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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  • “Hi Gary
    Just looking through a few episodes I missed. I’m glad you li…” by Andrew
  • “Hey - I’ve been out of the loop since the fois gras episode…not that…” by LT
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Innocent Bystander Shiraz/ ViognierAustralian Shiraz/Syrah play review at cork'd
2004 Parsons Flat Shiraz/ Cabernet SauvignonAustralian Red Meritage play review at cork'd

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153 Responses

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  1. about 10 months ago

    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 Chardonnay’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

  2. about 10 months ago

    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???

  3. about 10 months ago

    Brandon M

    #151 is dedicated to a Mr. Francis….Because LOLing Cracks me up!

  4. about 10 months ago

    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.)

  5. about 10 months ago

    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

  6. about 10 months ago

    mitch o

    very funny answer about the punt but really what purpose does a punt on a wine bottle serve?

  7. about 10 months ago

    WINO

    Great open Lars!!!!!

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

  8. about 10 months ago

    wayno da wino

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

  9. about 10 months ago

    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 ;)

  10. about 10 months ago

    Trenting

    OMG, Lars was great in this episode!

  11. about 10 months ago

    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

  12. about 11 months ago

    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.

  13. about 11 months ago

    mcj

    QOTD: The Backstreet Boys and N’Sync.

    So what’s a snort, anyway?

  14. about 11 months ago

    portland guy

    Lars makes this episode. Hilarious! Then it went down hill with GVs silly ranting. Not good.

  15. about 11 months ago

    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 …

  16. about 11 months ago

    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.

  17. about 11 months ago

    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.

  18. about 11 months ago

    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

  19. about 11 months ago

    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..

  20. about 11 months ago

    Michael R.

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

  21. about 11 months ago

    Johan Libert

    Dale Cruse — Wow! What a rip off! Gary get on that!

  22. about 11 months ago

    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.

  23. about 11 months ago

    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…

  24. about 11 months ago

    jsdoc56

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

  25. about 11 months ago

    msb2ncsu

    QOTD: All of my dress shirts. Its amazing that one manufacturer can get so much variation in the same template.

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