Corton Charlemagne – Episode #283

July 27, 2007

Corton Charlemagne wines are some of the best white wines in the world and today Gary Vaynerchuk has something to say about them!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Jean Claude Belland Corton CharlemagneCorton Charlegmagne
2003 Vincent Girardin Corton CharlemagneCorton Charlegmagne
2004 Louis Jadot Corton CharlemagneCorton Charlegmagne

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August 1, 2007

portman
Catching up. It’s now Wednesday, Aug 1….

Informative nonetheless. Thank you.

QOTD: roughly 80% red, 20% white
August 1, 2007

phig
65-35 red to whites though I would drink more whites if my wife liked them more. I have actually discovered that the whites give me less of a fat head and that I don’t wake up in the middle of the night the way I do with some reds (especially big tannic ones). In any case, don’t agree with the ratings (at least for the Girardin and the Jadot which I have had). Girardin’s wines for me are two open knitted. An easy fat and not very ageworthy style. The Jadot on the other hand, will take ten years at least to come into its own and which point it will be not spectacular but very very good and a real white Burgundy experience–something that no California Chard (with the exception of Kalin perhaps) can do. There are others, even some that are less expensive, but some information you have to find out for yourself (there is only so much made heh, heh).
As for the price, yup, its out there expensive. But it is a matter of priorities. If you buy a new car every five years, there goes the expensive wine up in smoke. I’d rather drive a junker and have a few bottles of grand crus in my cellar. I ain’t rich but I’d rather drink rich than drive rich.
As for Sir Gary, whatever it takes to get Burgundy on the show, I’ll take. The irony is that Burgundy is controlled by a bunch of rich farmers whereas the uptight snobs are in Bordeaux (not too many “chateaux” in burgundy!).
August 1, 2007

GrapeStuff (formerly known as Donald Pipkin)
QOTD: 80% reds and 20% white (most of which are riesling or German whites)
August 1, 2007

Kathleen Lisson
QOTD:
75% white, 25% red, but the numbers may be skewed by the summer season and my current infatuation with dessert wines. And by the fact that I don’t eat meat.

Kathleen
Albany, NY
August 1, 2007

Capt M
This is WLTV at its best! Not just to get a few good laughs throughout the show, but to learn about these whites, and see them get scores as high or higher than many top reds. Kudos! Thanks!
August 1, 2007

vibemore
Loving the alter ego…

QOTD: 80%red/20%white
July 31, 2007

Bill Luby
Good idea for a show, but a little Sir Gary goes a long way…

QOTD: Probably 75% red, but during the summer it swings to 60/40 white
July 31, 2007

Jayhitek
QOTD: 98% to 2% (only if the wife is drinking some kind of white and I figure I will have a glass)
July 31, 2007

Ferrigno
WOW! never thought I’d seen Sir Gary again!!!! You know, someone posted early on something like “boring” but I have to say, NOT BORING TO ME AT ALL!!!! I like him A LOT!!! the only thing I wish is that, instead of liking “99 to 1″ reds on whites, he would LOVE OLD WORLD WHITES and KILL everyone who do thinks reds are better than whites! LOVE TO SEE SIR GARY MORE OFTEN, NOT BORING AT ALL!
QOTD: Well nowadays I’m about 75% on whites and the rest on reds. I do love em all 50-50, but as I’m drinking more often with a friend of mine who can’t stand reds this is how it’s going! On Mexico Distrito Federal we gave it a shot on a moscatel late harvest from valencia spain and the vionta albarino 06… both sucked sooo disappointed at the Vionta as last year I tried the 05 and thought it was much better…
July 30, 2007

Lurkerdog
Great episode Sir Gary. Let’s see the pipe next time. QOTD: I’m probably 90% red and 10% white. Trying to expand my white wine consumption.
July 30, 2007

J Crazy
I kinda like Sir Gary. I think you appeal to the pompous wine snob in all of us. Just once in my life I want to laugh at someone “lower” than me whilst smoking a cigar and swirling a wine glass in hand; especially, if I’m on my own yacht…only once though.

QOTD: I crush about 57.2per. Red, 38.8per. white and the rest is Sutter Home’s White Zinfandel. How can something be so cheap but so…pink?
July 30, 2007

Russ J
Boating in the Himalayas, Italy in the country time, “putting people on fire” with muddy sticks. My, my, what a life Sir GV leads!

QOTD: 75R/25W
July 30, 2007

Lawrence Leichtman
Sir Gary looks like a refugee from a ’60’s musical with the staight dude ragging on the hip kids. Maybe David Spade in PCU. Great for laughs but I hope you didn’t intend for many of us to bu Corton Charlemagne to tast along with Sir Gary. Actually had the Louis Jadot from 1999 and what overpriced swill that was. Thanks for the laughs but we want the real Gary back.
July 30, 2007

BF
Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It’s a sitting
duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It’s feeble. I think it’s
time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.
July 30, 2007

Nima
QotD:
my wine breakdown is seasonal. Almost exclusively reds in the winter(95-5) and about 50-50 in the summer.
July 30, 2007

chakira
thanks for the free wristband
to answer the answer of the day i would like to focus on reds (70-30) but my fiance loves the new world whites, and so I would say it comes out to 50-50 in the end. She finds many of the reds we drink, often kosher, to be too high alcohol. Which seems to be a trend right now in Israel.
July 30, 2007

Kirk
Gary….dude. I had no clue..I just got caught up with the shows. If it matters…whenever you are successful people are going to dig on your success. Some try to leach from it, and others try to down it (listen to me talking like I’ve actually got experience in it…HA!) I want to say that I love sending new wine lovers to this site…have a ball with it and thanks for the fun!
Kirk R. Grant
Wine Director
Havana Restaurant
Bar Harbor, Maine
July 30, 2007

Dom
You are a beauty!! 95-5 reds!
July 30, 2007

Totte
QotD : 40 / 40 Red vs. White and 20% bubbly !

Swedish T
July 30, 2007

Dusty
90% red to 10% white. Sir gary rocked the castle!
July 30, 2007

WML
Funny….well done, but would’ve been more believable if your smoking jacket was not so small…. I could not stop staring at how short your sleeves are!
July 30, 2007

LeatherPalate
SGV! Off the hizzee good-

you killed it.
July 30, 2007

Paul
Finally got to watch. Been a long time since I had any Corton Charlemagne. Perhaps you needed to add a comment regarding vintage?

QOTD: About 70% red, 20% white, 5% rose, 5% bubbly, on average. More white and rose in summer, more red in winter.
July 30, 2007

Pastore
Bravo, Siry Gary!

QOTD: 85% Red, 15% White
July 30, 2007

dadobs
Nicely done, Sir Gary!

QOTD: 98% red, 2% white (German reislings and dessert wines).