Rully Wines. Wines You Should Know From Burgundy!

Rully Wines. Wines You Should Know From Burgundy! – Episode #460

May 7, 2008

The wines of Rully are very overlooked and today Gary Vaynerchuk takes a good hard look at them!

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“QOTD: Best is Rieslings (Leitz Rudesheim Dry, and Schloss Johannisberg…” by richardvinifera
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ummm qotd worst: elk cove vineyards…” by nnothing
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Olivier Leflaive Rabource RullyRully/Mercurey/Givry Blanc
2005 Jaeger Defaix Rully Rabouce BlancRully/Mercurey/Givry Blanc
2005 Jaeger Defaix Rully Les Cloux BlancRully/Mercurey/Givry Blanc

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May 8, 2008

ScottG
QOTD: I haven’t had a bad wine due to THE THUNDER. I’ve had many good ones as my palate got larger. The most surprising to me was a Torrantes.
May 8, 2008

Billyd
Hi GV,
The best wine I’ve had because of WLTV is 2004 Chateau Haut Brisson, wow.

The worst was last night a white bordeux 2006 Mouton Cadet, but the up side at 7 bones it was a good palate lesson.
Because of wltv I am on a mission to taste as many different grapes as I can.
Great Show
May 8, 2008

RANDI
QOTD: Ive had some truly amazing wines….and some wines that I thought were just plane awful…but in keeping with the question of the best and worst from WineLibraryTv…I’d have to say, I was waaaay impressed with Stewart Cab. – brought it with me to a holiday party and this wine just made me smile!! And very unimpressed with Chasing Venus Sav. Blanc.
But I thank you again Gary, for helping me try new things and expand my palate!
YOU are the best!
xox
RANDI
May 8, 2008

Ohio Bruce
Best: A Tokaij from Hungary, never would have tried it without being under the influence of Thunder.

Worst: An earthy vegetal Cab which only proved I’m a New World fan.
May 8, 2008

Derek
QOTD: Worst was a Crane Lake 2005 Petite Syrah. One of the better ones was Archetype Barossa 2006 Shiraz
May 8, 2008

damien
qotd: loire valley reds are by far the best wines i have experienced with the help of your show, i’m still searching for the worst! i’ll find one eventually.
May 8, 2008

ian
QOTD…best wine was a cab franc from the loire valley. bought a couple bottles to try and ended up with another case. my kind of wine.
May 8, 2008

dAve
North Carolina! Come to Cary – hot wine drinkers! That’s near Raleigh/Durham – which is also good! Book signing, do you want a local wine shop lined up? or where do you do this?
QOTD: love the secret pack shows – just bought the little doggie label wine from this week’s show. A case and I can sell to my neighbors! smile.
The answer is: the best was trying and appreciating new wine types. The worse: well, none yet. smile.
Hey – do some Cab’s and Merlots and also do another few shows on cheap wines! I like expanding my palate, but my friends don’t. So need some ideas in the normal wines. smile.
May 8, 2008

the unknown chef
Gary:

Have you smelled eucalyptus? Are you sure you’re not talking about mint/menhol equating with Ricola? Eucalyptus smells like cat piss or am I crazy?
May 8, 2008

Newman
QOTD: I’ve only had the opportunity to try two of the wines from the Thunder Show (a lot of them are hard to get a hold of North of the border/prices are quite a decent amount higher). I had the Taja from a couple weeks back and the Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc. Both were really good, but I think the Spy Valley was my favourite. Now that I’m working for the summer instead of going to college, I should be able to splurge on some of the pricier wines from the show.
May 8, 2008

yowens
Love shows about wines I’ve never heard of, thanks. QOTD: worst- some red that you scored highly but described as “sardines-” definitely tasted like sardines and I hated it. Best- hard to say, I’m having an Aminea Greco di Tufo right now that you recommended and it is awesome! I had never heard of Greco di Tufo until the thunder show.
May 8, 2008

Tim
QOTD: I don’t drink too many of the specific wines you feature on the show because my local store carries very few of them but you have introduced me to different varietals. One of the best, a 2005 Bodega La Rural Cruz Alta Reserve Malbec. The worst – and it really wasn’t that bad – the 2007 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc.
May 8, 2008

SoCal
QOTD: I am going to open the question up a bit. The best wine I have bought that you recommend was the Chateau Belle-Vue 2002, the worst was the Pasodoble 2005. BTW are you going to get any of the 2005 Belle-Vue?
May 8, 2008

DaveyDonut
QOTD: I like this one… probably the best wine I’ve tried strictly due to the shower is after your big push towards growers Champagne’s, I had myself a N.V. AndrÃ© Clouet Champagne Brut RosÃ© and it KILLED it. Yummy stuff (now I have 5 bottles). The worst isn’t something you recommended, but in the area of “trying something new, that you’ve never heard of,” I had a Zweigelt from Austria, and it was pretty darn bad… 74 points to me, and this was a $25 bottle! I’ll try another Zweigelt at some point, but not the Umathum!

David
May 8, 2008

Cesare
QOTD: The best wine you led me to was a Torrontes from Argentina. Awesome white wine. Worst: Haven’t had a really bad one yet.
May 8, 2008

Karl Laczko
Nice show, even though White Burgundy is lacking in my repertoire.

QOTD – Not sure I’ve hit any bad wines from watching WLTV. Good ones? Had a nice Aglianico I would otherwise have missed, and I’m hitting a range of Italian whites which is proving interesting – generalisations rather than specifics.
May 8, 2008

Lee W
You were sharp and on point on the The Big Idea. Keep spreading the passion.

QOTD. Best was Boudreaux Cellars Cab and Pomum Cellars Cab blend from Washington. Plus the discovery of Albarino from Spain.

Have not had a bad wine that you gave a positive review and I have ordered a lot.
May 8, 2008

eagleputt
QOTD. My best experience by far with a WLTV rated wine was the Paolo Bea Sagrantino Di Montefalco Pagliaro Secco 2003. It is the wine you rated I believe 97.5 points (smelled like a cute college girl’s dorm room…), and it is outstanding. I ordered a case followed by another case after having one of the bottles. (BTW, I emailed you on how long you think I can cellar this wine but never heard back…) No worst experience so far. I have probably picked up a dozen wines I saw reviewed on WLTV and have enjoyed them all. My biggest frustration is finding the wines you review on your show in Washington. We can’t order from WLTV out here so I have to try to find it locally and my hit rate is probably less than 50%. Any chance you can name the importer / distributer for the wines you review?
May 8, 2008

BargePlus
QOTD – Best:
1. Chateau Dereszla Tokaji 2006 (from March’s Secret 4-pack) a knock-out white for a primarily red wine drinker
2. Zolo Torrontes 2007 from Argentina that I tried at the Verde Valley Wine Co in Cottonwood, AZ after one of your episodes touting this grape

QOTD – Worst:
Not really a worst, just a “not as good as I expected” the Domaine Sainte Leocadie 2005 Les Clauses from the Minervois. Next trip to Languedoc, I definitely plan to look up these & other wines in Aigne.
May 8, 2008

Susan
Gary-QOTD: 2006 La Bastide Blanche Bandol is the BEST wine I have ever had. Remember you challenged us to try a GOOD rose in the summer of 2007???? This one is old world and very near perfect!!!!!!!!!
May 8, 2008

Kevin C
QOTD: I haven’t had a bad wine yet, so I’ll share two good ones. In response to your Cab Franc Loire episode, I had a Domaine Filliatreau Vielle Vigne 2005 that was outstanding. Its the only red wine I’ve ever had that tasted of Pineapple. It came through right in the midpalate, fantastic in combination with the black and blue berries and fine tannins. â‚¬9. I would give this a 91, but what do I know.

The other wine was after your 2005 Bordeaux rant, which wasn’t the first time I’d heard it, but it got me off my butt to try a good one. The Chateau Goubau 2005 Cotes de Castillon (â‚¬17.80)was a gigantic, round fruit bomb with cherry, cedar and some toasty oak throughout. I would give it an 89.
May 8, 2008

W Miree
Good Show! I have been drinking Rully for 15-20 years. I am amazed at how well they age….usually as well as Premier Cru white Burgundy, developing superb complexities and bottle bouquet. I have had them many times in blind tastings where they were guessed to be top white Burgundy by nearly everyone in attendance.
May 8, 2008

Jayhitek
QOTD: Newton Unfiltered or Catena melbac!! the best
worst.. none yet.
May 8, 2008

DirtWineKen
QOTD#1: Princeton, New Jersey
QOTD#2: Best: 2003 Saint Jean Du Barroux L’Oligocene Worst: EVIL cab (yuck).
Great show. Most Rully I’ve had has been a little oak-monster-y, but nice. So I was surprised that Oakey wasn’t in the house today with these wines.
May 8, 2008

Paul C
Dear Gary,

You dared to give Olivier Laflaive a good kicking !!!!

How dare you !!!!

respect.

In fact that show was real added value. I’ve never tried it (the Rully) but I would have thought the Leflaive would be the best of the three. Instead it was awful.

I tried his Mersault village wine and his Puligny village wine, both of which were excellent so I was very surprised to see you trash the Rully.

I’ll see if I can get hold of the Jaeger here in France.

I’d love to see a show on high end Provence or Langue d’Oc reds.

Rgds,

Paul C