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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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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September 11, 2009

Tooch
QOTD: Had a Jordan Chardonnay tonight…yeah, not too good.
August 16, 2009

richardvinifera
QOTD: Ravenswood Lodi Old Vines Zinfandel, 2007 I think. It was one dimensional, thin. First Zinfandel i’ve had, it was well balanced, just little flavour.
June 26, 2009

Adrian aka AnGkEr
Nice episode..love the single blind tasting. Should do it more often.
December 15, 2008

nnothing
qotd: firehose riesling… pretty terrible even with spicy food, super oaky and sugary not quite totally undrinkable.
July 23, 2008

Dessert Wine Nerd
I love these types of episodes, please do more of them. I also want more episodes with your nemisis, Darth Vayner in them. QOTD: Once again, the Charles Shaw Chardonnay. It tasted like water mixed with alcohol and fake lemon flavor. Completely unaccaptable.
February 21, 2008

thefanjestic
If only the computer would let us taste the Kosta Browne!!!! Catch up technology!
August 3, 2007

dOtis
QOTD: “Three Buck Chuck” Chilean Merlot
July 17, 2007

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.
July 14, 2007

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.
July 11, 2007

Jim H.
QOTD: The latest Concannon Merlot and Petite Sirah. Bleh!!
July 10, 2007

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!
July 10, 2007

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
July 10, 2007

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.
July 10, 2007

SethID
Gary, you didn’t get any fresh t-shirt on the nose of these wines?
July 10, 2007

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.
July 10, 2007

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.
July 10, 2007

boyd
great episode, gv.
July 10, 2007

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!
July 9, 2007

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.
July 9, 2007

SoCal
QTOD: the worst wine I have had was a cooked bottle of 1982 cakebread merlot…but that is unfair cause it was cooked…..
July 9, 2007

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.
July 9, 2007

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.
July 9, 2007

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’?
July 9, 2007

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!
July 9, 2007

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