Jason, Great job, I work on the tasting room staff down the street at another winery. Good shout out for the BV wine trail. I’ll be over one of these days and introduce myself. Sounds like you’d like to keep on learning, Check out http://www.phillywine.com I’ve been listenting to your tweets as well.

Yeah, and could you please try fixing my NO EMAIL problem…….that I have had ever since this new DISQUS forum type started. It's starting to disqust me….lol

its a character arc thing. the hatred of merlot shows his inability to change his life and what not, when he finally drinks his 61 cheval, he breaks through, blah blah blah, gets the girl, becomes happy and what not. it sucks everyone actually thought he thought merlot was bad. it was just a stupid metaphor. do some people not eat oranges either because everytime don corleone got near one something bad happened?

Gary,
Great show today & I had a few comments:
I completely agree Lady Gaga was ROBBED at the Grammys! She is fabulous & you need to have her on your show. Also, I thought “Meritage” rhymed with “heritage”? What up with that? Along the same lines, what shocked me was how you dissed the guy's Meritage – but hey, it was only one guy's palate (um, YOURS). That Merlot did sound delicious though – so did the Vanilla Villain Chardonnay. I look forward to seeing you at the SoBe Food & Wine Festival at the end of the month! Fun, fun:)

I have not tried anything from PA. The last local winery I tried outside of the Big 3 in the states were from Florida, which were horrible. Though to learn about the wine process was very interesting. walking the vineyards and seeing the process was the best part.

QOTD: The thing that has shocked me the most was the SAINTS wining the Superbowl!!

@kungfu_sage, Gary uses Viddler.com for video hosting. Check it out.

Great show regarding Pennsylvania wines! Nice job Jason, and thank you Gary for bringin' the thunder on the Merlot! I have some friends who live in Philly, and the next time we visit them, we're definitely going to have to make the 30 minute trip to Penn Woods Winery. I just checked out your home page, as well as your facebook pictures, and Penn Woods, reminds me of Doffo, which is in Temecula, and it happens to be one of my favorite local CA wineries, but as Gary said, Temecula is another 2nd or 3rd tier winery area in California. We'd love to come up and visit you and Gino Razzi. I can see how the prices run between 30-55, just because you don't produce that many cases. But, how many total cases do you produce?

I believe our production is just aroud 2000 cases right now total. We're doing some new plantings right now (we have a 30 acre vineyard, only 8 under vine, so plenty of room to expand) so I think his goal is around 3000. We are actually producing a Viognier this year of all things! I'm gonna be psyched to try it. Definitely check our facebook (/pennswoodswinery) or our twitter (@pennswoodswine) if you guys want any more details about stuff!

A pleasure to see PA wine make an appearance (As I am a PA resident). You guys could have done a whole episode just on the issues plaguing PA from a laws and regulations standpoint.

Great to see a show on PA wines even though I am from NY. PA represent!

QOTD: My 8 year old niece did the “10th Long Beach Polar Bear Club Swim” this super bowl Sunday for charity! And this is her SECOND year!

GO MOLLIE! 😀

I’ve been to some of the wineries, but haven’t biked the trail. It’s not my bag. I’d rather play 36 then go tasting, if you know what I mean.

Yea that's a great site Jason – and their logo grape is killer. Also I may be seeing you guys this weekend for your valentine's day event, so keep an eye out!

Jason – glad to see a Cornell grad doing some wine-related hustle!

QOTD – I was shocked by Manning's 4th quarter interception, wasn't expecting that!

I'll be there all day Saturday! Let me know who you are if you stop in and I'll give you guys the hook up!

Heh he pulled it off even after that last wine. I remember catching a bit of this on uStream and I felt so bad for him!

QOTD : my girlfriend said she wanted to move in with me 😮

Hey dude great guest. I will try and save up the money to try the wines lol.
Qotd: The a**kicking the saints gave the colts…i thought it would be a closer game.

1. hey gary aren't you ever gonna do that sparkling week you were talking about a while ago?

2. does anyone know what program gary uses to post his videos? I'm looking for something where I can post videos online that are longer than the average youtube video.

QOTD: My blazers lost to the Lakers on their home court for the first time in 5 years 🙁

Awesome show! Great guest!!
QOTD — I was shocked once at work. It was only 120 volts. Oops!! Have been much more careful since.

Gary&Mott, Thanks again for being so dedicated. When the video plays the intro is extremely louder than the actual video. I usually mute it until it starts but I wish your mic was louder like it is on UStream. Also, how to I get updates for when you are going on live with your show on Ustream?

Qotd: I'm shocked that more wineries don't include some sort of dining option to accompany their tasting room. Wine bars do it all the time. Ultimately people will be sitting down with friends, eating and opening your wine. Why not give them the space to do it? Give the consumers a chance to purchase another bottle and possibly join your wine club.

been a lurker for a while now. finally out. i just have to say that this show was great, but frustrating. too many american winemakers are just charging way too much for their wines–this being a classic case in point. if you are making wines in pennsylvania–a place that not many people associate with wine–don't charge $40-$50 for your wine! this is a simple rule. price your wine appropriately and allow adventurous people to just try your wine. that's the most important thing if you are making wine in an up and coming wine region. if your wine is priced at a point where people can just try it without even thinking about the price (because it's fair) then you can build up your reputation and brand, and then slowly raise prices. don't try to pay off your state-of-the-art winemaking facility in one year–it's a short-sighted business plan. if i'm paying $40-$50 for a wine, which i rarely do anyways, i expect to get a whole hell of a lot of wine. and at this point in time, it certainly wouldn't be a PA wine.

QOTD: HOW MUCH I LOVE FOOTBALL!
The Super Bowl 2010 was the first time I've ever watch an entire game of football.
(I live in Norway and over here it's all soccer, soccer, soccer…)
OMG!, that's what I call an entertaining sport!
An the fact that it was such an exiting game made me love it ever more!

Mr. V, i'm ready for my WLTV fix…

Good job, it takes chutzpah to do what you did.

game on! (mott, help me out here…go to my facebook page and message me when you are putting up the new episode: ) i hope there is a new episode today haha)

QOTD: this episode for sure, Penn Merlot WOW