A Piedmont White Wine Tasting. Gavi

A Piedmont White Wine Tasting. Gavi – Episode #478

June 4, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk gets to explore the wonderful world of Gavi wines, lets see if these wines can bring some thunder.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 Villa Sparina Gavi Di GaviGavi
2006 Martinetti Gavi Di GaviGavi
2006 La Scolca Gavi Di Gavi Black LabelGavi

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June 5, 2008

PaVo
QOTD: Man, I’d say every year the Skins make the playoffs…

Worst Sports Moment: Every year they get illuminated!
June 5, 2008

Smahlatz
QOTD : tough – got to be out of Steve Larkham’s injury time field goal for a last ditch win Australia V South Africa in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, or the famous 1999 Cricket World Cup : Australia beat South Africa with 2 balls left in the super sixes to go through to the semi, where they meet South Africa again, and tie to go through to the final where they easily beat pakistan – what a great year !
June 5, 2008

BB
So now we have to wait until Monday? This has turned into a bad parody of “Who shot J.R..” I’m outta here until GV gets back to his roots.
June 5, 2008

Brian Vanaski
QOTD: In the 6th grade I caught my very first outfield fly ball. I was scared, so I closed my eyes and put my glove up in the air… and smack the ball landed in my glove.
June 5, 2008

J. Bowman
Favorite moment: hitting a buzzer-beater to win a rec league game my freshman year of high school. Old buddies of mine who were on the other team still bring it up every time they see me. Funny thing was, I never saw the shot drop, because I was busy crying for the foul (and I *was* fouled, darn it).

What’s up with the Fathers’ Day promo? I forwarded my receipt, am I supposed to get some confirmation? Do I just wait 6-8 weeks and hope for the best, like we used to do with all those toys you could get by sending in Cheerios box tops?
June 5, 2008

xtrmtrk
Wow, talk about a coincidence, I went to my favorite little Sicilian restaurant last night and they had the Villa Sparina on the menu. After watching this video blog just a couple hours earlier, I had to get the wine despite the high price ($45 – yikes). I drank it while having grilled asparagus with duck egg for my starter and a grilled octopus with chickpeas for my main and I have to say it paired up pretty nicely.

I personally feel this is more of a food wine and not a sipping wine. When I drank it alone I didn’t get the “zippyness” that Gary did. I also thought the “asphalt” thing was a bit too strong – I got honey with a hunk of tar in it. If I was just going to drink wine alone I’d prefer something else I think. But it was beautiful with food. And it was interesting enough that I want to track down other Gavis to try.
June 5, 2008

BubbsBaria
QOTD: Professionally- Mario Lemieux first game back after cancer and scoring 2 goals that night! Go PENS!!! Amateur- Local Highschool Hockey Rivalry Westmont vs McCort state playoffs ‘98; 8000+ in hometown attendance! Westy emerged victorious, one of the rowdies student sections ever! I was getting in old ladies faces and tellin em how it is! Watching my brother raise his helmut and skating off the ice after laying it all out there is forever engraved in my heart.
June 5, 2008

DerekH
QOTD Solksjaer’s winner for Man Utd in the 1999 Champions League final.
June 5, 2008

RichG
I have tried Peidmont area wines but no Gavi. Will check it out.

QOTD: 1994 Florida State vs. Florida, 31-31 tie after FSU being down 31-3 in the 4th Quarter. I have never heard a crowd louder. It was a win in my book.
June 5, 2008

niklopez98
Seahawks Fan here so….Romo fumbling the field goal attempt in the playoffs against Seattle!!!
June 5, 2008

John
Skating with Gordie Howe when I was six years old, amazing hockey player, amazing person, by far the best sports experience of my life!
June 5, 2008

seabop
Around seven years ago, I joined a group of broken down ball players who decided to barnstorm Cuba for two weeks.
My memory is batting against a Cuban National pitcher in complete uniform, stroking a single off him inside Habana National Stadium.
Afterwords, we enjoyed dinner with Omar Linares, perhaps the Brooks Robinson of Cuba. Salud!
June 5, 2008

J-Pipes
QOTD: In the first grade I was on the tee-ball team. Well, during a practice I hit the ball unfortunately – yet directly – into the hands of the boy I liked, making me ‘out’… and I was so embarassed because everyone knew, and made a joke like I did that on purpose. And the boy’s fatehr was the coach of our team, too. It was mortifying at the time, but I really cherish that memory because its so cute!
June 5, 2008

Martin
qotd: watching live as michael schumacher announced his retirement from formula 1.
June 5, 2008

Chris
QOTD- #1 is Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson’s HR.

#2 (even though hockey sucks) is the 1980 Hockey Team beating the USSR. Do you believe in miracles? YES!
June 5, 2008

LauraG
QOTD: Something I saw – the 2003 Tour de France. In person. Something I did – the finish of my own first 100 mile bike race. I’m a bike geek – what can I say??
June 5, 2008

Pastore
QOTD: Kelvin Hayden, in for an injured Nick Harper, intercepts Rex Grossman’s pass with 5 minutes left and returns it for a touchdown, virtually sealing the Colt’s victory in Super Bowl XLI! Oh, and any time Bob Sanders lays somebody out. It’s a thing of beauty!

As for Gavi, it is one of the few Italian whites that I have not had. I will definitely be getting some for the summer, though! Congrats on another great show!
June 5, 2008

JayZee
Nice episode. I’ve had the Villa Spirina (not the 2006 though) and like it quite a bit.

QOTD: My favorite sports moment? As a participant, it was getting a walk-off RBI single in the play-offs to advance to the finals a couple of years ago. As a spectator, it was early September of 1995 when the Cleveland Indians clinched the AL Central title to get back to the post-season for the first time in 41 years. Now they still have to actually win a World Series!!!
June 5, 2008

Neil
QOTD: I had a really great time in my last year of Babe Ruth Baseball (17 years old). It wasn’t if I would hit the ball it was where I would hit it, the gaps, etc. In one game I hit a double and a home run in the first inning (we had a 17 point lead in the first inning). Our team destroyed the competition and I had the second best average in the league (off by one at bat as it turned out). That said, my favorite memory in sports was my daughter’s AYSO soccer experience last year.
June 5, 2008

jaredlevy
Good episode, I gotta order a bottle of that Martinetti to see what the buzz is about!

QOTD: 2003 ALCS Yankees vs. Red Sox when Aaron Boone hits the walk off homer. Shame they didn’t win the World Series that year.
June 5, 2008

wayno da wino
Super Episode!!! Gotta get some Gavi!!!

QOTD: Favorite Sports Moment??? Had a Gazillion of ‘em, would be hard
to single out “one”!!!
June 5, 2008

CBG
My favorite moment has to be D’Wade and the Heat winning it all…Go Heat!!..but the most memorable was watching the clips of that autistic kid get ridonculously hot from behind the three point line he must of hit like 100 three pointers in a row…that was something.

Monday will come..
June 5, 2008

The Aesthetic Elevator
Tommy Frazier’s 75 yard TD in the ‘96 Fiesta Bowl where he made mincemeat of the Florida defense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHbZ3T4rzA
June 5, 2008

Andrew D
Nice show Gary

QOTD: Now you’ve got me excited. It has to be when Steven Bradbury won gold for Australia at the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 1000m Speed Skating. Just watch the link below to appreciate this great feat of being in the right place at the right time; truly awesome.

WATCH THE LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQMJtilOGg

Cheers
Andrew
June 5, 2008

Donna Marie
QOTD: This year’s Giants SuperBowl win and any come from behind Yankee squeaker wins. Especially liked last year’s Shelley Duncan homers…