V-V-V-Viognier – Episode #262

June 22, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk tries 4 Viognier wines and gives you his thoughts.

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“Rats. No place in the U.S. carries any vintage of the Bilancia. I’ll…” by Phredd
“Nice show GV…..love it. I’m definitely including viognier to my list…” by Adrian
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 R.h. Philips Viognier ExpOther California White Rhone V
2005 Carina Cellars ViognierOther California White Rhone V
2005 The Foundry ViognierS. African Viognier
2005 Bilancia ViognierNew Zealand Viognier

Links mentioned in todays episode.

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June 25, 2007

mjhch1
This weekend.. was a graduation, but not exciting for me. But did drink a nice Malbec. Next weekend tho… I am MIAMI bound!!
Looking forward to try the Vee-Ong-yay…
June 25, 2007

Carlitos
QOTD. It was a nice weekend. Walks on the beach (Hot and humid!), went to our Saturday Brown Bag wine event. We brought the 2002 Valrose Alienor that we got from WL (nice!) and some Dornfelder that nobody guessed. Sunday was relaxed with some shopping and some housecleaning chores.
June 25, 2007

msb2ncsu
One of the Napa wineries (wanna say Beringer) gave my wife and I a free bottle of Viognier when we were there on our Honeymoon. The wine definitely surprised us. We have not picked up any since simply because the pricing can make it hard to justify at times (especially with what we can get a good NZ SB for these days).

QOTD: Hours upon hours of work in the yard… have to remove scrap heap from the deck we tore down, replace two outdoor spigots, plant our new shrubs, and cap it all off with late-night hockey on Sunday.
June 25, 2007

lurker1
Gary,
I will be working all weekend at the wine bar as usual.
June 25, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
Well, another one sold out as soon as it went up More Bilancia please. Had the 2003 of this and loved it but wasn’t ever seen in the stores again.
Working this weekend in Pulaski NY…….
So who is the Lindsay Lohan look-alike wearing the new T-shirt?
June 25, 2007

DryDrew
QOTD: went up to the “Yenta” Catskills and had some New Zealand Goose Bay Sauvignon Blank (my 7th boatel since episode #200 in March got nothing else to drink and I am dehydrating)
June 25, 2007

Susan
Gary-Viognier I CAN afford?WOW!!!!!I am happy now!!
June 25, 2007

jorge
Gary, you are given away one of my secrets, Viognier. This and Chenin Blanc are possibly my favorite white grapes. I a wondering how these four compare to the Treana and the Alban, those are my favorites and the ones I drink all the time. If you have a chance send me a note and let me know how close are these guys to those and what is your opinion of the two I mentioned.

QOTD: Spent the entire weekend with my son and his baseball try-outs, is begining to look like there may be a couple of schools interested on him, so we are happy this Monday, By next week we should have a better idea, and he did it without the wrist band, imagine how easier it would had been if he had the wrist band, but he never got it
June 25, 2007

BigBob
A Be-Wig-House Shout out! Cool…

I’m on my way down with some scissors to fix that hair!
June 25, 2007

E
OK, still looking for a viognier that will convince me that I don’t really hate viognier. So that’s interesting.

QOD: Lorenzon ribolla gialla with dinner … wonderful stuff.
June 25, 2007

keith prothero
Glad you liked the Foundry Viognier Gary. A lovely wine made by the very talented Meerlust winemaker,Chris Williams. Have you tried his syrah?
June 25, 2007

Herm
We had a garage sale and then went to the Sandusky Bay for some R&R……Gary have you ever heard of Lord Layton or BoBo Brazil?….I have tried a couple of Viogniers and I enjoyed them especially one called Windmill…..
June 25, 2007

Ryan D
QotD: Didn’t do much this weekend… Friday night went to friend’s for laid back BBQ action [popped a Chile Carmenere], Saturday fixed a fence and cleaned off my dock and went back over to friend’s for some laid back hanging out [popped a Morellino di Scansano], Sunday fixed some steps, poured some concrete for a fence post, dropped off the screen door to be fixed, put in the walkway lighting, removed two annoying pricker bushes, hung out by the fire with my wife, bro and sister-in-law and still found some time for floating in the lake.

But like I said I didn’t do much.
June 25, 2007

DRHamp
After the “V” episode, I went out and found a couple of bottles of Viognier since I’d never tried them before.
Some different from the Chards I generally drink — I was impressed and will explore them further. Wish we could get the Bilancia locally!
June 25, 2007

EthanPSU
Viognier is so underrated thanks for bringin the thunder Gary!

QOTD: Two of my best friends from home came to visit for the weekend had a great time.
June 24, 2007

EvilHomer
Love your shows…you are such a breath of fresh air. Loved the episode on Viognier, it is defnitely an underapprecited grape. Going to go out and see if I can find some of your reviews right now.

Keep on rocking the wine world!!
June 24, 2007

J Crazy
QOTD: rockin’ it with the father in law.
June 24, 2007

Rob B.
QOTD: Catching up on the cleaning of the week and WLTV episodes I missed this week, with a few stops by the pool. And trying to keep from returning to lurker status.

Love the hair, Alec A. inspired?
June 24, 2007

DrEdwardo
No doubt Gary is using John Edwards’s hair stylest

Edwardo
June 24, 2007

Bonzo
I am rock climbing this weekend, both days, and having a nice dinner with my wife, a couple of friends, and some really nice wines.
June 24, 2007

IamAlurker
Gary, enough wHining about lurkers!!! I don’t have time for this, since I’m too busy shopping at WL.
June 24, 2007

RuralTom
Greetings Mr V!

Question of the Day: Alas this weekend, like 99% of all weekends, means work for this chef….
June 24, 2007

shaggy D
Great ep GV i dugg it!
June 24, 2007

wildebeest
Yay! SF glass!

Holy crap, this was a FANTASTIC episode!

GV, your praise of the Viognier grape started to sound a little Sideways

QOTD: This weekend I will be travelling back to my home in Nevada.
June 23, 2007

BW
QOTD – I rode 115 miles on my bike with 4 friends to the top of Mt Evans (Colorado – highest
paved road in NA – 14,200 ft), came home, collapsed, watched a couple James Bond movies with my kids & drank some Meditrinia – producer is Sokol-Blosser out of OR – a pinot blended with, if you can believe this, Zin & Syrah. Hard to believe that is works, but it works well – I would give it a 91. Check it out if you want to try something different & very good.