1 Cheese 4 Wines! – Episode #288

August 7, 2007

Gary tries 4 VERY DIFFERENT wines with the same cheese to see how the pairings match up. Does every wine go with every cheese?

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“hah! “whether you like it or not” came in to bash all these wine snobs…” by Gid
“Giving a score on wines doesn’t make Gary a hypocrite. He shouldn’t be…” by richardvinifera
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 Munzberg Weissburgunder Kabinett TrockenOther German Varieties
2004 Luigi Bosca Reserva MalbecArgentine Malbec
2005 Owen Roe Walla Walla Cabernet SauvignonWashington Cabernet Sauvignon
2002 Agros Muscat Of LimniosGreek Dessert Wine

Links mentioned in todays episode.

Justin’s email for info on the cheese

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August 7, 2007

Alos Diallo
My ultimate dinner would have to be First course: Smoked Duck and fois gras salad served with 2001 Domaine Leroy Vosne-Romanee Les Beaux-Monts. Second course: Asiago cheese with Yukon potatoes and baby spinach served with Vino Verde. Third Course: beef wellington served with Frenched carrots and potatoes and 1961 Petrus. Fourth Course fois gras pate crackers, and 4 year aged cheddar cheese with 1986 d’Yquem. Fifth Course: pecorino cheese with honey on top sitting on top roasted hazelnuts served with 1995 Krug Brut. Great Episode Gary. I am with you 100% people make fun of me all the time because I am a big vino verde fan but wine is about being true to yourself so I like what I like and I trust my pallet who cares what snobs think. I tell everyone here at UMASS Lowell that I know about your show and it is catching on! Do the show the way you want bro I think that it is good to keep it real. I love the show! Best show on the internet or tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 7, 2007

Aheadwithwings
Great Show…even though you didn’t enjoy the Malbec…I did enjoy it but, I am a newbie so what do I know haha. Thanks for standing up for the Vayniacs.
August 7, 2007

TheThriller
Loved the episode!! Down with the wine snobs!
August 7, 2007

Jerry
Gary,
Ignore them. Your opening is fantastic. Let those dry conservative
wine elitest go find another network. Your enthusiasm and upbeat passion
make this show fun to watch. Keep up the great job!

Jerry
August 7, 2007

Sassodoro
Great show, Gary! I love the food-wine pairing stuff. Wine snobbery isn’t only about the wines. It’s also about the food-wine combinations (e.g., “Red wine with fish,” said James Bond in the movie From Russia With Love. “Well, that should have told me something.”) And WE (with a little bit of YOU) have to change that, too.

By the way, a paper by Madrigal-Galan and Heymann entitled “Sensory Effects of Consuming Cheese Prior to Evaluating Red Wine Flavor” was published last year in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. (The abstract can be found at http://www.ajevonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/1/12 .) Quoting from the abstract, “Some attributes, such as astringency, bell pepper, and oak flavor, significantly decreased when the wine was evaluated after tasting cheese. Only butter aroma was significantly enhanced by cheese.” Very interesting.

QOTD: Dinner with my wife. Otherwise, I’m not sure. I like the sound of Martin’s idea — Ossobuco with Barolo. Some of the most profound food experiences I’ve had were truffle-Nebbiolo combinations in dishes that were very simple. One was a truffled not-quite-hard-boiled egg on toast with 2001 Pio Cesare Barbaresco. Another was a pasta with shaved truffles and a 1999 Produttori del Barbaresco Rio Sordo.
August 7, 2007

Russ J
Stick with the new tag line, “like it or not!”. I LIKE it!

QOTD: Grilled pork loin, a psycho California Zinfandel like Turley or Martinelli and Scarlett Johansson.
August 7, 2007

AppellationMan
They are running scared! How dense do people need to be to see that wine is meant to be enjoyed? Wine is not an institution, and it will never be. It is a part of life. Thank you Gary, for being brave enough to enjoy it with us.
August 7, 2007

life's too short...
here’s the thing: it’s called FUN. and is a perfect, scientific method for training your palate? prolly not. is it FUN to watch you and Conan stuff cigars into your mouths at high speed? A decided HELL YES. here’s the thing #2: that fun you showed on Conan is the fun that represents the *new* wine world. the inability of others to recognize that simple fact? well, they represent the less than fun wine world. they represent wine “sports” and traditional wine snobbery. they’ve forgotten that pedantics and stony reverence is not the only way to “live the wine life.” there are plenty of PhDs, doctors, and other professionals who count themselves as vayner-nauts. there are also working-class folks, too. there’s no discrimination. i say good riddance to fair-weather snobs who “used to be your friends.” screw that noise. you’re either someone’s friend or you’re not. an appearance on conan that basically mirrors a previous WLTV episode shouldn’t make or break any bonds that weren’t there in the first place. good on ya, my brother, and keep fighting the good fight.
August 7, 2007

Jen Loves Wine
Great episode – had to laugh about the little old ladies hittin the J&B and Bailey’s. I’ve never had a Muscat, and I am not necessarily sure I want to try it now after that….

QOTD: Any meal, any wine as long as I am with my sweetheart, Jason. If I had to narrow it down — I had stewed lamb dish over grits at a restaurant recently and LOVED it — so that and a great Cabernet Sauvignon. I like Quintessa, Togni, and Arietta.
August 7, 2007

Matt Beran
Way to throw up the defense Gar. Keep it up man!
August 7, 2007

Greg B.
Big G, Big G, and I mean Big G as in Wine GANGSTER. You’re not afraid. Let em have it. You paid your dues. They are just Snobs who drink wine, because they have to in order to stay in their social circle.

QOTD. Meal-Italian, Wine-Big and Red Whom – Family/Friends
August 7, 2007

Chris G
and Esther my partner to share it! (forgot that bit – telling!)
August 7, 2007

Andy
Thanks for taking up for Vayner NATION G —- You have got my vote for Leader of the FREE WORLD (aka the wine world)
August 7, 2007

Chris G
the genuine items are always the best (not that you’re not always genuine but the fire in the belly seems to help)
qotd:Tokaji with Colsten Bassett Stilton..less is more.
August 7, 2007

Robert Howells
Gary, Now that you have made the big time(Conan) I think you will have to get used to the idea of negative comments and feedback. It is human nature for people to react this way to your fame. I also wanted to say that your viewers should not ask you to change the format of WLTV because the show is perfect as is.

Robert.

PS: I love California rolls and Riesling for dinner with my wife Elizabeth
August 7, 2007

Ben N.
Gary you are the man, LOVED THIS EPISODE !!!!!
August 7, 2007

Orion Slayer
What a frightening beginning to today’s show. :O

I’m so glad you don’t let the complainers change you one bit.

QOTD: My favorite meal would be a Thanksgiving meal with a great big turkey and all the trimmings paired with a really oaky Chardonnay like I remember when I first started drinking wine. I’d want all my family and my wife’s family there!

For a red, I want one of my wife’s great home-made pepporoni and olive pizzas with an over-the-top Zinfandel, shared with her as we watch the sunset on our backyard porch.
August 7, 2007

Dusty
ha. way to stand up for the Vayner-nation. we got your back!

good to see that sometimes the wine doesn’t necessarily always enhance the wines. tried that for myself the other week…with a very similar outcome. i probably wasn’t quite as animated, but it was still fun.
August 7, 2007

wolfie
gv: awesome show today, man. you actually made me laugh out loud a few times, which means it’s really quality stuff. the ladies bangin’ liquor in the 70’s! gold!

oh and keep kicking against the pricks!

qotd: well, let’s go with two scenarios…

this friday i’ve got a date with my wife at one of the best restaurants in the city. tasting menu, nine courses, wine paired. this could be mind bending. (my b-day present!)

if i could set up my own? i’d get the gang all in… parents, friends, everybody who means everything to me. and i’d do a massive array of wines and small dishes to sample along with them. like blow a G on wines, cheeses, fruits, meats, pates, the whole friggin’ bit. and i’d crank awesome tunes and we’d hang out. dare to dream. some day it’ll happen though!
August 7, 2007

Martin
It just gets better and better!

qotd: Ossobuco alla milanese, Gaja Barolo, K&J.
August 7, 2007

Paul
Great show, Gary…not really sure how anyone thinks you’re ruining wine for anyone…in fact if they can let wine be ruined by a show they aren’t even obligated to watch then they should really consider not drinking anything at all. If people enjoy your show, then great, but if people don’t it shouldn’t influence the degree to which they enjoy wine in their private lives. If anything we can be thankful that you’re hear so we have more people to talk about wine with rather than just obsessing over it’s enjoyment by ourselves.

QOTD: Breast of Duck with red cabbage and cranberries, rosemary sauce over potato pancakes with a young red Burgundy; not much for dessert, but likely a simple beerenauselese with fruit. Company: If I was really gonna suck up I’d say you, but instead I’ll just go with a couple of my closest friends
August 7, 2007

Kelly
Portugese Barbeque. Sangria. I don’t have a significant other so all my boys!

Stop having junky, random wines on the show Gary man WE NEED THE HEAT!

https://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=32006

https://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=31199

https://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=27989

https://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=33562

Any or all of these will do–COME ON MAN STEP UP!
August 7, 2007

SoCal
Forget those fools…..let them think we don’t know $h!t…while they sleep on us we will take over
QOTD: Duck, Lafite, and my family…what else is there?
August 7, 2007

Neil
Wave on! Gary V and the Vayniacs will destroy the critics in their towers! But seriously how is bringing the enjoyment of wine down to a level where people aren’t intimidated a bad thing? Gary is doing a great job expanding people’s horizons – EPH – and if you have ever met him know that he is actually quite a humble person in real life. Get him in front of a camera though, and it’s another story. I think the critics are focusing on the delivery and not the message. I find the delivery entertaining.

Oh yeah and don’t forget WLTV is free and has no advertisements. If you press the play button, you automatically consent to Gary’s house rules which include the love of wine, trying new wine, the love of family and from September forward, the recognition that the NY Jet’s rock Gary’s universe.

QOTD: The perfect meal would be:

1.) With my wife, Julie.
2.) A bottle of decent Bordeaux, let’s say Lynch-Bages.
3.) Steak Frites or Coq Au Vin with some buttered noodles.
August 7, 2007

Jon
Barry Bashing? Uncalled for.
You’re show is entertaining and informative. I like it, but the Barry comment joke or no joke was in bad taste. Thats just my opinion.