Great show! THANK YOU!!

1: Fantastic Gal Pal Erin Whitaker – always learn from her

2: Barrel tasting with my amazing friends in Healdsburg… Always feel sexy sporting the heels, hair done, eating apps and chatting it up with my huge group of fabulously beautiful ladies!

Cheers!

qotd 1. my mom 2. an ex gf and an intimate time where a really nice sauternes was involved, no wine glasses.
Gary, nice way to change things up and give some variety to the episodes.

You’re gonna read every comment Gary? WHEN DO WE GET TO SEE A VIN JAUNE ON THE SHOW GARY? Easily 1 of the world’s most unique wines and you always talk about branching out and trying new things.

Great episode!
QOTD: Heidi Barrett was great when she was on WLTV. Also like Florence Fabricant from the NYTimes, even if not chiefly a wine writer.

QOTD2: the Fete du Beaujolais when I was in Beaujolais for the release of Beaujolais Nouveau…quite the experience…!

qotd 1: Jancis Robinson, great person with an extreme amount of knowledge.
qotd 2: D’yquem ’97, that’s just sex in a bottle… maybe the single greatest bottle of wine i’ve ever tasted! And i probably never will again…
Great episode, i will score it a solid 89+.

QOTD1: Andrea Immer Robinson- I took a tasting class that Andrea taught at the French Culinary Institute in NYC which really ignited my passion for wine.

QOTD2: Drinking Champagne in a high-elevation room at the Bellagio overlooking the Strip.

I loved your eposode with Samatha Brown.

Anytime my wife and I have a bottle of wine while watching a good movie.

QOTD 1: Jancis Robinson would be my first choice, though when Ms. Barrett was on WLTV I thought she was great.
QOTD 2: Any time drinking wine with my wife Brenda.

QotD1: JANCIS!!!
QotD2: That’s between my wife and me.

QOTD#1: My wife, over the last year she’s come around and drinks and enjoys everything I do!
QOTD#2: See QOTD#1.

Yo G, Our Jets snatched DEFEAT from da Hands-of-Victory AGAIN!!!!!
WEEEEH, WEEEEH, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁

QOTD’s: Jancis R – she’s the best Gary – I know she’s a little “British” but she was a legendry guest on your show and her knowledge and experience is second to none.
Sexiest wine experiece? I wish I had one!

Thanks to all of you, and best wishes w/ your groups. While I do love Burgundy; Pinots, Chards, and Aligote, w/ its dry,transparent tart fruit, you had me at Minervois.
When I was a young waiter (the mid 1980’s) in a nice Jazz Club, we poured the respected Chateau de Gorgazoud Minervois, which I loved. It spoke to me, and I quickly established a faith in the small, estate wines of all the world’s well known regions, and developed a track record of selling the better, albeit, virtually unknown wines on our exceptionally well rounded list. La Louviere, Volpe Pasini, Tieffenbruner, Priorat, Cosimo Taurino Salice Salentino and Ohio’s Harpersfield were just a couple of my pet wines. The typical server would suffice to let them have K-J, or the other large, American names. Merlot had just come into fancy favor, and White Zin was a newish, and exploding niche. By five years’ time, the wine industry came to me, watching, and knowing, who had the potential, and the passion to move fine products. Twenty five years later, I still love what I’m doing, and just recently found a nice position in my new home in Southern Fla., watching my mom and dad (LOVE THEM!!) grow old and happy. You continue to inspire, and I spread word of this site all the time. Happy Haunikah (sp?), Merry Christmas, and keep the Thunder up!

Q1 – there are sooo many remarkable women, that it’s unfair to name one. most people don’t even realize the near anonymity of the finest work of so many. A few among them may be Margo van Staavaren, Heidi Peterson, Mia Klein, Pam Starr, the Baroness Phillipine, Barbara Bankes, Mary Ewing- Mulligan, Dorothy Gaiter, and myriads of industry women in every city’s wholesale, retail , on promise businesses. I mean, don’t forget your favorite server, or the lovely lady who pours your wine at the wine bar, country club, or special event. Thanks ladies, and Merry Christmans.

Q2- sexiest moment is during early courtship, when the prospect of what is to come waits in the wings, the senses are acutely tuned in interest, and the vision before you appears to be as delicious an offering as could be.

QOTD 1: Andrea Immer Robinson, when she had Simply Wine on Fine Living, that was the beginning of my wine education. I wish my mother had lived long enough for me to enjoy wine with her, she loved it and I was not into it when she passed away.

QOTD 2: Our first trip to Sonoma was a biking wine trip and it was the most romantic, sexy vacation of our then 20 year marriage. (still married by the way)

Really good show, Gary!

QOTD 1: Lane Tanner, who was making excellent pinot noir when most of the other winemakers in Santa Barbara County were still trying to figure out what to do with the grape.

QOTD 2: A tasting at the Clautier winery near Paso Robles, California. My wife, I, the wine maker, and his wife were the only ones present. It was mildly risque and a whole lot of fun. We were there for almost an hour, much longer than the usual tasting room visit.

QOTD #1: without an everyday SWL, I’d go with Heidi Barrett. Class, passion, resume and the chops to back it up.

QOTD #2: none yet

Great show…interesting spread of wines.
QOTD1: Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan…affable and extremely knowledgeable…knows how to use a sword too.

QOTD2: That’s a tough one…many have been restaurants had pseudo-sexy wine experiences like Alinea or Blue Hill at Stone Barns. I went a reserve Cab vertical tasting (maybe Montelena?) with my wife that was fun too.

QOTD1: Cathy Corison
QOTD2: Rosa Regale with chocolate covered strawberries and a girlfriend

Hey Gary, haven’t commented in a long time. Should do it more. Anyway I had a thought about this ep. When you get a crowd to taste wines at an event like this, maybe you should do the “who likes this wine” thing BEFORE revealing the price point. That would avoid the price influencing the crowd as possibly happened with the burg and the Cinsault-based wine. For some wines the savvier crowd would probably be able to guess price anyway but for some things – that Cinsault wine for instance – even the nerds would struggle.

I helped organise a sparkling white tasting once where wines were tasted single-blind. Prices ranged from $5 AUD to $70 AUD (that being for Laurent-Perrier NV). In addition to trying to guess which wine was which, people had to rate the wines out of 10. A lot of people, especially ladies, rated the $5 wine the highest of the lot. Cue startled looks from their men, and comments of “Won’t be buying you the good stuff anymore then” 🙂 Lot of fun.

By the way, what happened to reading out some comments? That was cool and you should do it again – not every day, just now and then, once a week maybe.

Loved this show. Some good info. Both of the men were so shy next to you. Be who you are….its great.

QOTD: A crazy night in my room dancing and drinking mulitple bottles of cab franc from Foxen with a friend and spilling a bottle while distracted all over my wall. It stained the wall next to my bed for five years. Always had a good laugh when people asked what happened.

Well, the show was nice and it’s kind of funny to hear GV say, I think your right, when he always says ther is no right or wrong i ones taste 🙂

QOTD: favourite female winemaker May Eliane de Lencquesaing , former owner of Chateau Pichon Loungeville Comtesse de Lalande

sexiest winemoment? At sunset sitting down with my love and eating a pizza with a nice DOCG Chianti Classico just in front of the leaning tower of Pisa summer 2007 was extremly sexy

Thanks for your appreciation on my wine (Soir d hiver : Cinsault,Grenache,Syrah).It was my first wine ! The second one arrive on 2010.
But than, i would like to congralute you for all you are doing in the wine world.
You do very good shows !

Céline (Clos romain)

QOTD #1: My ex-wife was a great partner to drink wine with.

QOTD #2: Gentlemen don’t talk about these things but did I mention that my ex-wife was a great partner to drink wine with?

Loved the energy of the entire show. Found myself wishing for even more crowd interaction. When you do the show in front of people it might be fun to have a camera and/or microphone facing the audience.

QOD1 – Favorite woman in wine… Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan, MW. Beautiful, smart, fun, and hopelessly passionate about wine.

QOD2 – Sexiest wine experience… An August night sitting on top of Aptos Ridge above Santa Cruz, CA watching the sun go down over the Pacific sharing a bottle of who knows what with the woman I love. See, it’s more than the wine, it’s the people and the setting that make the experience.

Honestly, not my favorite episode, but really good QOTDs.

1: I have a list that could go on for days but since I have to pick just one, I have to say Claudia. A really good friend of mine that I met through wine, and now have a friend for life. Awesome lady, and a great cook. Ridiculously generous and caring.

2: Since we are going “all porn-style”… It had to be on the boat a couple summers back. I’ll spare some details, but there was cheap sparkling wine covering EVERYTHING!

QOTD1: Heidi Barrett
QOTD2: Just got married the weekend before last (Dec 12) and opened a bottle of Overture (second label of Opus). Pretty good wine, but way too young. Can’t really share the rest of the details…