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 28, 2008

Andreas Climent
Just started watching WLTV and the garyvaynerchuk.com videos. Very inspiring and fun stuff!

My favorite thing about the 60s besides the cool car designs would probably The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
March 28, 2008

Johnnyutah
QOTD: Jerry Garcia
March 28, 2008

David Dadekian
QOTD 1: The rise of amazing music. Has no one mentioned the Beatles? And there’s plenty more than just them.

QOTD 2: I am so sad we won’t be there. I put it on the calendar in hopes our 7-week-old would be travel ready (3 hour drive), but my wife has reasonably and gently convinced me it’s not a good idea. On a good note, the baby is great in that we were able to go out to dinner at a nice place last night with a half-bottle of wine (my wife is sipping while nursing). It all works out! Enjoy everyone!
March 28, 2008

JonK
QOTD: How about “Ask not what your country can do for you”.
March 28, 2008

Len
Very interesting episode…I’m amazed how the cooked-wine didn’t influence your palate towards the last bottle…I find if I have a bad bottle it sometimes influences the taste of even a good bottle…but loved the episode!

QOTD 1: The 60’s…liked everything about the 60’s…cars, music, growing up in California, TV shows…great times!

QOTD 2: Wish I could, hope everyone has a great time as I’m sure all of you will.
March 28, 2008

Dr. Mike
QOTD1: The Kennedys

QOTD2: I just rolled into the NJ 30 mins ago, see y’all tomorrow.
March 28, 2008

DirtWineKen
Gary, I think I have just seen my #1 Favorite WLTV episode, ever! I have had every one of those wines myself (though much younger — me AND the wines!). Louis Martini was my go-to wine for many years. Thanks to you and your very generous Vayniac.
QOTD: Puhleeeeeeeeese! I was there, man! SEX! DRUGS! ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLL!
March 28, 2008

KenP
Dan B,
Take the time to view GV’s 400 plus episodes. Kinda silly to slam him for giving us a lesson in older Cali vintages. He specializes in low price/high quality, what he calls ‘QPR’ (quality price ratio). He finds us the biggest bang for the money.
I personally delighted in this ep. GV has a great palate, he loves wine and respects its history. If he drinks a wine I will never find, so be it. He is sophisticated enough, more than enough, to give us a productive insight.
March 28, 2008

clell alden
I think may parents were married in the late 60’s, may have been very early 70’s, will call and ask later. I’m going to try to drive down from Old Saybrook, CT before I have to fly back to billings, mt.
I did get to try some of the wines at chamard vineyards and they are very different from the west coast wines I’m used too.

have fun
March 28, 2008

Katherine
Super interesting show, GV. As always, I’m learning a lot from you. At whom are you winking all the time?

QOTD 1: I wasn’t here in the 1960’s, but I wish I had been. I wish I’d been alive to see men walk on the moon, to experience what the country felt when Kennedy was assassinated (morbid, I know, but still a formative part of our country’s life that I can only experience through documentaries), to participate in the civil rights movement, and so much more about art and theatre and music. America in the 60s must have been like a freshman in college – wild and free and experiencing new things and tumultuous.

QOTD 2: Sorry, Vivian and I will be here in Indiana. We’d love to be there, but duty calls.
March 28, 2008

ChrisR
I will be there! Can’t wait.
March 28, 2008

Eugene
Great as always.
I’ll be at the party tomorrow.
Hope to see you!
March 28, 2008

Jon
Of course the Beatles were great, and all the other incredible music. But there was a self discovery that started then. A lot of spirituality sprouted outside religious circles. Change was a key word to characterize the time. The 60’s were exciting because many people broke away from the old traditions and tried new things, new ways of living and thinking. There were a lot of Vayniacs in the 60’s. These were people who were looking for new and fresh ways of looking at the world, who wanted to test the way things were outside of the “establishment”. Freedom’s in various ways expanded. Many things became redefined; men/women,civil rights, quantum physics,space travel and genetics. These were people who would love Gary’s battle cry of “Don’t listen to me, trust your own experience!”
March 28, 2008

Dan B
This isn’t in response to this episode fyi – Your show is A JOKE MAN – why don’t you review wines that the average person drinks ? 90% of what you review no one drinks – and half of us can’t order from you anyway -
March 28, 2008

Ed Salonia
Great show today.

QOTD1: Don’t know too much about the 60’s

QOTD2: I will be there tomorrow!
March 28, 2008

Vettester
QOTD 1: All the great American muscles cars (Corvettes, Mustangs, GTOs, Barracudas, etc.).

QOTD 2: Won’t be there on Saturday – thanks to work.
March 28, 2008

jfoobar
As I am typing this from my room at the Springfield, NJ Holiday Inn, yes, I will be there.

My favorite things from the 60s are my lovely wife and my brother.
March 28, 2008

Senator
D’oh! I meant Heitz, not Beringer.

Wmole, You forgot Quicksilver MS!
March 28, 2008

JOEL M
GV, Great show. Love the older wines angle. I had every intention of going to the party tomorrow but have been fighting a serious case of the flu all week. In no shape for the 3 hour drive. Really bummed out here. Hopefully, I can make it down this spring. Some time in May. Joel M
March 28, 2008

J-Pipes
QOTD: My favorite thing from the 60’s is the television; specifically “I Dream of Jeannie”, “Bewitched” and “The Addams Family”

subQ: No…… I wish.
March 28, 2008

Senator
Great show! Throws me back to the days when I began discovering that maybe Mateus wasn’t the pinnacle of great wine. I remember Martini as one of what we called then, “The Big 5.” It included Mondavi, Charles Krug, Beringer and BV. The ‘68 BV Reserve Cabernet was the one that did it for me.

QOTD: Having been born in ‘55, the 60’s represent my childhood. I love all the memories.
March 28, 2008

normanzo
QTD1: Favorite thing about the 60’s…the Apollo 11 moon-landing in ‘69 (the year I was born, to boot!).

QTD2: unfortunately, I cannot attend tomorrow. However, I’m really looking forward to the April 1 Secret-pack tasting!
March 28, 2008

Scott
Great episode. I wasn’t born until 76 but one of my favorite bands started in the 60’s. Pink Floyd.
March 28, 2008

SteveW
Great show, nice to see you try some old wines.
QOTD: I was born in 1956 so I was a teenager in the late 60’s.
The 60’s gave us; Rock Music, Free Love, The Peace Movement, JFK, MLK, and
a whole lot more.
March 28, 2008

Kidder
Ahhh man,I wish I was there with you trying wines as old as me.Very
cool!!!! 1964 was a great year, I otta know because that was the year I was
born-Awsome show Gary-Peace-Christian………..

QOTD: I remember watching “Fist Full Of Dollars” with Clint Eastwood-
my childhood hero, he’s awsome…