2 Wines and They Look Kinda Funny….or The Same

2 Wines and They Look Kinda Funny….or The Same – Episode #295

August 17, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk Answers questions and tastes 2 wines that happen to look a whole lot like each other!

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“Nice intro from Lars. Got to give some credit where its due. Get Lar…” by Dessert Wine Nerd
“Hi Gary
Just looking through a few episodes I missed. I’m glad you li…” by Andrew
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Innocent Bystander Shiraz/ ViognierAustralian Shiraz/Syrah
2004 Parsons Flat Shiraz/ Cabernet SauvignonAustralian Red Meritage

Links mentioned in todays episode.

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August 6, 2008

Dessert Wine Nerd
Nice intro from Lars. Got to give some credit where its due. Get Lars to do some more intros and send him some schawag!!! QOTD: Ive been thinking for a while and I cant come up with anything!! Arrgghhhhh!!!!….. Got it! My friends from India. Twins, but totally different. One wears glasses and the other doesnt, one has a shorter temper than the other, but still two great people.
September 14, 2007

Andrew
Hi Gary
Just looking through a few episodes I missed. I’m glad you liked the Innocent Bystander. First let me say that Victoria is where it’s at for Australian wines and especially the Yarra Valley were this comes from.
I visited the brand new winery / cellar-door / restaurant when I was back in Australia on holidays a few weeks ago. Innocent Bystander is the second label of a mob called Giant Steps who make some pretty good wines. They have some excellent Chardonnayâ€™s that I think you may like, quite subtle and not your over-the-top, obnoxious, ’sunshine in a glass’ cheap rubbish (the stuff that gives Australian a bad name). You need to checkout as many Yarra Valley Pinots, Cabernets and Chardonnays as you can, I’m not sure what makes it to the states, but there’s some lovely wines coming from this area – especially 2004 and 2005s.
Andrew
August 27, 2007

LT
Hey – I’ve been out of the loop since the fois gras episode…not that i’m holding it against you, i’ve just been busy! Anyway, I’m catching up on some episodes now. But seriouly, is Coles worth a pick-up in my fantasy draft???
August 24, 2007

Brandon M
#151 is dedicated to a Mr. Francis….Because LOLing Cracks me up!
August 23, 2007

Corrado
QOTD: I have two VW Corrados. To the casual bystander they’re identical (most folks think I have only have one). They’re completely different beneath the facade. Separated by only three years, they have different everything (interior, engine, transmission, wheels, etc.)
August 22, 2007

Kathleen
Sacrificing, and sacrificing for a loved one. They may look the same from the outside, but they are totally different motivations.
Kathleen
Albany, NY
August 22, 2007

mitch o
very funny answer about the punt but really what purpose does a punt on a wine bottle serve?
August 22, 2007

WINO
Great open Lars!!!!!

Check out the Tallulah Syrah bottles, very close looking to these as well.
August 22, 2007

wayno da wino
Nice to see LARS in da Hizzy!!!!!!!
Even drinkin’ some of da local
(Temecula) wine, don’t ya know…..
August 22, 2007

phermented1
The Lars Monster in the hizzy!
QOTD: wholesale customers (buyers) and retail customers (consumers). I have to bend over much more for the wholesale customers. At least the retail customers give a reach around
August 21, 2007

Trenting
OMG, Lars was great in this episode!
August 21, 2007

BelgianBeerMistress
QOTD: There are two musical artists: Henryk Gorecki, who composed his Symphony No 3, and Feist, a modern singer, who have amazingly similar record covers, even though their music is amazingly different. To see the covers, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Henryk-Gorecki-Symphony-Sorrowful-Songs/dp/B000005J1C/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9713547-1144025?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187710831&sr=8-1

Then here…
http://www.amazon.com/Reminder-Feist/dp/B000NPE7YC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9713547-1144025?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187710888&sr=1-1

Julie
August 20, 2007

Ryan D
QotD: Me and my brother, although 5 years apart in age, look almost exactly alike. And though many of our mannerisms are alike, our personalities are completely different.
August 20, 2007

mcj
QOTD: The Backstreet Boys and N’Sync.

So what’s a snort, anyway?
August 20, 2007

portland guy
Lars makes this episode. Hilarious! Then it went down hill with GVs silly ranting. Not good.
August 20, 2007

Chad
Gary … these wines look a lot like the Tallulah Syrah you reviewed a long while back (that I bought, and is very good). Take a look …
August 20, 2007

TR
QOTD Well there were these twins I knew… but I’ll keep this PG and go with Leberkase (liverwurst) and Duck Fois Gras. Duck kicks pork’s ass every time. Speaking of ass those twins…I digress.
I thought it was rather ironic that the wine in the Rhone style syrah bottle tasted like (according to Gary) a Bordeaux, and the one in the Bordeaux style bottle did not.
August 20, 2007

Robin C.
QOTD: My black cats Cleo and Quincy look pretty much the same but Quincy loves Pavo, who adopted him when he came into the household as a kitten, and Quincy is always trying to suckle Pavo, which is usually well tolerated by Pavo – he’s very nurturing. Cleo is very friendly, but refuses to be picked up and doesn’t have close friends among the other cats.
Also, I took a bottle of Ridge Monte Bello 2000 to a friend’s house for dinner the other night, and I’ve always loved the Monte Bello, but this one was a revelation – it couldn’t have been more perfect – it started with cigarette ashes in the nose and evolved to cherries and berries welling up to the surface. Last night I went to a restaurant where we ordered a bottle of Wolf Blass gold label shiraz, and it looked much the same given the different lighting and different glasses, but I found myself comparing it with the Monte Bello (I know that was wrong of me to compare 2 diffrent grapes) and it fell very very short. I wondered why anyone bothered planting the syrah grape. Of course the Monte Bello was 6 times as expensive.
I added a C. onto my name as I noticed that there are some more Robins signing on. My best friend is named Robin; we travel together a lot and everyone always loves it that we have the same name. We went to a restaurant in town for lunch and the waiter said that we were the 6th and 7th Robins to come into the restaurant that day. Everyone was enchanted. It must have been a slow day.
Very nice show. Gary seems so mature. Nice shirt.
August 20, 2007

Mike S.
OK, now that you are back in Calli, are you going south to T country????????
C-mon man, you know I’m still waiting. . . . . .

Mike
August 19, 2007

Grapedigger
Look alike externally but are all different internally!! Great idea for the show…
I’ve got 2 daughters who very much look alike but boy have totally different personalities..
Cheers..
August 19, 2007

Michael R.
longtime lurker….i know, sorry.
congrats on making the front page of itunes.
love the podcast.
QOD-http://www.knockoffproject.com/
August 19, 2007

Johan Libert
Dale Cruse — Wow! What a rip off! Gary get on that!
August 19, 2007

Bernie Bearnaise
Lars personified the Northern Minnesota or Wisconsin archetype with panache. Nice winestein too. Excellent football prognostication skills. Not bad for preseason.

Gary, you will get me to taste more New World wines and change me at least with your creative descriptors. I was just innocently standing by… The two pictures on the labels are quite different as one is the traditional garb of a clergyman and the other sort of a 1950’s film noir Marlboro Man.

Many grape varietals have a local name that is used only regionally. The Fume Blanc episode on Thursday related the famous Robert Mondavi marketing ploy. In the Loire region Sauvignon Blanc grape can be called Blanc Fume. I’m sure they get their share of fog too.

Two wines that have similar names are the Pouilly-Fume (pooyee-foomay)and Pouilly-Fuisse (pooyee-fweesay) but one is the Loire Valley crisp Sauvignon Blanc and the other the rich Maconnaise Chardonnay.
August 19, 2007

GottaGoDrink
Lars- You pretty much nailed it at 21-3. Actual first quarter score was 14-3. I’m just a little unclear on what Mrs. Lars was snorting…
August 19, 2007

jsdoc56
my feet……….but one hurts more than the other