Happy Birthday Gary Vaynerchuk!

Happy Birthday Gary Vaynerchuk! – Episode #127

November 14, 2006

Wines tasted in this episode:

Vendange White Zinfandel
Turning Leaf White Zinfandel
Woodbridge White Zinfandel
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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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November 14, 2006

Katie
Happy Birthday Gary!
QOD – Pink Fox from Les Bourgeois winery in Missouri. Drank it to celebrate the end of finals. Iâ€™m not able to drink anything sweet after that.
November 14, 2006

AndrewP
Happy 31st GV! Another great episode.

QOD – White Zin from a box of course (usually Franzia)… we used to have drinking contests with it in college. Just remove the “space bag” from the box, stand up, and drink until you fell over… life was so much simpler in those days…
November 14, 2006

Sue Z.
Happy Birthday Gary!!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy many more!!
QOD – The worst wine I ever had was definitely the first wine I ever had. My dad gave my brother and I each a big glass of nasty old chianti (from the basket weave bottle, probably something from the 70’s) when we were in our early teens. I think he was hoping we would hate it so much we would never, ever want another sip of wine for the rest of our lives. Thankfully we both grew up thinking there had to be better stuff out there. He drinks barolo. I love bordeaux. Thanks dad;-)!!!!!
November 14, 2006

MarcT
I remember back in school when I would get Franzia because it was cheap and all I wanted was to get drunk. I could drink 48 oz of the stuff and get quite a good buzzzzzzz…then I had to drink a gallon of water to not have a horrible hangover the next morning!!!

Great episode Gary…I’m emailing the link to EVERYONE!!!
November 14, 2006

Tony S.
Happy birthday Gary. I will admit to drinking white zinfandel, and I will say it wasn’t the worst I ever had. The main reason I enjoyed it is because when I first found out about wine and didn’t know a dang thing about it, I went to the grocery store to start “learning”. I bought I white zin (I don’t remember which winery) and a California Port of some sort. These were both from the grocery store and this was 10 years ago, so I’m sure my pallet has evolved (I sure hope it has!!). Any way, at the time, they were both alright.

BUT, the worst wine I had (besides out of condition/over the hill wines) was a White Merlot from Sutter Home. A brother-in-law whoe doesn’t drink, but knows I’m into wine bought me a bottle for Christmas. I expected to never drink it, but one day they were comeing over for dinner, so I decided to open it up for that occasion. I acted like it was enjoyable, but it tasted like watered down strawberry liquor. I’d rather have over the hill or out of condition wine.

OK, see you later, and have a great birthday. You ARE going to bring those leftover wines home and drink them all, right?

GO BEARS!!!
T
November 14, 2006

zerokreap (kw)
happy birthday man
i thought i was actually going to be sick during this episode…i hate sweet stuff…jolly ranger wine…gross!
i have never had a bottle of white zin
the worst bottle of wine i ever drank was a corked bottle of beringer knights valley cab…yes, i drank a whole corked bottle…i couldn’t get that taste outta my mouth for like two days. as for crappy wines…if i open it and it sucks, then i just toss it out.
i did drink many jugs of carlo back in the day…but it really wasn’t that bad. haha
November 14, 2006

ChrisR
Happy Birthday buddy! Drink something great tonight and tell us about it tomorrow.
November 14, 2006

Dan R.
Happy B-Day Gary!!!
November 14, 2006

Dan G.
Happy Birthday Gary. Man if you co-workers give you that crap I’d hate to see what your ememies would give you. Worst bottle I dont even remember the name. Needless to say I dont buy too much anymore without your recommendation. No guesswork involved.
November 14, 2006

Thomas
Happy birthday gary!
November 14, 2006

Brooklyn Paul
Happy Birthday Gary!
November 14, 2006

AnthonyS
Great intros Tampa Steve, Tony and Brandon. Sorry Erik for spelling your name wrong yesterday. Congrats again on the news.
November 14, 2006

Sam Zen
Happy Birthday and week G— getting reved for the bears game? This past weekend I had a former Marine stay with us in DC to celebrate Veteran’s Day. He’s from Brick, NJ, and is a HUGE Giants fan… how fun to see my Bears dismantle those lil’Giants in the seond half. I think that mo will carry over til the Jets game for sure. So long as the Bears can hold off the Jets in the second half all will be well in the world. Happy Birthday and get ready for some pre-Thanksgiving shipping to us Bears fans.

BEAR DOWN… CHICAGO BEARS!!!!
November 14, 2006

jon777
Ah… White Zin — so many (foggy) memories. Drank waaay too much of it in college — mostly Sutter Home White Zin. Although, per the QOD, the worst wine was probably Blue Nun.

Of course, this all centered around getting sorority girls drunk, so the white zin holds a special place in my heart…

Happy b-day! Your staff obviously hates you! LOL!
November 14, 2006

Rick E
Happy 31st, GV. I’m not sure how you do it, but you’ve managed to keep this community entertained for 127 episodes. This latest was hysterical, from your not keeping a straight face with the Vendange to the “someone’s peeing white zin in my glass”. Come on, this is classic, classic stuff.

Your free shipping idea rocks (although I’ve ordered the Farleigh Zin from WL earlier this year–it blows).

This site is awesome. Your vlogs are awesome. The Forum, the community, the guest intro’s — All awesome. Thanks, brother.

Rick
November 14, 2006

Julius
Happy Birthday. I bet the Pickles tasted better than any of these wines. I tasted one and I gave it a 95.

QOTD – Ripple.
November 14, 2006

ML
Happy BDay GV!
November 14, 2006

hinrgman
QOD – many years ago – a wine called Orange Rock (no longer made)

or Bali-Hi or Twister as a last resort

used to guzzle a pint or 2 under the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach
November 14, 2006

Denise
Happy Birthday, Gary!! Many happy returns!
November 14, 2006

Rob M.
Happy Birthday, chump.

I agree with Nicholas, Rich S (Rich???), and DWildman- a wish list would be nice. I use my shopping cart as my wish list, but when it is time to order, it is a pain deleting what I do not want, but then searching for them all again to put them back in a shopping cart so I remember what I like. It is especially problematic given the new free.winelibrary.com- in order to buy a few bottles of the wine yesterday, I had to delete about 20 wines from my “shopping cart”.
November 14, 2006

Brandon M
Carlos Rossi from the jug…many a night
Now I taste it and Say Wha Wha Wha Whaaaat was I thinkin?
November 14, 2006

Louisiana George
QOD – Mad Dog 20/20 – Orange flavor, before it was legal for me to drink wine

Happy Birthday, Gary V and many more to you!

Louisiana George
November 14, 2006

TampaSteve
Happy 31 my friend!!!!…if I only knew at 31 what I know now……….
November 14, 2006

LinoD
Happy Birthday ‘ya crazy bastard !
November 14, 2006

Tony
Woohoo! Happy B-day Gary! Yeah, we were a bit drunk that night!