Gigondas:Rhone’s Little Secret - Episode #505

July 21, 2008

Gigondas is a wine that really has the ability to bring thunder at a solid price points. Gary also has a crap load of shout outs and announces the finalists for the Bottle Shock Contest!

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  • “Is that you gary?

    It’s wine, not mouthwash……..” by Danae

  • “Another great show about a wine I’d never heard of! QOTD: no, not cre…” by yowens
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Montirius GigondasGigondas play review at cork'd
2004 Guigal GigondasGigondas play review at cork'd
2004 Tardieu Laurent Gigondas VvGigondas play review at cork'd

The 3 Finalists for the Bottle Shock Contest (Cast your vote in the comments. Vote by number)

Links mentioned in todays episode.

401 Responses

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  1. about a month ago

    Danae

    Is that you gary?

    It’s wine, not mouthwash…..

  2. about 3 months ago

    yowens

    Another great show about a wine I’d never heard of! QOTD: no, not creative

  3. about 3 months ago

    Michael

    Gigondas always rocks my face. I’ve been a fan for years. Glad to see you dig the profile of these highly individual wines. You rock, Mr. Vaynerchuk!!!

  4. about 3 months ago

    Oakmon's BF

    I’m having my first gigondas as I rewatch this show. It’s a 2005 Domain De Carobello Gigondas. I can’t identify flavors as well as you. I’m not real high on it. Although I love the raw veggies at the salad bar I think I may not be the biggest fan of the veggie wines. But I think I’m liking it more than past wines that had similar flavors so my palate may be evolving. I’ll see what overnight breathing does for the gigondas.

  5. about 3 months ago

    KC in O-town

    Great energy, as per usual. I’ll look up Gigondas , for sure.
    Gotta go with # 3.

  6. about 3 months ago

    Mark I

    Snake Eyes Whhhat?!?! Hilarious! Loving the Gigondas

  7. about 3 months ago

    Shawn Clifford

    Ok, so its a $55 dollar glass ($220/4), but still …

  8. about 3 months ago

    Shawn Clifford

    Oh, Gary, I hate to tell you this, but that is a $220 crystal glass!
    BV stands for “Bottega del Vino”. I found a site selling it for a small fortune:
    http://www.bestwineglass.com/pages/bottega_del_vino/20.php

    Hope someone sends you more glasses!

  9. about 3 months ago

    david h.

    I leave town for a week and miss the chance to vote on the Bottle Shock contest.

    Number 3 had an impressive big ass glass but Number 1 is definitely my favorite.

    QOTD: I was going to come up with my own but I like Colin’s

  10. about 3 months ago

    Smith MBA

    Rhone Valley, awesome job giving the people what they want. Sorry, I have dissapeared. New job, different schedule.

  11. about 3 months ago

    AshleyE

    QOTD: Drinking game… Hm… “Gary Pounds it”. Drink a shot, (but then spit it back out into a bucket) for every time Gary pounds the table. ;-)

  12. about 3 months ago

    jason

    QOTD >>>> duh
    watch star wars and every time luke is a pussy, you have to drink…. especially when he does not want to go to town for power converters

  13. about 3 months ago

    jason

    A. bravo on the gigondas episode. it was the wine that got me hooked on the southern rhone. guigal fell where i thought its 04 would… not horrible, not amazing.
    B. those are fightin’ words about savage and hogan
    C. i have lots to catch up on. i have been away for almost weeks. vacation in the cape w/ family/ lobster and a car full of whites… woooooo! i almost brought my chapoutier, chante alouette ‘ 98.
    D. looking forward to the rest of the episodes i missed. i caught this one first because i luv the gigondas

  14. about 3 months ago

    Jet

    Just returned from France 2 days ago….was in Gigondas and tasted the Montirius there! I fell in love….not only with the wine but the town could not be more beautiful…it is absolutely perfect.

  15. about 3 months ago

    robert hack

    Vote#1, absolutely perfect.

  16. about 3 months ago

    Derek F.

    Thanks so much for the shout out Gary, we just got back from are honeymoon to the Dominican Republic, we had a really great time and missed WLTV!!

  17. about 3 months ago

    JayZee

    Nice show on the big “G”. I’ve always enjoyed Gigondas as a less expensive alternative to CDP (although, as you say, not so much any more).

    QOTD: I’m told old for drinking games. ;-)

  18. about 3 months ago

    Sassodoro

    QOTD. Has anybody suggested blind tasting and trying to identify the wine? Isn’t that the grandaddy of drinking games? How about tasting a wine and trying to describe it and score it as Gary would. For example, would Gary describe the nose as oregano or celery stick, twizzler or cool aid, etc.? (Has anybody compiled a list of Gary’s unusual descriptors?)

  19. about 3 months ago

    Dan-o

    Good episode, although the server was not too kind to me.
    I was introduced to Gigondas in 1997 by a French colleague.
    I have been a fan since!

    QOTD - not big on drinking games, it takes the pleasure out of drinking for quality.

  20. about 3 months ago

    KVolk

    QOTD: This is so easy to do…anytime you say Jets you drink….when you mention Kellen Clemmens you drink what’s left in your glass…..when you say anything to do with the playoffs or super bowl…finish the bottle…..

  21. about 3 months ago

    Jim in Atlanta

    I really enjoy Gigondas wines. I spent a few days there in 2006 and got a great appreciation for the wines. It is also a nice place to visit. Lots of good tasting opportunities.

    QOTD - I like anything that teaches me about wines, whether it is questions about wines, regions, wineries, or if it relates to trying to describe wines (grape, region, vintage, etc.). Anything would be fun.

  22. about 3 months ago

    Keith Brown

    Can’t help with the QOTD. I’m all about responsible drinking. Like drinking when I’m lonely, drinking when I’m depressed, drinking when I’m bored, etc. I would never, EVER, turn it into a game. :-)

    Contest: Gotta go with #3

  23. about 3 months ago

    SoCal

    QOTD: Sorry Bro don’t do drinking games….never needed a game to get me to drink….. ;)

  24. about 3 months ago

    ScottG

    Finally catching up. Nice show. I actually stumbled across the live feed and though it was a “backstage” look at the taping of the show. You should add a “Mott Cam” so we can see all of Mott’s facial expressions!!

  25. about 3 months ago

    Colin Komar

    QOTD:
    My goal here is to list rules not only for us to abide by, but a fun game that Gary can play with us.

    1) I just saw episode 497 and you mentioned that you wanted to have lighting that flashes during Sniffy Sniff. Instead of having the lights go off every time a Sniffy Sniff happens, you could have like a “Thunder

    2) Round” where everyone has to chug their glasses.

    3) Anytime Mott links something up.

    4) I think anytime you look away from the camera to head nod at someone or any distraction like that you should take a drink.

    5) Since you are uStreaming it up now we could have more interactive drinking, like 300+ we all drink.

    6) Anytime you let “Pour some out for the Vayniacs”, we take a drink.

    7) Anytime you pass the glass to Mott, we drink.

    8) Anytime you nearly drop the glass or break one, you get one for a “party foul.”

    9) Any time you brown bag it, we take a swig from the bottle.

    10) Anytime a wine “Brings the Thunder” we all drink.

    11) Anytime the Oak Monster Shows up we take a drink.

    12) We raise our glasses in tribute for the shout-outs and afterwards all drink.

    That’s most of all that I can think of. I know it is too late now, but I thought that #1 (DaKoolaidShow) the best.

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