Happy Birthday Gary Vaynerchuk! – Episode #127

November 14, 2006

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Wines tasted in this episode:

In a special episode today in honor of Gary’s birthday, Gary tastes wines selected by the Wine Library staff. So sit back and enjoy this “Blind tasting” and help Gary celebrate his birthday. We’ll post the wines tomorrow so that they’re a surprise!

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  1. October 16, 2009

    Adam M.

    I was watching the new episode of WLTV today 10/16/2009 and drinking a white zin so I search for it. I was thinking I have to see what he thinks the flavor is because I was like man this is a Strawberry Jolly Rancher. I taste nothing but strawberries and sugar and I fell down laughing when you said it. I love it. Thanks

  2. September 24, 2009

    John J.

    qotd: it was a white merlot. It seems that some people are catching onto what the whole white zin thing is. So it looks like some wineries have decided to cash in by switching grapes and doing it with merlot. I guess they figure now that white zin is coming with pretty bad connotations, that maybe they can cash in on this new ‘wonder’. What a joke. I had a guest actually ask me for one of those about a year or 2 ago. I didn’t even know what they were talking about at the time. I thought maybe they meant a wine made from merlot blanc, that super rare grape in the merlot family found in Bordeaux. I was really impressed at 1st by such a request. Even though I’d never seen a varietal wine from merlot blanc. I was then promptly very let down when the other gentleman who handles the wine with me at our restaurant ‘enlightened’ me to that new marketing scheme that is white merlot.
    Gary, how about tackling a vin jaune episode?, and one on tasting different charbono’s please?

  3. December 28, 2007

    jgtx

    MD 20/20 “Red Grape Wine” flavor ftw.

  4. March 10, 2007

    Jennifer

    The Vendange, believe it or not, is the worst wine I recall having in, I believe, the snowstorm of..circa 98? I concur on the Franzia. I was surprised myself in ‘98 to discover that a boxed wine beat out a bottled one. Good times. Office was closed and we toasted the day with crappy bottle of wine at about 10am.

  5. March 4, 2007

    mczinger

    QOTD: Mentioned this in a TN on the forum, but my friend and I managed to get through a glass and a half of horribly corked ‘82 Pétrus. It was given to him when he was born (when Pétrus wasn’t $500 a sip) and we drank it on his 21st. Disgusting, but we tried! Oh did we try and hope! C’est la vie.

  6. February 17, 2007

    Corrado

    I saw the “White Zin” ratings on the spreadsheet and had to check this episode out. I’m intrigued by wine ratings and wines like a White Zin seem to pose an interesting challenge. I’ve always been of the belief that a wine should be rated as a varietal. Comparing a Barolo or Amarone to a Sauvignon Blanc or Viognier is almost literally comparing apples & oranges.

    That said, it is FAIR to rag on White Zins because they’re inherently weak as ’serious’ wine? Giving ratings of 58 – 69+, while done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, doesn’t likely help the intrepid White Zin shopper.

    QOTD: Probably NOT a White Zin; more likely a Chardonnay. Worst I’ve had that I can recall is an Alice White Shiraz. It was red isopropyl alcohol.

  7. November 21, 2006

    Arnold

    How’d I miss your B-Day episode?!? Happy Birthday Gary. That is my new favorite episode. You know, the NY Times recommended the Franzia, it tasted like coolaid. But that wasn’t the worst wine I’ve ever had. Sorry, can’t remember who ‘manufactured’ it but it was supposed to be a Chardonnay, someone brought it to a party I had and I brought it over to a friends house and we made the mistake of opening it. It was so bad. Is that re-gifting?

  8. November 19, 2006

    Vinacull

    Happy Belated Birthday Gary! Oh I felt like you came close to horking a little of the Vendange up in your nose when you first tasted it (maybe it tastes better that way?). And thereafter the head buried in the spit bucket had me laughing to tears. Friggin hilarious the whole thing. QOTD: Worse wine I ever had was because of age and vintage — a ‘65 Latour that we received as a “gift” from a colleague back around 2000. This was one time where storage in a Florida closet was not a testament to vino resilience. Raising a glass to your big 3-1 Gary, C

  9. November 16, 2006

    Lawrence Leichtman

    Every wine I tasted from Wiedeker Winery in Arkansas. I have been offered white zinfandels since they first came out and have never had one worthy of being called wine.

  10. November 16, 2006

    Joe Po

    Happy Belated B-Day GAry,

    Your face on the first tasting had me LOL.
    Homemade beet wine was definitely the worst.

  11. November 16, 2006

    Tony M

    Happy Birthday Big G!!
    http://www.thewineglass.net

  12. November 15, 2006

    TommyO

    Happy B’DaY!! Great show today I laughed the whole time …

  13. November 15, 2006

    Shahar Golan

    Gary, Oy-Vay (Ner Chuk)!
    You forgot to rinse the glass between the wines…

  14. November 15, 2006

    Eric

    Gary – Happy Birthday. Love the show. I only started drinking wine about a year ago. I’m learning a lot going through the archives.

    White Zif from the staff? I’d watch your back :-)

  15. November 15, 2006

    Joe Swirl

    The HD camera looks great, glad you got all the tech bugs worked out.

    Happy Birthday.

  16. November 15, 2006

    SeanM

    Props to the guys making Gary choke on the WZ. I almost choked on my tea watching with the tears running down my cheeks.

    G-Man, Happy B-day.

  17. November 15, 2006

    KAHUNA

    Gary,
    Enough with the Happy Birthday crap, you have one every year so Whoopdi Damn Doo as the legendary Derek Coleman would say- I get hemroids once a year and you dont see me sitting around errr standing around waiting for gifts with a dopey grin on my face-

    Get back to work and start tasting some damn wine-

    QOD – that crappy ass chianti you recommended- since I bought six I guess I get to have that experience over and over again- Lucky me! its my birthday YIPPEE YIPPEE-

    This is what happens when I buy that crap ass NY Times because you begged us too and all I got was to read the same quotes I read already in the forum and post board- Good lord and to make it worse I did not even make the paper!

    Anyway Happy Birthday and Anniversary and whatever the hell else you are celebrating- I have to get some Preperation H- I hear this years Prep H has a cool fruity nose and some heat on the back side.

    By the way keep up the great work- and excellent episode!

  18. November 15, 2006

    Michael

    The worst wine I have had was an Armenian Pomegranate wine (no name to protect the innocent)….I brought it to my wine group and they all said that I set a new low in wine tasting by letting them taste it.
    Happy Birthday V-Man
    Michael Hummer
    Tucson, Az

  19. November 15, 2006

    Italian Stallion

    Oh and I can’t remember the worst wine I’ve ever had….but Twenty Bench Cabernet is up there

  20. November 15, 2006

    Italian Stallion

    Hey Gary….Happy Birthday again lol…..I have a question for you:

    Does Wine Library offer gift cards? Because I can’t think of anything better to ask Santa for then a WL gift card.

  21. November 15, 2006

    NateDogg

    Holy crap! Hands down one of the most enjoyable episodes on a purely comedic scale. It’s good to see the King of Tasting trying to hold down that Zin for more than a second or two. Can’t remember when I last had a White Zin, but recently my fiancee and I broke into a bottle of Rosemount Cab Sauv that had been lingering in my wine shelf after having been brought over for a party by a “friend.” After about half a glass each, we poured the rest of it down the drain. Needless to say, that “friend” is now on our s@#! list. Later,

    NateDogg

  22. November 15, 2006

    Dan C.

    Gary- Happy Birthday a day late! In the Chicago edition of the NY Times, your full page ad is on page 9 of the “Dining In” section opposite the page 8 Eric Asimov “What goes with Turkey Again?” article. Great ad Gary, way to get it out.

    QOD- I see I’m not the only person who drank bad wine in the ’70s. Bali Hai and Mad Dog 20/20 are a tie for me, although I recall that the MD at least had high alcohol. Any Boone’s Farm gets honorable mention.

    Dan C.

  23. November 15, 2006

    Paul

    Had a good(?) white Zin from Beringer a few years ago – bone dry and, oddly, drinkable. Had some intials on the label
    Worst ‘wine’ – could be most anthing by Boone’s Farm or good old Mad Dog 20/20. Many a good buzz, many a painful morning after.

  24. November 15, 2006

    DAVID KAPLAN

    Happy birthday, Gary !!!!
    Worst garbage I ever drank was bottled in recycled Orion beer bottles on Okinawa circa 1968.So bad there was little to differentiate the taste going down or coming back up.

  25. November 15, 2006

    rich loughrey

    Great straight faced acting. Happy B’Day

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