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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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 17, 2007

KimG
hmm, I got about 300 wines in my storage area(I’d wish it was a cellar). I enjoy having at least 6 of each, so I can taste them over the years and then serve 3-4 for a dinner when they are really ripe and drinkable. Wine really develops over the years!

I do like to taste different stuff every day, but for a dinner I like to serve the same to all.
August 17, 2007

SoCal
QOTD: Our two pugs….the male is all love….the female is all sass….go figure
August 17, 2007

phil
Min 14 NYJ 3. Lars wuz right!
August 17, 2007

Herm
Great job Lars…..who looks just like Gary but has a different wine tasting style….Thanks for the episode!
August 17, 2007

mas
Lars, excellent intro! Funny funny stuff …

Gary, you convinced me to try another Aussie Shiraz with that ‘04 Innocent Bystander.

QOTD: Tomatoes – a nice in-season ripe Jersey Tom will kill anything I can find in a supermarket everytime. Have to convince my boss I need another trip to NJ, if only for the tomatoes (but I can squeeze in a WL trip as well).
August 17, 2007

wmole
those
August 17, 2007

wmole
Gary, have a great time this weekend and please take a break from hose emails.

Todd B: General Audience Rating answer to your question…it’s all about fashion, deep punt=dressed to kill.

Tactical:the great mystery. Go on trim recon w/sierradoc
August 17, 2007

Kelly
GET SOME FREAKING CHAPOUTIER/TERLATO SHIRAZ–VIOGNIER BACK IN PLEASE WL, I DON’T WANT TO BUY A CASE VIA THE REQUESTS EMAIL SO THIS IS MY RANT

I’m glad that there was a nice old world wine for the price on WLTV, hopefully I can buy some before all the people who watch this freak out and buy everything you say is good. It’s crazy how people react to wine critiquing.

The two things that look alike but are not similar at all that have been in my life recently are the novels Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov by Lev Tolstoi and Fyodor Doestoevski respectively. The ideas that each forms about life are staggeringly different yet the country, time period, and shape and length of the book would lead one to believe otherwise.
August 17, 2007

Jiah
eek dont like lars..

qofd: me and my sister – we’re 5 yrs apart, people ask if we are twins, but we are very different in personality.. i like wine, she does not..

jayhitek – hilarious
August 17, 2007

Lurker
So – having been a lurker, I’ve never asked this question..nor seen it answered – but what happens to the wine that Gary drinks on the show? What I mean is….there is still a good 4/5 of a bottle left of wine when he gets done, what happens to it? Anyone know? Gary – have time to answer?
August 17, 2007

Martin
Girlfriend and her twin sister.
August 17, 2007

Wine-ot
Go Lars, Go Gary, GV thanks for getting on the ball with cellar times a nice touch and much appreciated!!!
August 17, 2007

OrionSlayer
That’s interesting how similar those two bottles look. The image on the Argentinian Zolo looks similar ( http://www.southernwines.com/images/products/zoloreserve_cabsau_04.jpg )

QOTD: Well, these two don’t look the same, but they sound the same and are completely opposite: raise and raze. Isn’t that interesting?
August 17, 2007

Dominus
Great, great show. Hopefully I can order some of the 1st impostor and it not be sold out.

Punt? Something the Jets do quite often vs the Colts would have been a shorter, easier answer. Actually, there is a purpose to the punt though has its origins with champagne bottles. Maybe another famous “Dom” invented it?

QOTD: My brother and I look quite similar but are worlds apart.

Have a great weekend.

Dom

P.S. No more gravatars or did I miss that email?
August 17, 2007

Taco John
QOTD: Law students in class vs. law students around town. Law students are pretty much the same when they’re working, but totally different when they go out to bars or are hanging out with friends. Some can’t drop the driven-professional act and be a normal person.
August 17, 2007

life's too short...
cool that you mentioned the terlato / chapoutier tasting when you brought up the rhone-like characteristics on Innocent Bystander. Nice. re: Tim F’s question, I have to comment: People like sports. Not just Jets vs. Vikes, but more like, “my clubhouse is better than your clubhouse.” Whatever the issue, it’s all about “us vs. them.” My God? Kick’s YOUR God’s ass, every day, and twice on, well, you get the idea. I think it’s ingrained in us from the bad old ferment the juice in the fruit and get trashed on bug juice days where we grunted a lot and clubbed each other over the head. Wait. Now? We just do it with flames and condescension. Read Robert Parker’s boards vs. WL’s boards–world of difference. A LOT of arrogance and pomp. WL’s board? Not so much. Anyway, that said, there’s good information on both, so why limit yourself? Take everything–wine boards included–with a grain of salt. I’m just sayin’…
August 17, 2007

HipandKneeDoc
QOTD:

My wife and daughter look kinda alike.

Completely different, however.

My daugther listens to me once in a while….
August 17, 2007

Neil
The SF 49ers.

By the way, Gary V, what’s up with trashing our home team without provocation? You had a nice visit in SF last week and the 49ers suck? What’s up with that???? Where’s the WLTV love?

They have been terrible the last few seasons, but this year I feel we’re talking playoffs, so yeh, QOTD: the 49ers.
August 17, 2007

Julian Grey
Gary!!! that intro was endless @_@;

Anyway, I am de-lurking myself and wanted to say, I love the show.

jg
August 17, 2007

Russ J
QOTD: hamburgers and buffalo burgers, Richard Todd and Joe Namath. ???????
August 17, 2007

Wave
QOTD- JaMarcus Russell and Daunte Culpepper
August 17, 2007

Robert F
Great intro, Lars. Gary, you can probably football nerd it up even better than you can wine nerd it up – I have no idea what you just said – pretty much Greek to me.

QOTD: Not very significant, but I just had the best home grown tomatoes yesterday – looked exactly the same as so-called “vine ripened” store bought tomatoes – but the taste is no comparison. I had almost forgotten what a real tomato tastes like. I wish I had room to grow them in my apartment…
August 17, 2007

C.W. Miller IV
AotD: Two things that look the same but are completely different: My “I’m concentrating and fascinated by what you’re saying face” and my “I’m displeased and slightly angry with what you’re saying face”. Most people who don’t know me very well tend to become confused by these faces when engaging me in intense conversation.
August 17, 2007

Mr. Cabernet
First, no more Lars! It’s just too hard for me to fast search to get to the end of this unfunny bit. Wasn’t funny in the past, isn’t funny now.

Wine cellar–I have a Vintage Keeper VP220. To save shipping costs it is packed in 5 boxes, most of them flat. You then assemble at home-not to hard. I was able to pick up up at a local distributor in San Diego and paid no shipping cost.

Not the quality of a Vinotemp or Subzero, but more than meets my needs.

Punt question–WIKIPEDIA.ORG!! Not good for some info but perfect for this type of question.
August 17, 2007

Chris George
Am in two minds over that one.