Pinot Gris A Grape We Should All Be Drinking

Pinot Gris A Grape We Should All Be Drinking – Episode #247

June 1, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk tastes 4 wonderful, or not so wonderful Pinot Gris today and asks if you have had any and if so what you think.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Nyakas Pinot GrisHungarian Other White Wine
2006 Benton Lane Pinot GrisOregon Pinot Gris
2005 Mac Murray Ranch Pinot GrisSonoma Pinot Gris/Grigio/Blanc
2006 Huia Pinot GrisNew Zealand Pinot Gris

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June 2, 2007

Bettina
gary – great show. bennett lane looks like winner. we’re headed to willamette for a vineyard sourcing trip in a month so will have to search it out for some fun summer slurping.

i drew –> cars, big boats… why, i don’t know…
June 2, 2007

Susan B
Houses with lots of pretty flowers lined up outside.

I second Patrill’s request – would love to see you try something from Temecula CA wine country!
June 2, 2007

Aaronious
Hey guy, I was raised in Oregon and a huge fan of Pinot grapes. Lemme help u out tho bro — it is Ore-ee-guhn. Much love!
June 2, 2007

cgf
Good job marathon man.

QOTD: i could not draw if my life depended on it. i was a nerd and took notes in class, or did my homework so i could play as soon as i got home.
June 2, 2007

t_moderne
Great wine to cover. Oregon Pinot Gris are wonderful summer wines.
How about tasting Vinho Verde next. The color of the wines match your shirt!

after my comments – you may want to have me going back to being a lurker.
Just kidding.
June 2, 2007

Bettina
test comment
June 2, 2007

David M Roberts
QOTD: Would play a game with a pal wherein we’d begin with one random sketch (let’s say a gladiator with a sword), and then the next person would have to draw something to counter that, (like a raincloud over the gladiator that would then rust his sword); my friend might counter that by drawing a fan to push the raincloud away, and it would go on and on… kind of an exercise in cause and effect creativity. A lot of fun in fifth grade. Maybe even now during business seminars?

Every Hungarian wine I’ve had has been too sweet, but the Nyakas seemed intriguing. Of course, if I try it and it sucks, I’ll have to counter it with a sketch of a good Paso Robles zin.
June 2, 2007

Justmarsh
Gary,

I totally agree that the 05 Macmurray Pinot Gris was underwhelming. I do think however that the 04 was really good. I bought the 05 and was completely disappointed.

Is Benton Lane really one of your fav producers???? I tried their current offering of Pinot Noir and it was pretty bad.
June 2, 2007

TimF
Drink no gris, pee no gris.

1st wine sounds like stir-fried-crap.

Are they trying to make the second wine easy to send in the mail?

Oregun Pinot Gris = Conan O’Brien

I think Oregun has done more since 1969 than the Jets though…

I LOVE mustard on my melon!

I’ve had that MacMurray and wasn’t very impressed.

Isn’t ‘Huia’ what guys in the Marine Corps say?

STOP SAYING GOOSENBERRY.

You eat a lot of hay?

QOTD: Lots of stuff. I even took art in college. My final project was a pencil drawing of Fort Ouiatenon in West Lafayette, IN.
June 2, 2007

caleb
GV Thanks for throwing out all the red head love this episode, although we are a little pale, we are way more complex and ridiculously zoolanderishly good looking as compared to a pinot gris. Thanks for everything on thursday! Hope 2.0 went great. Qotd-Mountain scenes
June 2, 2007

Montrose
Thanks for the pinot gris episode. I am a huge fan of Alsacation pinot gris, but have not yet found one from elsewhere I to get really excited over.

QOTD: I wrote words that memorialized the subject of that dayâ€™s lecture, allowing me to revisit the lecture when necessary.
June 2, 2007

MC Dubs
I’m thinking about picking up some Joseph Kaetzel Pinot Gris for a rooftop/”garden” party this evening. Any thoughts from the pinot gallery?
June 2, 2007

Tariq Amjad
Gary and Winelibrary team,

I don’t know if its possible, because of its ridiculous prices, I would love to see an episode on California Cult wines- Hundred Acre, Colgin, Harlan, Screaming Eagle, Alban, etc.

Also episode on Killer California Pinot Noirs (very hard to get as most of it stays in California)- Kosta Browne, Kistler, Merry Edwards, Martinellis, Patz and Hall, Marcassin, etc.
June 2, 2007

Nathan Woodhouse
QOTD: Stick men with elaborate heads.

I used to drink nothing but reds, but last summer and recently I’ve bit hitting the whites. I love them, and it’s nice to drink seasonally. Nice episode; I’ll definitely be seeking out the Pinot Gris. How about an episode on non Pinot Grigio whites from Italy? Inzolia, Soave, Arneis, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Verdicchio, Grillo…so many to choose from.
June 2, 2007

SoCal
G,
Yea all caught up!
QOTD: What did I draw in class? Thanks to my behavior I always “drew” detention slips.
June 2, 2007

Jennifer
QOTD: Butterflies. I wasn’t very good at drawing, but a couple of wavy things on the side, tenticles and a smiley face, and voila. The Happy Butterfly.
June 2, 2007

Steve Carter
QOTD: Hordes of dancing stick men
June 2, 2007

Herm
My wife said she drew small circles like grapes in a bunch….I usually drew airplanes or ships….is this like a Rorschach test? Thanks for the Pinot Gris episode….I tried a New Zealand sauvignon blanc last night and it was good….
June 2, 2007

Robert F
Loooooooove the redheads! Not sure about non-Alsacian pinot gris though. Once I opened my girlfriend’s parents’ fridge and found a half empty bottle of “pink pinot grigio”. It was terrifying.

QOTD: Ren and Stimpy, and spaceships. Or Ren and Stimpy IN a space ship (best episode ever). MMMMM space cabbage (that should be a tasting note)
June 2, 2007

MikeyB
QOTD: martians
June 2, 2007

countnocount
To be honest, New World pinot gris is about as far down on my try-list as it can possibly be, but I might have to give the Benton Lane the proverbial “whirl.”

QOTD: Heavily armored guys wielding swords or battle axes. (I freely admit, at the age of 12, I was a DnD geek.) A few years later, pornography.
June 2, 2007

gatormha
QOTD: New England Patriots logos, of course!
June 2, 2007

TSchampaert
Don’t forget the Auxerrois from Luxemburg and certainly don’t forget Grauburgunder from Germany when you do a next Pinot Gris ep! I’ve had some fabulous Grauburgunders (even spÃ¤tleses and TBA’s) from Germany.
QOTD: What did I draw? I went completely nuts on dinosaurs, so I still have piles of dinosaur drawings all over my place!
C ya,
t.
June 2, 2007

Steve-o
QOTD: Damn, I have notebooks absolutely filled, cover to cover with all sorts of stuff. Obviously there are the requisite dragons, demons, sea-monsters and weapons of mass destruction, but I also used to draw massive, intricate mazes and some pretty sweet rube-goldberg devices.

Oh and I would draw extremely gory comic strips about things I would do to get out of class…hehehe.

Rock on, G-Man. Hope the trip is going well!
June 2, 2007

Darlene O.
Hey, Gary, as always, great episode! QOD: What did I draw in class? Attention!! (Hahaha!)