Secret Pack Tasting On April Fools Day

Secret Pack Tasting On April Fools Day – Episode #434

April 1, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk tastes through a White Bordeaux and 2 wines from the Roussillon on this gloomy day in NJ and of course April Fools Day

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“Sweet showing on the wines. Hope all the Vayniacs rocked them out as …” by Dessert Wine Nerd
“Le Muscle Cote de Roussillon was an incredible and unforgettable exper…” by Dillon from California’s Central Coast
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2003 Chateau Cantelys BlancGraves/Pessac-Leognan
2005 Le Muscle Cotes De RoussillonLanguedoc-Roussillon
2004 Domaine Bertrand-berge AncestralLanguedoc-Roussillon

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April 1, 2008

Rani Haykal
Great Show!!!

QOTD: If I’m not at school or at home, I generally hang out at a local tea house. (kinda like a starbucks but independent and focuses on loose leaf tea instead of coffee.)

–RH
April 1, 2008

SarahB
Pleazze do these more frequently.

QOTD: In my kitchen…or in on the water in my kayak in the summer.
April 1, 2008

Dominus
I hang at home at the kitchen island drinking wine and watching WLTV. Yes, I have no life but its tasty and fun!

Time for a sniffy-sniff!

Go Kansas!
April 1, 2008

Billyd
Great show. I didn’t buy the paks but I have purchased other wines you have liked from the wl. then I will get a friend pour the said wine and play the episode and taste with Gary, a private tasting. My sis and I drank the secret de cardinal with Gary and had a great time!!
Hang out in the backyard by the pool in sunny Santa Cruz Ca..
April 1, 2008

Ben F
I should have bought the secret pack while i was at WL on Saturday… but it was fun just the same…
QOTD: I hang out at friends houses and nice bars…
April 1, 2008

Nickyb85
GV- great show

QOTD- I like to hang out at my friends place with my friends. There is a nice little wine bar in Lubbock called LaDiosa its a great place to hang out and relax with friends and enjoy a bottle of wine!
April 1, 2008

Kirk (AKA: slave2thevine)
Great show….wish I could have had the white Bordeaux…sounds tastety.

QOTD: Wow…um, I usually hang out at the local wine store….or in the library while I’m writing a paper…
April 1, 2008

manonthemoon
Thunderous show, I love the secret pack tastings it really helps compare tasting notes with someone else. Keep on bringin it.

QOTD: Gym, a local bar Evening Star Cafe and a local brew put called Rustico that I can walk to and has a sick amount of obscure beers available.
April 1, 2008

shawnandlu
Great job picking the wines Gary. I’ve said it before and I will say it again louder YOU NEED TO DO THIS ONCE A MONTH! I love how you broke up the pack so that some of the people on limited budgets could taste along. The secret packs are fun. Next time though I am going to get two sets. I think it would be fun to put some of the wines away and see how they evolve.

QOTD: We live in Downtown San Diego. we roll around and live the cafe life.
April 1, 2008

Oklahoma Michael
LOVE the taste along Gary!!!!! keep them coming. QOTD- I hang out on the riesling isle around the corner from the Montefalco bin. PS. that is the closeout section for all you CALI snobs
April 1, 2008

thisIslandEarth
Fun show and educational too. Excellent wine selection GV! I mean what the hell is better than WLTV Secret Packs and girls with pock marks?
April 1, 2008

Sharon
I hang out in our local library with all the beautiful people heh heh.
April 1, 2008

CoolHandLuke
Interesting show.

QOTD – Don’t really hang out. Used to hang out at Tom Bergin’s in L.A. One of, if not, the oldest Irish pub in L.A.
April 1, 2008

Origin
QOTD: The local pub down the road. Nothing better than hanging out with friends, awesome bar and waitstaff, and just enjoying a few beers. Too bad the wine bar is so far away.

Hopefully there’s another secret pack soon! Bring it!
April 1, 2008

GoldensGirl
QOTD: High, high in the mountains in or out of my humble abode with my sweet, sweet pooches and my wonderful guy.
I’m tasting tea in the wine I’m drinking. First time, surprising, and pretty good.
April 1, 2008

lawschooldrunk
great episode, gary! I don’t hang out- I’m in law school!
April 1, 2008

BargePlus
OK, OK, OK. I learned my lesson. I bought two of the secret 4-packs to share with neighbors & friends (not that they are mutually exclusive), but have not been able to enjoy their tasting due to one thing or another. So I take a major pazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz on the secret 1- and 2-packs, and what happens: you come up with a fantastic (90 point) white bordeaux and two (repeat, two – not one, but two) reds from Languedoc-Roussillon. And one of them is even a Fitou wine. And you hit all my hot buttons with words like cassis and cheese. And you know they’re good by your body language: drinking directly out of the bottle and sharing both reds with the Mottster. I mean when something is so good that you just have to share that goodness with someone, you know it’s good.

It was a hard lesson to learn, but I will get the next secret pack no matter what.
April 1, 2008

Tom L
Great show. Good wines. Glad I got all three.

QOTD: Star Tavern, Orange, NJ
April 1, 2008

janet
I hang out in my elementary school classroom ( I am a teacher, not an elementary student) and at a local wine shop called Put a Cork In It which does a tasting every Thurs Fri and Sat and is wonderful.
April 1, 2008

Edwin Nunez
Gary: When you announced the one or two-pack offer, you didn’t make clear they were THREE different wines. I ordered the two pack thinking you were going to taste two wines. I should have ordered both packs to better compare my palate and nose with yours. Please make this more clear for a future offer. Thanks for the opportunity to taste the wines along with you!
April 1, 2008

Andy Hannon
When I’m home in Boston: Friends houses, parks, IHOP, the Candlepin bowling alley

When I’m in Chicago: Grant Park, mine and apartments of friends, IHOP.
April 1, 2008

bob c
Not to bust on you Gary, but the whole point for me buying the secret pack, was to be able to compare notes..and you totally blew off what you got from the sniffy sniff, on the Le muscle…Wow, how different our palates must be……I didn’t get much flavor from the le muscle at all, although did get the tanniny part.I liked the Fitou MUCH better, got the tomato juice on the nose part,and agree on the strange finish…
April 1, 2008

CindyW
QPTD: Next weekend I’ll be hanging out at Seattle Storage with you, GaryV (and Mottt, and Matt!!!!).

I mostly hang out at home with my husband, but we’re known to head to wine tastings at shops and wine bars on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. Oh, and once-a-month I get to hang out with uber-cool Seattle Vayniacs.
April 1, 2008

Claire
Did anyone smell cat piss in the 2nd happy face wine (le muscle’)– once I figured out that smell I can’t smell anything else about that wine!
April 1, 2008

Dan Fontaine
Anywhere where there are good friends, that’s where I hang.