’s a living breathing creature, constantly evolving and changing.
Every bottle of wine has it’s own story to tell and I love being the one who listens.

Sheep? i mean the necklace

QOTD—– Wine is a living thing … It has character , it brings joy and gives us a meaning of sharing with the people we care about.

Great show- WTG Joe G!!!!!!

QOTD: Because it’s freaking wonderful!!!!

Great episode. Nice to see JoeG on the show
QOTD: I drink wine because it fascinates me. It is truly amazing how the combination of grapes, dirt, water, sunlight, barrels and a few other things can produce the flavors and aromas of almost anything you have ever smelled and tasted before in you life. When I smell and taste a wine, and I recognize a taste or aroma that I have never experienced in a wine before, that is why I am into wine.

QOTD: Because it’s wines are really masterpiece “humanature” of art. So many factors between the grape and the glass are may change what we taste. Every bottles are so different and this is why it makes wine so unique, like every persons on this planet

Great, great show BTW!

QotD: More than just a beverage, wine is a chance to enjoy and learn about someone’s hard work, and the area in which it is produced. You don’t get that from soft drinks usually, it’s limited in beer, and too expensive for me to partake in liquor. It’s a five sense experience, from the sound of the pour, to the color, to the aroma, to feel on your mouth, and finally the taste. And excepting Germany and it’s beer… it’s the one thing I would actually consider traveling to another country to partake in as the sole reason for going.

Because no other living product for me has so many tastes, smells, and textures like wine. I have been enamored of wine since I bought my first bottle of St. Emilion in 1968 and 40 years later none of that has changed just more and different wine experiences. Looking forward to just as many in the next 40 years. Great tasting and appreciated Joe’s expertise as well as GV.

Nice job Joe, lots of knowledge, lots of love!!

QOTD : hhhuumm…..well I think I drink wine for so many reasons. One, every experience has a new and exciting one where you really never know what you are going to get in the bottle. The company I generally share it with, the conversations, the exploration of the world in a bottle, the tremendous food it usually goes with, the answers my kids give when I put the glass to there nose…….just like you Joe, wine is everything with me. It’s the catalyst to many, many great experiances with family, friends and sometimes strangers that quickly become friends!!!

Thanks again Joe!!!