Nero D’avola Wines – Episode #385

January 14, 2008

This is not Corvo people, Nero has taken a big jump in quality and today Gary Vaynerchuk tastes through 4 wines to see whats up.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Terre Borboniche Nero D’avolaSicilia IGT
Regaleali RossoSicilia IGT
Morgante Nero D’avolaSicilia IGT
2002 Tasca D’almerita Rosso Del ConteSicilia IGT

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January 15, 2008

Appolo
QOTD? Wine vacation? We’re there! We’re on the end of a Chile-Argentina-Chile Wine tour right now! We’re scooping up some wines that we can’t get up North. Luggage is getting heavy!

Gary, you should do some shows on Chile and Argentina. I can offer some suggestions…
January 15, 2008

soleil
Washington state is holding a big wine tasting — 60 wineries, or so — in Austin, where I live, so I’ll be going to that. I plan to taste some of the Cougar Crest wines. Maybe some wouldn’t call that a vacation, but I’m pretty excited about it.

My first real travelling wine vacation is a one-day trip to Napa or Sonoma county in February. My second 2008 wine vacation, so far, is a week in Oregon, Willamette Valley. At some point I’ll visit some Texas wineries — sort of a mini-vacation, since I live in the area.

I’m glad you are back.
January 15, 2008

JerseyGirl turned CNY vayniac
Padre5 – I will definitely check those out! Thanks for the tips, those sound delish! I’m not going to MN til the summer, but I’ll hold on to your email to let you know how it goes! Thanks!
January 15, 2008

G. Francis
Welcome home Gary!!!

Did you hit the place on the bay in Naples??

I hope so!

Nice to see you feeling better. I’ll be in so I hope I catch you.

QOTD….. I’m going to let you plan my wine trip this year.

TTYS.

G. Francis….aka Glen DiGirolamo….soon to be Wine Crazy.

http://myspace.com/winecrazy
January 15, 2008

JOEY
QOTD: 2008 wine trip- drive up to NJ, stop in at the Wine Library and fill my trunk with as many wine bottles as I can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 15, 2008

Padre5
Jersey Girl…. I live in New Hampshire, but am fascinated by wines from cold hardy grapes. The “holy grail” of northern winemakers is a really good red wine made from such grapes, and they are getting close in Minnesota. Alexis Bailly Winery makes a wine called “Voyager”, which, I think, is a blend of Frontenac,, a cold hardy grape developed in Minnesota, and Merlot, kept alive by burrying the vines in the winter. It is very good! Conell has developed a grape called “Noiret” which is said to have a great future, but I’ve yet to taste any. Tell us what you find when you get back! My email is hpknslaw@comcast.net. I’m an old Wine Educator.
January 15, 2008

Valentin
Hi Gary

Good to have you back in the saddle! Sicily has a lot of hidde treasures but a lot of crap, as well. Chardonnay from Planeta is a bomb and inexpensive. Grillo is a very good native white varietal. Morgante is an all time classic. It is always worth it to try something from Sicily. It has the sun and the reflexions from the sea inside.
January 15, 2008

JeffC
Welcome back G-man. I must tell you, it was tough going a week without the Thunder Show. Great intro with the Mottster Man. And what are you going to replace “sniffy sniff” with? Snorty snort???? I dont think so.

QOTD: Try to explore more of the North Carolina wines and hopefully find some worth recommending to the Thundershow.
January 15, 2008

H-town winer
Gary/Mott – It’s good to see ya’ll back with obviously no rust on the wheels from a week off. We were all going through the DTs out here in WLTV land.

QOTD: We already have a trip planned to concentrate on Russian River Valley this year (beginning of April).

PS – you can’t drop sniffy sniff. It’ll be like the Green Hornet saying sayonara to Kato.
January 15, 2008

knudwig
Nero d’Avola is one of my favourite value driven grapes. Especially in that $10 region
January 15, 2008

Cabel
Mott, GREAT SHOW! Who the hell was that other guy on there?
Oh, wait , I remember HIM!

QOTD: I don’t have one yet. I would like to go on a wine tasting extravaganza weekend, as I have never had such an excursion!? Any pointer/tips/etiquette for A Wine n00b? I live in the Denver CO area, so lem’me know!

Welcome Back Guys!

-Chris
January 15, 2008

Markus
Welcome back GARY!!!
QOTD – next month I will be in Reims drinking Champagne
January 15, 2008

MtnCharlie
Welcome back Gary.

QOTD: No wine region as of yet, maybe visit friends in Sonoma, just a trip to Lake Trinity. There WILL be wine involved.
January 15, 2008

Anthony L.
Welcome back Gary. You gave me a good scare there for a moment. Don’t think I could have taken a Mott hosted episode. Now that I have my fix, I’m feeling a lot better.

QOTD: Don’t really have a wine vacation trip planned. I do plan on to take a couple of day trips to a couple of local New Jersey wineries.
January 15, 2008

Paulo P.
QOTD: Going to New Zealand for my WSET Advanced Course and some NZ wine immersion. It is not a real vacation, but I bet it is going to be loads of fun.
January 15, 2008

Rajiv A
QOTD: No wine trips! I’ll try to make it to WL again, though.
January 15, 2008

brorjace
Mott, you are the man! Congrats to your GMen. Unlike Gary, I would look forward to the Pats – Gmen in the super bowl.

QOTD: Nothing. But I will be starting the tasting season in a couple of months, so I guess that counts for something.
January 15, 2008

TommyBoBo of WI
Got me so darn upset I spelled Favre wrong,,,
January 15, 2008

TommyBoBo of WI
Brett Farve Clemens-esk????????????????? Them is fightn’ words buddyboy…. if I didn’t feel so darn sorry for your Jets sorry ass I’d bloody your nose!!! (ok,, just kidding)

QOTD: Wine trip to Italy for 10 days in October,,, so I’m not buying any wine this year to save up for the trip
January 15, 2008

JayZee
Great show! I love Morgante Nero D’avola nad I’ve had several others in the sub-$15 price range that are really good as well.

QOTD: I have been threatening to make a trip from Cleveland to visit the Wine Library.

I am considering either a trip to Oregon/Washington State or, possibly, a trip with Mat Garretson to the Rhone – but that one’s kind of pricey. We shall see…
January 15, 2008

CHATrBox
Nice to have you back GVNC! Hope you had a decent vacation. You should have Mott co-host more often with you. A little on camera interaction is a good thing.

QOTD: Lot’s of wine plans this year!
-Napa in July.
-I’ll try and catch one of the Wine Enthusiast Toast Events…maybe Chicago.
-Italy is on my list every year, but with the week dollar who knows?!?!
-Probably a New York Finger Lakes tour.
-And of course Wine Library…time to hook it up GV!
January 15, 2008

joel delon
matt you’ve got the ability to replace soon the wine prince
QOTD : what about going to sicily for a wine tour… ?
January 15, 2008

stewart l
Melcome back GV No specific wine plans for the new year, except continuing to drink them
January 15, 2008

PiperJS
QOTD: Aside from visiting and experiencing the Niagra region and Ontario (since I’m moving there!) which will be a pretty big deal in and of itself, and totally new to me — I will first be making the WLTV pilgrimage! It’s going to be a great year!
January 15, 2008

JimChem
Good show! I missed your show last week. I am glad you are back.