George Taber, Charles Smith, Jorge Ordonez, that knitting girl – why the h*ll do you do blind tastings. These shows are so much more interesting. You get a little history, a little tasting and a lot of fun interaction. Blind tastings. Just waiting for the bag to be pulled.
George was a great guest.

Awesome show Gary! I have been watching you for the past month and I will continue to follow…

George Taber was an excellent and very engaging guest. I wish the episode could have stretched another 15 minutes or more with some French wine in the tasting as well. I read Judgment of Paris, and loved it.

Bottle Shock is being released on DVD on February 3, 2009.

I enjoy the blind tasting shows and the guest appearances the best of all. This was a treat.

QOTD – cork. Call me old fashioned. 🙂

QOTD: I like ’em all.
Wow – that was a FANTASTIC episode! Top 10 all-time, easy.
8-10 years ago, Chateau Montelena had heavy paper stock reprints of the 1976 TIME article that they handed out at the winery. It was George (uncredited) and a nice read. Mine is framed and hung in the den for a few years – now in storage somewhere – I should dig it out.
Here’s a contemporary TIME cover – about 6+ months before the Paris tasting – with a New Jersey angle to boot:
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Excellent episode!! What a great guest!
QODT: i like them both. Crisp young white wines=screw caps….for cellaring big red wines=cork (although i’m waiting to see how some reds with screw tops are going to react after 5 or 6 years…in that case, if it works well, i’ll go with the metallic…i’ll sacrifice the romance of cork for a good preserved wine)

Terrific show – enjoyed “Judgement” greatly. Wonderful to have George on the show.

QOTD – I screwcaps for everday wines; cork for wines that need to spend some time in the cellar. I actually find very few corked bottles these days

Great show! Very informative and entertaining.
Love the romance of the cork and the sound when the bottle is uncorked. Hate screwcaps, looks cheap. Save those for beer.

Great guest! The story he reported on in Time isn’t something I knew too much about so it was great to learn more about that.

QOTD –

My wife and I usually try to find wines in the $10 – $15 price point and we don’t see many bottles that don’t have corks. I wonder if we are secretly seeking out the corks and avoiding the screw tops and others without knowing it. Long answer short there is something almost romantic about a corked wine.

That was great…

QOTD – My favorite is the cork. I like collecting things, and those little corks fall into that category. On the other hand, I don’t really have a preference when thinking what is the better closure. I do not like synthetic cork, though….

Great guest, fun show! GV you are doing much better at allowing your guests to talk.

Q – I like cork and screw top, but i have to say over the last few years i have gone from refusing to buy a wine with a screw top to being perfectly fine with them.

Screw top. I fear that it may have issues in the long run, but I think the jury is still out on that.

Great show. I enjoyed reading George’s book a couple of years ago and have given it to others to read. QOTD – I am starting to lean towards the screw top enclosure lately.

I’m suspending judgment. However I slightly prefer cork because I can keep them.

Excellent show; GT was entertaining and very interesting. Can you make him a regular guest, maybe once a month? Read his first book and can’t wait for his third. As for his second, see below.

QOTD: I only want to drink wine sealed w/ cork. I feel like I am missing something without the cork…like taking away the sniffy sniff. The worst is at a restaurant, the waiter presents the wine then twists the bottle and is left standing there looking like an idiot. At that point I am almost too depressed to taste the wine. Maybe I am just too old to change, plus what would I do with my 10+ openers. As for the imitation corks, why even make the effort; just plain lame.

Wow! Excellent interview and informative. Gary you should have Warren Winiarski on to further explain the Paris Tasting.

QOTD: I prefer cork and perhaps always will. Something about “screw caps” just doesn’t do it for me. The ritual and spirituality of umcorking a fine bottle of wine is lost in just unscrewing a cap.

George was a very interesting guest. May have to read his books.

QOTD: I guess I’m a traditionalist since I prefer corks for all the reasons noted by Richard Ritter. Although I don’t mind screwcap wines, if you want to drink “down under” wines you have almost no choice.

gotta go with the synthetics because it’s the best of all worlds. the romance of popping the cork remains without the fear of crumbling.

excellent episode. i enjoy the chalone chard but find it tough to spend $20 on a bottle. to me, either drop the extra $10 on a bottle of cakebread or pocket $10 and pick up something less expensive of similar quality.

GV, Taber put it on you today. Great personality and no shrinking back when it came to the “Giants” bucket. LOL.

QOTD: I am still a cork man. Traditional I guess.

QOTD= Whatever just put a cork in it already

Great show. George was thoroughly entertaining and informative. BTW I am
a HUGE Central Otago Pinot fan – ever since my first sip of Gibson Valley
I’ve been hooked.

QOTD: Screw It all the way baby. Nothing better than when you go back to
that half finished bottle a day or two later and hear that ‘Tsst’
when you open it up. Freshness garunteed!!

George was excellent.

I like corks and screw tops. Most important is what is in the bottle.

Great Show.

QOTD: CORK!

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! I read George’s ‘Judgement’ book in ’06… it is a MUST read for anyone who is into wine…

Also, by chance, was able to buy a few ’04 FA Cabs to lay down a month ago… hope they age well…

QOTD: I don’t shy away from enclosure’s other than cork, but do still enjoy the nice ‘pop’ now and again… Cardinal Zin was the first I ever tried with a screw cap… still buy it…

GREAT show, Gary. Except for the fact that he’s a Pats fan, George Taber is one solid citizen. Entertaining and educational; thoroughly engaging. I’m really looking forward to his wine tours book.

Corks–definitely. The visceral joy of working the corkscrew and hearing that sound adds so much to the experience. To me it’s as much a part of the pleasure of the vino as the sniffy-sniff and the ultimate “whirl-giving”. I collect them, too–can’t do that with a cap.

QOTD: Cork for sentimental reasons. Plastic foam cork is probably the best way to close the bottle. It’s porous almost like a regular cork, but works 100% of the time.

I seem to prefer the stuff under the cork. 🙂