Thanksgiving wines- What to serve with Turkey. – Episode #128

November 15, 2006

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Wines tasted in this episode:

Today Gary tastes through four wines he thinks (hopes) are perfect for Thanksgiving. Watch as Gary drinks a great Zinfandel and three other wines that rock him during this wonderful holiday that we all are able to share with family. Please look (visual) for the special offer!

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  1. November 16, 2006

    Susan

    Brandon M,
    Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly.
    I hope you start feeling better
    SOON!
    :)

  2. November 16, 2006

    Susan

    Gary-
    You did a
    GREAT job on this episode!
    I am now ready for Thanksgiving!!
    Yum!
    Thanks again for all of the
    fabulous wines you tasted!
    :)

  3. November 16, 2006

    ScottJ

    Gary,
    Great episode and thanks for the recommendations; but 2 comments. First, the ‘free shipping’ doesn’t really help those of us beyond the Mississippi River, at least not to have the wine for T-day dinner. (Wish you had posted the episode a couple of days sooner…). Second, ‘The Other’ white wine rec sounds really good, but the web site says you are out already. (Wish you had posted the episode later today, instead of last night…..).
    Keep up the great work. We all really do appreciate the education. And Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

  4. November 16, 2006

    Susan

    Liz V,
    Thanks for confirming what I thought-
    I figured Gary’s Mom had worked long hours in the kitchen for that
    DELICIOUS meal!
    Thanks Mrs. Vaynerchuk!
    :)

  5. November 16, 2006

    Suzanne

    QOD….has to be back in ‘92 or ‘93 when I was hired by Mattel to choreograph their Barbie float for the Macy’s Parade. The guy who hired me was a jerk. After weeks of rehearsing these poor Barbie Dolls/Girls/Dancers that he was paying next to no money, he wanted to cut them from the float and go with just the singers. At 5 AM in Central Park on Thanksgiving morning I told the CEO of Mattel to take the float and shove it up his *&%$#.Then I took the D train home to Brooklyn and went back to sleep.

    Happy Thanksgiving Gary. Your Mom did quite a job. You look like you’re in Williams Sonoma comercial.

  6. November 16, 2006

    Matty Van, Rochester,NY

    QOD – I was driving 3 hours to elmira,ny to meet my family for thanksgiving. On the way I got a speeding ticket and I happened to have 6 cartons of ciggerettes from the indian reservasion on my back seat, I did not know its illegal to have more than 2 cartons of un taxed ciggerettes per person. I got arrested for it. When I finally got to dinner way late but just in time, I walked in the door and was serenaded to ” I fought the law and the law won”

    Thanks for the episode, I just placed my order

  7. November 16, 2006

    stewart l

    Best thanks giving day-We allways play football on that day. On college break I came back to play. On the first play, Iknocked one of the opposing players on his ass. He didn’t get mad. Three days later I saw him in church, and he was our new pastor! Five years later he was the pastor for my wedding!

  8. November 16, 2006

    MichaelP

    As Ali G would say much respect to vaynermom for the crazy spread.

    Great ep GV. I was waiting for this. Every year the turkey/red wine would put me into a vegetative state. Its white all the way this year.

  9. November 16, 2006

    Lev M.

    I hope you have enough of that Zinfandel to go around :)

    QOTD- I was travelling in Spain for 10 days alone and had Thanksgiving at a friend’s house in Madrid. They told me that there is little turkey to be had in Spain and instead, they cook capon. Theres really something about coming in from the cold Madrid streets to a warm family gathering.

  10. November 16, 2006

    rich loughrey

    You are the Zen Master. Shop room pelted with grapes;smell of a log when you are fishing as a boy!!!

  11. November 16, 2006

    Tom T.

    Hi Gary,

    Awesome video. The colors are amazing ;)

    Seriously – it was another great episode. Thanks for doing it. I ordered the Gravity Hills Tractor Zin and look forward to trying it soon. My favorite T-DAY was a few years ago when we all went outside to play some touch football, and my 70 year old Dad playing QB. However all T-DAY’s are great memories with thte family. They just keep getting better. Hope yours do too.

    Tom

  12. November 16, 2006

    Lawrence Leichtman

    Thanks for the tasting ideas. I have two bottles of the Gravity Hill and may just put one out for the table. Will be drinking Prosecco and the Saints and Sinners Viognier that I bought half a case of after the show with that one. I look forward to any Thanksgiving that my kids and their wives and significant others are present. The party just gets bigger every year and more fun.

  13. November 16, 2006

    Grasshopper

    Sensei,

    Great episode and thanks for the recommendations and the free shipping. I just placed my mixed case order of three bottles each of all four wines!!

    Do we have the friendly wager on this weeks game with me getting another shot at Free shipping for the Bears beating your beloved Jets? I am not that big of a Bears fan and I hate to see you upset after a loss, but I love your wine picks and the free shipping gives me justification for buying more wine than I need…I know guys, need is a relative term because you can never have too much wine!!…:)

    Grasshopper

  14. November 16, 2006

    Sam Zen

    G- like you, I immigrated to the United States as a young boy. So Thanksgiving has a very special place in my heart for so many reasons. In my mind, each new Thanksgiving is the most memorable… and this year will lilkely hold true in light that I’m hosting 15 people for a sit down feast! My first Thanksgiving… wish me luck! BTW- in light of the season, thank you for all th eeffort you make with WLTV. This has really been a revelation to be thenakful for. So thanks G.

  15. November 16, 2006

    Lynne

    Wow!! What a beautiful feast!
    Thanks, Gary, for always providing us with incentives to try and buy different wines.

    QOD: We always have great family Thanksgivings, but a particular one stands out. We were traveling over the rivers and through the woods to Grandma’s house, when a deer runs out in front of us. It happened too quickly to avoid the 14 pointer. All the food spilled, the kids were at first, afraid, then when they saw the road-kill, it was “wow…cool…how are we gonna get to Grandma’s with a busted radiator?” We had to park the vehicle in some farmer’s driveway, call for a backup vehicle, stop at a local grocery for some not-so-homemade side dishes, and on to Grandma’s.

    BUT not before we hit the deer on the road, let the deer fall down, we threw a bunch of cherries on it, took out our knife, cut it, tasted it and that’s what our Thanksgiving wine tasted like! :)

  16. November 16, 2006

    Tony M

    Love the table of food. Gary you did good. Ad looks great.
    http://www.thewineglass.net

  17. November 16, 2006

    Seth - MacGeek

    I was going to use the ad as toilet paper as a joke to send it in to gary, but it was to nice to use for that. Instead I printed it and mounted it on the wall :-D

    seth

  18. November 16, 2006

    Roberto

    Sorry I mean GARY no Gay !
    Shut cancel that message it looks Horrible !

    Sorry !

  19. November 16, 2006

    Roberto

    Damn GAy Bravo Bravo Bravo Bravo for this episode !!
    YOu have centered the Score for the Felsina Chianti classico rancia 95 i love it.. it is exsactly rthe way you descrive it and taste absolutely a Pure Class in a Glass !!!

    I am wondering if we should talk about the 97 when I get bakc from the UK…..

    Be good and keep up the great job !

  20. November 15, 2006

    Jaye

    Beautifully staged episode Gary, kudos! I think I may have to try that Zinfandel!

    QOD: I have been cooking since I was 12 and I cooked up all our family Thanksgiving dinners from the time I was 13 or so. The most memorable one was probably about 15 years ago. I had 14 people coming over for Dinner, and as usual was cooking up a storm all night. I never bothered to have the TV or radio on, or open the door for that matter, so I never realized the whole time I was cooking it was snowing outside. There was so much snow that our company never came. We had enough food for 20 people, and only 4 of us there to eat it. Yowsa. We ate leftovers for 2 weeks.

  21. November 15, 2006

    SeanM

    Thanks for the T-day episode.

  22. November 15, 2006

    Darlene O.

    Ah, Gary…beautiful! Ok…most memorable Thanksgiving. Several years ago we sat to dinner 21 of my family members. Under each plate we taped the birth date of a family member. Each person had to look under their plate and guess whose birth date they had, and then share a memory of that person. What a hoot!!! We had a frickin’ blast, kids included. Family is everything, and we truly celebrated family that day. :}

  23. November 15, 2006

    PattyO

    Thanks for Giving, Gary! Looking forward to drinking that Gravity Hills Zin with the visiting family next week –

    Great show, fun to see you at the table (mom’s house?), blustery wind out the glass door – nice element.

  24. November 15, 2006

    Rick E

    Great episode. Put some thought into it next time.

    No one commented on the NY Times ad. Being in Providence, I had to go to the bookstore to pick it up (who knew there’s a store that just sells things to read??) Of course very nicely done, but I’ve been shut out of the quote section once again. So Gary, I just wanted to tell you off the cuff

    “WLTV is the best! Informative and educational, with a splash of fun! I never miss an episode.” Oh, and “Whether you’re a beginner or expert, there’s no better way to learn about wine than WLTV. I schedule my meetings around it every day.” And before I sign off I wanted to mention “Bacchus. Perignon. Rothschild. And now, Vaynerchuk.”

    If none of those get me some ink, I give up. Keep up the good work.

  25. November 15, 2006

    johnm

    Gary, you, with a little bit of us in the Vaynernation are changing the wine world. True that. Great episode.

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