It’s Celebration Time Here at WLTV!

It’s Celebration Time Here at WLTV! – Episode #267

June 29, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk and the WLTV team have a lot to celebrate and today’s show uses some bubbles to do that!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

1996 Duval Leroy Brut FemmeFrench Brut Vintage
1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De MillenaireFrench Brut Vintage
Laurent Perrier Grand SiecleFrench Brut Nonvintage

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June 30, 2007

BobMac
QOTD: I already sent the article to my wife who thought I was the only Vayniac.
June 29, 2007

angryphoton
congratulations on the article, great episode as usual.

is it just me but isn’t it a nice coincidence that the “little” champagne in today’s tasting was the winner? just goes to show you

“you can’t judge a book by its cover” – Gary V

AP
June 29, 2007

Larry
Congrats on the Time piece. If the bubbly is an everyday kind of thing why did you wait until today? Wish I could have been there last night – hopefully I will next time. NYC always rocks!
June 29, 2007

amgryger
Congrats to everyone! Not a huge fan of the bubbly either, but I’ll agree with Tom T. that life is a special occaision. I opened a 2000 Marziano Abbona Barbaresco this evening just because it seemed like the right thing to do.

QOTD: Probably won’t gloat to anyone about the article, but I’ll keep doing my part in the wine revolution by making my friends drink amazing wines they’ve never heard.
June 29, 2007

jaye
Great news all around today . . . celebrations are definitely called for. Today is the kind of day you stick hard in your memory so you can quickly recall it the next time you’re down. Positive thoughts going out to Kastners!
I e-mailed everyone in my family the link to the Time magazine article when I woke up this morning, to a few friends too. Super stuff!
June 29, 2007

Winodontist
Gary,
First time I’ve seen you do the bubbly. Never heard of any of those, but will check them out. I usually do Vueve (spelling??).

QOTD: My best bud Dirk got the nod. I’m trying to make him see the power of the force!
June 29, 2007

Jennifer
Sweet!! Congratulations, Gary! Well deserved, and very cool.
QOTD: EVERYONE who’s blown me off about going to the site. _EVERYONE_ All 3 of ‘em. JKGV
June 29, 2007

Andy
QOTD—– Maybe Robert Mondavi

Alway love the sparklers around the 4th– Love the French
style and the true Champagne to enjoy…..

Goodluck Eric & Amy
June 29, 2007

Dave Canada
Love the bubbly…
QOTD – All the people who think I am a wine dork for watching you…they are dumbasses and know little. I tell them all the time to just watch and decide for themselves….don’t worry, I’ll link them the little publication called TIME MAGAZINE!!!!
June 29, 2007

Shadowbird
QOTD: Nobody. I’m not for gloating, realy.
June 29, 2007

Dom
Congrats Gary and good luck Erik and Ami!!!!
June 29, 2007

Matty B
Pumped for the bargain version of the ‘pagnes…
June 29, 2007

Jon B.
Congrats on the big day Time artical is awesome,the show was great.Best of luck to Eric and Amy and congrats.Qotd my sister just turned her on to the show about a month ago and now all of this too cool Thanks for all your effort.Later
June 29, 2007

vivaitalia
Huge congratulations to eric and amy, you’re lives are about to change completely, and I mean that in a great way. Big ups on the Time article. You really deserve all the love you’re getting. I mean the store, winelibrary.com, and of course WLTV, you’re obviously very dedicated and have put in a ton of work. I feel excited myself, it’s like i’ve been a part of something special and new. My tastes and knowledge have grown exponentially.
June 29, 2007

CC_HTown
Grats on the Time article!!! You deserve it! You have come along way from that little, quiet, polo shirt wearing, non-yellin’, pussywillow of a man from episode #1.
June 29, 2007

Tom T.
Yeah the bubbly ain’t for “special occasions” only. IMO life is a special occasion. QOTD pretty much noone because if they have not caught on by now there’s little hope (but I’ll keep trying).
June 29, 2007

half century
GV ARE YOU TASTING THOSE CHAMPAGNES @ ROOM TEMP? IF SO I BOW TO YOU FOR THAT NOBLE WORK. THAT’S TOUGH FOR ME TO DO. THOROUGHLY ENJOYED LAST NIGHT IN NYC. TO ALL LURKERS – GO TO THE FORUM LOOK UP ‘WINE MEETS’ THEN JUNE 28 NYC. SEE THE PICS AND JOIN THE VAYNERNATION. CONGRATS ON TIME MAG
June 29, 2007

ktw
qotd: i emailed the story to my dad who likes to make fun of me by asking “how’s your wine guru?”
congrats gv – you deserve it!
June 29, 2007

Brandon
Big congrats GV…Time is huge.

QOTD: Okay, a short little story here. In May I found myself in a limousine taking my first tour through the Napa valley tasting wine and generally getting happy. In a very good mood, we rolled into a tasting room at…well…I’ll keep the winery confidential just to protect them…let’s just say it rhymes with Clos du Sal. Anyway, we get this snotty “I know everything there is to know about wine…and you don’t” clerk. Not wanting to let this kill my buz…er…mood, I tried to make small talk. I asked said clerk if she’d ever heard of this wine vlog I watched on the internet called WineLibraryTV. Her response, “I guess I don’t have so much time to waste on some [stupid] internet TV show.” (She didn’t actually say stupid…but given her attitude you didn’t have to read minds know she meant it.)

That being said (thanks for getting that into my vocab GV) who am I going to email with the Time magazine link. That wine snob out at Clos du Val…oops…I mean Sal.

Big ups GV…
June 29, 2007

brooklyni
congrats again gary. QOTD: to be honest, i wasn’t going to email anyone. but i have a feeling i’ll be saying “wine librarytv? gary vay-ner-chuk? i’ve been watching him since he was quiet and nervous on camera” a lot. remember us lowly folk when you’re famous.
June 29, 2007

Canuckchuk
Congratulations, Gary! Will the Vaynernation change? For good? For ill? Is this progress? Decline? We’ll all have to stay tuned.

BCWinesArein, I was going to ask the very question you did of Gary–do you also drink your sparkling at room temperature? Must be the air in Vancouver.

And Gary, do know that with this added attention will come a lot more criticism. Thicken your hide, my friend. In the meantime, enjoy your well-deserved attention.
June 29, 2007

holgi
to be not just a lurker…
June 29, 2007

David M Roberts
Gary – Here’s to a wonderful write-up in TIME. Congrats and nicely done. Indeed, it seems YOU (with a little bit of us)… are changing the wine world, aren’t we?

Cheers,
June 29, 2007

caleb
well deserved bubbles..!
June 29, 2007

Shad
Best of luck to Erik and Amy. QOTD: I will actually be sharing this with my wife who rolls her eyes when I get excited talking about wine. Sometimes the changes have to begin in the home. Maybe I’ll finally get her to watch this and the other “sparkling” episodes since that is the only wine she will drink.