Lebanon Wines and How They Taste.

Lebanon Wines and How They Taste. – Episode #115

October 25, 2006

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Today Gary makes 2 huge announcements to the WLTV Vayniacs and tries four wines from Lebanon and sees where these wines are these days.

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October 25, 2006

NickG
Regular viewer since stumbling upon WLTV while doing an internet search for a favorite wine a week or two ago. Thanks for the entertaining and educational show!

As for the QOD, never had a wine from the Middle East. Sounds like I should though.
October 25, 2006

Denise
Thanks for another inspiring episode, Gary. I’m looking forward to trying some wines from Lebanon.

QOD: If I’ve ever tasted wine from the Middle East, I don’t remember it (still suffering from wine amnesia…two pregnancies wreaked havoc on my wine journey and I’m still recovering). Full immersion in WLTV, study, and tasting is beginning to help.
October 25, 2006

Susan
Gary-
I LOVE the ad!
Great job!
Even got a shot of that infamous Jets lunch box!
Wow!
Keep up the good work!
October 25, 2006

Susan
The British Doctor,
Hey!
Glad to have you come out of the shadows!
Please feel free to comment on every episode!
Tell your frineds about WLTV!
October 25, 2006

DJA
Different view. Did not know about these wines. Like the new additions as well. The forum should be quite promising. Looking forward to whats next.
October 25, 2006

Jaye
Gary, Eric, and all involved parties . . . the new features are truly fabulous! The time and resources that went into these is obviously considerable. I want you to know how appreciated this is.

Can’t answer QOD, never had a wine from the “cradle of civilization”.

I took a GREAT picture today of the ad with a very well-known celebrity . . . unfortunately I am out of town and don’t have my camera cable with me to upload to you, but I will get that done late tomorrow night when I get back home. Any guesses on the celebrity? I will start a thread on the forum to get people’s guesses on the celebrity — I will allow up to 20 yes or no questions too to help in the contest.
October 25, 2006

ChrisR
Great episode. Chat. Musar rocks. Did you know that Bekaa is believed to be the origin of wine?

QOD: I love Slovenia’s MOVIA Red Wine. Ever since I tasted it, it has been haunting me. I can’t find it anywhere. I hope Wine Library finds a way to get some.

Fun NYT Ad. It is not often that I get to my family I was quoted in the New York Times!
October 25, 2006

Jason R.
Gary – With all the things going on today – you forgot to mention how long these were open before tasting.

Also – I like the “One for GaryV and one for the Hommies” Re: Musar White – Nice – Thats a first!!!

Off to check out the VaynerForum & AskAVaynerPhile
October 25, 2006

shacke
You threw the cork! You do read comments – thanks Gary
October 25, 2006

Godfather
QOD;
I didn’t know there was another Lebanese wine (other than Musar). I had the privledge of tasting Chat Musar several years ago at a local wine club tasting. The vintage was from the 1970’s and it held its own against several prestigeous and well aged Bordeaux. Fine drink indeed!
October 25, 2006

Justin
Gary, you rock!
I appreciate you doing todays episode very much. I have been asking you for days to do a show on wines from this part of the world. QOD – I had an Israeli wine a month back or so. It was ok. It was the Yarden Mt. Herman Red. Nothing that memorable, but for $9 i would drink it again. Still waiting to hear about wines from Georgia(country, not state). Or maybe taste some Blaufrankish(or Kekfrankos), or Egri Bikaver for a show one day. I doubt that many people have had or even heard of these wines.
Cheers!
Justin
October 25, 2006

Mike E
Never tried one, but you opened my eyes.
October 25, 2006

Brandon M
Geeese…two days in a row I cannot answer the QOTD.

B
October 25, 2006

The British Doctor
Long time watcher, first time poster.

Gary you are psychic
I have some wine with dinner, I go out, I come back and update my podcasts!
I had 1998 Chateau Musar with dinner.
Keep up the great work Gary!

Please give me a shout out
October 25, 2006

Tony S.
I meant, embossed CORK.
T
October 25, 2006

Tony S.
GREAT, GREAT episode!! The only Lebonese wine I know is Musar. And, with that, the QOD is, the best and only wine I had was a 197-something Ch. Musar. I had it here at work and it was a little long in the tooth, but had some nice, earthy characteristics. I remember us all being pretty pleased with it, not blown away, but suprised. I think it was a 1970, 71 or 75.

Either way, funny story: As we opened the Musar, the embossed capsule, which read “Chateau Musar” was halfway faded. “Chateau” was written above “Musar”, and I SWEAR, the only letters that you could read were “hate usa”. The C and au from Chateau and M and r from Musar were faded away.

We kept the cork. It’s in one of the other guy’s office. If you’re in Chicago I’ll show you. OK, see you later,
GO BEARS!!
T
October 25, 2006

Jonathan G
AHH! new computer at work and I cant install the proper programs to watch!! silly admin restrictions
October 25, 2006

hugh
Gary,

Great show today…thanks so much for Tasting Musar. I was fortunate enought to have the 95 on a few occasions…Musar is definitely for those of us who like Bordeaux and Rioja…i have not found them to be very big wines, they are more like a St Emilion with 5-7 years in the bottle

That being said, the 95 would be my favorite…
October 25, 2006

drwMD
Did the 2003 Musar get a Vayner-chuckle? Are those listed on Chris’ spreadsheet?
October 25, 2006

Rob M.
Nice shot with the corks at the end!

Grasshopper- nice intro, glad to finally understand the VaynerClank. I think I understand just about ever other VaynerTerm, but love when he does the VaynerClank.

QOD: Never had Middle Eastern wine before. If anyone scores a supplier for the 2004 Chateau Kefraya Les Breteches, please post it to the bulletin board- WL is already sold out (of it’s one bottle).

New viewers- allow me to highlight a few quick points which make this vlog so valuable. First, as evidenced by Gary tasting a wine that he has none to sell- he does this not to sell wine, but to teach the masses who want to learn about wine. Also, he is not afraid to almost gag on a wine that he has many cases in his warehouse to sell (2003 Chat Musar Cuvee White)- what you see is what you get, and it is 100% honest. Finally, in terms of QPR, Gary will not inflate a wine’s score because of price. For my money, I’d rather pay $10 for the Chat Kefraya for 90 points as opposed to the 1997 Chat Musar for $34 and 91 GV points. He will not inflate the 1997 Chat Musar’s score to dissuade this.

Welcome new viewers, and my posts are usually long winded- feel free to ignore them!
October 25, 2006

Paul
Brain fart. Can’t see without my glasses.
October 25, 2006

Paul
Never mind!!!!
October 25, 2006

Paul
However, I picked up a copy of the NYTimes in the local King’s around the corner from you and there is no ad in that edition. Did I miss it? It’s not in the Dining Out Section. What’s up, Gary? I thought this was national? Went through the entire paper, too.
October 25, 2006

Mike S.
I was pretty underwhelmed by my experience with the ‘97 Musar, but they’re definitely one of the most interesting and intriguing producers I’ve ever come across.
October 25, 2006

PattyO
BTW TimF (or whoever recently re-mentioned Grape Radio) – I kept forgetting to check it out till this week and downloaded everything available to my ipod. Listened to the Silva interview (Chile) today and it was a PLETHORA of great grape info.!! Thanks again for the reminder to check them out – I’ll go back and find the Serge Horcha interview, it’s probably old enough that you have to listen on the computer and can’t get it to the ipod.