Kosta Browne Taste Off With a Ringer…Blind

Kosta Browne Taste Off With a Ringer…Blind - Episode #271

July 6, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk has some fun on this friday, answers a few questions and tastes some AMAZING PINOT NOIRS Blind!

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“If only the computer would let us taste the Kosta Browne!!!! Catch up …” by thefanjestic
“QOTD: “Three Buck Chuck” Chilean Merlot…” by dOtis
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2003 Kosta Browne Pinot Sonoma on Wine-Searcher
2005 Amisfield Pinot Noir Central OtagoNew Zealand Pinot Noir
2004 Kosta Browne Pinot Sonoma on Wine-Searcher

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about 4 months ago

thefanjestic
If only the computer would let us taste the Kosta Browne!!!! Catch up technology!
about 11 months ago

dOtis
QOTD: “Three Buck Chuck” Chilean Merlot
about 12 months ago

Jeff
QOTD: Knew it would be bad but ordered a glass of “dry red wine” at Niagara Falls while sitting with my daughter waiting for the rest of the family to finish the Maid of the Mist boat ride. It was horrible - but I loved sitting and talking with my daughter.
about 12 months ago

Chris
Just watched the show after being on vacation away from broadband last week.

I picked up two bottles each of 2005 KB RRV and SC after a couple years on the waiting list. I haven’t opened any of them yet. I also bought two bottles of the KB 2005 Rose. The one that I opened was very nice.

QOTD: 2005 Five Rivers pinot. A dumper that embarrassed me in front of a houseguest.
about 12 months ago

Jim H.
QOTD: The latest Concannon Merlot and Petite Sirah. Bleh!!
about 12 months ago

Clifford James
Thanks Gary for the single-blind tasting … most interesting!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do another double-blind episode soon! Please.

Please!

QOTD: 2003 Convento Oreja, Roble, Ribera del Duero … I LOVE Spanish wines, but this wine gets a 51. It could have been a bad bottle, perhaps heat-damaged? It was cloudy, acidic, and totally bad. The sign at the local store said regularly $23, no $9.99 … I think I know why it was so drastically reduced!
about 12 months ago

Jason Coleman
I like the shirt-over-the-face look. Reminds me of Tri-Klops from the (incredible) He-Man cartoons.

http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/cmotu-pop/universe/tri-klops.shtml
about 12 months ago

wannaBconnoisseur
Blind tastings rock!!

QOTD: Marquis Phillips Sarah’s Blend (probably an ‘05) - I love a good fruit bomb, but this was bad, tasted like alcoholic Welch’s Grape juice with an extra shot of high fructose corn syrup.
about 12 months ago

SethID
Gary, you didn’t get any fresh t-shirt on the nose of these wines?
about 12 months ago

Lynne
Gary, Great job! I love blind tastings. I’ve had very few pinots, but the ones I’ve had have seemed a little on the thin side. I was expecting more after all the hoopla and haven’t really dived into the realm of pinot noirs.

QOD: My name is Lynne and I’m a Vayniac. It has been more than 14 days since my last bottle of wine. I, therefore, have no answer for your question.
about 12 months ago

vibemore
cool…blind tastings…next up, the double blind tasting

qotd: what I’m hoping was a corked bottle of Sharpshooter Cab. If it wasn’t corked (which I’m almost sure it was) then this wine sucks.
about 12 months ago

boyd
great episode, gv.
about 12 months ago

Anthony
Favorite Pinot? Man, tough question. Kosta Brown is certainly up there but quality for value is something else. How about Witness Tree, Belle Glos, Oreana, and Seasmoke. However, for the pinnacle of my pinot experience, I have but two words for you: “The Shop.” Oh, and Sonnenuhr, I agree with wanting to see a review of “The Prisoner” but as long as we’re on Orin Swift, how about “Mercury Head” as well. I’m a newbie to Wine Library but so far, I like what I see. Keep it fun!
about 12 months ago

Jer
Nice show — will have to pick up a bottle of each.

QOTD: Visited four wineries in Northern Virginia; all of the red’s from all four wineries were very bad–close to sugared sewer water.
about 12 months ago

SoCal
QTOD: the worst wine I have had was a cooked bottle of 1982 cakebread merlot…but that is unfair cause it was cooked…..
about 12 months ago

OrionSlayer
Blind tasting is fun. It was almost as fun as that episode where you didn’t know the variatals and had to guess them!

QOTD: Had a white zinfandel. Not that there’s anything wrong with that style, but this one didn’t really taste like wine.
about 12 months ago

Neurodoc
I missed this last week and over the weekend, since I was at WL/ New Jersey trying to visit you! Only you were vacationing - I did pick up wine and some schwag, though. Thanks for checking these wines out, but how about some variety in the blind choices? (any KB is a ringer though!)

qotd: I’d rather drink beer over bad wine, so the worst wasn’t that bad - a barbera from Sebastiani.
about 12 months ago

TommyBoBo of WI
2004 Clos des Papes CduP,,, VERY disappointed, tart, one dimensional, grenache, faky tasting. Not any better 2 hours in the glass,, HUGGGGE disappointment. Have to hide the remaining Mag and 2 750s for 20 years from now and flip em’?
about 12 months ago

Mr. Cabernet
Been getting KB pinot since the 2003 vintage. My rating for the 2003 was 92 and for the 2004 94. Great minds do thing almost alike!
about 12 months ago

Sully
KB is the route of all evil!! Devils Elixar to make you believe you have died and gone to heaven only to realize there is a burning hole in your wallet!! umm worst wine this week - homemade wine from a work buddy - down the drain - at least he likes it. I told him it was really good at work the next day.LOL@me
about 12 months ago

Dave
After two years on the wait list I got two each of the 2005 KB’s (Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast). I don’t want to open either of them yet. Heard bad things about the 2005 (on this list and elsewhere), always in the back of my mind - waiting for that day. Hope I’m not disappointed. Live and learn from YOU Gary!
Great show, fun times.
Worst wine of the last several days - a home made. It was a gift so I can’t be too mean. All of us who received some made it into a sort of Sangria to dilute the huge fruit and kill the burn.
about 12 months ago

dadobs
Hey GV–nice ep! Still, your claims of minimal talent don’t quite fit with what we all see or what you said in the Times article about charisma and hosting SportsCenter. Don’t mean to bust your nuts here; false modesty and cockiness can be a charming combo.

QOTD: 2005 Schild shiraz. Not a bad wine at all, but I was hoping for a little more given the highly regarded Aussie vintage and previous WineSpectator reviews.

For those who want to know about 2005 “Prisoner,” you can go to corkd.com to read reviews. We had it a couple weeks ago and it fit in well with 4-5 other 90+ wines from Spain, Australia, Cali. Not particularly complex, which was the main criticism given that it’s a blend. However, it’s easy to drink with good fruit and no hard edges.
about 12 months ago

Rick W.
Worst wine was a Cameron Hughes Cab
about 12 months ago

winejedi
missed this last week was on vacation…GREAT EPISODE GARY!!! glad to see a blind tasting episode especially with kosta browne.
about 12 months ago

Garret Nagle
QOTD: Las Rocas Garnacha…. it tasted and smelled like horse poop mixed with mint or eucalyptus