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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April 10, 2007

kenneth (eltejano)
QOTD: Cellartracker.com – you can’t beat it.
April 10, 2007

Jim
Excel Spreadsheet with worksheets for inventory, wines I’ve had, and cheese!!
April 9, 2007

Ken B.
Gary,

Good show, I have been out of town, so just catching up. I don’t have much experience with Zin’s so I’ll look forward to trying them.

Ken
April 9, 2007

Skip
I use a program called Cellar! The Ultimate Wine Companion…. Pretty good software but a little quirky with Vista. I like the fact that it will guide you through which bottles of wine should be drank first and which ones you should hold onto.
April 9, 2007

JimVarney01
QOTD: Too much community info to pass up.

Nice Zin ep Gary!
April 8, 2007

Brian
I manage my cellar with Personal Wine Curator 2.0. I highly recommend it – inexpensive, easy, and has plenty of extras. I like that I can paste the labels from labels.winelibrary.com into the program. Support has been great from the company also.
April 8, 2007

GlassRunnethEmpty
QOTD: For years I simply kept track of my cellar using a custom made list in SplashShopper on my Palm /OS powered phone (Treo). Recently I signed up at CellarTracker and am in the process of mirroring my list of wines there.

Good show. I love zin.
April 8, 2007

Dale Cruse
I’m surprised more people haven’t mentioned Cork’d. Definitely my favorite wine management.
April 8, 2007

Vinacull
Excellent EP Gary. Perhaps I’m one of the people supporting your stats on increased Zin slurpage, because I took a rather long hiatus but have been coming back to them lately. QOTD: I’m with the Kahuna. A mix of Cellar Tracker, brain, and luck.
April 8, 2007

Aamer
Two documents on Google docs:

1. Spreadsheet with my cellar inventory. My cellar is only 20 or so bottles at this point so this is working fine.
2. Doc for “Wines Tried” and my tasting notes and recommendations to myself.
April 7, 2007

Daniel
QOD: Cellar Tracker, the best!
April 7, 2007

Sean
Well now… this begs the question: Are we gonna see you at ZAP in 2008?
April 7, 2007

The Smartest Girl in San Francisco
NICE episode! Love the eyebrows — like little catepillars dancing around. And the close up was very exciting — really! Other pleasing elements: the double deuces sign with the little snippy moves, and the color of your shirt.

Tried the Seghesio at the tasting room in Healdsburg the other day – tasty, juicy, fruity, but for some reason it didn’t blow me away. The old world is calling me these days.

QOTD: A little black book, my brain, my husband’s brain.

TSGISF

P.S. No apostrophe after Zinfandel in the title.
April 7, 2007

Jeff
I’ve been drinking lots of zin’s lately. This was fun to watch. Nice one Gary.
April 7, 2007

Chris
Wine Rack – 10 Shelves, 12 bottles per shelf. Located in the cellar, outer wall, closed room, temp stays 65-70 all the time. Wines arranged by taste and cost. Older and more expensive (improve with age) at bottom. Every day wines on top shelves, easier to see. If a bottle on the top shelves is a winner, I’ll move the rest to a lower shelf, as they are keepers.

Right on Gary on knowing what you like. I look forward to coming home after work and finding in the rack, exactly the wine to match my mood. On weekends, I’ll select based on the meal. For the dinner invites, I go deep into the lower racks.

Love your approach on wine. If you enjoy it, it is good. Finding the good ones is a fun adventure.
April 7, 2007

SacramentoCharlie
Very good episode. Zin is always an fun roll of the dice.

QOTD: none yet, but am getting the point where it might be a good idea. Good question to put out there for us not tracking yet to see what the options are.

p.s. Gary has front page pub on http://www.localwineevents.com…..nice frame/pic they chose
April 7, 2007

Wino
Nice episode. I really enjoy the Four VInes Chardonnay and would love to get my hands on their Syrahs because they are supposed to be out of this world.

QOTD- I don’t really have enough wine to have to “manage” it. I maybe have 100 bottles and maybe only 40 of them are really keepers that I want to lay down for a long time. Everything else is fair game for drinking.
April 7, 2007

Skol
I use cellartracker to track my wine.
April 6, 2007

aaronT
2 lurkers here, commenting at your request. We use excel, but are usually too lazy to keep it updated. So once every couple months we have to “catch it up.” Which sux.

Enjoy your shows though, keep it up. Someday we’ll order some wine from you (once you do your next free shipping promo, it’s a killer shipping to Cali!) How ironic that most of the wines we’d order from you way over there get produced way over here.
April 6, 2007

Slick Nick
Gary,
Nice episode!

QOTD: xls spreadsheet… download sales receipt from WL as starting point, then add wine description, and my own rating. Have about 200 bottles in cellar. Don’t keep exact count of inventory.
April 6, 2007

wayno da wino
Gary, You’ll have us Vayniak’s jumpin-off-da-cliff
like lemmings if ya stop da Show. Great to see da
Zins, one a me favorites, outta da closet.

QOTD: Use “named” wine cases layed on their sides
and pencil & notebook-paper to list da wines in each
“named” wine case. Kinda primitive, but it works
for me.
April 6, 2007

Joe Trdinich
Great episode. We visited Seghesio in October and tasted the Cortina, which we really liked. Better Zins though on that trip from Wilson Winery in Dry Creek Valley. Glad for the tasting of the Four VInes–just added two bottles to fill out a case.
I use Excel and labels to track my 450 bottle cellar. Take copious notes to keep for future reference.
April 6, 2007

the big cheez
a lurker uncovered…again.

Great episode. Love those zins…”as the rainbow of flavors come crashing down…and up our nose”!
Just brilliant.
Shoppers Discount Lickers…

QOTD: 200+ in the noggin.
April 6, 2007

Susan
Gary-
Another great ep!!
You get several points for
“happified”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Super word of the day!!!!!!!
QOD:
I don’t have enough wine to
organize it yet…………….
April 6, 2007

chito
I use winepricex.com to keep track of my inventory. I have close to 800 botttles. Enjoyed the Zin episode. Keep up the great work. Over 200 replies. I remember when 50 was a lot. Not a long time ago,huh Gary? Just the beginning, just the beginning!!!