California Zinfandel’s That Are Highly Rated

California Zinfandel’s That Are Highly Rated – Episode #208

April 4, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Question of the day: “How do you manage your cellar”

Gary Vaynerchuk tackles four serious red Zinfandel’s today and is excited to share his thoughts, please share yours.

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255 Responses

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November 8, 2009

John J.
qotd noggin

Gary, can we get a vin jaune episode?
September 9, 2009

ulu ulu ulu ulu
noggin
June 8, 2009

Phredd
QOTD: Small cellar means my pea brain can still keep track of my inventory. I would love to have the space and funding to grow beyond my own memory, though. Besides, my wife doesn’t like this tracking method. She knows my kids’ T-shirt and underwear sizes, but she doesn’t like having to ask me about what wine we have on hand.
May 1, 2009

Lauren
GV, I just watched this episode for the first time, guess I’m a little behind the power curve … however, I am shocked SHOCKED at your question of the day. During the entire time I was watching this particular exact precise episode I swear that the inventory gears in my head were cranking & I was wondering how YOU maintain your inventory. My business is designing custom databases, and I was imagining all of the schwag-o-licious ways a custom wine database (WLTV in particular, of course) could come together for maximum cha-ching factor! What are the chances that, over the course of the same identical video, you and I would independently contemplate inventory-tracking. Fascinating. In any event, amazing QOTD, fab episode as always, dynamite crowd, it’s 2am and I should be sleeping but instead I’m enjoying WLTV archives. Sweet! Now, if you ever get around to it, here is my QOTD: when you open a mediocre (i.e., just a hair shy of serviceable) bottle at home to drink by yourself, do you keep it around for a few days to finish it?
March 21, 2009

Ernon
The quality of the info is what keeps me on this site, thanks!
April 24, 2008

Chris
GV. props for dropping some mad wine knowledge! As a relative wine neophyte, you have done much to bring me along and at least help me to have more fun with my wine adventures. Keep it coming!
C
March 20, 2008

LadyHouse
Seghesio is hands down my favorite Zinfandel. I recently attended the Zin Festival in SF and tried to find contenders with no avail. Close seconds are Green & Red, St. Francis, Sones Cellars. I am usually partial to the Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley and/or Old Vine Zins–what can I say, I like big, I like fruity, but not too sweet Zins. Is it me, but were the Zins in 2004 much better?!!!

By the way, Gary, this McManis Petite Sirah is off the hook for the price point! Go SXSW!
March 2, 2008

Brian Johnson
GV,
Great episode. Wife just mentioned last week her favorite wine is Zinfidel. She had never told that to me before and I had never bought any since. Will have to treat her to a couple of bottles.

QOTD: Used the Personal Wine Curator and find it very time consuming to enter bottles in the inventory and I only have about 60. With so many people talking about Cellar Tracker, I’m going to have to check it out.
February 24, 2008

thefanjestic
So this is the episode with the Bull in the China Shop quote!
October 2, 2007

Pastafari Pirate
Shopper’s Discout Liquors! Woohoo!

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm…… was I too late?
September 22, 2007

vivaitalia
Cellar? Haha, are you freaking kidding me? On a good night I open the bottle I just bought an hour ago on my way home from work. And if I had a cellar I wouldn’t use cellar tracker, there are some pretentious A-holes on there. I’m starting to get into Zin and Syrah and whatnot from California after years of shunning them. My sweet tooth is taking over! Awesome job, keep it up!
September 21, 2007

Nate
QOTD: I use a home-made access database to track my cellar, tasting notes & wishlist. Probably not the greatest, but it serves its purpose.
June 20, 2007

wallace
QOTD; cellartracker.
late post, i know. just revisiteing some old episodes. WLTV ROCKS!!!
April 27, 2007

Johan Alexandersson
You’re great! I’ve been watching your shows for a month or so.
I’m truly inspired by the way you present the wines. Not that I would present them in the same way, but it inspired me as a winetaster to really think about what my personal way is.
Keep going, I’m telling all my sommelier friends to get as quick as possible to this website.
Johan, Stockholm – Sweden
April 25, 2007

Tana
Hola Gary,
Ilove wine library tv, I have asked our wine club members IN CABO (BAJASUR)MX. to log on.
I use to dust off the wine bottels in my Dads Store in SF, Alta Plaza Market.Just like you at Shoppers Discount Liqour Store !
Are you still comming to S.F.?
Tana Craighead
Cabo Wine Club
April 24, 2007

Jeff
I use http://www.cellartracker.com/ and it is awesome. Still lovin’ the show.
April 20, 2007

Nico
QOTD: I’m a CORK’D fan! corkd.com/people/nasv!!!
April 19, 2007

Shotgun
I love Zins. Just got back from trip to California and Healdsburg in particular. We had some rocking Sonoma Zins. I am partial to the Dry Creek Valley zinfandels.

I use Cellar! I tried several, all have quirks and none are perfect, but Cellar! does a good job once you are familiar with it.
April 17, 2007

cruster
I use corkd.com for managing my wine cellar. It’s nice, simple, but powerful though. And all you need to do when you want to show the structure of your wine cellar to some of your friends is simply to post a link.
April 16, 2007

exNorCallurker
QOD: Nothin’! If I gottem, I drink em. After that I rarely have more in the rack so what good are tasting notes? I never see that bottle in that vintage again…Gone….poof…In the wind.
April 12, 2007

Jerry
Delurking…Thanks for reviewing some Zins, I think I like the new world.

Relurking…
April 11, 2007

kenneth (eltejano)
JayZee:
sometimes I “need” to update my cellar info from work when I get a new shipment in, or print from work on the nice color printers, or when using my laptop when traveling, or by checking it using my cellphone (there’s a simplified phone page) when I’m at a store to see how much I paid from something before. . . it’s quite handy

plus- you can set your cellar to private so no one else sees your information

the advantage is that if you’re entering a new purchase, most of the time it’s already in the system so you don’t have to spend a lot of time typing, you can just edit an existing db record
April 11, 2007

RoadDog
not exactly a lurker, but more like an occasional viewer for the Van Der Chuck WoW entertainment factor, and to appease the Elvis in every entertainer….. QOTD;-) answer is excel
April 11, 2007

TSchampaert
QOTD: Cellar Tracker, not to have people drool over my inventory (nothing to drool over btw), but just because it’s easy to use (smtimes a bit superfluous), quick, efficient and above all free. What am I gonna do? Pay for some software to support my crappy brains? NOT! I’d better have some fine bottles of wine for that price.
April 10, 2007

JayZee
Yo Gary! Nice Zin episode. QOTD: I see a lot of folks use Cellar Tracker. I have seen that all over the forums. Sorry. I don’t get it. I mean its fine and all, but I really don’t buy wine to have others ogle my stock and I certainly don’t care what’s in other people’s cellars. I mean, what I am, a lemming? NOT! I use a piece of PC-based software called Personal Wine Curator. It is perfect for my ~900 bottle cellar. I can print inventory labels. I can do whatever I need to do with it. And it is only ~$40 to buy. Plus my collection is on my PC and not out there for everyone else to see, thank you very much.