jtuck- the two button thing is where you fail…everyone knows it has to be 3 to 4 buttons….hahahahaha just kidding….

Good show Chris “THE COP”. Looks like you finally got your large Noggin in front of a camera and didnt disappoint. Hammed it up as expected.

Nice show, fellas. CtC is one smart dude. BTW, Gary, I've now tried both the Local #1 and Local #2 beers from Brooklyn. Superb stuff! Thanks so much for introducing me to those two beauties. They're now going to be part of the core rotation in my little wine collection. Great for a change of pace. I've got to make a little jump down to Brooklyn from Astoria on a weekend when the weather gets warmer. I don't get to Brooklyn enough anyway. QOTD – Nothing really interesting. Pulled over a couple times. Never had a ticket. Never been arrested. Generally had very positive experiences with the PoPo.

You guys saved me 16 bucks! Had the 06 Esporao and would have definitely gone for the o7 Thanks for the 411.

QOTD: Classic Police experience, I was with my brother and two friends, one a Captain in the NJ State Police the other a Major. We are down in Philadelphia for a U2 concert. we are tailgating in the parking lot consuming more than a few beers, when I see this dude walking unsteady towards us, holding a joint in his hand. This guy then proceeds to ask us if we have a light………. I quickly search around and give this guy a lighter. The dude fires it up, then notices my friend the Major (a big Irish Cop in a NJ State Police windbreaker) and quickly thanks us and runs off. The Captain was laughing with beer running out of his nose but the Major was apoplectic. I then turn to the Major and tell him that the biggest crime commited here was that the guy didnt offer us any. True story!

Gary , I was never a big fan of your guest shows, too much time taken away from your great analysis of wines. However this a good one beacuse I can relate to this guy, not only for his passion of wine and seems to have been on a global tasting journey which i have , but i appreciated him being honest an upfront saying that he does not have a good nose for wine , alot of times you and other people pick ou these exotic aromas , and I can't , I often wonder how much i would enjoy the total expereince if my nose was better,
I have never had a bad expereince witha cop , but my neighbor is a state trooper, when he moved on the block he drank Coor's light, 10 years later under my guidance he is is now consider to be , in his circles ( his family , his squad ) “the wine guy” I take pesonal; pride in always sharing my finest wines with him to help him qua;ify every year to the “the wineguy”

Chris here is a story you an your buddies I am sure have expereinced. about every3 weeks my wife and I go to the troopers house . He throws on some venison chops on the grill.
I bring over 4 or 5 bottles. He doesn not talk much about his job , and I don't ask , But as othe 3 rd bottle is opened , he tells me THE funniest stories about his expereince on the road, and how his last shift went

Two more bottles . and I am asking him to drive me home, and I only live across the street.
Nothing like sharing wine with your buddiies . Thanks for not spitting on the show

Great great great great episode here guys. Well done.

QOTD : I've never had the “pleasure” of actually dealing with the police.

QOTD: I'm a young guy in college and my friends and I throw a Christmas party every year. This year, I rented out an old bar and threw a party for about 150 of my closest friends. We catered the food ourselves and had Cava with St. Germain as the drink of the night. There were roses for all of the girls and best dressed prizes too. Well, we were going until about 5 in the morning and the cops came because, for some reason, a girl couldn't find her house due to of all the booze in her system. I think the cops really wanted to scare me because my mom is a local defense attorney so they gave me a whole bunch of charges. Luckily they were all dropped, but I think the cops had fun seeing me sweat.

Guest appearances remind me of psychic reading. They wait for Gary to make a judgment and then agree with him. I think Chris the Cop did a good job of making his own opinions, but the 2 guys last month who picked the scores just repeated Gary?s stuff.
I hated all the people in the 90?s who were on the 49ers band wagon. We finally have something to cheer about in New Orleans. Go Saints! Sorry Gary, but at least we took out the Colts for you.

That's a myth.

Alsace, that sounds good. Make it some Zind-H or how about some Hugel? Trimbach?

What's a myth? The existence or preference of dry Riesling in Germany? I also have little wine experience, but I was going to go with Trimbach because of the awesome yellow label.

Hi Gary; Love The Show, Tryed 2006 Esporao Reserva (Loved it) But in B.C. Canada about $35.00 . QOTD (Bad); Camping with buddies at 16. Went to phone a Booth & Found a Wallet With 10s of Thousands of dollars . Looked & Found His Drivers Licence & Looked up His Number & Talked to His Mother & Found that it Was Her sons Whole Salary for A Summers Work Tree Planting. Told her We had it & Where we Were & We Would keep care of it. Went back to The Campground. Later a RCMP Car pulled up & Watched us. So after a While Went over & Asked & We got asked to Give him the wallet & How Much Money we Stole. after Been Grill for a While. He Put up His Window & Drove away. We Never heard another thing.Best My Wife Lost he wallet in a store & The police brought it back to Our house

Gary, I know you probably won't get to read this let alone reply, but it's worth a try. I just wanted to thank you, and let me explain why:
I am a college student studying Viticulture and Enology at a University extremely highly respected for its' VEN program, but here's the rub – like many college students, I'm not of legal drinking age. As I'm sure everyone can see, this creates a teensy problem. This is why your show is so hugely important to me; it really starts to fill in some of the holes in my education. Ultimately, it lessens the suckiness level of not being allowed to experience my own field of study. So, seriously. Thank you.

And QOTD:
(best) In high school, I was one week away from passing the one year mark since getting my license, but until the one year passed, I couldn't drive past 11 pm and I couldn't drive other people under 25. It was the night of my school's big rivalry football game, which ended at about 10:45. My best friend called her parents to pick her up after the game, but they had thought that her ride was covered, so they'd had a few drinks. None of our other friends had their licenses, so I told her I'd drive her home and just be really careful not to get pulled over. Turns out, she wasn't as directions savvy as she claimed, so we ended up lost. I was just about to pull over and call my parents for directions when those telltale blue and red lights started flickering behind me. I pulled over and hoped it wasn't me he was after, but sure enough, he pulled up behind me. He came up to the car and it turns out that this night of all nights was when one of my headlights decided to go out. He asked where we were coming from, and when we said a high school football game, I'm sure he believed us (due to the face paint and the fact that we were decked out in everything blue and white that we owned). I told him that I was just giving her a ride home but we were lost, and we had not been drinking. He asked for my license and registration, and when he went back at his car, all I could say to my friend was, “I'm so getting a ticket…I'm so getting a ticket.” When he came back, he asked where exactly we were trying to get to, gave me directions, and told us to get home safely. No ticket for any of the provisional license laws I was breaking – not even a fix-it ticket, AND he patiently gave me directions. Coolest cop ever.
(worst) I'd had my license for well over a year at this point and was driving, coincidentally, the same friend to volunteer with me helping set up a teen benefit dance. I was taking a different route than I was used to, and when I saw a surprising speed limit sign saying '25' ahead, I said to her, “crap, I'm speeding”, and stepped on the brakes (It was a very wide, non-residential road…I still don't understand why it was 25 to this day). I was just over a block away from arriving at this point, but as soon as I passed the sign a motorcycle cop proceeded to pull me over and give me a speeding ticket for 12 over. He must have clocked me the instant before I started slowing down, but it turned out that sign was the second one on that road, so that didn't matter. I actually drove through that area twice after he left before I could find the grungy first sign in the middle of a turn after a strange freeway entrance/two-way road intersection. I was petrified, but my parents went from extremely pissed to mildly annoyed when they realized that they had always thought that road was a 35, and I got this ticket on the 28th of the month. I was speeding, yes, but the cop was definitely using the speed trap to fill his ticket quota. In fact, when I got to traffic court (with my mom…always a fun experience), the first thing the judge said was, “another speeding ticket in Cotati…not surprising”, while signing in frustration at them. All I had was to pay 85 bucks to do a program, write a letter, and then the case was dismissed. It still sucked though to know that since I'd been a perfect driver, I probably would have just gotten a warning if he wasn't on a mission to write tickets.

Wow, my bad. I didn't mean to write a freakin' essay! I'm just excited to come out of lurkerdom 🙂

Related to the Red Sox fans, and rooting for a hated rival at the end of the year. I can vouch that I certainly don't do that.

I'm a big Red Sox fan, and honestly, as soon as the Sox are out of the playoffs (god forbid that happens) I actually stop watching the sport. If my hated Yankees make it to the World Series, hell, I definitely don't root for them.

“I root for two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees”

QOTD: Oh boy, has to be the time in New Orleans I was boxed in by two police cars and spread on the hood of one. Mistaken identity and they were very nice about it afterward, but definitely frightening as all hell.

QOTD: Me and 4 friends were driving home from the bar in Austin, TX. One of my friends yells out the window at a biker, “Hey fa**ot.” Of course there's an unmarked police car right next to us. The two cops pull us over and just start yelling at us. “Why didn't yall pull over earlier? You think you guys are funny?” One of the cops asks me who my friend is that yelled at the biker and if he has a college degree? We all start laughing. I was driving so he asks me to step out of the car. He starts yelling at me!!! “Does this badge look fake?” Meanwhile back in the car, the other cop is asking the one girl in the car why she's hanging out with these losers. Then all of a sudden they say, “Get the fuck outta here.” And they bolt down the road. It's a great story to talk about now and we laugh about it.

Here in the UK your friend would have been arrested for shouting homophobic abuse at someone in public.

Stickin’ it to the thieves. I love it.

This is interesting thread you've started. kasperhip I think you have a valid point. WLTV does stray from time to time. I like hearing industry talk. Though sometimes the guests have no business being on the show, like the college humor guys. Who obviously had no interest in wine and really no interest in learning about wine.

Then on the other hand I think it's interesting to learn the about the community that is sharing these conversations. The diversity of interests and personalities reflects the taste and ranges of the wine world itself. The guitar guy and the cop are kind of awesome as guests cause they seem very different, but both seem to be into the show, and into wine.

yeah, because no one would be suspicious of someone yelling at cyclists out the window of a moving car just after closing time. totally unreasonable.

Great show.

QOTD: I have a few state troopers in my family so there are too many to choose from.

A second from the VT contingent! Although, I got my broken noses in upstate NY.
Great showing. Glad you had fun, you deserve it!

seconded. however, GV can go a step farther and explain the biz a bit more. My guess is that purchases of current Chilean wine stock in the US, will not directly help the folks there, unless it allows retailers to pay for wine they were fronted, and in turn fronted by the distributors, maybe the state, and the importers. GV, help us out with the info.

Thanks wine…I didnt know i was that obvious……

Nice to be able to see a 'local' show, and someone who knows you from the real world, not just via vaynia. Cheers!
QOTD: worst: best to not too many details, but often recurring theme is having things taken away by officers when I was young…fireworks, yellow flashing construction lights, kegs, cases of beer by NYS troopers on horseback, contraband at the border. Still…I was always treated fairly.
QOTD: Just helped a guy who trains aikido with us, achieve his shodan after many years of practice, in between lots of overtime (been on the job in a nearby city for over 15 years), a young family, and a self-built house. He's more into beer and cider though.

Thanks Bill, I loved you in caddyshack!!!!!!!