Woot Wine On The Thunder Show - Episode #501

July 15, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk welcomes Dave S from Wine Woot and tastes 2 Zinfandels and a Sangiovese blend.

Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version.

Comments on this episode(246) Leave a comment ›

  • “That guy is pretty cool. Woot will be a website that will go into my d…” by yowens
  • “Is it just me or is the mic’ on your camera getting less sensitive? - …” by Karl Laczko
  • View all 246 ›

Wines tasted in this episode:

WOOT Cellars Wannabe play review at cork'd
2004 Wellington Zinfandel play review at cork'd
2005 Hayne Zinfandel play review at cork'd

Links mentioned in todays episode.

246 Responses

Pages: [10] 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 » Show All

  1. about 3 weeks ago

    yowens

    That guy is pretty cool. Woot will be a website that will go into my daily website rotation. QOTD: I like the palate clense. Definitely when trying a bunch of similiar wines to diferentiate them. I go old school with the oyster cracker.

  2. about a month ago

    Karl Laczko

    Is it just me or is the mic’ on your camera getting less sensitive? - the sound quality is awful.

    Good show though, even if I can’t Woot.

    QOTD - Typically none of he above, very occasionally a swirl & spit of water.

  3. about a month ago

    JayZee

    QOTD: I often don’t cleanse my palate at tastings because there really isn’t anything there to use. Water helps some for me. I think a mild bread or a unsalted soda cracker works best.

  4. about a month ago

    PaVo

    QOTD: I don’t typically cleanse but if anything I might have a water cracker or some water.

  5. about a month ago

    MattUD

    I don’t typically clense my pal, but if I do it is usually jsut water or crackers if they are out.

  6. about a month ago

    GR8wine

    QOTD: Water is best but I often just wait between samples. Sometimes a SMALL amount of a neutral cracker or piece of bread - not too much butter or salt.
    I think a bigger deal is what you rinse your glass with. I like that Gary rinses with the next wine. Too many wineries rinse with water and most don’t give as generous a sample as Gary uses in his tastings. Therefore the wine gets significantly watered down (could be 10% or more!). When you do the “rinsy-rinse” please use wine and not water!

  7. about a month ago

    hk94

    thefaamakesmedrink - I’m sorry you had a bad experience with woot. But thanks for giving me your password. Should come in handy someday.

  8. about a month ago

    Dan-o

    I always like the shows with guests because the interaction is fun!
    QOTD - I usually reach for something very neutral tasting, a saltine, a piece of bread (baguette), a cracker of some other sort.
    I typically only do this between whites and reds, not as often for various styles of reds.

  9. about a month ago

    bacapan

    Great Show

  10. about a month ago

    dafo

    QOTD: Beer or shots of Jack.

  11. about a month ago

    j-o-h-n

    qotd: kissing your sweetie, duh!

    wine.woot rocks, never a problem with any of my orders

  12. about a month ago

    Apollo!

    saliva!!

  13. about a month ago

    Seb

    great show! How can we get the Monkey?? :) Link it up please!

  14. about a month ago

    thefaamakesmedrink

    Gary,

    Woot blows!

    I ordered a three-pack of Ty Caton wines from Woot in January 2007. I paid $54.95 plus the $5 shipping. I mentioned when I placed the order that the temperatures in the midwest would be fifteen degrees or so below normal for the forseeable future and asked that the wine be shipped when it was safe to do so.

    The Caton arrived later that week and, sure enough, all three bottles had popped their corks due to freezing. I e-mailed the folks at Woot and explained the problem. They e-mailed back that I had to send my complaint to a different e-mail address. (I guess the thought of just forwarding my original e-mail to the proper person was more thought than they were capable of.) I did as I was asked. This person tried passing the buck back to employee #1. And it went back and forth and on and on, nearly rivaling the McEnroe-Borg Wimbledon final of many years ago.

    I eventually had to take pictures of the three exploded bottles (which I still have to remind me of being caught in the endless ‘Woot Maze of Incompetence’) and copies of all of my excruciating correspondence with these inbreds to my credit card company to get my sixty bucks back.

    So pass along these three tidbits to Dave S. for me:

    1. I wouldn’t order wine from Woot if they were the last on-line wine retailer on Earth.

    2. I use ‘wootblows’ for a few of my on-line wineshop passwords.

    3. If I see someone from Woot, I will fight them.

    Regards,

    A Satisfied Customer

  15. about a month ago

    akellner

    I’ve been abig fan of Woot for a while now, “Woot-Off’s are fun! Keep an eye on wine.woot, sometimes they have Sake from an American producer and sometimes other gourmet products…and the writing is really funny.

    QOTD: regular water and a piece of french bread

  16. about a month ago

    Rhonda

    I love WOOT! what a great show, how about some wristbands in the next BOC ;)

  17. about a month ago

    Oregon Jim

    Crackers or bread or cheese or water it depends on what my mouth needs which is a direct result of the kind of wines I am tasting. Usually like others I can taste 4 wines or so before needing something, but I do like to eat while I enjoy and think about wine.

    Seems like a good dude. I will check out the woot thing. - never heard of them before.

  18. about a month ago

    Pat Sissons

    This was a pretty good show, i really like zin’s so i would be interested to see where this woot Cellars “Wannabe” goes..

    QOTD: i have been trying out gary v’s method lately and choosing E) NONE. however, in earlier years (before i considered myself a vayniac) i would wipe my palate clean often with a triscuit and a small slice of brie. By the way, i have no idea if this was at all a good idea, i just really liked triscuits and brie cheese at the time and had heard that cheese was good between wines..

  19. about a month ago

    Robert Fulkerson

    I really like not quite cold, but chill sparkling water. Like the crystal geyser we had out at Crushpad for Episode 500.

  20. about a month ago

    Ben N.

    Great show!

  21. about a month ago

    Sharon

    I like when I go to tastings and people wolf down the cheese cubes all at once. I feel like saying, HEY, those are for CLEANSING YOUR PALATE! But I just usually drink water, honestly. Esp. since you’re supposed to drink 2 glasses of water for every glass of wine.

  22. about a month ago

    Ryan W

    QOTD - I like to cleanse my palate with wine.

  23. about a month ago

    thecobalt9

    good stuff! episode was a little quiet though - anyone else experience this?

  24. about a month ago

    chris f

    i heart woot!

  25. about a month ago

    JimVarney01

    QOTD:

    Don’t usually cleanse my pal. If I do it’s crackers or biscuits or just water.

    PS… I was cracking up when I heard Erik trying not to laugh in the background. HA!

Pages: [10] 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 » Show All

Leave a Reply