2 Vintages of a Wine From Fronsac

2 Vintages of a Wine From Fronsac – Episode #584

November 25, 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk welcomes a guest who is a long time Vayniac and very passionate about French wine.

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“Cute guest, single too… MROW,
but she didn’t bring the thunder in t…” by Kittysafe
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2002 Chateau Couraze
2000 Chateau Couraze

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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March 5, 2009

Kittysafe
Cute guest, single too… MROW,
but she didn’t bring the thunder in terms of expressing her opinion
of wines after tasting them and Gary had to carry that part of the
show, but we know she’s new to the wine world and she does have a lot
to offer and will only get better.

She also brought rocks from France which is awesome.
January 29, 2009

Dessert Wine Nerd
Great episode. Love it when you have an interesting/enganging guest on. Hope there’s many more in the future! QOTD: IF I had the talent, to be able to spend a day in the studio making music with someone like Ornette Coleman or Pat Methany. The possiblity to not only play with someone of their talent level, but to have my imprint stamped on something that would be around forever would be an amazing experience.
January 21, 2009

Chris Lotz
Cook great food and drink great wine. all day everyday. no pressure like in the restaurant. one day by-golly
January 4, 2009

yowens
Madison is an awesome city. QOTD: Dog walker.
December 18, 2008

Jon Olson
Dream job for a day: Make wine during the day time, and pick up a guitar and jam with U2 in the evening!
December 4, 2008

Jayhitek
QOTD: Caddy for Tiger Woods in the final round of the Masters. I better get 10% of the winnings as part of the job!
December 4, 2008

Rowland
qotd: it might kill a person to do all the tasks of a vigneron on one day!
December 2, 2008

ShawnDK
…whether they like it… or not. Did you give up on that or what? I miss it.

So, being from denmark, I’ll have to keep my eye out. I’ve not tried it before, but there is also a lot of crap wine from bordeaux up here.

QOTD: Rock star. How do you get an internship for that?
December 2, 2008

Tim Wiseman
Thanks for the great show, and introducing a new varietal (to me) – that really brings THUNDER to my world. Awesome guest, thanks!!

QOTD: Shark researcher, tornado chaser.
December 1, 2008

Jimmy T
great show! loved the guest. nice to have someone we can identify with visit. a learner, not an expert though she seemed to be very knowledgable.
December 1, 2008

JayZee
Nice show. Kristen did a great job and was totally at ease. Her stories and information was quite interesting.

QOTD: I’m not sure what my dream job would be, but I think it might be something to do with Major League Baseball. I guess I would be a player, but I lack talent in that area so that probably wouldn’t work. But even being a sportswriter covering a single baseball game would be awesome.
November 30, 2008

BobbyTiger
I dunno.
Traveling to another country, France in this instance, to study wine? And get college credits for it? Sounds great to me…….for a vacation, but the cost of those credits has to be enormous. I would like consideration of the colleges to not only continue their global thinking, but to act locally. (It’s been said that we have a couple of pretty good vineyards here in the States). Having said that, the show, as usual was very good, and Kirsten was enjoyable.
QOTD- Strange as it sounds, I am pretty much doing what I like to do.
November 30, 2008

The Tasting Note - Peter Wood
I do my dream job every day – running a wine shop. I just wish that I owned it rather than running it for someone else.
November 29, 2008

A dumb Rhine king
QOTD: I would need a lifetime rather than just one day. I would like to work in a vineyard and winery.
November 29, 2008

the2urbs
wow… not my thing… I am a fruit bomb guy…

QOTD… to not have to ever work again… travel the globe… eat drink & be merry…

as the Italians say, the sweetness of doing nothing.
November 29, 2008

Greg
QOTD: Sad, I don’t know what my dream job would be.
November 28, 2008

*/^_^\*
lovely guest….and an excellent episode.

qotd: i would be a secret agent, like james bond, only i’d be drinking manhattans (stirred, not shaken)
November 28, 2008

Classico
Hi there.
Nice quest, interesting vertical tasting.

QOTD
I would love to be the director of the Vienna Fhilharmonic orchestra on new years day.

Groetjes

Classico
November 27, 2008

wayno da wino
Whoooooa…..was Kristin CUUUUTE….Yo G, Fix Me Up!!!!

qotd: Be a Taster at a Burgundy Grand Cru Convention!!
November 27, 2008

Dan-o
Enjoyed the episode! Good guest!
QOTD – My dream job would be to work at a wiinery in many different capacities. I would love the vineyard land, the harvest, the tasting room.
November 27, 2008

AT
Great show w/ a great guest!
November 27, 2008

Lawn Guy
QOTD: I would take over Gary’s life for just 3 hours.

–great episode guys, cut guest! LOL
AL
November 27, 2008

Tom T.
QOTD…..I’d like to be a Formula One race driver for Ferrari.
November 27, 2008

ThomasS
Nice ep. as ever. And a very nice guest … .
Yet, Kirsten, think about this: I’m a Belgian, so I’m – how do you call that? – full-bred European. When I heard you tell you experienced an anti-idyll in Bordeaux realizing that ‘even’ European wine is big business with bankers, insurance companies, etc. owning châteaux, you struck a string somewhere. I think you should come back and travel around OUTSIDE Bordeaux: yes, there is big bizz everywhere, yet, European wine is not all that (I know, you didn’t say so). Real wine lovers – not the ones who can afford bucket loads of money on a crappy ‘great’ wine – are getting so fucked up over here with a lot of people outside of Europe equaling European or French wine – whatever – and everything involved with it with Bordeaux. That’s quite a narrow view to say it politely. Travel to the Rhône, the Languedoc, the Madiran, Corbières, the Loire, the Côtes-de-Duras, the Elzas and you will see that winemaking still is for a large part a family business, even a tale of families struggling against the outflattening, evening, undifferentiating effects of globalisation. It’s the diversity inherent to this huge mass of small growers that is in fact key to the expression of real sense of place you talked about. Large owners aren’t interested in this ’sense of place’ as it hampers the insurance of big revenues (so important for their shareholders): a wine tasting different, a wine you need to know the maker, his family and their idea about wine making before you can love it, is to difficult to market, to difficult to be sure about solid revenue (read i.e. Linda Murphy’s column about consolidation of the winemarket in last November’s Decanter).
I think you should keep that in mind when you do your research on globalisation and French wine.

QOTD: a winemaker in the Jura.
November 27, 2008

Kristen
That is quite ironic apj_bobswineguy! I think it is a sign. You should definitely go do a harvest if you want to. It’s such an amazing experience (but be ready for some *long* days and the emotional roller coaster!