The NAKED Show – Episode #289

The NAKED Show – Episode #289

August 8, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk focuses on Naked Chardonnay, what does that mean? Unoaked Chardonnay’s. this is gonna be interesting.

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“QOTD: In theory a substantial amount with food but I often eat quickly…” by richardvinifera
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Tolosa Chardonnay No OakOther California Chardonnay
2005 Four Vines Naked ChardonnayOther California Chardonnay
2006 Chehalem Chardonnay InoxOregon Chardonnay
2006 Mer Soleil Chardonnay SilverNapa Chardonnay

Links mentioned in todays episode.

483 Responses

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August 9, 2007

mikeyrad
qotd: 99.99% with food.
August 9, 2007

Larry
Great show. VEEEEEEEEERY interesting!
QOTD: 85% w/ food 15% w/o food
August 9, 2007

Jerry the 2THDR
QOTD: 100% with food. Sometimes with as little as cheese and crackers but never alone. Like making love. Can be done alone; but so much better with a woman. So why do it any other way? Jerry the 2THDR
August 9, 2007

Gree
QOTD: 65% with food 35% without
August 9, 2007

Denise
Awesome show. I really appreciated learning about the unoaked chardonnays. Unfortunately, though, the show cut off about 6 minutes before the end. Missed the QOTD.
August 9, 2007

Denise
Awesome show. I really appreciated learning about the unoaked chardonnays. Unfortunately, though, the show cut off about 6 minutes before the end. Missed the QOTD.
August 9, 2007

Carl V
Funny, I just had the Four Vines Naked a week ago.
Good value for the money, but………I find all of these wines to be like 160 pound ballerinas, they just don’t have anywhere near the finesse or grace of the 95 pound model. After a glass or so you get tired of trying to lift them up.
Also, at 28 bones for the Caymus, there are about 300 French whites you could have instead.
Good episode though, I really cant wait for California to get these wines right.

50% 50%
August 9, 2007

joebot
Nice one Gary!!! I’ve been wondering about unoaked chards and you were on point with this show!! QOTD— Wine with food 90% of the time at dinner time especially. I arrange my entree around the wine that I’ll be having,always!!

Thanks,

Joe
August 9, 2007

Greg B.
Big G, Boo….Oak Monster Good.

QOTD 25% with Food 75% without!
August 9, 2007

Ohio Bruce
Great show GV. Put me down for 95% with food, and my lovely wife at 70% with food. (She sips and watches cable while I prefer WLTV.
August 9, 2007

Hans
QOTD: 75% with food, 25% without.
August 9, 2007

Nathan L
I’d say its ussually 90% with. I only think of the pairing 75% of the time but its usually at least with take out
August 9, 2007

Teckdeck2008
Awesome show. I have kind of been turned off by chardonnays so I will have to try some of those. And as for you question, I would prefer to have wine with food more often, but being with the ckc, I can’t go out to eat that often. Sad to say, the most common pairing is wine with hot pockets or hamburger helper, which is %10 of the time. Most of the time I’ll drink my wine after I eat, kind of part of my friday night pre-bar ritual.
August 9, 2007

Wave
My god it took me forever to get down here! All Hail stainless steel!!!! I was shooting for comment # 420! QOD-80% food
August 9, 2007

Billman
QOTD:
5% with meals
16% with snacks
79% without food
August 9, 2007

Sassodoro
Great show, Gary, and an outstanding QOTD.

QOTD: I tend to regard food without wine as a sad and incomplete thing. I tend to regard wine without food as RESEARCH for what to have with some dinner in the future. (And I like research.) So, apart from wine tastings, I very rarely have wine without food. (I don’t count palate-cleansing bread between tastes as wine with food. I’m not even sure that I count wine tasting as wine drinking, especially if I’m spitting.) I guess I would say that something like 99% of my wine consumption is with food.

This attitude toward food and wine going together then affects my attitude toward oaky wine. To me, it all depends on how it works with the food. One evening my wife and I had salmon fillets along with some fish stew (shrimp, scallops, tilapia, various veggies, all in a broth with some light tomato). In the spirit of research, I opened two white wines, one barrel fermented and the other stainless steel. The oaky wine was great with the salmon and terrible with the fish stew, while the situation was reversed for the stainless steel wine. (By the way, my wife and I open two wines and compare them just about every night. Anything leftover gets pumped to be drunk over the next couple of days. We find that comparing wines side by side allows us to notice things that we would never pick up if we tasted the wines in isolation.)

Back to the QOTD: I have found it fascinating to read people’s answers to the QOTD. I had no idea that there was such diversity of opinion about this. I think you have hit on something major here. I started tallying people’s answers, or at least the first 230 answers that specified or implied a percentage. (Comments still keep coming in, and I had to stop somewhere.) The resulting distribution of people’s answers is trimodal. (Hey, if you can say sniffy-sniff, I can say trimodal.) Put more simply, the Vayniacs divide into three camps. Some 57% of the Vayniacs put their with-food percentages at or above 70%. About 23% put their with-food percentages at or below 30%. The remaining 20% of Vayniacs put their with-food percentages between 35 and 65 percent, although just under half of this last group is bang on 50/50.

I think it would be really interesting to know the demographics of just who is falling into these three groups. Are women more in the foodie group than men? Are more experience drinkers in one group rather than another? Perhaps most importantly, do people in the three groups tend to prefer different wines? I bet they do — some wines go better with food, and the foodies are going to prefer them.

The bottom line is that there is a grouping here that could be as important as the distinction between Old World and New World fans. Maybe you should be recommending some wines as probably appealing to the foodies, and other wines as probably appealing to the wine-by-itselfers.

Gotta go drink some wine (with dinner).

Cheers.
August 9, 2007

DARREL LAS VEGAS
Look at the FOUR VINES “NAKED” label , the vines are naked women! no kinding.
August 9, 2007

DOF
QOTD: 75% with food, 25% without. I prefer the Chehalem Pinot Gris to the Chardonnay.
August 9, 2007

Orion Slayer
400 comments, half way there!

Scary Gary! Please, no more milk gestures! :0

Great episode! I thought I didn’t like Chardonnay, but I just needed to find the right ones. I’m excited to try some of the wines featured today!

QOTD: 60% with food, 40% without. If I had my way, it would be 50-50. One before meal, one with.
August 9, 2007

Jerry Chacon
soooo….you seem a little shy of 700….no white castle for you, eh mate?
August 9, 2007

anjin-san
oh, and to the qotd: 60/40 no food/yo food
August 9, 2007

Douche
The wine world is a funny place – we get over-oaked Chardonnay in abundance, then there is a movement towards totally unoaked Chardonnay. Hey! What about learning to use oak PROPERLY!?! Where is the middle ground? I’m all for unoaked Chards, heck, unoaked wines in general are intriguing and different and very worthwhile, but where is the learning curve? STOP THE BANDWAGONS! Bandwagons equal trends, and since trends tend to lack any individuality, trends suck ass, ergo, bandwagons suck ass.

QOTD: 100% with food
August 9, 2007

Garret Nagle
QOTD: 90% with food (not counting when there is a little left in the bottle the next day)

And how about this Gary, for my groomsmen at my wedding, they are getting a 2001 left bank Bordeaux as a token of my appreciation.

Expect some wedding pictures for the WLTV intro, and we will be getting married on Aug. 24!
August 9, 2007

T Scott
Nice educational show – didn’t know about the Nakeds.

QOTD 70 without / 30 with
August 9, 2007

Juicy Jesse
QOTD: 90% with, 10% without. Hey, you know what Drew Carey (”Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) says about the points: “The points don’t matter!!!!”

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