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 8, 2007

Joe
I just had White Castle at about 4am last night! Good Times! Make sure you get the JalapeÃ±o bacon cheeseburgers!
August 8, 2007

DougieFresh (Doug Hill)
QOTD:

The Trifecta….

Pasta Diablo with Cameroons and scallops

A smooth Super Tuscan

Angie Harmon… Talk about “sticking it” to the NYGiants (Seahorn)… lol ;P
August 8, 2007

DougieFresh (Doug Hill)
Mmmmmmmm…. SLIDERS! You should do a tasting with Sliders and boxed wine. Seriously… how awesome would that be?

The best of Boxed Wine… talk about sticking it to the Vayner-haters! That would light them up!
August 8, 2007

DougieFresh (Doug Hill)
Vayner-Haters… there’s always haters hanging around waiting to pounce on anyone who threatens how they believe things should be. They can take the 90+ Reobert Parkers and cork their arse with it. The Vayner-nation will rise and conquer the Vayner-haters.

Keep the Crusade Alive.
Viva La Vaynerchuck!

“De gustibus non est disputandum.”
Latin for: “In matters of taste, there is no argument.”
August 8, 2007

Bernie Bearnaise
At first I thought you were tired from travelling when the intro was subdued. I must say that I always look forward to the next episode because it is fresh not canned. It is hard to generalize about your audience but just from the comments section I’d say there is a wide spectrum from the wine geeks to the hedonists in training. Another appealing aspect of your show is your honesty and integrity. I have great respect for anyone that is so good at what they do that they make it look easy.

Professor Emile Peynaud changed the winemaking in Bordeaux and started the modern movement towards quality. His protege Michel Rolland is often brought in to consult with the top producers in both hemispheres of the wine world. Robert Parker changed the wine world with his prolific tasting notes and 100 point scale. His ultimate advice is to trust your own palate. It is probably a sign of Gary’s influence when he starts to receive these slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Gary could make QPR the next big thing….

There was a lot going on visually in today’s show with the Thundercats and the wheels of cheese. I wish we had smellerama…

All of the food suggestions were so good that I could hardly pick my own QOTD. How many courses and wines am I allowed? Who will drive me home?

Let’s see, I’ll go Old World.

Taittingers Blanc de Blanc with Petrossian Caviar.

Crab Imperial with Coche-Dury Corton Charlemagne

Rack of Lamb with Chateau Ausone

Stilton fruit and Fonseca

Hines Triomphe Cognac (if wintertime) with a few walnuts to crack.

A Brazilian Samba dancer would be nice…I mean my wife of course!

BB
August 8, 2007

Doc Dan
Gary, Don’t be discouraged by the wine snobs!!! Live, love life/family, drink wine!!
QOTD: Porterhouse with BRDX
August 8, 2007

Matt N.
Great show today. Gotta love the Thundercats baby! Ultimate dinner would have to be a surf and turf style with jumbo prawns and beef tenderloin, maybe a port sauce or something. Although I haven’t yet had the opportunity to try many life-changing wines I think it would be a ‘61 Margaux or something to that effect, although that wouldn’t go with the prawns but whatever. D’Equem for dessert perhaps? And shared with my girlfriend and her father (maybe that seems weird but he got me into wine so I would have to include him).
August 8, 2007

Aaron
QOTD ADDITION: Oh yeah, with William Shatner!
August 8, 2007

Aaron
QOTD: 1) Rocking the fois gras with an auslese 2) Grilled Beef with Malbec.
August 8, 2007

Phoebe
Sticks and stones can hurt my Beaunes…
August 8, 2007

stewart l
QOD-Ultimate meal-probably a veal dish-with cabernet reduction sauce, risotto, and asparagus For wine Ridge Montebello Cabs from the 80’s and for dessert Ch. Yquem!
August 8, 2007

ando
Great show. Backlash and angry emails only mean that people are worried that you are onto something. Clearly you are building this into something much more than a “wime show”. Keep it up. I think you have a lot of fans out there.
August 8, 2007

greentox
looking back that’s 1 french course and 3 italian.
August 8, 2007

greentox
This was the best show ever. Not the most of anything but just balanced (Equal parts angry, knowledgeable, crazy, serious, loud, and soft spoken and all genuine) like a good wine.

QOTD – 4 course italian – Mussels with a Chablis or Muscadet; pork stuffed ravioli w/ blue cheese/walnut sauce and a pinot grigio; osso bucco on polenta w/ something authoritative from Piedmonte; pears poached in chianti for dessert. All with my wife, sister and brother-in-law.

Speaking of dessert wines, I had an Pellegrino Passito a couple months ago. People should seek it out if they’ve never had it – awesome.
August 8, 2007

E-Rock
QOTD = Caesar salad, a porterhouse for 2, creamed spinach, hash browns and a bottle of Caymus Special Select with my Father.

but rigatoni with meatballs, sausage, bracciole in home made tomato sauce and a bottle of Reserve Brunello with my Father in an absurdly close second.
August 8, 2007

Rempshaker
Gary, I think that is the closing line you should use from here on out…”Whether you like it or not!!” AWESOME!!
August 8, 2007

italianwinelover
Wow what a way to stand up for us…the Vanernation loves you!!!! Keep up the great time…wine is suppose to be fun and thats what you make it out to be!!!

QOTD: I would love to have dinner one more time with my father…he always loved Italian food, brought him back to his roots. Although he would drink my uncles wine I would rather share a bottle of Nebbiolo, and since I’m a vegetarian I would want to have a grilled salmon with a holadase sauce covered with asparagus!!! But if I had to pick a living dinner companion it would be you GV…what an awesome time we would have!!!

ROCK ON GV!!!
August 8, 2007

MetalDave
QOTD:

I’ll just go main course, because my ultimate dinner would be a 12-course extravaganza.

Venison tenterloin roasted rare with reduction of demi-glace, blackcurrants and raspberries. Dream wine with it? 1945 Mouton-Rothschild

Choosing one person would be tough. My wife, Lauren. My dad. My buddy Darshan. My boss, Eamonn. My colleague, Mark. Tough one.

I love the rants, definately don’t stop them.

Since you’re such a football man, why don’t you score wines based on a 16 game season. For example, a 100 point wine is a 16-0 season. So you’re 90 point could be a 12-4?
August 8, 2007

NathanN
No Thunder Cats Here.

Great show!

QOTD: A good fillet, potatoes, asparagus, and bread pudding for desert with my wife. Oh the wine would have to be something I have never had before like a Caymus Special Select.
August 8, 2007

LPapi
Oh, I forgot to add the vegies for the question of the day above: Grilled Asparagus with Hollandaise sauce for dipping.
August 8, 2007

KenP
No more rants. Bored to tears.
Do what you do best. Nuff said.
This is what I do: http://youtube.com/watch?v=axnCMV-on9Q
August 8, 2007

LPapi
Hey Gary I could tell you were excited that your buddy Eric was there hahaa.

I’d like to call YOU out on this Gary… if you have time to look at these comments after you answer your thousand emails a day.. What’s YOUR answer to the question of the day.. I’d like to know (I’m sure everyone elses would too).

QOTD:

- Boboquivaris Restaurant’s (San Fran, CA) Bone-In Filet Mignon (with a bit of melted blue cheese on top)

- TANTARA Pinot Noir from Bien Nacido Valley (You guys should cary this, it’s absolutely ridiculous).

- Robert Parker.. but only to tell him “I wish it was Gary Vaynerchuck that was sitting in your chair hahaha”
August 8, 2007

Rani
Gary,
More power to you. What I like is that you aren’t trying to be the snotty uptight “wine snob” but just showing everyone what you personally enjoy about wine…and that is what wine is all about, enjoying life.

QOTD: Any good friend or family memeber, medium/medium rare filet mignon, Altamura.
August 8, 2007

KC Dan
Gman You are changing the wine world And they are scared of change !! Don’t let anyone tell you how to do your thing G . If they don’t like it then they can SNIFFY SNIFF the RATS ASS ! Vaynerfreaks Rule !!!
August 8, 2007

Ol'McDonald
QOTD: ’s gotta be a large cheese pizza at Newbury Pizza on Newbury in Boston…”Big-ups to Boston”, with my lovely wife Liska, sipping on (2005?) Hess cabernet sauvignon.
-P.S. Gary-I’ve got a Thundercat comin’ your way boss.