Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon Wines From The 60’s

Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon Wines From The 60’s – Episode #432

March 28, 2008

Louis Martini is a legend in California wine history and today Gary Vaynerchuk gets to visit some 40 year old Cabs. This is a special episode and Gary even brought his thunder down a tad out of respect.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

1964 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon
1965 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon
1967 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon
1968 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon
1969 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon

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November 19, 2009

David from Michigan
OK, I’ve seen lots of wonderful, free videos, but you guilted me into leaving a comment.

This was a great show. Martini was my favorite, and in 2001 I bought my first case of Louis Martini. I emailed their website & asked whether it was good for aging, and a nice woman wrote me back and said that most people preferred to drink them young for the fruit. At that point, I had no idea what she meant, but I figured she obviously knew something I didn’t.

Highlight of the ’60’s was going to India in 1969 to Meher Baba’s Darshan, his being the only Avatar or guru to grace the cover of the Rolling Stone. Quote: “Only the grace of a Perfect Master can make you experience the God-State in a flash after he makes you drink the wine of his divine love.”

The wine of divine love is presumably something somewhat better than 1990 Petrus, but as Gary says, everyone has their own palate.

Gary, I enjoy what you do, and I love letting you taste all this wine. It is easier on my wallet & my liver, which is somewhat beat up by chemo.

May the good lord bless you, whoever you think Him (or Her) to be….
October 26, 2009

richardvinifera
QOTD: Born in the 80s, not massively clued up on the 60s but it’s gotta be the music, maybe The Beach Boys…
January 9, 2009

Dessert Wine Nerd
Great, great show. Nice to see you pay respect to a winemaker you have respect for. QOTD: The music scene. The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, and Dylan putting out some of the greatest rock music ever made…just beautiful stuff. QOTD2: Nope….but hopefully someday.
August 7, 2008

Herb
QOTD: The music…Beatles and others.

“I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.” – Lennon
May 13, 2008

rigaboy
The 60’s?..if you remember the 60’s..you were not there.
April 27, 2008

Tommy Vernieri
Is the vegetal aspect from the style of winemaking or from the age?

That’s great restaurant advice. I hadn’t thought of the first point, frequently follow the second.
April 13, 2008

GR8wine
Wow Gary,
Great show! Too bad it took me so long to get around to viewing. Thanks to Steve in PA for allowing us the privilege of enjoying such classics. And I really resonate with the advice you gave at the end of the show.
Kudos.
April 10, 2008

glenn
watched this episode via ITunes podcast while coming home from the east coast – bravo!!! what a cool show.
April 8, 2008

josh in Burgundy
Wasn’t born till much much later so I guess I would have to go with man landing on the moon
April 7, 2008

Larry D
Jebus–favorite things from the sixties? Okay. I remember listening to the White Album on New Years Eve, 1968, and was certain then, at the age of 14, that none of the rules my parents lived by would ever apply. The sixties was all hope. Hope we have supposedly had before or ever had since then. I loved Abby Hoffman, I loved Jerry Rubin, I loved Stokely Charmichael, the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and I loved with all my heart Malcolm X. My first vote was for Shirly Chisolm in a primary elelction for President of the United States. Because I believed. I had belief and I had conviction at a time long ago. What happend? Often I wonder…what happened?
April 6, 2008

Jeff Al
Thank you Gary.

So many great things from the Sixties. Lennon. “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Just like trying a new wine…if you haven’t heard it, listen to it. Pronto.
April 6, 2008

Tribull
QOTD: I had the priviledge of seeing the Beatles on the their second tour to the USA in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Kansas.

In the words of Ed Sullivan: …Really good show today…
April 5, 2008

ChrisR
Because I like to experiment, and also because you give great advice, I always try and have a different wine wherever I go. Usually this leads to more disappointment than delight (probably due to my $25 tops allowance), but it’s always fun. Case in point: At dinner last week I tried a nero d’avolo for the first time. Didn’t get the chocolate-covered cherry that you pointed out with some of the neros you tried, but it was fun to get exposed to it. This week is was Pinots from around the world (France, NZ, Argentina). Maybe next week I’ll get to try a Gruner. Anyways, keep pushing people to try new things, it’s seriously the funnest part of learning about wine.
April 5, 2008

Karl Laczko
Fascinating show, I hope to be able to try 40+ yr old wine sometime.

QOTD – 1967, I was born! 1969, Apollo 11 made it to the moon and back.

SQOTD – Didn’t make it, no surprise there I suppose!
April 5, 2008

Dan-o
I was born in the early 60’s. Therefore, I did not really experience the 60’s as much as I did the 70’s. However, I would have to say that the music is what I liked most about the 60’s. Chronologically, we had Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Cream, Allman Bros, Led Zepp, and more. Probably the best music in history.

Unfortunatley I could not make the trek to Wine Lib – we had a 1 year birthday party for my wife’s Godson. No wine at that event – bummer!
April 5, 2008

A-Gar
QOTD1: Best thing of the ’60s? Wow, that was twenty years before I was born (’86). Maybe…the Civil War Centennial Events? Great historical commemoration, which definitely led towards my piqued interest in American History.
April 4, 2008

Rolf Lydecker
QOTD: The best thing to come out of the 60’s is my parents marrige…because it lead to having me!

Cab is good.
April 3, 2008

victor
Gary,
Would you please give my niece Raissa a Birthday shout out on Apr 21. She got me into watching wltv- she’ll be graduating Med school in May and moving from Edmonton to Halifax for 5 years! and I’ll Really miss her…We’ll be enjoying a Sawyer Cellars Rutherford Napa Valley 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon, Imagery Artist Collection Sonoma Valley 2004 Petit Verdot – ALL about the P.V.! and a Sequoia Grove Rutherford Reserve Napa Valley 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon for her Bday if you could include any of these in a tasting? It is next to impossible for us in Canada to find ANY wines you taste… PLEASE.please. please.
Ps She’d proudly wear a wrist band if you could hook her up?!
Thanks
Victor Maslo,
A butter bandit fan!…
April 3, 2008

Tim Halberg
my favorite thing from the 60’s was that everyone as doing analog photography, not digital! soooo sick!

I miss the entirely film days, cause it was such an easy decision, now it’s tough, digital rocks, film rocks… what to do!

Great reviews on some very aged wines! How fun!!!!
April 3, 2008

Grape Expectations
I’ve been away and am just now catching up on last week. This was a great episode. I graduated from high school in 65 and college in 69 and it sounds like these wines have held up better than I have!

I have been drinking some stuff from the back of the closet that I thought was pretty old (just opened an 81 Mondavi Reserve Cab)and I’m pleased at how well they held up, despite not being stored in ideal conditions and moved halfway across the country twice.
April 3, 2008

Orville B
08/08/67 great day

JB
April 2, 2008

mbannon
Wow, very cool episode (I’m a little behind schedule this week). And great speech at the end, too.
April 2, 2008

MtnCharlie
Great show Gary! I was born in ‘65, so it was really cool to see you taste a wine from my birth year. I haven’t done that yet. I love trying old wines, but they seem hard to come by unless you got the bucks, so thanks for sharing the experience. One I did find yesterday was a 1997 Cronin Central Coast Pinot Noir for $9.99 at K&L Wines in Redwood City. A bit past its time but very interesting. The nose was very alive. It smelled better than it tasted. The finish was a bit weak.

QOTD1: The music, but didn’t really start appreciating the music of the sixties until ‘79.
QOTD2: Did not make it.
April 2, 2008

Bobby Wino
awesome show! What a great idea.

QOTD. I was not even close to being around in the 60’s…but walking on the moon seems fun!

QOTD2. sadly I was working and couldn’t make it to Jersey
April 1, 2008

kaybee
QoTd
The 60’s were groovy. I graduated from high school and met my long time sweetheart in 1969. The best thing about the 60’s was the music. The Cream, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence, what more can I say.