William Shatner's Brown Bag Wine Tasting - Season 2

HBO's Veep star Matt Walsh sits down with William Shatner to taste some great wine and test out Bill's hypnosis skills. Matt draws from his experiences with hypnotherapy in order to rate and describe the mystery wine.

Food and Wine magazine executive wine editor Ray Isle knows his vintages. He joins William Shatner to discuss the best wines to go with Texas BBQ, and to put his writerly words to the test.

Actor Grant Harling, our Brown Bag Wine Tasting contest winner, breaks the ice about acting and making it in L.A. while sharing a spicy red with William Shatner. Grant draws upon his aptitude for making new friends when he rates and describes this week's spicy red mystery wine.

Real Housewife Brandi Glanville sits and sips with William Shatner. William and Brandi discuss the ability for a cute label to successfully sell a bottle of wine to a customer. Brandi contemplates the heightened level of drama that arises even when cameras are filming a real situation, and how people have a tendency to act out when they know that they're being filmed. Brandi can barely contain her laughter when William asks her to describe the mystery wine as if it were a sexual interaction.

In this episode, actor Wil Wheaton joins his old friend William Shatner to converse about home brewing beer, the outer limits of space, and video games. Wil and William compare movies and video games by highlighting the added layer of interactivity that games offer. Wil excites William when talking about undiscovered dimensions and other-dimensional lifeforms that can't yet be perceived by humans. Utilizing his beer brewing knowledge, Wil rates and describes the mystery wine.