Italian Ripasso Wines From The Veneto

Italian Ripasso Wines From The Veneto – Episode #430

March 26, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk tastes 3 Ripasso wines and gives his thoughts and MOTT had to “link up” a lot today. Gary seemed to get down to business today!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Campagnola Le Bine Valpolicella Classico SuperioreValpolicella
2005 Accordini Ripasso ValpolicellaValpolicella
2005 Zenato Ripassa ValpolicellaValpolicella

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March 27, 2008

Social Brian
Gary, I was inspired enough by today’s episode to pick up a bottle of 2004 Cecilia Beretta Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso on the way home. Looking forward to trying it!
March 26, 2008

Grape King
Awesome!!! I’ve been waiting for this for quite some time Gary!! I wrote you an email months ago, and I wasn’t disappointed with this episode. Nice work!

QOTD- Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle. The average chocolate bar contains 11 insect legs.
March 26, 2008

Scott
“On a pleasure scale– sounds like a porno…”

Best WLTV line of all time.

Fun Fact: GaryVaynerchuk.com is going to be as popular or more popular than WLTV if you keep up the pace you’re on there. I don’t care what the comments say on Digg, the 120’s have been amazing.
March 26, 2008

Ernest_G
FFOTD: Nintendo, before it was selling video games and consoles, use to be into trading cards prior to the ’70’s.
March 26, 2008

T. Holland
Bought my first ever Barbera today. Have to save it until my wife has the baby. Thanks for encouraging me to get out of my comfort zone GV.

FFOTD: Sports- Physiologists claim that rowing a 2,000 meter race (which takes 6-7 minutes), is equal to playing back-to-back basketball games.

Movies- Tatooine, the planet that Luke Skywalker was from, is actually a real place in Tunisia. George Lucas decided to keep the real name of the place they filmed.
March 26, 2008

Chris
My fun fact- Or not fun fact, is that when you try to buy a wine in MA and your underage sister accompanies you into the store, they will not sell to you.
March 26, 2008

cma82
Gary,

Stop telling everyone about my value wine.

Thanks

I was a fan of the 04′ Zenato, haven’t tried the ‘05.

QOTD: Sauternes is delicious
March 26, 2008

tarheel17
QOTD = Fun Fact: Everyone I know was head over heels for the Zenato. I tried it and thought it was OK. It’s great to hear your review of it, and to compare the myriad palates. That’s what wine is all about….
March 26, 2008

Sev
Cool show, you rock GV. Glad to have you back, you too Mott.

QOTD: The term “proof” for alcohol comes from back in the day in Scotland when traders would test the alcohol content of a spirit but putting a flame to it. If it lit, it was proof of the quality of the spirit.
March 26, 2008

ZJK
Show was entertaining as always!

FFOTD: The band name “Led Zeppelin” came about after Keith Moon (The Who’s drummer) flirted with the idea of Jimmy Page’s new group. He said, “It would probably go over like a lead zeppelin.” The remark stuck with Page, therefore, Led Zeppelin.
March 26, 2008

Social Project Brian
Fun fact of the day: 77% of people eat the ears first, on a chocolate Easter bunny.

Another fun fact: If a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck about 700 pounds of wood.
March 26, 2008

DannInNH
QOTD: A very, very special Happy 64th Birthday Shout Out from the best damn wine guy around because of the efforts of a very special daughter !!
Thanks Gary…
March 26, 2008

Senator
FFOTD: your comments link is broken for me! I had to manually enter the URL.
March 26, 2008

laposte
I have enjoyed many Ripassos, while wishing I could afford more Amarones.
QOTD: Cows only have teeth on their bottom jaw…no wonder they’re all vegans
March 26, 2008

Withnail
Labels were out of focus all day. MOTT: pick it up!!

Last 2 garyv.com 120’s have been AWESOME.
March 26, 2008

Rhonda
QOTD: Useless fun fact, the length of your foot is equal to the length of your forearm. Go ahead and stick your foot up to your arm, I sure did when someone told me that!
March 26, 2008

GKepps
totally bummed i was too late for santa’s gift.
QOTD: I’ll give you a few football fun facts.
Up until 1912, a touchdown was only worth 5 points.
A home team is required to have 36 footballs on hand for each game.
The most concussions suffered by an NFL player over a career is 13, by Al Toon (of the Jets)
GV- you’re usually “expressive” not “expressionary”, but I like the GVisms.
March 26, 2008

Brad -73-
hot cocoa with mushrooms……..mmmmmmm

fun fact of the day:
and it’s a fact about me
7-20-73
day i was born
day Bruce Lee died.
March 26, 2008

BobbyTiger
El Salvador is playing some itzy-bitzy country in soccer tonight in DC. Todays factoid will be that El Salvador will win (again) by the score of 12 – 0.
March 26, 2008

David Dadekian
QOTD: Fun fact? Styx was the first band to have four consecutive platinum albums. Maybe I should confirm that, but it popped up in LastFM and seemed fun.

I want to also voice a slight displeasure at having been in meetings all evening and not getting back to a computer until 8:30 p.m. and finding that all 1000 Santa items are gone. Ah well, c’est la vie.
March 26, 2008

Little Jonny H
A ripping show GV! I would love to be rolling deep enough to try amarone, but its good to know where I can look to find fairly similar flavor profiles for a third the price. It’s on my list!

QOTD: Did you know… a pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes! I’ve never felt such envy before
March 26, 2008

Lurker-Len
GVP scale….like that! Very interesting episode but I don’t think Ripassos wines did anything for you…no thunder…average and given these so-so Italians wines maybe take it up a notch to Amarones…there’s an experience…especially when it goes from tasting like a dessert wine to an absolutely great tasting Amarone with a hint of being a dessert wine. Would like to see you compare some high end wines to maybe a lesser or inexpensive wine to see your thoughts are…example Ornellaia or Masseto vs. Petolo Galatrona…this might not be a good comparison…all wines would be consider high end but that all I can come up with..

QOTD: Fun fact — watching your show…bringing the thunder…experiencing things I wouldn’t have taken notice of…and the best of all another Jet fan waiting for next year.
March 26, 2008

Antony
Hull City are currently third in the Britith Football Championship (formerly The Football League Second Division and still one league below the top league which is called The Premiership.) This is their highest ever league position!
March 26, 2008

Tim Halberg
my fun fact is that it SUCKS being sick, because when I process weddings I LOVE to drink wine while working on the pictures. But, when I’m sick, I just feel crappier when I drink.

I really need to get better, just so I can take a sippy sip of my wine!
March 26, 2008

Oklahoma Michael
FUN FACT?? Really? Fine! George Costanza is not really an Architect named Art VanDelay. Ps. Pinot grigio kinda means “grey pinecone” in French and really kind of sucks. That was two for the price of one