Keeping Promises And The Beaujolais Nouveau 2007 Is In The House.

Keeping Promises And The Beaujolais Nouveau 2007 Is In The House. – Episode #352

November 15, 2007

Gary Vaynerchuk explores 4 wines today and focuses in on a Beaujolais Nouveau 2007 and a Michigan wine and 2 very highly thought of wines

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 St. Julian Riesling
2007 Duboeuf Beaujolais NouveauBeaujolais
2005 Coume Del Mas SchistesLanguedoc-Roussillon
2006 Pax Alder Springs SyrahSonoma Syrah/Shiraz

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November 16, 2007

Badger Ann
Hi Gary:

I don’t think there’s a particular wine I’ve sought out since watching WLTV, but the early episode on why you should decant your wine (using Amon Ra shiraz) really made a big difference in how I was able to better appreciate wine.
November 16, 2007

MikeH
QOTD – Italian wines. In particular the Felline Primitivo Di Manduria and the Altesino that you sold out of yesterday.
November 16, 2007

malliemcg
Loving the episodes!

Wine I loved probably would not have tried pre WLTV – Tenuda del Barco – Palmento 2004 (Primativo from Italy) – delicious!

Love the sound of the Pax (well the Barossa is local to me, so new-world stuff has appeal)
November 16, 2007

Tursiops
Answer to the question of the day:

In one of the last episodes you talked about sincerre, and for once I knew what to choose on the wine list in the restaurant, that’s a big change for me!
I choose the sincerre knowing you recommended it, I was with my parents and they loved it! I loved it too BTW.
So thank for this little piece of you!

So have a great wine day!

Cheers!
November 16, 2007

David James
If you want the lurkers to post more, you should ALWAYS threaten to stop doing episodes…
November 16, 2007

MtnCharlie
Hey, Already got the Frank Family! You can’t go changing it up on me

QOTD: Someone already mentioned it but, the Cambiata Tannat. It was a case of being at my local wine shop and seeing it on the shelf and having the vague notion it was the same one you had raved on. It was so yummy, I bought a couple more bottles to share. Thanks!
November 16, 2007

HungryChuck
QOTD – ‘02 Charles Creek Merlot… very nice, would never have found it in the cluttered array of choices at the local mart. thanks GV!
November 16, 2007

billyg
The 2003 Bovard Epesse Terre A Boire. I know very little about Swiss wine so having a recommendation encouraged me to try new things.
November 16, 2007

Brooklyn Paul
QOTD: Clio baby! I would have never bought that.
November 16, 2007

Michael
QOTD: I would have never tried an Aglianico, no reason, just wouldn’t have.

…and the 2004 Coviv Aglianico Del Vulture RULES!
November 16, 2007

akellner
PS got my Thanksgiving package yesterday, looking forward to the show to share the wines.
November 16, 2007

akellner
The Four Vines Naked Chardonnay and the Boudreaux Cabernet. Naked Chardonnay would have eluded me but its the answer to my complaint about oaked chards from CA AND without WLTV I never, never would have even considered Washington Cabernet, no way no how!
November 16, 2007

Dusty
i would have never (or atleast not for a long while) tried a brunello if i hadn’t been watching wltv. so thank you gary. an expensive habit, but now a necessary one.
November 16, 2007

JerseyGirl turned CNY vayniac
QOTD: Gary, you talked me into trying Dolcetto and thank you cause it’s awesome!
November 16, 2007

brandon
I actually saw a guy at my local Holiday Market buying 2 bottles of the 2007 Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau. For some strange reason I felt compelled to say “you know, Gary Vaynerchuk said that wine is really terrible.” But I could just see him saying “what the hell is a vaynerchuk?!” so I politely said nothing.
November 16, 2007

Kinglurker
GV your just a cool cat, and chris with his many comments on the vid is also a cool cat. Yeah and thanx to viddler for allowing chris to add his commentary
November 16, 2007

Timothy
Hey Gary, way to be a buzzkill. Youâ€™re always going on about how wine ought to be fun and enjoyable and how we ought to forget all the snobbery surrounding it. Well, whatâ€™s less pretentious than Beaujolais Nouveau? Marketing gimmick? Absolutely. Tastes like grape juice? At best. But are people having parties every year to celebrate the release of Opus One? No one I know is. People celebrate the B-N release not because it’s good wine but because it’s a fun idea to ring in the new “wine” from the new harvest. Because, after all, the harvest — the farming — is what wine is all about. So, hand it to Georges Duboeuf and the rest of the French B-N makers: They’ve accomplished just what you’ve been after. They’ve made wine fun — at least one day per year. So check yourself, Sir Gary. You sounded an awful lot like a wine snob today.
November 16, 2007

Loweeel
allan scott sauv blanc
November 16, 2007

Micha
Thanks Gary for another solid show. Nice comment-amount yesterday
I really don’t understand why Beaujolais Nouveau is still requested?
Everybody knows it’s a very very simple red, and for that effort quit expensive.
How can this still work? The only reason coming to mind is, the marketing,
the bottles look nice, and lots of customers (without noses and palates?)
who just drink the wine without giving further attention.
November 16, 2007

RB
GV,
QOD: Greco Di Tufo and other Italian whites with pizza. Never would have picked a white for pizza. Changing the world!!!-:)
November 16, 2007

Susan
QOTD: Several come to mind. First of all the Torbreck Barossa GSM. The Vinum Chenin Blanc. The Bandol Rose.
Just a few. I would have only been drinking Merlots and Cabs were it not for you GARY!!!!!
Thanks!!!
November 16, 2007

Paul Horan
I was at a Beaujolais Nouveau party last nite here in DC. First time I’d ever tried it… Probably the last! What the hell is that??? I’ll spend $10 on a bottle of In Situ Carmenere instead!

QOTD: Seghesio Zinfandel. Very nice!

Paul in DC
November 16, 2007

Big Nick
Love the show, have become hooked on WLTV. The wife thinks I am nuts, but hey she should have already known that. Thanks for the heads up on the 2005 Coume Del Mas. Some friends and I are trying to set time to check out the St. Julian Winery in Mi, what great insight today. Keep it up.
November 16, 2007

Colin
GV – thanks for the tip re: 2005 Coume Del Mas Schistes. Keep it up yo!
November 16, 2007

Matthew Este
Gary, I don’t know why more retailers don’t recommend Beajolais-Villages over Nouveau.