Super Tuscan and Friday

Super Tuscan and Friday – Episode #184

February 16, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

2001 San Felice Vigorello

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Gary Vaynerchuk tastes a wine from Italy that EVERYONE USE to talk about, will they again soon?

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February 16, 2007

Lynne
QOD: My basement for now. I have an old root cellar that’s kinda creepy like the one in “The Cask of the Amontillado”; that’s eventually where I’d like to store it. Got some fixin’ up to do.
February 16, 2007

K Spengler
Gary, love this episode as usual! Have a lovely trip to London, looks like it’ll be Beefeater instead of wine for you. Not sure they’re particularly “wine-oriented” in London, are they?
Thanks for the gravatar help, will work on it this weekend. Safe travel..
February 16, 2007

Susan
Susan, Congrats on the $8.3 million!!!!!

Actually Erikâ€™s name in the â€œSTUPID KINGDUMBâ€ is â€œThe Earl of Kasntnerâ€

Comment 25: By SS Chris on February 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pm

I won – really? I will be sending you my account info soon!
Ha! I can see where my sarcasm gets me. No one got my joke!
I hope some of the Vayniacs honestly know what an earl is.
February 16, 2007

SS Chris
QOTD: anywhere that SS Dede can’t find.
February 16, 2007

winejedi
love friday episodes!

QOTD: my wine is stored in 2 50-60 bottle wine refrigerators and the rest in my sons closet in the basement. looking into a 300-500 bottle wine refrigerator or build a wine cellar.
February 16, 2007

Susan
8.3 mil for Susan!

Comment 21: By mikeyrad on February 16th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

Please explain this one.
February 16, 2007

Rich S
QOD: I have wine stored in a bunch of different places but I have some champagne in my refrigerator, an 18 bottle wine fridge, a 45 bottle wine rack and I also have around 60 bottles stored in my good friend’s basement wine rack because I ran out of room……….. )
February 16, 2007

IanF
TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16, 2007

SS Chris
Susan, Congrats on the $8.3 million!!!!!

Actually Erik’s name in the “STUPID KINGDUMB” is “The Earl of Kasntner”
February 16, 2007

Wil Neverspit
top 25…

I wish CHEF would spell “you’re” correctly, just once.
February 16, 2007

Matthew L
Nice show Gary. I need to learn more about(read taste) Super Tuscans.

QOTD: Folks in the forum know I labored over 57-bottle under counter cooler. I have that stocked. I also have 14 bottles stored in cubies built into our kitchen cabinets. The rest of the wine is stored on a wine rack/cart in our dining room. Whenever we reclaim our basement apartment for ourselves, I plan to build a cellar.
February 16, 2007

mikeyrad
QOTD, in a closet with a 72 bottle wine rack. Sure I’d love to have a cellar, but we live in a 1BR apartment in Manhattan.
February 16, 2007

mikeyrad
8.3 mil for Susan!
February 16, 2007

RieZin
Most is still in a 120-bottle fridge in my living room. an increasingly large amount is in off-site storage at a place in the south bronx. Travel safe and thanks for pre-taping.
February 16, 2007

Paul M
QOTD: store my wine in my basement in wooden crates … in the summer it is cool (65-70) and moist, but in the winter it is too hot (70-75) and dry

thinking about buying a wine fridge or turning a small closet into a little cellar … I do not have many wines that will need/last more than 1-3 years so not sure I really need to do anything – lots of different opinions out there about what is necessary and I am a bit confused
February 16, 2007

jon777
Have a great trip Gary & crew!

Question for Gary (or anyone): What defines a wine as “Super-Tuscan”? The Tuscan part is self-evident, the Super seems arbitraty. Knowing the anal rules of wine naming, I would imagine there are specific reqmts for being a Super-Tuscan.

QOTD: Wine Fridge for anything that’s not going to be immenantly consumed. Closet for things that will be enjoyed sooner. Condo living (especially w/o central AC) does not lead to storing/aging large quantities of wine…
February 16, 2007

Jonathon M Chicago
Hey Everyone,

Jonathon from Evanston, Il. Any other Chicagoans watch the Vaynerchuck show?

QOTD: Just completed my cellar in the basement. 7′ x 7′- Whisperkool through wall chiller, slate floor and a ridiculous 850 bottle capacity. Got the racking from wineracksamerica.com- VERY happy with them. Nice quality, great selection.

Have a great trip Gary, I’ll be watching next week. Where are you going by the way?

Jon
February 16, 2007

joe
In LA, we don’t have cellars. So I had to store the bulk of my wine in a Wine Storage Facility (Hollywood and Wine) where I have a locker (lots of resteraunts are my locker neighbors). I keep a 280 bottel vino temp at home for daily go-to-wines.
Joe
February 16, 2007

Matt B DC
Solid episode – - I hope you don’t get burnt out doing a week at once!

QOTD: My fiancee got me a 30 bottle electric wine cellar with custom temperature for Christmas. It’s a little extravagant seeing as how I’m not “aging” anything, but it’s nice to have whites above the 36 degrees of my refrigerator but below the 72 degree room temperature.

As for gravatars, I was trying to get mine to work for a few weeks . . . glad to hear he got it running . . . here’s a test!

Cheers!
February 16, 2007

Dmjperc
Yay Top 20!!!
February 16, 2007

Eric S.
QOD: Have some free standing racks in my basement storage room. Stays cool and dark, so it works out pretty well.
February 16, 2007

Full Throttle
Had to come out of the Lurkers Closet for the best Vaynerism yet:

“There’s a lot of terrior on the scalp” !!! Priceless.
February 16, 2007

bradyt
QOTD…. :ashamed….in the cupboard above my fridge, because they doen’t last very long.
February 16, 2007

TheDumbPhase
What wines taste like your scalp? I need to know so I can avoid them.
February 16, 2007

Susan
SS Chris,
Earl of K??
Gosh,
WLTV has an Earl on staff.
Wow!
Ha!