Well, this is my second post after almost two years of watching, and I have to say that this episode did little for me. A $50 bottle is quite the splurge for me; so what’s the point? Also, I look forward to learning more about the wines that Gary tastes, but that didn’t really happen here.

QOTD 3: I would really like to experience Barolo.
QOTD 4: While I don’t buy a lot of Australian wine, is it declasse to admit that I’ve had some good pours from down under? Apparently so.

1. The Phillies will win 99 times

2. The Mets will be demoted to AAA

3. I would love to experience Masetto

4. Who cares

P.S. Awesome show! Awesome concept.

One of the best episodes. It is nice to see a face to the pen names so to speak Great interaction and it goes to show that money does not buy happiness especially in wine. Hey Gary what happened to the midpalate in these wines didn’t hear it mentioned. Good job!

QOTD; 1&2 American league only. 3. Can’t justify the price. 4. Australia needs to reinvent itself, its all about perception.

Fun. Liked the format.

Where was my invitation? 😉 Am I #51??? 🙂

Gary you used to describe “asian spice” on WLTV tasting notes often, on some Bordeaux etc, now hardly ever, what happened?!

Awesome forum fans Ep.!!! I’m pretty excited that the LEAST expensive wine (although 50 US bones) was the dominant favorite of the bunch, epitomizing the concept of QPR. I also enjoyed this large panel review immensely, and look forward to the next few days this week.

QOTD 1: No.
QOTD 2: Yes, absolutely 7- good call GV.
QOTD 3: Jura.
QOTD 4: YES, but it will NOT be with a rebirth of extracted, heat-driven Barossa-style Shiraz and Cab., but rather with the cooler climates growing Burgundian varietals, such as Mornington Penninsula with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. MARK MY WORDS!!!

QOTD1:?????
QOTD2:?????
QOTD3:I never had a red burgundy…
QOTD4:yes it will, there are some pretty good wines down there, I recommend to go and visit and not stop at the usual places. Clare Valley, Adelaide Hills, Coonawarra. Riesling, Pinot Noir, Chard, Cab, Grenache….

Agreed Esther.

Btw, saw your future brother-in-law in Vegas this weekend. It’s a small world!

Please have a red Burgundy. They are SO good. U are really missing out.

Alsatian Pinot Gris is among my favorites. Going to Alsace in May.
Good call. U should def. drink more of that.

what is Flerrie?

Way to go dudes! Nice show, and you almost kept Kahuna’s attention for most of it…
Am sitting on a bottle of the San Roman, and now am tempted…must resist.
QOTD1: not qualified to guess…
QOTD2: ditto…
QOTD3: hmmm…been bopping around quite a bit, but need to revisit the Rhone.
QOTD4:Despite the fires and floods, they will still be hanging in there…and in fact will be sending a lot of juice to Asia.

You got it. 😉 And when you go invite me too. 😛

All the women could of made it in if they sold your bottle of wine on Ebay! Really Tooch $177 dollars?!!! Big Dog!!!!

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Alright who are you and what have you done with Pete. I see 20 posts by you! Ok, Allan, the jig is up. Stop hacking into NY Pete’s account.

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I went into it through out the show, I am aware of it’s youth and am thankful for your passionate post!

Not in the least. That would be the only way I would want it Melba. Oh, and you should have been invited also! 😉

2. The Mets still have 4 All Stars, 3 in their prime in their lineup, don’t count them out.

4. Australian wine makers probably care.

I typed this earlier in response to someone’s comment, but I keep seeing the question about women popping up. Obviously, the room was filled with guys. That doesn’t mean that only men were invited or that no women are in the top 50 contributors to the forums. It’s just that none of the women who were invited (myself included) were able make the trip to New Jersey on that particular weekend. Really, this wasn’t so much about not including women as it being about how far away we live from the WLTV tapings. 🙂

One thing you can’t tell just by looking at the group of very nice men in that room is that most of them actually live in the NYC/NJ area. Only a few were able to travel from other parts of the country (including the Seattle crew’s own Winestein — watch for him later in the week!).

We were sorry you couldn’t be there… you were missed! Look forward to sharing a glass another time soon 🙂

I loved this episode. This was awesome. I have been watching for about 3 months now, and have watched passed episodes to try to get caught up, but I really enjoyed this idea of having the fans come on the show. I’ll be honest tho, I dont know if I remember much about the wine, it was very entertaining and I cant wait for the next group of fans to be on! Loved it!

Wow best episode all year. And it was interesting to see all the different opinion and palettes as ya’ll tasted the wine.
Qotd1 & 2: I don’t know enough about baseball to give an accurate number. I do know the Phillies are fairly good and that the Mets aren’t good but they have been improving slightly lol.
Qotd 3: I don’t drink enough wine to say there’s one old world wine I haven’t had recently. I haven’t had a bordeaux or burgundy in a pretty long time because of the price, but I do get rhones and then I actually go to spain and italian wines more when I am the old world mood because the price point just works better for me.
Qotd 4: I do think Australia will come back if they get away from the yellow tail style of wines. I feel South American vineyards themselves have individually done better of holding true to their european roots if its their core values when they started. Where as with Australia it seems like a lot of vineyards and producers, even if they started with old world sensibility, sold out a little bit to make more money because of the market, palettes, etc. I think Cali has just recently bounced back from doing this too and its why I don’t do much cali wine except for some of the more european inspired blends with the california fruit notes on top which I actually like a lot.

Holy Sausage fest – you should have had some snack sausages in the middle of the table.

QOTD:
1&2 – Don’t follow baseball outside of Sept/Oct
3 – Greece, need more importers
4 – I’d like to say that due to Australia’s infinite terroir possibilities they will reemerge with a new varietal from a cool region, but I truly believe they will continue for decades to be the best source of the richest fruit bombs. As the merry-go-round of popular full-throttle red wines goes around and around(cab, shiraz, now malbec) Australia is well positioned to jump on future bandwagons.

There was definitely a locker-room atmosphere to the tasting.