Valpolicella Wines From Italy

Valpolicella Wines From Italy – Episode #365

December 6, 2007

Italian red wines are always among the most sought after however these wonderful efforts from the Venato go very unnoticed!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

Allegrini ValpolicellaValpolicella
2003 Mazzi Valpolicella PoiegaValpolicella
2005 Zardini Valpolicella SuperioreValpolicella

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December 7, 2007

DW
habeen-

Which wine shop do you go to? I travel to Minneapolis all the time!
December 7, 2007

habeen
I just read through the preceding ideas. You are set for contest ideas for some time. My suggestions are already there, but with the holiday season here it seems like a natural to have folks send in pictures of family or holiday parties. Maybe prominently display a wristband, or a WLTV sign, or a picture of GV in the setting.

I also like the cork idea, could make quite a pile.

Prize?

I think having GV travel to one of our homes and host a wine tasting party is a great idea.

My favorite wine shop in Minneapolis celebrated 75 years this year and gave away 75 bottles of wine. Needless to say there were a lot of entries, many from me. Unfortunately I have to continue buying my wine this year. You could give a mixed or solid case of ?? Just figure some way to be able to get it to Minnesota.

A vineyard tour with Gary – nice idea, pretty pricey for travel.

I think less expensive prizes can be done more often and involve more people. At some point down the road here, if it isn’t going on already, some channel is going to initiate talks with GV to host a show, and then there can be all kinds of drawings, contests, and prizes. GV can then do tasting in a different location every day.
December 7, 2007

Whipple
Oh! Congrats to the Canuck!
And the contest: Name one varietal for each letter of the alphabet (or as close as possible).
December 7, 2007

Tom T.
awesome episode, and congrats to the winners!
December 7, 2007

DW
Wisconsin sucks! Arg.
I bought wine before and now I cant. Boooo Wisconsin.
And for the contest I think you should just pick me.
Thanks!
December 7, 2007

Robertico the singer
QOTD:
OK, let me think, how about free shipping for a year. Not fair to the Jersey people I know, then how about a bottle or a few bottles of your favorite wine.

Cheers
December 7, 2007

italianwinelover
Great show as usual. The Valpolicella is one of my favorites!!! Congrats to the winner–lucky guy!!! Can’t wait to meet him and hear his take on things!!!

QOTD: What ever you choose is always fun and exciting! A private wine tasting with you and your dad!!

OOTD2: Under the football – Your triangle for the challenge shootout!
December 7, 2007

Whipple
QOTD: It’s a piece of yay! toast.
December 7, 2007

Iron Man
GV, thanks for the heads-up on Zardini!! will be checking it out!

QOTD: hmmm….what would a wine lover like as a prize??? Wine? maybe? Winner gets not 1, not 2 but 3 picks (that is 3 bottles) of wine from Gary’s own wine cellar…..ok, maybe just 1, just 1 pick.
December 7, 2007

Grasshopper
Oh – forgot to make my guess on the football….

#1 – chunk of cheese
#2 – WL Snow Globe
#3 – A smaller Jets football
December 7, 2007

Grasshopper
Sensei, fun episode and I will definately try a Valpolicella!

QOTD – Since you put such high importance on freinds and family (Love you for that!) I think the contest should be about the person who can do a family/friends Holiday video and get as many members of their family involved as possible. The person who submits the best video showing members of their family enjoying wine at the Holdays wins $500 – $1000 worth of WL wine to host their next family gathering. Would tie in Family, friends and the Holidays and could be run now through the Holidays.

Take care,

Hopper
December 7, 2007

davidB
forgot the football – a cork!
December 7, 2007

davidB
Great show and way to go Cananda – hey they need some love now and then…
QOTD = big ? so it needs to be thought on for a bit..
December 7, 2007

MB Dallas
Gary – my contest idea: It should be something that makes people taste wine, as the main goal is to get us to develop our palate & try new things. How about taste 2 wines you’ve never tasted before (preferably varietals you’ve never tasted), post tasting notes on Cork’d, and submit them to you.
December 7, 2007

Linda Blakely
QOTD: I think the prize should be a bottle of each of the wines you’ve rated as the best from all of your shows!
December 7, 2007

Kale Knowles
QoTD #1 Under the football is a glass
Q0TD #2 A) Contest winner gets to hang out with Gary while he analyzes wines he is purchasing for Wine Library B) Tour a wine region with Gary, maybe Walla Walla?
December 7, 2007

pawncop
Great show. Thanks for the information regarding the valpolicella wines.

QOTD – a private wine tasting for 10 of your closest friends.
December 7, 2007

ciaobarbara
Next contest…a bingo board – who fills it out first based on a certain amount of episodes – they need to try one of the wines that you have reviewed and save the recipt. Mail it in and win! Something like that – it will make people actually drink more wine rather than just watch you.
December 7, 2007

brooklyni
just getting my comment in so i’m eligible!
December 7, 2007

Pardus
QOTD1: Nothing
QOTD2: I don’t have an idea that I don’t already see in the gazillion replies already.
December 7, 2007

Alex
QOTD: Best Video Parody of WLTV’s very own GV. You & Mott can narrow it down to the top 10, and then open up voting for a week or so. Prize: Gotta go with shopping spree at WL, or even better: A case of a fantastically difficult to find wine (that might get absurdly expensive though).
December 7, 2007

hugh
Next contest….a one week paid stint as a wine consultant at Wine Library, culminating in a “retirement” dinner with choice of any bottle in the store
December 7, 2007

Richard LeBlanc
Great show…congrats to the fellow Canadian who won the guest host contest. QotD: Possible contest: how about you reverse the guest host contest? You and Mott pick a name, you go to wherever the winner is from, you go wine shopping together and you taste the results. Everyone likes a road show every once and a while.
December 7, 2007

Ryan D
Congrats to the winner!! At least someone gets airfare, if I’d've won it would have been just a car sent to my house, hehe.

QotD: Got a few ideas here. 1. A WineLibrary Shopping Spree. 2. A “five-finger discount” tour of Gary’s personal cellar [the discount comes in with the couple cases of wine you walk out with]. 3. Gary flies to your hometown and fully caters a top-shelf wine tasting.
December 7, 2007

SS Chris
QOTD #1: Under the Football: One of your BobbleHeads fell over and the head broke off…so either a Dwight Schrute or Gary Vaynerchuk broken BobbleHead head.

QOTD #2: It seems many people are confused on this…..providing you with what the prize should be rather than what the contest should be. I believe you’re looking for the latter. I like the idea about some kind of WLTV/Gary/Vayniac Trivia Contest. Could be fun having us scour for obscure WLTV details

Another idea, outside of the contest question….lets call it a new WLTV Feature….I think the time has come for a “Vayniac Hall of Fame” if you will. Not sure how often…perhaps once a quarter you would induct someone into the Vayniac HOF….decided on jointly by you and Mott…and then, moving forward, perhaps previous HOF inductees would get a vote too. There would be some kind of prize for this. While it makes sense to keep the contests open to as many people as possible, this would be a nice way to honor your long time & loyal Vayniacs. You gotta admit…that’s a pretty good friggin’ idea!!! What say you Mr. Vaynerchuk??