Good stuff. Can't wait for the red beer episode. 😉

Hey Gary

My name is Darren and I'm from Perth, Western Australia. I discovered your show only a few weeks ago on a itunes podcast and I'm hooked. Only problem is itunes only carries your last ten shows. I really want to get all of your shows downloaded onto my ipod as I need my fix. Do you know where I can download the rest in the corect format. Also was wondering if you ship to Australia? We have very limited access to overseas wines other than New Zealand and a few French and Italian wines?

no its also a connecticut mystery evidently. bloody bulls. Ive been serving them since 1985 .So us peeps here in connectiut are in tune with the peeps in south dakota. rock on peer.

Red beer is like this thing they have in Mexico called a “michelada.” You get a salted glass half full of tomato juice, worcestster sauce, tobasco, pepper (basically bloody mary ingredients). Then you get a beer on the side. you pour some beer in, drink some of the way down, keep adding beer, and so on. It's good. You can also just get a “chelada” which is lime juice in a salted glass. Works well with Mexican beers, especially. But I could see you doing the same thing with bud light.

qotd: still good music, but different. musicians today could make the old stuff too if that was the style.

other qotd: highly successful poker player – but that's not a game of chance!

I've seen red beer in Texas (usually called a “red Bud”), but I've never had one myself. I tend to go for beers that don't need to be drowned in tomato juice to make them palatable.

QOTD1: Rock and Roll just isn't Rock and Roll unless it's got deep roots, and I mean roots music: blues, folk, gospel, bluegrass, etc. Zeppelin was great because they made innovations based in traditional music– same can be said of Niel Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, the Beatles, the Stones, Eric Clapton and a number of other powerhouses from the late sixties into the seventies and, occasionally, the nineties (Nirvana comes to mind). That being said, I don't hear a lot of “rock and roll” these days that seems to know that it comes from anywhere; a couple of hipsters and a synthesizer do not rock music make. There are a few exceptions (Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs is a bona fide rock star), so I can't say that good music isn't being made right now, but it isn't showing up in the proportions it was in, say, 1975 (when, full disclosure, I wasn't alive).

QOTD2: I seem to get chosen at random by a lot of Nigerian princes who are willing to give me a cut of their vast fortunes, but I haven't taken any of them up on the offer, so that might not count.

Congrats on the Jets, new nephew and 'Crush it' Gary – haven't posted for a while but the big victory prompted me. I guess having the best offensive line, #1 running game and defense is still worth something – if they can beat the Colts they can win it all. Good Luck.

Music? There is always, will always be great new rock, pop and dance music being produced. Off the top of my head – Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, M.I.A., MGMT, whatever fashion Jack White chooses to put his music out, Spinnerette, and, never forget, my old faves The Mekons still exist and produce…that's the great thing – you can still go listen to the old stuff too.

Best thing I ever won – I dashed off an Oscar party ballot for a coworker who asked me because she knew nothing about movies…she got 21 out of 23 (I think) and was so damn delighted I've never been able to forget that smile when she told me the next day. Does that count as a 'spiritual' answer.

Go Jets.

D.

Qotd: Great Idea Gary, Will Look Forward To It.
Qotd2: Great Music Isn't Made Anymore! The Greatest Era In Music Was The 60's & 70's. There Are A Small Amount Of Musicians Out There That Still Make Good Music: Waits, Dylan And Van Morrison Etc. Maybe The White Stripes. I Dunno. I'm 29 Years Old And I Love Old Blues Sides From The 20's And 30's: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Mctell, Robert Johnson Etc. That's REAL Music. You Have To Listen To And Learn About Alot Of Different Music (Also Old Stuff) To Appreciate Music Nowadays More, I Think. Go Back In Time, Please. Start With The Old Old Blues… And Then Go Forward From There… My Point Being That We Really Don't Need Any New Music. There's So Much Great Music Around Already. MTV Has Killed Music, It's All About The Video. And That Is Really Wrong. It's A Business, It's All About Money, That's What's Wrong Nowadays.
Qotd3: I'm Not A Lucky Man!
Ohh Great Show By The Way! Keep Up The Good Work Gary, You Crazy Jets-Fan ; )

CAN'T TAKE THE JETS SHOW. WHY DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT A BUNCH OF GANG BANGERS RUNNING INTO EACH OTHER AS HARD AS THEY CAN??? STICK TO WINE / FOOTBALL DOESN'R MAKE IT

I too like old school blues (Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, etc.) and rock (The Who, Pink Floyd, Traffic, etc.) and I don't think the music today is nearly as good. I cringe most of the time when I hear modern artists.

The best thing I won in a game of chance was money playing poker.

Wow, so much to comment on. GV your all about hurting feelings? Ouch. A Sparkling month would be one hell of a month, I don?t know if I could handle it. A week maybe? Red Beer!?!?!?!?! I thought brass monkey was bad (OJ and beer)!! I would rather DIP SOME DIP! but I should not knock it before I try it!

Brian's QOTD: Good music is probably one of the most subjective terms in any form of consumable media. I am not saying that Music does not transcend and measurable method of scoring or popularity, because it does, that?s why its so Fu**ing awesome! Yes I think there is good music being made, but its hard to say what is good anymore, in most cases its just different degrees of bad. I did not hear anyone mention the Chili Peppers though, gotta give Anthony, Chad, Flea and John mad props, even if they did drastically changed their sound.

Nick's QOTD: I am a poker addict! the best thing I have won I think was a 120 dollar pot, nothing special. But poker has taught me innumerable amounts of information about people's their facial expressions, when I think they are truthful and when they are full of sh**. I am naturally expressive and find it hard to keep in certain emotions, poker is good practice!

forgot to answer the amount of sparkling I drink. Probabley about as much as Nick and Brian. Maybe about 5-7 bottles a year. I drink a lot of Vino, so maybe a bottle of sparkling once every 250 bottles of wine? hard to say, but not nearly enough!! I am starting to really like the stuff. Gary, I couold see why you would want to make such a dramatic sparkling impact. The stuff is good!!

Gary,

HELP! I keep unsubscribing to the list on DISQUS but it's not working. My inbox is being deluged and it's annoying.

qotd 1: most popular music today is crap–movies too
qotd 2: won some fake mountain dew at bingo (so lame!)

go jets!

Mott must be under the weather. He totally missed two 85 mentions for the sparkling!

Unofficial QOTD: I drink sparkling white at about 3-4 events a year (more last year, since I went to nine weddings plus New Years). I probably have about 100 different wines a year. I guess I don't drink it more often as I generally seem to experience worse hangovers with champagne than I do when drink most other things.

Music QOTD: Dave Matthews Band is one of my favorites, but their music has been slipping a bit. A new band (for me) that I discovered last year that I really enjoy is Pink Martini.

Luck QOTD: At casinos I've had fairly good luck a couple of times. I won a small poker tournament to win $765 once, and I won $800 in a great streak of blackjack once. My luckiest break, though, was to meet my wife one week before she was going to leave DC to go back to California for law school. We started dating long distance soon after, and the rest is history!

I don't think gang bangers means quite what you think it does. But DO NOT google the definition at work.

Wow, you got contacted by Nigerian princes too? They must have A LOT of money.

Hi GV. This was a great episode. Would be great for you to have more chances for fellow Vayniacs to appear on the show.

Tomato juice and beer: red eye. My apartment-mate of nearly 30 years ago drank those. After work (3-11 shift) at Nectar's…. Boy does that send me back!

Been a long time lurker. But am coming out of the shadows after seeing you taste the Vacqueryas.

It's funny you had mixed reactions to it plus said it may have been better a year ago. I drank it a year ago and loved it. And I agree with the first QOTD asker (on my left) that it has strong tobacco taste to it.

Maybe as an ex-smoker it appealed to me more?

Anyway, dig the show. Keep it up. Of course, I'm biased as a Canadian, but would love to see you do a Canadian show, or Ontario show, viz our LCBO. We get a wide selection of wines there, but just don't have the free range to all the stuff you can source through merchants.

So, it was cool to see one – the Vacquerays, which we had in common.

QOTD 1 – Tons of great music happening. Tv on the Radio my favourite. But for more straight ahead bluesy rock stuff, you have the Black Keys, Them Crooked Vultures, The Dead Weather and on, and on.

QOTD 2 – Last time I won a game of chance? Last time I got on a plane and it landed safely:)

Yup at the Borgata finished 3rd.

Good show….you must of listened when most said keep the guests coming..not a big Brut fan, prefer a bigger white. Not sure if I ever had a Vacqueyras.
Queen, ACDC, Journey are some classic sounds that are still around.
Won a big enough slot in A.C. long time ago that we drank and ate alot over a weekend and still had money left over. QOTD Gary, did you plan on not doing a seminar on Sunday next weekend in Boston because you hoped the Jets would be playing or only planned on being at event on Saturday due to you schedule? http://www.winelx.com

I have definitely had red beer. The classic west coast twist is using clamato juice instead of tomato juice! Add a little Sirachi hot sauce to it and you really have a great camping drink…

Yeah, still gotta use the Neil Pert Signatures…

KaD

Red beer is big in rural Nebraska too.