2005 Pommard Tasting – Episode #552

October 6, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk tries 3 Burgundian wines from the classic 2005 vintage and they all come from the wonderful little area of Pommard.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Joseph Drouhin PommardPommard
2005 Maillard Pommard ChanierePommard
2005 Domaine Af Gros Pommard Les PezerollesPommard

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October 7, 2008

Susan
QOTD: some guy named Gary Vaynerchuk??? Who knew???
October 7, 2008

Susan
Gary & Chris, EXCELLENT episode!!!!! Great energy!!!
October 7, 2008

Nora Horan
The flower aroma you were trying to identify in the Drouhin Pommard is probably that of violets. The violets in France have a beautiful and distinctive aroma, but we don’t see violets here (at least not in the east) sold in bouquets. Still it is a haunting scent that helps make Burgundies so special.
October 7, 2008

theemptyglass
QOTD: this is tough! I have different people for different reasons. My dad is great because, he bonds over wine, its something he loves and when you drink with him, you feel like your sharing your sharing something special. My mom is great too esp since she has a palette to rival Gary’s. She can pick out exactly what the wine tastes like even if it’s something random like hot dogs. My boyfriend is great too because we get to share that unwinding from the day moments over wine. I also really enjoy drinking wine with my brother because well I dunno, I just do, I’ll have to drink some more with him and decide why =)
What can I say, for me and my family wine is important and it’s a way we all bond, and I love them all.
October 7, 2008

Dan Harms
QOTD: The girlfriend is always a great go-to for sharing a bottle. But tied by sitting and drinking with my Dad. Gotta love drinking and spending time with Dad.
October 7, 2008

Phil G
Nice – but those prices are just too high in my mind. Using your scores as a barometer, why would I spend over $40 on a 90 point wine when I could spend the same amount for an Oregon/Washington Pinot or something from Southern France that you scored over 93 points. I know that is comparing apples to oranges, and all of your scores are, as you say, bullcrap. Still, the QPR with these wines makes me sad.

QOTD – three people: my brother, my girlfriend, and friend, Doug.
October 7, 2008

Ian K
QOTD: My beautiful wife… it’s our anniversary so we are getting a good bottle tonight.

Thanks again for all the work you guys put into these shows…..
October 7, 2008

Kelly Goff
Love these types of shows! QOTD: My husband, because it’s rare when he drinks wine, but also any of my friends and family who will talk wine with me!
October 7, 2008

italianwinelover
Nice ep would like to see more of these.

QOTD: I have two girlfriends that I love sharing wine with. We talk we laugh we drink happiness!!!
October 7, 2008

Nate Milwaukee
Starting at about 5:10 the whole vodka, Stalin diatribe was great. Burgundy has definitely become the rich mans’ hobby. A good friend likes to say that drinking Burgundy is like playing golf. About one out of every ten strokes is amazing and that inspires you to go through with the other nine.

QOTD: My wife, with Enjoli Duvall a close second.
October 7, 2008

Christine Rufkahr
QOTD = My favorite person to drink wine with is my boyfriend, Keith. We have been happily unmarried for almost 10 years.

Many times when Keith & I are drinking Old World red wine, and we give it a sniffy sniff, we smell band-aids. Does anyone ever get that? What is that? We are “advanced beginners” (i.e. our consumption of wine for outweighs our knowledge) when it comes to wine so I’m thinking that what we are smelling is something common that has a more appropriate name. Just wondering what that might be. Is it an oak thing?

I have never noticed this in New World wines.
October 7, 2008

Benj
QOTD: My girlfriend, Polly comes at the top, of course, but all my friends who are interested in wine are great fun to drink with, and those who aren’t, too. The people in Averys are great fun to taste with, really keen teachers, and they’ll open pretty much any bottle under around £12 ($20)
October 7, 2008

TSchampaert
Hi Gary.
Very long time I didn’t manage to catch up with you again. Think I missed some 100 episodes. You’re still doing more than fine. Feels good to see you again.
Pommard, doing good. Fell in love with Burgundy last two years. Favorite appellation is definitely Morey-St-Denis or Gevrey-Chambertin. Especially the GC’s can be grand, if you have the nerve to wait.
QOTD: my wife-to-be by far, when just enjoying a glass. Some wine palls when judging a glass.
October 7, 2008

Justin L. Ove
Grizzlies at a construction site, that was hilarious
QOTD: Anne-Marie Valenzuela
October 7, 2008

Jon Regan
Hi Gary,
I’ve been watching you on podcasts for almost a year and I’ve finally caught up with the most recent episodes! So now I’m up to date, I’m determined to leave a comment.
I love drinking with anyone who has a genuine interest in wine. Not necessarily a hard-core passion, just someone who takes the time to notice so we can have that “this is good isn’t it?” moment when something above average pops up.
Short answer: my wife, Liz. If I find anything good while I’m not with her, I have to let her know!
October 7, 2008

Fred Liu
Hello~Nice to be back, see this generous show, WLTV, and share gary’s adventure.

QOTD: my wife, I guess so. It is good to share experience with other people as well, but in this way, amilia and me really understand each better thru last year. Different palate, different way to describe the world, different experience we had got before we met each other 10 years ago…and while we are exploring both the world of vino and the world of each other, we are still in love, and we are still family. The best thing is tasting, I think, could be understanding one’s self and the ones loved.

Nice episode, as usual.:)
October 7, 2008

Harry Gabrielson
My ideal saturday night is a bottle of wine and the company of my fiancee Lacey just lounging around maybe catching a movie and discussing the wine.
October 7, 2008

Augustus
I love drinking wine with my buddies, Jeff and Todd. We all work in the industry (in one way or another) and really have a blast tearing through four or five bottles and just breaking them down all night long. We do a “wine night” about once a week – work and girlfriends permitting. Good show, too, thanks for that.
October 7, 2008

Kendrick
haha the Papa smurf action cracked me up….
still think its crazy that the wine was SO young
awesome show again man, keep em coming!!
QOTD= one of the wine suppliers down here,knows a lot but we do argue sometimes cuz we disagree on certain wines BUT its hilarious
October 7, 2008

paryb
wow Gary. What a great QOTD!

My favorite person to drink wine with is my Fiancee Michelle.

She’s a lab tech by profession…one of the things required of her job is to be able to identify smells for certain growth plates…it sounds kinda gross, but I’m telling you girl has such a sharp pal. She doesn’t have any of the bull poopie wine education either, she just calls it like it is, and loves to have yummy yummy wine with me.

You’d like her man.
October 7, 2008

T. Bone
You could not do enough shows on Burgundy! Yep.

Thought your reviews did a nice job of characterizing the wines, such a different set of blokes in the lineup. With that in mind, I would point out as a relative Burgundy newbie that the most intimidating thing about Burgundy is not learning the villages or the crus, but the producers. For the first two you can just read a book, memorize and such. But the producers require time and $$$$. Your show seems to highlight that point, and I really wish you had delved into the producers some. If you’ve got the goods on any of these guys, give it up!

For my own, I have had more Joseph Drouhin (many different Burgundy villages) than any other Burgundy producer (maybe because they are affordable and available), and have had the same experience you had on this show – every time. Passable but totally uninspiring, some just completely flat. Certainly not worthy of the appellations they bottle. I was interested to see you have a similar reaction (I have never had their Pommard).

More Burgundy, more on the producers, woot, woot.
October 7, 2008

aaronb
QOTD: Myself. Alone. Where I don’t have to keep trying to answer annoying questions from family members who think I’m some sort of wine expert or something (I’m definitely not!).
October 7, 2008

Oklahoma Michael
QOTD= My good friend JB. He’s almost as big of a wine nerd as I am
October 7, 2008

AlexInman
Anyone who can teach me to think about the wine i am drinking
October 7, 2008

jfletch
My brother Jeremy and my Dad while watching the tube.