How To Get Your Wine Palate Trained.

How To Get Your Wine Palate Trained. – Episode #148

December 15, 2006

Wines tasted in this episode:

1999 Louis Roederer Cristal

Today Gary tastes a wide variety of “THINGS” to show you how important many of the flavors are to training your palate to find them in wine. Have a good weekend.

Hello newcomers ( and there are a lot of you) This is a long video and it builds up but to see what EVERYONE is talking about you can see the last 2 minutes here CLICK HERE

491 Responses

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June 4, 2007

Vange
One flavor profile that absolutely grosses me out is when you say this wine tastes like bacon fat. UGH!! With that said, if you do another one of these episodes please break out the bacon fat and taste it. I may gag, but it’ll be worth it in entertainment value.
May 24, 2007

Mike D in NYC
Next time try wet dog and wet leaves.
May 24, 2007

Mike D in NYC
Congratulations! By far the best episode you have ever had, I am sorry I missed it the first time around. What you just did by doing a FOOD and FLAVOR tasting is the key component that is missing from most wine classes and education. I have been to one that let’s you simulate the mouth feel of things like tannin, acid (too much or too little), oak, salt, chaptalisation, etc., but I have never been to one that focuses on developing a flvor pofile. Very creative and interesting episode. I am definitely going to try this out with my friends and see what happens. Everyone will get a shopping list. Thanks again.

PS. everyone will have to taste their own sweaty socks, sharing could be very bad!
May 15, 2007

Steve Ivy
Gary, you’re a maniac. Love you man!
May 14, 2007

Michael H
Great episode. Finally watched it. Laughed out loud several times; especially with the white pepper and jalapeno. Training your palate, and sense of smell for that matter, is not easy.

Quick question — are there other ways to accomplish this — mainly sense of smell as well. I have heard of macerating certain fruits, items, etc. into red wine to understand the smell of the particular item within the wine. Does this work? It’s one thing to be able to distinguish smells and tastes of certain items on their own, but to do it within the taste of wine is something altogether different. Let me know what you think. I appreciate it!
May 12, 2007

Shinmaryuu
By far the funniest thing i have seen in months and i spend my entertainment time watching YouTube and video podcasts. You are a hero and a giant ball of funny. Keep rocking. Love the show.

100 Points Shinmaryuu Spectator
May 7, 2007

wannaBconnoisseur
First time seeing this ep…awesome!
May 3, 2007

DOF
1st time watching. I was laughing so loud I had to close my office door. I had a similar tasting several months ago and included many of the items you did (although no dirt & no Cin Toast Crunch). One item that was a big hit was vanilla. I got a single vanilla bean (expensive), split it, and chopped it into little pieces. The vanilla characteristic was matched 100% with the oaked wines we tasted. I can’t wait to watch some of the other movies you’ve done… Thanks for putting it out there for us.
April 27, 2007

Dan
I heard about WLtv on Diggnation 94.

Your tasting is a fantastic episode. Thank you for the great ideas!
April 27, 2007

Peter The Destroyer
When you said we are having a party in my mouth and then pointed at the camera and said don’t be ridiculous I lost it… had a rare belly laugh. Thank you for eating all that crap. I hope someday I will do the same.
April 25, 2007

Matt
Awesome episode. I am culinary student and learning about flavor profiles is never boring.
April 19, 2007

Eric
FIRST TIME POST! That was awesome! I subscribed to the podcast a few weeks ago, and haven’t looked back! I have always thought about trying this kind of tasting (minus a few items) and I am going to go for it now that you put your mouth out there for me! AWESOME TASTING!!!!
April 18, 2007

Dusty
as a newer wine drinker….this might possibly be one of the most helpful/enlightening episodes and ideas i’ve seen since watching. thanks gary! i’ll let you know how it turns out when I try it. Keep up the great work.
April 13, 2007

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April 6, 2007

Cliff
U R A NUT, but a lovable nut
March 28, 2007

2MuchFun
Long time Lurker…how I missed this I don’t know????

EPIC!!! inspired me to “leave a reply”
March 25, 2007

caleb
Holy Cow! I am so inspired to do this with my friends now before we head out to California for out 10 day tasting trip! The ending was priceless…..I almost cried. lol
March 18, 2007

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March 9, 2007

WhiteH2OWoman
THANK YOU, GARY, for letting me know I’m NOT crazy! I’ve been telling people for the last few years that the reason I can’t stand pinot noir is that it smells like people’s nasty, stinky feet that have been in their running shoes too long.

When you put that sock in your mouth, I yelled, “YES!”

I feel better now–I correctly identified a flavor I don’t like!
But I don’t drink wine to try to ID things…I drink it to enjoy flavors I LIKE…and try to ID those. This is why I also hate most merlots, because they taste like dirt to me (with the notable exception of Recanati Merlot from Galilee, Israel.)
February 28, 2007

desmaic
burnt/carmalized sugar…like if you cook sugar with a torch…and cream or half and half… i notice this in some upper tier oregon pinot noir as well as syrah and cabernet from california….
February 16, 2007

Neurodoc
That was unbelievably funny. What an education! I’ve got to have my wife watch some of these, maybe I’ll start with this one… I think my 9 year old would appreciate it. Glove Leather, cat pee, raisins, prunes and hazelnuts, yeast, charcoal, lichie nuts,sweet truffles, graphite, incense and violets. I’m going tomorrow to get some of this stuff.
February 15, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
TAR! Where do I find a good source of TAR for a Palate training? And BTW it is PALATE not palette.
And what about burnt rubber?
February 12, 2007

elron
First off, Gary, you’re a crazy bastard! That’s why I like you! You remind me of me(lol!). Secondly, I can’t believe I missed this episode until now. You had me rolling like a Sonafa-B. You nut!(lol!) p.s. Did you end up getting sick?
February 8, 2007

Ruben
Great episode. 99 Cristal only gets a 87? Come on serious? Anyways, keep up the good stuff. A little comedy here and there isn’t bad, wine isn’t meant to be serious, it’s meant to be fun. Enjoyed the episode all the way out here in Carlsbad, California.
February 6, 2007

Hinrgman
Great,

Wines from the USA that wern’t from California.