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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July 27, 2007

SteveW
Great Episode, maybe instead of “Laid Back Fridays” we can have “Sir Gary Fridays”

OTD: 85% Red
10% White
2.5% Rose
2.5% Sparkling
July 27, 2007

cgf
SIR GARY IN THE HOUSE!

nice, i love it. Get back soon vay-ner-chuk

QOTD: 60 white 39 red 1 rose.
July 27, 2007

wolfie
qotd: gv man, i’m about 75% red 25% white. reds tend to be my everyday wines though, and some of my favorite wines of all time are whites. that’s how it rolls for the w
July 27, 2007

Marc
Brilliant satire GV!

QOTD: dunno, probably around 85/15. I don’t have anything against whites; I really don’t know why I usually go red.
July 27, 2007

Grasshopper
Sir Sensei,

Hilarious! Were you really trying to be french? Was little more like boris karloff, especially with the lighting!

Anyway, great fun and as always thanks for filming ahead and keeping us on our toes!

QOTD – 80% red, 20% white (maybe higher % white in summer) Love the NZ Sauv Blancs on a hot day on the boat! Plus some foods just lend themselves to a nice white. Thai food with a nice kabinet riesling or some brie with a sancerre……

Travel safe,

Grasshopper
July 27, 2007

cruster
LOL, funny episode
QOTD: 50% red, 50% white
July 27, 2007

Elliot Essman
My consumption ratio is about 60% red, 40% white at home, and probably near 100% white at restaurants simply because of the decanting/oxidation issue.
July 27, 2007

Annapolitan
Your insight is perspicacious, your pallette a battle-hardened veteran with medals and ribbons, Sir G. Reminds me of a birthday luncheon in the mid 70’s where I invited Queen Elizabeth and Henry Kissinger over to celebrate. As I eased the cork from a particularly profound Corton Charlemagne, Liz reminded me that upon first tasting a Corton, Alexandre Dumas fell to his knees and said a prayer. Hank just reached past her for the first glass. Must run. My Swiss banker is ringing me. Ta ta.
July 27, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Opps….. 97/3 I apologize Sir, but my wife insists on me drinking with her at times, and she only drinks whites.
July 27, 2007

John Witherspoon
Bring back regular G V

QOTD: 70/30, Red/White

Have a great weekend.

J DUB
July 27, 2007

TommyBoBo of WI
Thank God!! A Friday that won’t leave me wound up. Great information, given at a pace that we could understand, digest and appreciate.

Maybe Gary will get lost coming home and you, Sir, can be there for us for a long time to come, I certainly hope so,That would be my grandest wish.

Your new dearest friend,
July 27, 2007

JonE
Come back cotter, come back

QOTD: somewhere between 70/30 to 80/20 red to white. I always tell myself I am ignoring the white. And I love Alsace but I don’t drink it nearly enough. But this week is all about ‘Basa’, this beautiful little Telmo Rodriguez white. seek it out, great summer vino.
July 27, 2007

Greg B.
Well done Sir G. QOTD 75% RED 25% white is my Norm, but over the summer it’s more like 65% Red 35% White. Have a fun profitable and safe trip.
July 27, 2007

jason
burgundies AWESOME!!!!! gary, you might need to bring that rock licker back for another show. he brought some sweet wines with him. great to see a real specific selection. he failed to mention the big difference in the vintages though. 2003 was on fire and a lot of vines even shut down. many of the burgundies lack acidity, in particular the whites. 2004 was less than classique, but good domains made good wine. since 2003 was so hot, and 2004 was quite wet, the vines produced too many grapes and the vineyards needed a ton of care. it is evident that dom selling bottles for $80 has money to do a green harvest and manicure the vines.

QOTD 80 red, 20 white/ i would like to drink more white but my wife prefers the reds. i guess the sir was right, woman do control everything
July 27, 2007

wineaddict
Gary, take that coat, tie your Sir Gary fill-in and Mr. Garret Nagle the III from Holland and go crawl under that snob rock you came from, bring back the Gary Thunder Show because this isn’t what the Vayniacs want to see. They want the Gary that’s the value driven down to earth crazy kind of GUY!

You might impress 1% of the pipe smokin horse back ridin snob types, but your not impressing 99% of the Vayniacs.

So get on back now ya here.. and bring that couch with ya.

QOTD:
90% REDS
8% WHITES
2% ROSE

MB
July 27, 2007

Gravisman
I’m about 60:40 red to white as well.
July 27, 2007

Steve-o
Wine Library TV: The Return of the Snob

nicely done, I really enjoy the in-depth viticultural information Sir V brings to the table.

QOTD: I’s day about 60:40 red:white
July 27, 2007

Neil
Sir Gary:

Thank you ever so much for bringing wine back to a serious topic of discussion worthy of the elegant, elite class of society. It gives me great pleasure to look down at people of less fortune and sneer at them whilist drinking $100.00 per bottle swill from Corton Charlemagne. It is our tastes that matter the most and if the masses don’t agree with our precise opinions on style and taste, then let them go elswhere: perhaps a lowly NY Jets game and some cheap, ice cold, lite beer will sate their base desires. I shudder pondering the utter waste of life these lowly beings enjoy yet understand that without them, we wouldn’t be able to lock our gates, dispatch our hounds and poke at them with smoky pointed sticks whenever they dare intrude. Thank you for reaffirming our superior status and with any hope that hack of the populist movement, Mr. Vay – Ner – Chuk, will cease his over exuberant rantings of, dare I say it, cat pee and sticking one’s nose up a horse’s posterior. How vulgar! Keep up the great work, sir Gary, it’s people like us that can correct the WLTV ship.

Tally ho!

Sir Neil of Wainscotting
July 27, 2007

Jonathon M Chicago
80 red, 20 white
July 27, 2007

Taco John
Wouldn’t it be “Me, with more of me, is keeping the wine world the same”? And shouldn’t this have been on http://www.garycanwinenerditalldayifyouwant.com?

QOTD: I’ll say 70% red, 30% white.
July 27, 2007

EthanPSU
QOTD: 92% Red 8% White
July 27, 2007

talksnmaths
Love the idea to bring back the “wine snob” every now and then. Entertaining!

QOTD: 1/100 white to red I think it’s because I have never been much apple/pear/tropical/citrus fruits. I prefer the dark/berry flavors that you find in red wine. Also, I LOVE the stinky stuff…leather/tobacco/et al.
July 27, 2007

mas
Sir Gary, go row your boat in the Himalayas – or whatever that was you said. That should keep you busy …

QOTD: 85% Red, 14% White, 1% Rose.
July 27, 2007

dkeck
Gary,
Great Show. QOTD: 65% Red, 34% white, 1% pink
July 27, 2007

DirtWineKen
Sir Gary, either pull the broomstick out of your butt or get the real GV back on right away. This was so boring I couldn’t even watch through the first wine — even though I LOVE Corton Charlie and have had some great examples in the past!