A Wine Tasting Video – Episode #195

March 7, 2007

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Sometimes you just grab different wines and taste them, thats what our host and pal Gary Vaynerchuk is doing today.

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March 8, 2007

Dave H
Since everyone is interpreting the QOTD as show suggestions, I might as well delurk and offer some:

1. Along the theme of “unusual” regions: Slovenia. Obviously Movia is the big name here but I’ve also enjoyed the Dveri Pax Sauvignon Blanc in the past and I’m interested to try their Furmint-based stuff. Oh, and Jura wines–crazy stuff.

2. More food and wine pairings. I know you’re not a big one for overthinking pairings, but it does seem a bit unfair that the food-friendly stuff tends to get lower points/$ when it’s more relevant to the way lots of people actually drink their wine. So get a bunch of wines together that you might drink with, you know, sea bass…and eat some sea bass! And drink the wines! And rate them! Or get a bunch of wines that might go well with a pork chop, and eat a pork chop! Or, spicy food is a particularly useful one. You already slurp and spit into the mic, now we’ll get to wait for you to finish chewing, too! Would this make for bad TV? Maybe!!

And more on wine and cheese. Which wines go with which cheeses, and why? (Not to mention beers, ports, sherries…) IMO an area where the pairing can actually matter a great deal but might be harder for a novice to figure out–how do you pair against a really salty blue; how a really milky creamy cheese interacts with wine tannins. Ep. #98 is great–more of that!

3. Getting about time for another 15-wine tasting explosion ala Ep. #110, isn’t it?

4. Sake. I know zilch about sake.

5. More dessert wines
Sherry
Tokaji
You seem to love white Rhones (with good reason, of course)–so do a show on them!
Vins du Pays. Lots of bargain everyday food wines being imported, at least to the NYC area.
And some of the dozens of obscure French appellations. Maybe have an importer on as a guest, a Neal Rosenthal or someone. It might not be quite as uncomfortable to pan wines in front of the people who chose them as it sometimes is in front of the people who made them?
Keep it coming with the tour of Italian varietals. A good knowledge of these (and the little
French appellations too) is really useful for the wine lists at a lot of great moderately priced NYC restaurants which are full of cheap, off-beat food-friendly Old World wines, especially by the glass.
Wines from volcanic terroirs (personal fav of mine; have had one white and one red from Ischia in my life and both have kind of blown my mind)

6. And of course another vote for more frequent blind and even the occasional double-blind tastings.
March 8, 2007

cyrock1
Great show Gary, you gotta a way with words, and it is better that the flowery language of most Wine Critics.

Qupe Bien Nacido Cuvee rocks hard. A customer actually told me about it and after coming to the same conclusion as you, I’ve been pushing it onto all the customers who lean towards the ABC way of thinking (thats anything but Chardonnay to you newbies.

QOD … Blind Tastings, Blind Tastings, and maybe some more, like a blind tasting of three wines, one just opened, one opened and decanted for an hour, one opened and decanted for four hours – all done blindly (some one pours them into glasses before you sit down and then you go to town on ‘em!
March 8, 2007

Nico
QOTD: the show is great!!!!!!!!!!!! And I also support the efforts for more blind tastings… episode 131 is the one that hooked me!

-Nico
March 8, 2007

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March 7, 2007

manual
thanks for the option to click for a quicktime.
i tend to save it the epissodes to my desktop to watch full screen.

bought three bottles of the Clarendon Merlot. very intrigued by the tasting notes.

QOTD : yep… blind tastings
’cause looking with your mouth closed would… be… boooring!
March 7, 2007

SacramentoCharlie
Great episode. Is it me or is there a Viognier blend trend ? Seems I’ve had more in the past year than I can recall…and they must know what they are doing as it’s definitely chipping away at my red bias where Chardonnay and Sauv Blan didn’t….2003 Treana a few days ago chipped a few more away.

I had no problems with the viewer and I love the tags for indexing. How cool is that ?

QOTD: More region specific episodes to learn more about the specific region characteristics as well as the wine: e.g. Willamette Valley, Paso Robles, Burgundy etc. (or maybe I just need to watch more older episodes)
March 7, 2007

Susan
Gary-
QOD:
1. Blind Tastings
2. Blind Tastings
3. Blind Tastings
Is anyone seeing a pattern here?
March 7, 2007

Susan
Gary-
“Hurry Springtime”!!
You read my mind!
I can’t wait!
Great ep!
Were those carrots you had sitting in front of the spit bucket?
Shall we call you Bugs?
March 7, 2007

Todd English
Hey VChuk the glass is as bigg as you are
March 7, 2007

Lil Luce
QOTD: Don’t go changin’….really. I mean it. I think most people’s comments about content (blind tastings, Vayniac guests, on site/live shows) all speak to your “anything goes” atmosphere that is already present in the show. Throwing a few more of those events in here and there would be great, but it is just more of what you are already doing. In particular, I like SS Chris’ suggestion in comment #71. If the banter present on the boards is any indication, I think those could be really fun episodes!

In response to Colin, comment #83, I like the new format. The first time I tried to view (around 6:30pm est) I was having buffering issues, but it is just fine now.
March 7, 2007

NY Pete
The new WLTV format is working great…kudos…QOD…come up to my neck of the woods, we could do a tasting right on the river at my friends restaurant !
March 7, 2007

Herm
I like the new format….keep doing what you are doing ….I am learning so much and trying wines that I would not have tried if not for your program….keep up the good work and thanks!
March 7, 2007

Sarah L
QOTD: I’d love to see more of the single varietal tastings of different terriors. I’d also love a tasting with the same varietal, same terrior, same vintage and include what you consider a benchmark of that particular varietal. Maybe a benchmark episode of different terriors?

What was the orange stuff in those packages in today’s episode?
March 7, 2007

Darlene O.
Hey, Gary. Love the episode, as always. I have had real licorice, somewhere from Scandanavia, I think, and it was booyah!!! QOD: I love the episodes the way they are. Think about it Gary…look how popular you’ve become…BECAUSE the episodes are the way they are…
March 7, 2007

OttawaB
Great show. I have been enjoying my 1998 Aussie wines (Shiraz, Cabs, and GSM’s) for over a year now (consumed about 2-3 cases of them so far). Outstanding (they do lose that fruit bomb aspect). If anyone has a chance to get some 1998’s, do so. Unfortuneately I only have 3-4 bottles left of the 1998’s.
Clarendon Hills is a great winery, tends to be expensive on the upper end. I’d love to try one from 1998.
QOD ; wishing we could order from you up here in Canada. But unfortuneatly there this little thing called the international border and our government run monopoly wine stores. Free the people GV!!
March 7, 2007

Jan Wicher
love the new look but i’m still d/l so that i can watch the ep’s on my ipod. I carry Gary with me at all times

QOD: More blind tasting.
March 7, 2007

Kent I
Man, after being a naysayer yesterday, I have to say that these new tags are awesome, and I’m now a total convert!
March 7, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Hell GV, You do even 20% of what these Vayniacs have suggested, you’ll have 4-5 more years of material to work with,,,by then we’ll be enjoying your episodes via the holideck! WITH Smellavision!
March 7, 2007

Colin Devroe
SS Chris: Glad you’re enjoying the timed tags. We’ll have more integration for this feature tomorrow.
March 7, 2007

SS Chris
Colin, I haven’t had ANY issues. Nice work!!!

Love the TAGS (chapters)….especially helpful for me with my SS duties.
March 7, 2007

Dave Canada
I love the older clarendon hills….I just had the 1998 pigott Range syrah and it rocked!
QOTD – Bring a Vayniac to NJ and have them come on the show with you. Better yet bring your most loyal Canadian Vayniac!
March 7, 2007

Colin Devroe
Hey everyone! Great show Gary, I’ve already voted for you twice, and will continue to do so.

To everyone: About the buffering. Viddler and the WLTV crew are working together closely to work out these little kinks. Yesterday we had a hiccup in the encoding, today we almost went down thanks to the enthusiastic Vayniacs. Every day we continue to work out more kinks and we should be getting better and better as we go.

I really really really appreciate you commenting and letting us know exactly what your experiencing. It helps us figure these things out and as we move forward, I think you’ll begin to really enjoy the Viddler player. Tomorrow we’re going to through you a few new features for the show, so look forward to that.

Keep the feedback coming! Thanks for your understanding. We’ll get there!
March 7, 2007

Sarah L
What was stacked up in front of your spit bucket during the episode? Was that part of the Texas Longhorn reference? Also the stack of whatever it was got smaller during the episode. Please answer.
March 7, 2007

wildebeest
REAL licorice? Do you mean licorice candy, licorice root, or some form of anise? Or maybe you’re talking about Jaagermeister, or “green death” NyQuil, or even ABSINTHE. Well, I love ALL of these (except for the absinthe, which I’ve never actually tried — though I definitely like it out of principle) because I’m CRAZY about licorice. Sadly, good licorice is hard to get these days. Even Panda isn’t what it used to be (though it’s still great if you buy it in Finland). The best licorice candy I’ve ever had was made by Bearitos. Various foods of theirs can be found in health food stores across the country, but I’m sorry to say that they don’t make the licorice anymore, which is a shame because there nothing else even remotely like it. And I remember the days when the American Licorice Company actually produced licorice that was worth eating. I used to buy at least a box a day. But one day in the mid-nineties my fresh new box of licorice tasted different, and it wasn’t a fluke. Soon every box on every shelf had been “Twizzler-ified” and the expensive Panda stuff became the only good option. IS LICORICE GOING OUT OF STYLE??? What the hell’s wrong with everybody?

QOD: Today, looking at your site, I noticed that you improved the vids by adding chapters and tags. I’m impressed, and I’m having a hard time coming up with any revolutionary ways of making the show better. I do wish, from time to time, that the listings for the wines on the site that have been featured in the show were directly hyperlinked to their entries in the spreadsheet.
March 7, 2007

JonE
QOTD: Mud wrestling with James Laube and Robert Parker, Green Peace style militant protests against YellowTail and Almaden, Jorge Ordonez and Eric Solomon dueling it out in a no holds bar sword fight, monkeys, Paris Hilton, monkeys. Gosh Gary there’s so much you could do to make this show better. Think outside the box brotha man, maybe you should consult Rosie O’Donnell. She’s obnoxious, pitiful and full of good advice on how we can all live our lives to the fullest. Give it some thought G-Man. May the force be with you.

PS: I would love to see a series of shows on Hawaiian Pineapple wine. Cuz yah know what I say: Wine, its not just for grapes anymore.