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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March 30, 2008

Palmer
QOTD: Tom Seaver wearing #41 for the New York Mets and bringing home their first World Championship (followed closely by the Beatles).

Great episode.
March 30, 2008

Derek
Great Episode Gary!
QOTD: The music scene of the 60’s was phenomenal and influenced a lot of what we hear today.
March 30, 2008

Marls
Not saying that this is my FAVORITE 1960s thing, but it’s the first thing that came to mind….Beatles baseball cards. Yea, you would buy this packet of five cards and a piece of pink bubblegum the same size as the cards for 25 cents. Wish I kept those cards, would be worth something now, huh?
March 30, 2008

Mogen David
For a kid in the sixties it was scary, sad, but an unbelievably interesting time to be growing up. My first thought of the sities isn’t Vietnam, Woodstock, or walking on the moon. It’s the 1969 Mets! Boy, we needed them!
March 30, 2008

Plonkdumper
QOTD: The Stones! and the ladies haircuts…
March 30, 2008

Stephen
Your THE MAN Gary. Love watching. Keep it up
March 30, 2008

Rafi Schutzer
Really intriguing episode. I’ve been drinking a few different wines each Shabbos and I have really improved my palate. You’re right, you have to try different things, and it takes time. I’ve found that the amount of wine in the glass when you smell it really affects perceived aromatics. I tried a Chateau Laville yesterday and it had a strong “new shoes” leather component when the glass was half full. When there was just a bit left at the bottom of the glass, I rolled it around to coat the glass and let it fall back down to the bottom again, a few times. I’m telling you, it smelled just like a rose in full blossom.
QOTD: The best thing about the sixties was the hippy chicks! They always smelled of patchouli and well, let’s leave it at that . . .
March 30, 2008

wannaBconnoisseur
Fun Show gv!

Q-Landing on the moon!!
March 30, 2008

torquey
QOTD: The Beatles!
March 30, 2008

William
Gary, I have a solution to your facebook friend limit. I suggest that you send a few bottles of birth year Bordeaux to Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-yr old Facebook founder. He would probably lift the quota for you.
March 30, 2008

Lawrence Leichtman
One other thing. What happened to the gravatars?
March 30, 2008

Lawrence Leichtman
I have tasting notes on the 67-69 Martini Cabs as we were drinking them as no that old in the late 70’s when I first started serious wine tasting. One finding I have in all of my notes is a hint of redwood that seems to have disappeared over time as you didn’t mention it. I have no notes on Martini Cabs after the 1978 vintage so I wonder how they adjusted to the changing market. The 60’s were a blur somewhat as I turned 21 in ‘68 and was a teenager through most of the ’60’s. Many of my memories were not good, JFK, RFK and MLK all within 5 years. Vietnam, getting drafted, starting a long military career. Wish wine tasting had been the highest on my list. Didn’t see the moon landing live as I was in boot camp and they wouldn’t let us watch.
March 30, 2008

Hugh
Oops, forgot the lunar landing….how stupid of me, infact it was, i think 6 days after my 5th b’day…i actually have a copy of the NYTimes!
March 30, 2008

Hugh
I was born in ‘64….let’s not forget that there was good (Woodstock) and bad…really bad (Vietnam)
any chance he has more of the 64 Martini?
and interesting that it was a split!
March 30, 2008

Steve B
QOTD #1: The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Enviromental Protection Act.

QOTD #2: Well, I had planned to, but 12 inches of fresh snow fell on Friday just outside my door and I gotta get in a few last powder runs at Cannon Mountain here in New Hampshire.

I’ve actually had the Martini ‘69, perhaps 10 years ago. My dad had a bottle in his cellar. I remember a vegetal wine, too. Smooth, nice, not terribly complex.
March 30, 2008

J Crazy
QOTD: ROCK AND ROLL!!! Wasn’t alive but, hey, Rock and Roll lives forever.
March 30, 2008

Andy
Despite a decade of difficult experiences, the free peoples of the world had such a “can-do” attitude, seemed to be able to mostly work through their differences. As a member of a younger generation in another difficult decade, I hope that we can also do the same.

Oh yeah, the music as well.
March 30, 2008

KW
They landed on the Moon in 1969! Interetsing drinking so many very old wines. How about a vertical from the 90’s.
March 30, 2008

MontanaSage
The sixties: it’s difficult to adequately explain what an intense decade this was, and how deeply it effected the American psyche. Unless you lived it, of course.

January 20, 1961: JFK said, “Let the word go forth… that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.”

August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King said, “I have a Dream.”

November 22, 1963, JFK was killed. It was a devastating blow. But we still ask what we can do for our country.

For a few years, the nation recovered, and then reveled in a stunning bloom of prosperity and advancement. And then the world started to unravel.

January 30, 1968, the beginning of the end was called “Tet.”

April 4, 1968, King was killed. He was 39 years old. But we still dream.

June 6, 1968, Bobby was killed. He was 42 years old.

July 20, 1969, we landed on the moon, as JFK asked us to. It was the greatest human accomplishment I have seen in my lifetime. “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” And we got to see — and hear — all of it on live TV. And that’s my favorite thing from the sixties.
March 30, 2008

Kevin Envik
QOTD: Jimi Hendrix of course
March 29, 2008

Paul Horan
GaryVee – hope the party was radool…

QOTD: They landed on the moon on my 7th birthday in July of ‘69. Moms made my birthday cake in the shape of a rocketship, and my brother was soo jealous he sulked in his room and wouldn’t come to the party…

-Paul in VA-
March 29, 2008

Anthony L.
VERY COOL Day at the WineLibrary. Thanks Gary
March 29, 2008

Harry
Gary,
I’m so in your debt for making such a great party happen. I came a bit late to sample the Martinis, but did get a thrill out of that ‘75 St. Estephene (even if the 75 vintage is peaked ), and tried a bunch of things I’d never heard of before – what’s the story on the Norton grape? – loads of manure and compost and uttterly delicious.
The most remarkable thing in the 60s was the idea that the world could change if we just changed our perspective. Racism, sexism, war – they are only inevitable if we close our hearts to the possibility of peace. We now live in a world where not only is racism and sexism unacceptable in public discourse, but we will probably have an African-American man or a woman president. Yes we can
Peace,
Harry
March 29, 2008

Stu
QOTD: December 1, 1969
March 29, 2008

rajiv a
QOTD: HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLS YEAH I’ll be there!!!

(i.e. I was there. It was thunderous)

P.S. This is absolutely KILLING me: When I ran into Andre Mack, I forgot to ask him if he could demonstrate spitting. I will be sure to do that in the future

P.P.S: The ‘69 was slightly corked when we tried it today. Does that sort of thing build up?