Sensible Erection | Wine made a lot more fun.

Monday, 31 January 2011

quote [ On his 32nd Birthday Gary cracks a few wines with a Special Guest. This has all the makings of a classsssic episode of WLTV! bubbles, sweets and a red wine. Join in today! ]

Someone made a comment amounting to how ridiculous wine tasting vocab is. So here is my response. This guy is trying to make wine a little more accessible. I've linked to my favorite episode.

Another favorite
http://tv.winelibrary.com/2006/12/15/how-to-get-your-wine-palate-trained-episode-148/

[by backSLIDER@3:54amGMT] [+1 Interesting]

Comments

1799303 said @ 4:03am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:2 Underrated]
GaryV is so annoying.

lilmookieesquire said @ 4:23am GMT on 31st Jan
Why do we hate GaryV again?

Dioxin said @ 6:30am GMT on 31st Jan
I DON'T KNOW BUT I'M SURE IF THIS COMMENT GOT 1000 UPVOTES WE'LL FIND OUT!!!1

lilmookieesquire said @ 10:28pm GMT on 31st Jan
/nails on chalk-board

Now I see why we hate him.

I didn't know he was a Banshee trapped in a male's body.

Holy shit.

sacrelicious said @ 5:22am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Funny]
I never was much for the wine tasting thing, but I picked up some similar lingo once I got into coffee tasting, and that's extended to my recent interest in whiskey tasting. almost offended a bar owner recently when I delighted in what I called "banana notes" in the well whiskey there.

backSLIDER said @ 5:39am GMT on 31st Jan
Don't you mean "Tropical fruit"? I happen to like that in whites but my wife and her mother, the real white wine fan hate that so I must have bad taste in whites.... hate the flower thing most of them have. Butter and oak are nice.

thizzwardo said @ 3:15pm GMT on 31st Jan
you ever had that coffee that's hella expensive that comes from some lil cat shitting out beans? I wanna try it soooo bad.

jhvh1 said @ 3:37pm GMT on 31st Jan
Palm Civit is the animal that poops em and stop using 'hella.'

f00m@nB@r said @ 5:22pm GMT on 31st Jan
yeah, that's wicked dumb.

symmetrian said @ 7:46pm GMT on 31st Jan
Word.

KingPellinore said @ 8:11pm GMT on 31st Jan
This thread is radical.

benjamander said @ 11:50pm GMT on 31st Jan
Totes radical.

Narrenschiff said @ 8:24pm GMT on 31st Jan
I'LL STOP WHEN I'M DEAD

Navier-Strokes said @ 6:12am GMT on 31st Jan
I'm OK with an occasional wine (red, not white),
but I prefer my beer.
By the way, news for my hops-fan brethren

arrowhen said @ 12:41pm GMT on 31st Jan
My problem with wine is I can't drink more than a bottle of it without getting a case of the greasy black shits and a misereable all-day hangover. I'll stick with cheap whisky and good beer.

KingPellinore said @ 4:21pm GMT on 31st Jan
Rum has the same effect on me. That's why I drink vodka 75% of the time. Very neutral spirit with little hangover risk.

blibblob said @ 4:42pm GMT on 31st Jan
Fuck wine.
Whoo! Beer!
Now that I live in Cali I'm going to Russian River's pub to try Pliny the Younger. Friday.
For those unaware

Seneki69 said @ 6:14am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:3 Underrated]
As to making wine more fun, a little credit where it's due as well:

Baxter_UK said @ 5:46pm GMT on 31st Jan
We're on the pig's back, charging through a velvet field!

Mad March Harris said @ 6:20am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
I was hoping the thumb was directly related. Then I had a very loud gay man yelling in my ears.

HoZay said @ 1:08pm GMT on 31st Jan
Thumbguy would be looking for hints of dissolved amphetamine in his Boone's Farm, with some LSD undertones.

ScoobySnacks said @ 6:22am GMT on 31st Jan

Dioxin said @ 6:28am GMT on 31st Jan
What is it with the French and their slushie machines?

sacrelicious said @ 6:35am GMT on 31st Jan
I'm assuming that's wine. can't read the signs well enough to tell for sure. anyway, if you put that in a supermarket here you'd become really popular with the local homeless population.

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:44am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Funny]
The homeless aaaannnnndddd lilmookies.

spookyliz said @ 6:27am GMT on 31st Jan [Score:3 Insightful]
i always liked running wine tastings at my store because i got to do it my way, and my way included informing my patrons that this particular moscato tastes "like froot loops! seriously, it's insane, just smell that! I KNOW!" no casual, voluntary situation involving booze, even small amounts, should be boring and lame.

Darren.greco said @ 9:40am GMT on 31st Jan
More Wine shows. Check http://pctv76.org/show.php?sid=11

Reminds me of these guys. Comedy gold, lol. Wonder if they think the same things. Some one should watch.

KingPellinore said @ 12:15pm GMT on 31st Jan
I recommend John Cleese's ? Wine For The Confused. Great introduction to wine basics and Cleese actively encourages refusing snobbery. One major recurring theme is, "Don't let anybody tell you what you're supposed to like."

Baxter_UK said @ 4:12pm GMT on 31st Jan
Looks good. Is there a .... erm .... source available on the interweb? It used to be on Hulu apparently, but that video has now expired.

KingPellinore said @ 4:19pm GMT on 31st Jan
I don't know. I watched it via NetFlix, but I don't know about that availability in the UK.

You could try bittorent, I suppose.

Baxter_UK said @ 5:13pm GMT on 31st Jan
Well, I can access the NetFlix site and Hulu as well, through a VPN, but I think you need a valid US postal address to sign up to NetFlix. And I don't have any money to pay for NetFlix.

I don't really like Bittorrent. I can't seem to find it on Usenet though.

KingPellinore said @ 8:01pm GMT on 31st Jan
Don't know what to tell you, other than there's a used copy here for $7USD.

Wine for the confused

Tirade said @ 2:41pm GMT on 31st Jan
... I got about half a second in and my ears were bleeding. WTF was that?

ahPook said @ 6:14pm GMT on 31st Jan [Score:2 Funny]
The next three-quarters of a second are a bit better, but it quickly goes downhill after that.

symmetrian said @ 7:41pm GMT on 31st Jan [Score:1 Informative]
If you want to learn a little bit more about wine culture, check out the Blood into Wine documentary. Yes, it's about James Keenan of Tool starting a vineyard in Arizona, but some of the insights are interesting.