Rad Wines. I Finally Talk About a Few Wines I Like

Rad Wines. I Finally Talk About a Few Wines I Like – Episode #331

October 10, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk folds and finally tastes three wines he is excited about.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 La Chappelle De La Negly RoseLanguedoc-Roussillon
2004 Chateau Beausejour DuffauSt Emilion
2005 Fleur Des Pins GravesGraves/Pessac-Leognan

Links mentioned in todays episode.

2004 Bordeaux’s

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October 11, 2007

Ferrigno
1. OMG I NEED the la chappelle “SNIIIIIIIIFY SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIF” as a ringtone NOWWWW!!!!!
2. Love your shirt
3. DO A SHOW AS LAST’S YEAR SUPERTASTING!!!! (THE 4 MOST SOLD” PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEEE THAT ONE IS ONE OF ME ALL TIME FAVS!!!!!!!!!
October 11, 2007

PedroXimenez
Nice show.

3 favorites – Well if you don’t include sherries…

Current list:

Greco di Tufo
Muscat Buame de Venise
Tabernero Borgona
October 11, 2007

wildebeest
Yay! SF Vaynerglass!

QOTD:
1 – 2003 Habrard Crozes Hermitage (exactly what I want in a wine)
2 – 2004 Farnese Casale Vecchio Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (fresh blackberries & all the best characteristics of a good Syrah/Viognier)
3 – 2004 Dominio de Tares Baltos (beets, cabbage, blackberry cheesecake, taffy, Worcestershire sauce – 100% Mencia)
October 11, 2007

SS Chris
Nice EP…..but because of your “Vinny” rant, you for got to rate the Fleur Des Pins. Please email me Gary’s Score.

BTW, check on the T/N section for the Beer Ep. #327….I think you’ll get a good chuckle.
October 11, 2007

Social Brian
Gary, Social Brian here, formerly TagWorld Brian. Great to see you getting back to old school WLTV sort of. Maybe you’re able to get out the other energies on youtube, FB, Ellen, Conan, Nightline, Time, etc. And now you’re able to focus 100% on the wine again. (And the Nightline piece was excellent. Excellent. I’m glad you won’t get pigeonholed in the mainstream media as the “guy who eats dirt and sucks stones.” You got to explain the WLTV philosophy, and it was great to hear. And the WineLibrary operation grosses $60M a year? No wonder you spit D’Yquem. Seriously though, it’s been a great ride over the past year.
October 11, 2007

Panoca
Gary, another SPECTACULAR episode. Is amazing how, over more than 300 episodes, you can still bring a lot of thunder. I’ve been watching you since your early days and is amazing how i’m still waiting impatiently for every single episode. Congrats again…
QOTD: wow, tough one to choose only 3 but i’ll go like this:
1) Any vintage port or Tokaji
2) Mollydooker Carnival of Love Shiraz
3) Concha y Toro Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon
October 11, 2007

Augustus
I think I might have to load up on all three of those wines featured tonight. Good show, Gary.

QOTD:
1. McPrice Myers Viognier (Mac makes some amazing juice – and Robert Parker scores this in the 90s)
2. Denner Grenache (it makes the hair on my arms stand up)
3. Silver Stone Chard (chard so good it will make you laugh – the winemaker’s name is Dan Kleck).
October 11, 2007

Phil G
Thanks for sharing your faves…
QOTD – As of right now, how about these:
Torbreck – The Steading, 2003
Paul Autard – Cotes Du Rhone, 2005
Almost anything from Montalcino
October 11, 2007

soyhead
1. 2005 David Bruce Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
2. 2006 Eroica Reisling (Ch St Michelle/ Dr. Loosen)
3. 2006 Turkey Flat Rose
October 11, 2007

DomTheSomm
Yo VChuck! Love the rose episode…some of my favorite summer whites and great with turkey too….hey…still waiting for you to write me back….check your stuff…
October 11, 2007

KW
QOTD: 2000 Chateau La Vieille Cure Fronsac, 1996 Kistler Chardonnay, 1989 Mondavi Cab (Extra one – 2002 Edgewood Cab)
October 11, 2007

Dave L
2001 Icardi Barbaresco
2003 Guidalberti
2005 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d’Alba
October 11, 2007

Dan NYC
Great show G, my wife bought the rose 2 months ago and it blew us away! 90pts man, and I don’t feel like I’m drinking white zin. QOTD Bolonga Ai Suma, paolo Bea Sagrentino, Pineto Brachetto.
October 11, 2007

The Celebrator
Can’t wait to try some of the Fleur Des Pins – I’ve started seeking out a lot of the wines you’ve been tasting and must say, you’ve been spot on.

QOTD:
- 2004 Sequoia Grove Cabernet (GV: You were right, this wine went to charm school. I told a friend of mine who is a master sommelier and has his own wine store that the SG was better than 04 Don Melchor, he laughed at me… and then he tried it, and I laughed at him.)
- 2005 Numanthia Termes – not as good as the Numanthia Numanthia, but for $20 it’s good enough to buy two – one to drink and the other to bathe with.
- 2004 Hacienda Monasterio Ribera del Duero – if I had a show like you, GV, this would be the wine I would tell people “this is why you watch my show.”

Thank you, Gary, for changing my wine world.

Isaac
October 11, 2007

Flavio
Probably the toughest QOTD ever:

3 wines from recent memorable meals (highly influenced by the food and the company)

1998 Domaine du Pegau Cuvee Reserve (dinner at La Beaugraviere in Mondragon)
1998 Gabriel Meffre Laurus Gigondas (lunch at L’Oustalet in Gigondas)
2000 Pontifical Chateauneuf-du-Pape (magnum; dinner at Balthazar, NY)

For the QPR, day-to-day…

2004 Chateau Pesquie Les Terrases Cotes du Ventoux $11, anytime day or night
2005 Hugel Gewurztraminer $16, best pairing for NYC Chinese delivery
2003 Tahuan Syrah (Ernesto Catena) $12, surprising delicious
October 11, 2007

flippy
QOTD: as of late:
1) Chateau Pesquie 2004 “Terrasses” Cotes de Ventoux – big and drinking really well now but will absolutely open up over the next 3-5. Around $12 (Canadian).
2) Corolle 2006 Rose – VDP Cote du Condomois – who knew there was a region in France named ‘Condom’? A great dry rose. Around $14?
3) Graham’s 2000 LBV – around $22ish. Huge and massively concentrated.

That’s pretty much for this month – bound to change almost imminently.
October 11, 2007

joeinla
Great episode. Is penington in or out next week?
Ordered some of the Beausejour, Thanks!

QOTD; in no order,Fontodi Flaccianello, Pine Ridge FORTUS, Mondavi Cabernet Tokalon Vineyard..and I’ll throw in Clerico Barolo Sori Ginestra and Leoville Las Casas.
October 11, 2007

Mason
Good to see you again, Gary! Please, allow me to expound…Yesterday I tried to watch, and for some reason, couldn’t get the video going, so I was MAJOR bummed. Anyway, I am always entertained and enthused by your show. Great wines today, I will seek them out. By the way, I have my favorite wine guy here in Memphis trying to find some of the Boudreaux Cellars from Washington for me. Can’t wait to taste it if he can get it.

QOTD: 1. Egon Mueller 2004 Sharzoff Riesling. 2. Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Porto. 3. Fill in later…
October 11, 2007

aheadwithwings
QOTD
1. September Mission 2005 Merlot from Lieb Cellars
2. Innocent Bystander Shiraz Viognier 2004
3. L’Ardi Dolcetto 2005
October 11, 2007

Mike D
QOTD: Hmm at this point in my life they are:
1. Maryhill Cab Franc Rose ‘04
2. Pillar Box Red ‘05 (you’re the one who got me to try this one:-)
3. Domaine Drouhin Pinot Noir ‘05
October 10, 2007

davidB
qotd: ‘00 penfolds bin 389; ‘03 Coppola’s CASK; ‘03 Treana Viognier
October 10, 2007

Pelican07
Good show.

Idea for a show…3 wines, #1 Wine to drink while watching the Jets, #2 Wine to drink when celebrating a Jets win, #3 Wine to drink when mourning a Jets loss.

QOTD:
2004 Willamette Valley Pinot Gris
2001 Cougar Crest Syrah (Walla Walla)
2003 Kangarilla Road Shiraz
October 10, 2007

Derek Richards
ROcking my socks off right now are the Shiraz’s I’m drinking from Barbossa Australia. Loveing it!
October 10, 2007

AndrewB
Hey Gary I love to drink Pinot Noir because the guy in Sideways said it was great.
October 10, 2007

ChicagoChris
1) Chateau Valrose 2002
2) Chateau Sansonnet 2003
3) Olga Raffault Chinon
Gary,
Great shows! You hipped me to the first two and I’ve been hooked ever since. I can’t find any more 2002 Valrose anywhere in the U.S., it seems. Keep up the awesome work.
Chris