2 Buck Vaynerchuk – Episode #212

April 10, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Trader Joe’s

Links mentioned in todays episode.

Today Gary Vaynerchuk attacks the question that has been asked of him over 100 times a month.

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234 Responses

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April 10, 2007

ChrisR
nicely done 2buck vaynerchuk. The Shaw wines vary greatly from year to year. I’ve never bought them but have tasted them here and there. Sometimes there Merlot isn’t half bad. Sometimes its undrinkable. Same goes for the others.
April 10, 2007

KenP
QOTD: From West Coast Trader Joe’s,… drum roll please…ABRAZO Del Toro! 2005. 80% Garnacha-20% Tempranillo, from Carinena, Espana. Only 13% alc. $3.99. Leather, leather, fruit’s a bit dumb, but the finish saves the day. Screaming qpr.
April 10, 2007

Spacejay
You put figurines in your underpants?
QOTD – In Desert Storm when my first child was born. Total bill – I got refunded $175 by the government. Am I in trouble also?
April 10, 2007

brooklyni
Now here’s a dare: a jug wine tasting? Wait … that might not be fun even as a joke.
April 10, 2007

brooklyni
hey gary, got the wristband today. thanks man. you’re whole “we’re changing the wine world aren’t we” rings true today more than ever. thanks for the two buck chuck tasting!
April 10, 2007

Garret Nagle
Hi Gary,

Good choice on the episodes today. One thing I have learned about buying wine in general, is that the “botique” wine stores, or wine specialty stores that aren’t chain grocers seem to have better deals.

For example, when I go into Trader Joe’s, it seems like the same wines are always there. Further, I have yet to find a great QPR value in the 10-15 dollar range at TJ’s, something I think you should be known for.

The reason why I think you can find better wines and deals at smaller non-chain wine stores is because the large stores like Trader Joe’s are carrying basically the same inventory at each of the stores, thus limiting the ability to bring in interesting wines not wholesaled by a mass distributor or importer.

At TJ’s, I can go in and know exactly what I’m going to get, whereas at a wine specialty store, I’m more likely to find great QPR, but most likely that wine isn’t going to be in the inventory 8 weeks later.

I’d like to hear what others have to say about this, but the wine industry to me seems to be one of the few where little guys can compete with the big boys – I don’t know a lot about the business of wine, WHICH IS WHY I WATCH WLTV! My statements are merly a hypothesis.

QUESTION OF THE DAY!

The best deal I have ever gotten was when I bought a 4th generation iPod at Best Buy with a product REPLACEMENT plan, and got 100% in store credit for the comparable 5th generation iPod when the battery died 10 months later.

Good deals don’t always last, like this one – when I got my free upgrade to the 5th gen., I could only buy into the product Service plan.
April 10, 2007

Badger Ann
Best deal: Walking into Lowe’s a few months ago and getting a $600 gas grill for $250 (end of season clearance!).

Folks I know who go on and on about 2$C***k seem to also be the ones who say “good wine is lost on me..” Guess what I’ll be serving them at Thanksgiving this year?…
April 10, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
Brave episode,Gary. 6 out of 7 wines that you would never drink again, incl the worst ever on WLTV.

QOTD – best bargain must have been from WLTV – 2 Up Shiraz for 10 bucks!!
April 10, 2007

Abel
QOTD: 2000 Groth Cabernet 750ml for $14.99. Of course, it was on sale.
April 10, 2007

WirelessWine
I’ve never been to a Trader Joe’s, but this was a good episode!

The best deal I ever got was on a used Les Paul guitar. I don’t think the kid knew what he had!
April 10, 2007

Caren
interesting Three Bill Swill episode….the only TJ’s brand that I have ever tasted was the Shiraz….and that was right before I mixed it into Sangria (with spiced rum & fresh fruit) for 20 people. They loved it!!
April 10, 2007

Neil
In 2000 I sampled of the Shaw and found every effort except the sauvignon blanc to be terrible and I only used the sauvignon blanc for cooking. One thing I don’t understand about the whole 100 point scale thing is if it doesn’t taste like wine how can it even get a score? 67 points? What’s up with that? I wouldn’t even bother with a score and if I did it would be in the low teens. That said consumers were lucky during the wine glut because there was a lot of good wine out there with a decent QPR. I seriouly think people who drink Charles Shaw on a regular basis don’t like wine at all, but like sipping on something while watching reruns of The Love Boat or Magnim P.I.

QOTD: After returning from a local wine store with a whole bunch of bottles & realizing that they mis-priced 2004 Ch. Lagrange @ $1.79/ea. (FYI – Not from Wine Library!)

I received the Vayniac wristband yesterday. Thanks!
April 10, 2007

KenP
Randy, post 23,
The word is pearlescence. A beautiful word, unlike the wine it describes.
April 10, 2007

John Blue Label
GV,
First time I didn’t learn anything from WLTV. Wait, no, I did learn something. Not to waste my time on Trader Joe’s wines. Not sure why we went there today, but if you made someone happy, so be it.
QOTD: Best deal I ever got was 5 dozen Precept Laddie Extreme golf balls for $70 bucks on eBay. I can lose them guilt free!!!
JW
April 10, 2007

PJ
Great episode and about time. The Trader Joe’s Shiraz is the everyday wine in our house. It tastes bit watered down and if you don’t decant it (not just opening the bottle but pouring into a decanter) for about an hour it doesn’t have much aroma or flavor as you noticed. Also, unlike other wines, this wine will not stay overnight. If you don’t drink it right then, it is not consumable the next day. I don’t know why, but we’ve learned to throw away that night what we don’t drink. And since it is $2.50 down here in Jawja, it’s the cheapest wine I’ve bought. Heck even Cold Duck was $3.99.

Hey, we had a wine tasting last week and it was my turn – I chose Australia. So I served Vegemite. It didn’t go with any of the wines but with Men at Work on the stereo and vegemite, I thought I had it made. Just thought I would throw that out there and tell you not to try it when drinking wine – even Australian wine. Someone described it as a beef bullion cube soaked in soy sauce. And I had to agree.
April 10, 2007

Noanoa
# number, numreo, & so on
April 10, 2007

mikeyrad
Two Buck Chuck reminds me of Dennis Miller’s quote regarding cheap “buy one get one free” men’s suits: “Hey folks, two of sh-t is sh-t. If they really want to screw you they’ll give you three of them.” Even though I’ve had plenty of enjoyable eight to twelve buck wines, does that makes me a two buck snob?
April 10, 2007

Mike I
Way to go Gary – the thing that gets me about 2 buck chuck is the inverse snobbery when people try to convince you that its not that bad really and you should just give it a chance…

QOTD – a couple of years ago when WL gave free shipping almost every other week. Seemed like a great bargain until I realized that you’d turned me into a wine geek.
April 10, 2007

Michael Goldfine
My Best Deal So Far: Matua Sauvignon Blanc from Australia. I find it as exciting, but not quite as complex, as the Kim Crawford. But it is $3-$5 less. Also Bluefish Riesling ($9) And Selback-Oster Riesling Kabinett ($15)
April 10, 2007

mikeyrad
QOTD: Free shipping from Wine Library
April 10, 2007

Jeff Williams
Awesome Show… HILARIOUS! The look on Gary’s face when he was drinking the gamay was priceless…
April 10, 2007

Sue Z.
QOD – I bought a case of bordeaux back in 1986 for about $100. I never new wine could taste that good. I’m hoping the 4 cases of bordeaux futures will be just as good, if not better:)
April 10, 2007

Trish da' Dish
Gary’s QOTD’s? (sounds like there were 2 this time)

1.What I think of 2 Buck Chuck: It totally sucks. What a rip-off! I wouldn’t still be drinking wine if I had started with that stuff. Yes, I’ve tried several “varietals,” and I hate that I wasted about $10 trying.

2.My best deal: Last summer, I bought a black and white laser printer that was only $49 after rebate. Yeah, I was down $180 for awhile, but the rebates came fast. Now I no longer yell at my kids about printing their cheat codes and other useless stuff all of the time–I highly recommend a black and white for primary printer and just print to your color printer only when you actually need to. Still on the original laser cartridge!
April 10, 2007

bigern1013
wine so bad you have to saw off your tongue…hilarious
April 10, 2007

Rick "The Model" M
Thanks for the birthday shout out man. That was awesome. My first name is Joshua (very biblical), last name used to be Smithiwitz or something like that.