South African wines – Episode #218

April 17, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Gary Vaynerchuk takes the advice of over 20 viewers and does South African wines today!

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April 17, 2007

H-Why
Very nice episode as always. BTW, thanks for the description of “corked” wines. Definitely helpful.
April 17, 2007

Rink Man
great call from the comments above with the Sugar Smacks. I was watching this ep with my daughter and she called the smacks. Smacks were good but the left over milk had the smack dust which I didn’t like.

Great Episode. Now I need to try the Pinotage.

QOTD. We are the luckiest generation of humans ever. Hug your family now and everyday.
April 17, 2007

Dave Canada
haven’t tried too many South African’s and hardly any pinotage so this was really good for me.
QOTD – I say it everytime I get to hang out with my son….it’s the greatest!
April 17, 2007

CC_HTown
I often do a little “bad-bad” in the bathroom.

Another great episode, G.

We are truely lucky to have family each day in our lives. Don’t ever forget to give them love!
April 17, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Lucky? Hell yes, and we should all stop bitchn’ and pickn’ on each other and pull together as a country and as citizen of the world and get something done!

Pass me the Pinotage!
April 17, 2007

Russ J
God ep, GV. I thought for sure you were thinking of Golden Grahams, until you mentioned the frog! This was maybe the third (?) corked wine on WLTV. One was when you had the winemaker as a guest, back in the early days and I seem to remember at least one more.

QOTD: Extremely lucky. Imagine being in a place where this type of thing, or worse, happened every day…..
April 17, 2007

Bobinnati
QOTD – Damned lucky. We live in the best country in the world and we have basically whatever we need and then some. We are truly blessed and fortunate and we should NEVER forget that.

Pinotage, eh? Something new to try. I had told myself that I was on a SIWBM, but then I went and bought some anyway. Now I really have to settle down, especially after forking over the remainder of Uncle Sam’s portion the other day. This will have to go on my wish list.
April 17, 2007

Maria B.
Gary, Great South African episode- I was rootin’ for it. Dude, your totally talking about sugar smacks! Corked? How the _ did you put a corked wine in your mouth? Iâ€™ve smelled corked wines before (like you said, wet paper, cardboard, basement, etc.), and man I would never put them in my mouth- your brave! ICK!
QOTD: very lucky

To burritto: If your in the Finger Lakes region, go to Seneca Lake (has 53 wineries)- you can’t go wrong. Iâ€™ve always had a good time on Seneca. I will actually be touring the east side of Seneca this Sunday. Although, Keuka Lake has a couple of good wineries that shouldn’t be missed like Bully Hill & Dr. Konstantin Frank.
Website of Finger Lake Wineries: http://www.newyorkwines.org/winecountry/fingerlakes/index.asp
April 17, 2007

H-Why
I guess that I need to add an aluminum bat to my palette training kit.

QOTD: We are extremely lucky to have the time to watch a great podcast. What is scary to me was how easy it seems that people are recovering from the VA Tech shooting. When Columbine happened, it felt like the whole country stopped for several days. This time it feels like we are starting to accept this insane tradgedy as commonplace. That is scary and humbling.
April 17, 2007

Mike W.
“I feel like a frog was involved.”….Has to be THE most wackiest statement I’ve ever heard on WLTV!
April 17, 2007

Dave-from-Katonah
QOTD- so very lucky are we, that we should all just sit and think about all of those things in our lives that makes each one of us feel lucky. We should all take the time to kiss our spouses and tell them “I love you” everyday. We should sit down with our kids and talk to them about what is important in their lives and spend quality time with them despite our busy schedules. We should say “Thank you” whenever someone holds the door open for us and look them in the eye. We should stop at a stop sign and occasionally give up the right of way so as not to rush all the time. We should all know the name of the person we buy our morning coffee and paper from, and thank them by name. We should tell our parents “thanks for everything”, for all they gave us throughout their lives. Yes, we should all just sit and think how very lucky we all are.
April 17, 2007

JustinL
Re: the scent that you couldn’t identify in the first wine, was it juniper? That’s pretty common in Chenin Blancs (and air fresheners).
April 17, 2007

AngioRanger
QOTD: Incomprehensibly fortunate. Blessed and thankful for it everyday, every moment.
Wasn’t this the first “corked” wine caught on WLTV?
P.S. Gary, the aluminum bat to the mouth/teeth reference took me way back, although my personal experience was wood bat to mouth and lost some teeth for it (fortunately they were “milk/baby” teeth at the time). I still haven’t come across that “blood, enamel, wood, tears” flavor profile in a wine yet (and I’m not sure I want to).
Our family’s most sincere prayers for the families affected by the tragedy in VA.
April 17, 2007

Mark J
I had the Rustenberg Merriman when in London at Xmas, it was available at the Thresher (chain of small liquor stores) on the corner. We go through lots of food and wine each year when visiting family there, but from what I remember it was big, complex, with lots of tannic structure…nicely paired with lamb. Enjoyed by all at table.

QOTD: Lucky to be still kicking and able to reflect on and enjoy the small wonders in each day. Like Daffs finally blooming after a nasty early spring in Chicago.
April 17, 2007

Kelly
I just bought a bottle of Goats do Roam YAYY, haha. Can’t find many good South African Reds at the shops around me.
April 17, 2007

holgi
Very.
April 17, 2007

dublin
QOTD – Every time I go home to my wife I have a moment that reminds me how lucky I am. Everytime I try a new wine that kicks ars I have a moment that reminds me as to how lucky I am. If you’re living and breathing and have people around you that you care about and care about you, you’re a very lucky person. Cheers GV!
April 17, 2007

E-Rock
Smacks kid… I’m sure i’m not the first one to say that.

QOD = Extremely Lucky
April 17, 2007

portman
QOTD: I am very lucky. Everyday I am reminded as to how lucky I am to have a loving wife (20+ years, baby!) two great kids, a job I like, and discovered wine recently. I am very grateful to all those who endeavor or sacrifice to make this a great country. Even to those I do not always agree with. We all want the best end result, we just disagree at times on how to get there.

South African wines? My experience with SA has been very dull. Very little thunder. With so much to choose from out there, it may be a while before I returen to a SA bottle.
April 17, 2007

amgryger
QOTD: Gary, great question of the day.

In 3 weeks, I will be graduating from architecture school, which has literally been my life for the past 5 years. It has been an amazing experience and I have found myself reflecting upon it quite a bit recently, so eventhough I have no direct connection to VT, I found the whole incident pretty upsetting. It really made it hit home how lucky I have been. A professor at my school lost his college-age daughter to a skiing accident two years ago, I think, and it devastated him. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be a family member of one of the victims. My thoughts go out to them.
April 17, 2007

gordoyflaca
SUPER LUCKY
April 17, 2007

JustinD
Touching intro, count me among the lucky.
April 17, 2007

kingfunk
way to be harley, most people born here take it all for granted and don’t appreciate what we do have, even in times of tragedy.
April 17, 2007

wm mole
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
Yeh we’re lucky!
April 17, 2007

Harley Stan
Gary, is “zingy zangy tangy wangy” a techinical term? Interesting episode, a little local restaurant that we frequent hosts monthly wine dinners, the theme for next month is
Sout African wines and we are thinking about going, this month is Australian and I am all australianed out for now.
QOTD We are so lucky to live in the greatest country and society that has ever thrived. We are allowed to achieve what ever we want with no limits, we have businesses that make more than some countries because we are free. We are also allowed to fail and try again. Tragic events like yesterday let us know that our freedom is not without a price but there are millions of people still trying to sneak in for a small piece of what we have. I was not born in this country but I proudly call myself an American with great pride.