Diggnation Dudes Get Their Request

Diggnation Dudes Get Their Request – Episode #226

April 27, 2007

Wines tasted in this episode:

Links mentioned in todays episode.

Gary Vaynerchuk tries the wines Alex and Kevin want. Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose are cool guys….just not as cool as Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk

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92 Responses

April 27, 2007

Douglas
guess who? It’s demilove!
April 27, 2007

jprva
Not first of course.
April 27, 2007

BCWinesAreIn
Top 10! It’s Friday! Go Cauncks!
April 27, 2007

dc13
TGIF!
April 27, 2007

FTboomer
I miss TS not getting his millions $$$$ first
April 27, 2007

Winodontist
Top 10 friday!
April 27, 2007

Billy G
top ten
April 27, 2007

MzTeaze
Happy Friday everyone
April 27, 2007

Tom L
Hey! Finally made it.
Tom L.
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
I still want to do nasty things to SUNNY-
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
was having two shades up and two shades down just to annoy Julius?
April 27, 2007

dublin
Top 1,874,914! It’s Friday, time to open a sick bottle!
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
DIGG = PCBFW
April 27, 2007

lifestooshort
finally, i made it. i can be viewed by millions and gloat over my badazz position. personal potential? REACHED. Speaking of reaching, where’s that bottle of Amizetta I was saving for a sober moment?
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
WARRIORS COME OUT AND PLAY!
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
The Rainbow like being ridden by you also- you really are making out with the Digg boys!!!
April 27, 2007

glassrunnethempty
Technically CASANOVA NERI BRUNELLO TENUTA NUOVA was the first wine tasted twice. Episodes 182 and 183.

QOTD: Best draft pick: MJ
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
QOTD: Sam Bowie
April 27, 2007

flavasauce
QOTD: Pliny the elder imperial IPA at Cassanova bar on Valencia st.
April 27, 2007

Winodontist
I am literally salivating watching you taste those wines today.
I must try that Tokaji!!!!

QOTD: In 2000 I had the 2nd pick in the draft and some idiot took Edgerrin James first rather than Marshall Faulk(Best #28 ever), who then happend to score 26 TD’s that year. I still didn’t win my league.
April 27, 2007

Italian Stallion
yo yo yo
April 27, 2007

Orion Slayer
That Meshach Shiraz sounds like a fruit-nuclear-bomb! I want one. How does it compare to Layer Cake?

Gary, you seem so excited today. Awesome that you’ll be at the draft (way to rub it in!) Will you be sitting with the other Jets fans wearing your green and white?

QOTD: Bo Jackson, 1987, in the seventh round!

(19 hours until the draft!)
April 27, 2007

Sean
Good draft = Free Shipping? C’mon Gary, do it.
April 27, 2007

Pauly
Very cool ep. Those two kids were hilarious!!! Are they your brothers? Well, kick @$$ episode…theirs I mean. I’m an elementary school teacher in NYC and these kids really remind me of my kids.

Let me get your opinion, or anyone else’s who cares to suggest. We, my friends, brother and I, wanna go on vacation. We are in our 20’s and we want to go somewhere we can drink exceptional wine, eat exceptional food, and have a really good time in the beginning of July. Where would you go besides Napa?

Thanks!!!
April 27, 2007

Grasshopper
Sensei,

Loved the episode and this week was one of your best string of episdoes in a long time. And you know what?? All of us here in Chicago are going to take some credit for that! You have had wonderful enthusiasm and are really catching your stride!! I think we changed you!!…;)

Please bring back questions! I think it is a great part of the show that is missed. I was watching some older episodes and was thinking exactly that, I miss you answering questions!

Have a great time this weekend at the draft. I will have to record it on DVR to watch for you. Try and get on camera after the Jets first pick!!

TGIF, going to go figure out which cork is going to be popped!

Your humble student…

Grasshopper
April 27, 2007

Winodontist
Pauly,
I have only 2 words for you:

VEGAS BABY!

Great pools to hang out at, nice scenery, great wines at every restaurant, what else do you need to know.
Call the Bellagio or Hard Rock today.
April 27, 2007

Hank
great friday show
April 27, 2007

Grasshopper
Almost forgot QOTD…that’s easy..best draft….

Mrs. Grasshopper!!!!

Just put in a mixed case order and included three of the Panther Creek Pinots…:)

Did I say i was happy it is Friday….let’s drink some god damn wine!!! (is quote from several episodes most noteably #97 white burgundies…is good episdoe if you like looking back!)

have a great weekend everybody!!!

Grasshopper
April 27, 2007

JHollo77
Pauly,

Walla Walla, Washington has some GREAT wineries. Pretty quiet town, but they have a few really good restaurants. Pricey, but fantastic food: White-House Crawford & 26Brix. Slightly scary, but AMAZING food: Taco van on 11th & Rose. Not kidding. Two of the wineries recommended it & I’m glad they did!!! If you go, Va Piano, Basel Cellars, Northridge, & K Vintners are musts. Also Walla Walla Vintners! So much wine, so little time…
April 27, 2007

Portland Guy
QOTD – Bowie over Jordan! Led to all those Blazer championships!

Nice episode. Love when you feature one of my PN favs. Panther Creek remains the best winery tour in OR.
April 27, 2007

Neil
I thought the cheese whiz girl was going to win. Classic.
April 27, 2007

lifestooshort
Hey, just bought a bottle of the desert wine. Getting married is the excuse I’m using this time around…because YOU. And a WHOLE LOT of my VISA card…we’re upping the ante down in my basement wine cellar, aren’t we?
April 27, 2007

dublin
Best draft pick the Lions ever made, easy; BARRY SANDERS BARRY SANDERS BARRY SANDERS!!!!!!!!!! It’s been pure agony watching the Lions since Mr. Sanders retired. I live in L.A. now so I just might jump on the Chargers band wagon so I can actually enjoy myself on Sundays for once.
April 27, 2007

KAHUNA
Dublin,
Go root for a local high school if you have too. The lions have become such a sad franchise- Oh well enjoy the Chargers! The team my Giants built!
April 27, 2007

Acousticdoc
Congrats Cheese Whiz Girl! I’m eating some as we speak… with my bottle of Listerine close by!!
April 27, 2007

JHollo77
Thanks, Acousticdoc!!

Cheese Whiz really is best with a glass of Listerine on the side… As long as it’s not the Original flavor.
April 27, 2007

JHollo77
Am I going to be Cheese Whiz girl from now on??!? Neil, I think you’re the third person to call me that since this contest started!

Ah well… I can think of worse things.

GV, Good episode today! Have a great weekend!
April 27, 2007

Fiorentina!
HEY G!
Nice Ep! Just got the wristbands in yesterday, going to take a picture today so that way my Fiance, her Dad, and I can all be in on it. (We all work together)

QotD – Jerry Rice (1st round), Joe Montana (6th or 7th round), Bryant Young (3rd round), Frank Gore(3rd round), Ronnie Lott (2nd or 3rd round) were all pretty good….Bleeding the Red and Gold this weekend! Hoping to God that we don’t draft Alan Branch!
April 27, 2007

MzTeaze
Hey! I don’t have my wristbands
April 27, 2007

Craig
Great episode, Gary. You picked wines from three of my favorite wine regions, Tokaj, Washington (of course it is one of my favorites, I live here !) and OREGON (grew up there). OR’ y gun makes some great wines (I have no idea where OR’ uh gone is).
April 27, 2007

caleb
GV your on fire today! Making me thirsty! good job to the cheese wiz girl!
April 27, 2007

Glenn
QotD: took Marshall Faulk his rookie year and rode him forever to multiple Fantasy championships. feel free to cart some Tokaji to SF dude.
April 27, 2007

Matthew L
Congrats JHollo!

QOTD: Hands down…BARRY SANDERS!
April 27, 2007

Go Big Blue
QotD:
LT; and he’s gonna get you Vaynerchuk!
April 27, 2007

leatherpalate
great episode GV!
Panther Creek- I’m gonna pounce on that!
Bears will have a great weekend BTW!

I took Joseph Adai in the 6th round of a
14 team league(keeper) last year.

cheers!
April 27, 2007

Jeroboam
QOTD: The Bears picked Butkus and Sayers back to back in the ‘65 draft. The best draft ever – no contest.
April 27, 2007

H-Why
Yes, love to see more user questions on the show each day.
April 27, 2007

Harley Stan
Two couch episodes in one week, I like it. OK you have guilted me into taking a picture witht he wristband, I will send it off this weekend.
April 27, 2007

Doc Dan
Good show GV. Congrats Cheeze whiz girl!! Looks like Gary is a winner too!

QOTD: Best draft prediction: That Brady Quinn would go in the first round when he was a sophomore.
April 27, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Best Draft??????
1987 RAGBRAI Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa
Got in a 30 man draft for over 40 miles,,,, have never scene corn fields fly by so quickly,,, and I drove a ‘73 Olds Vista Cruiser with a 350 in it….. but I digress….
Best draft I was ever in,,, until the lead guy blew a tire,,, looked like a bee hive,, everyone scattering to not run into each other.
April 27, 2007

Les
My wristband finally arrived yesterday. It’s very eye-catching and strangely comfortable. Thank you! The camera is currently on vacation. When I get it back next week I will take and send a pic! Fun episode! Have a marvelous weekend.
April 27, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
OH MY GOD!!!! If I haven’t wasted any of my life so far listening to/watching crap on the internet, I just did, by watching the Diggnation crap… plz don’t EVER send me there again!
April 27, 2007

Tom L
For some reason I never got my wristbands either. If they have all gone out I guess some of us fell through the cracks. Can’t send wrist band pics when we never got them, Gary!

Tom L
April 27, 2007

t_moderne
yipppeeeeeeeeeee. # 54.
How cool is that?
smell that?
yes, that’s not earth, pebbles and worms.
That’s sarcasm.
Like the idea of watchers picking wines.
entertaining as usual.
April 28, 2007

Jen
QOTD: Uhhh…… I’m going to have to say…. as it said on your sign….
“DRAFT THIS!”
I, sadly, don’t know anything about it. The only draft I’m familiar with is Final Draft, the scriptwriting software, and then also the cool air flowing through my mom’s house in Maine – very draft-y.
Sorry, Vay-Vay — this Q is way out of my scope.
BUT I loved this episode. And the part about the Oak Kangaroo. Fantastic.
April 28, 2007

cpd
QOTD: Mrs. CPD, of course.
April 28, 2007

TagWorld Brian
Gary, awesome show! I love the Tokaji! First dessert wine I ever had. Was aweeeesome.

Thanks for putting up my photo. For all you Vayniacs wondering which one I was, go to exactly 13:00. I’m Mr. Smiling wristband guy with my hand over my head.

Tonight I opened the 2004 Clos des Soutyeres Coteaux du Languedoc Les Verrieres, which I bought because you recommended it on video. Wow. Seriously brought the thunder. So much so, that it woke the neighbors and set off a few car alarms. (But my toddler slept through it. Go figure.) My thoughts on this baby (as recorded for posterity on Cellartracker.com): Awesome nose of dark cherry, a little blackberry, and underlying hints of dark chocolate and maybe even a minty whiff – very slight. Dig in deep with the nose, and get a layer of wet dog blanket. But in a good way. (A little Brett. makes the French wines, in my opinion.) Integrated attack of cherry, dark berry fruits coated in dark cocoa, and spicy. Great tannins, balanced with the alc. and fruit – make this a very sophisticated $20.00 wine. Super lengthy, rich finish of berries, cherries, and a light lingering spice. Mmm. This one is really doing it for me. Gary V., you were dead-on, buddy. This rocks. I was going to give this 91, then 91+. But forget it. I’m working through the fear, and going 92 on this juice. It has earned it.

Gary, have fun at the draft tomorrow.
April 28, 2007

TagWorld Brian
Oh and yeah, please go ahead and answer more viewer questions. Sounds good. And how about having viewers send in more photos? It would be fun to see the face of the person, as you’re reading their question.

Best draft: Miller Genuine. (Drank 6 at a party in high school.. Woke up on the shag carpet.)

Veoh winner: cheesewizlonelygirl15? Well, you know why? Because she asked us if we wanted to see her topless. She didn’t even OFFER to go topless. She just ASKED US if we’d want that. And that was enough to tip the horndog scales, I guess. Way to play the Vayniacs, Ms. Processed Cheese Spread. (By the way, Sunny Gault on Veoh has got some super white Chicklets teeth! Dang.)

Finally, … nah, there’s no finally. I just really love this Languedoc that you recommended. I’m going to sleep with my wristband on tonight.
April 28, 2007

Garret Nagle
Hi Gary!

I thought I’d ask you if you would be offended being called the “G-Man,” since the New York Football Giants are the “G-Men.”

Also, if I sent in my wristband picture to your e-mail, is it possible it didn’t get to the right place to be featured on today’s show?

I’m not one of the bad people you talked about today! I promise! (what e-mail do I need to send it to?

Thanks,

Garret
April 28, 2007

TSchampaert
Hey, great ep. Gary, freakin’ enthusiastic this time. Love Tokaji. Never had an Eszencia though, it’s so extremely expensive for smby just started workin’.
Hey do that: an ep. for people who just started working. Pick me some wines I can afford to open once a week and some once a year.
C ya.
April 28, 2007

SS Chris
WOW!!…great Episode..great wines…ReDONKulous energy level

You tasted the Chateau Henye Tokaji for the first time back on Ep. #39….and you gave it 95+ ….pretty damn close….you sure you didn’t sneak a look at the SS before??

AND…that episode was exactly one year ago on 4/27/06…a little freaky!!

Always enjoy the questions (but you should move “Ask WLTV” to the FORUM…you are one stubborn bastard, arent’ you? So much more action over there.)

Best Draft…easy…SS Dede of course!!
April 28, 2007

Marc
I loved the wrist-band clip; especially the Chassid. That kind of suprised me considering the crappy wine they sell at the Kosher store here in Iowa.

QOTD: Insisting to my friend that he should take Amare Stoudemire as his 11th round fantasy basketball pick for Amare’s rookie year. That kid was SICK at the McDonald’s game and dunk contest and apparantly I was the only one who noticed because nobody else wanted to take him right out of high school.

By the way, if anybody is looking for a good party time this time next year, go to Des Moines for the Drake Relays. Kicks Ass! Not only will you get to see Master’s champ Zach Johnson, but a city of 600,000 seems to have 1,000,000 partiers this time of year. Definitely one of those things to see and do before you die.
April 28, 2007

Greg B
OK, Gary. No Lurker Bendoni here. I love the episode, but that’s right, But, 60-70 Bones Dog. I don’t get no freakin Expense account. Can we see some 93-97 Wines under 35? QOTD. #54 from New Mexico State. Oh, by the way I hope T. Jones brings his A game for ya, because it’s all about Benson in 2007!

Bring it!

G.
April 28, 2007

geespot
Great, amazing, ridiculously good episode. Bringing the energy.
Thank you. I needn’t say more.
April 28, 2007

Susan
Gary-
Gosh, what can I say!!!
You REALLY have the energy
going on this ep!!!!!
Super EP!
I love this one!!!!
April 28, 2007

John
Wow Gary lot of energy, feeling the flow, working it!!

Nice episode, yes you should do a viewer question on each show, mix it up a little. I am super pscyhed to try a Tokaji now, as I haven’t yet. My next business trip is in August so maybe I can get one then.

Have fun at the draft.

John
April 28, 2007

John
ohh, almost forgot

Warriors 1979 CLASSIC, alhtough I was only 2 when it was released I have seen it. CLASSIC, right up there with office space. haha

Later
John
April 28, 2007

Dan J
Best draft pick? The Blackhawks get the number one pick this year. Unfortunately the Blackhawks can ruin any party. And with no clear, top candidate for the number one spot, its a crap shoot. Patrick Kane is posting big numbers but does he have the size to play in the NHL? Voracheck is getting good press but his numbers aren’t as impressive as Kane. And can he transition from playingin Europe to the NHL? Cherpinov is getting good press too but his numbers are poor. True he’s playing in a mens league so there’s more significance to what he has but….still he’s not lighting the place on fire. This will be one of those situations where the first round pick is no more significant than the third or fourth since you can make a case for any of the top 4 or 5 players. This was not the year for the Hawks to get the first pick. But then, that’s the Hawks. They can take lemonade and turn it into lemons.

Dan J
April 28, 2007

TimF
That was a great impression of me on draft day.
April 28, 2007

Jon
I’ve been waiting for NPR to interview you – well done (but please don’t let Scott Simon host – he has his own gig).

Jon
April 28, 2007

acrobaticfish
Warriors–>”Can you digg it?”–>Diggnation–>Digg…Mars reference…planets aligning on this episode.
April 28, 2007

Capt M
Pumped up Gary! that was a cool episode. I wrote down the Grand Burge Meshach Shiraz on my little shopping list. I’m embarrassed to have to admit that I’m one of the ones that have not sent my picture with the awesome wrist band. I must, and I will.
April 28, 2007

Susan
Gary-
You are SPONSORING
a
podcast?
VERY cool!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!
April 28, 2007

Wave
Yo Gary! You really are cool! Thanks for the ORE-GUN. Didn’t see you at the d-r-a-f-t with the rest of the j-e-t-s fans.QOD….JAMARCUS RUSSEL BABY. GO RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 28, 2007

Wendy Elam
DUDE! vayniak nation takin’ over the airwaves! a profile on our very own gary vay-ner-chuk on NPR (KPCC in Pasadena/Los Angeles California) on Saturday, April 28th at 8:45 in da morning! It was awesome! totally cool. but, i see the future…our boy too busy to host wine library tv. fielding calls from radio and tv stations to do commentary on the burgeoning interest of mr. and mrs. america and how to put together the perfect case of wine, too busy to respond to our pathetic and uninspired comments on his brilliantly funny and incisive tasting notes. enjoy our boy while he’s still with us.
April 29, 2007

desmaic
stoked to see the panther creek! shea vinyard!!!!! i’m gonna pick up one of those now….
April 29, 2007

Malarkey
Heh, behold the power of Wine Library TV. I went out tonight and bought 2 bottles of the Panther Creek Pinot. And I *just* bought a mixed case to the tune of $300 bones.

Wendy, I think you are right. GV is on the verge of stardom, and soon we’ll be left in the dust. I shall cry into my pillow every night.

As someone else said: …because me and a LOT of Wine Library TV, are putting a big dent in my bank account.
April 29, 2007

KenP
Gary ain’t leaving WLTV. NPR? Can you say ’sucks ass’ on NPR? In the national spotlight can you slam over-rated wines? Can you just speak your mind without corporate sponsors threatening a smack down? Gary ain’t Martha. Wendy sees him soon putting together a perfect case for ‘mr. and mrs. america’, and doing ‘commentary’. Jeez…boooring! Who would listen? Gary is a visual guy. Seeing him is a big part of the charm and success of WLTV. And would the modest compensation and program changes his bosses would surely demand possibly be worth the instant flood of posts and e-mails, the love, Gary now enjoys with WLTV? He makes hs own rules, and then he breaks them! He may branch out, but he will not abandon this blog or the people, (the ‘you’ of ‘…and a little bit of me…’). The internet is where it’s at. TV or radio will get you a modest domestic market share, but the internet gets you the world.
April 29, 2007

Jack2112
Great show, and YES I think answering one or two questions/episode is a good thing.

QOTD – truth be told, Curtis Martin 3 years ago when he was supposedly “washed-up” and I grabbed him in one of the final rounds.

Thanks CM!
April 29, 2007

geoffroy
Gary
time to get tight . Some of the good wines of Languedoc are getting such of a ooplah treatment (recently Clos des Soutyeres, for example) that I would like you to introduce the best wines of Saint-Chinian area (Navarre, Canet-Valette, Domaine de la Madura etc.) And the geography is as great as the juices! Languedoc is vast, and this is one of its great terroirs…
Boy, you’re fun ! There should be a link on your video on our English crash courses…
Geoffroy
April 29, 2007

Johan
I’m so late but I just have to add my two best flavors in wines. For sure it is Roseleaves and truffes as in good Barolos and Barbarescos, it’s to die for (or something)
By the wayTried a Richebourg from Dom. A-F Gros more than a month ago, I still recall the flavor.
April 29, 2007

GottaGoDrink
Great episode Gary. YOU are bringin’ the thunder!

QOTD- Walter Payton
April 30, 2007

ChadB
Hey Gary … I’m pretty sure the ESPN cameras caught you just after the Jets’ trade was announced. How do they keep people entertained at the draft for the 14:59 seconds in between picks?
April 30, 2007

Licinius
Nice… good to see the Panther Creek as I’ve got that exact bottle in my cellar, which I bought at the winery by the way, my girlfriend went to school in Mcminnville. Panther creek is sweet.
April 30, 2007

Jon
Oh, QOTD: 16 oz of Rickard’s Red in Windsor Canada in 1998.
April 30, 2007

ken
Love the Tokaj but that is a bit on the pricey side for that type of wine. How many puttonyos in that baby?

QOTD: I donâ€™t know about my best draft pick but since I am answering this on Monday afternoon AFTER the NFL draft Iâ€™ll say that Iâ€™m very happy with the Browns in getting a great lineman and IMHO, the best quarterback available in this yearâ€™s draft in the SAME round. Brady Quinn is going to have a great NFL career!!
May 5, 2007

Vinacull
Gary, I only have time to watch one EP per week, so this was it. Very glad to see the review on the Panther Creek. I was looking at that one and remembering some of the great Panther Creeks we had back in the mid-90’s when we lived in Portland (of course the winemaker was different then). Have to say I’m pretty disappointed in the review of the Grant Burge. I recently anty’d up for a bottle because it scored in the same range and similar price point as the Jasper Hill Shiraz you raved about a while back – and I was going to compare the two some time down the road. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against fruit bombs – we love to throw palate to the wind over a Molly Dooker or Marquis Phillips every so often. It’s just that I thought the Meshach would be at least somewhat more old world based on the prestige you mentioned and the Spectator description. SO… my question to you is whether or not you agree that this wine would be “best after 2011″ as the Spectator review says, or should it be drunk earlier. I’d like to know because most likely I will not buy another bottle of the Meshach based on your description. To answer your question early in this EP, I hope you do bring viewer question(s) back, because it rings true to your end tagline for every EP.
May 6, 2007

shaggy D
Ouch only 87 comments so far whats the deal guys show some love.
July 20, 2007

Donald Pipkin
Great episode GV. Been a fan of Alex and Kevin for a long time and was stoked to see you do a show of wines they had picked. And apparently, Mars has left the Universe – good to know.
April 11, 2008

ZJK
GO PANTHER CREEK! A regular at my house!!
July 2, 2008

Dessert Wine Nerd
QOTD: I dont play any fantasy leagues, but if I did Id go with Peyton Manning…. Im purchasing a true essencia, and I CANNOT wait to dig into that in 3-5 years. I know Im going to be in heaven. Watching all these shows, I dont know that Ive seen one where I havent grinned or laughed out loud at your antics. Keep it up. Its people like you that make people like me love wine.
June 18, 2009

Phredd
Great show. I have GOT to pick me up a good Tokaji. I had a tokay (not a true Hungarian Tokaji) a long time ago that I just loved, and I’ve never had the real juice. Soon.

QOTD: The best draft pick I ever made was grabbing Dennis Eckersley in a new fantasy league the first year Oakland made him into a reliever. He posted the league lead in saves the next year, and had two more great years after that, including his incredible sub-1 ERA season in 1990.