Red Wines in San Diego – Episode #663

April 22, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk concludes his trip to San Diego with a red wine show.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Au Bon Climat Santa Barbara Pinot Noir
2006 Domaine de la Janasse VDP Terre de Bussiere
2006 Novy Syrah Sonoma County
2006 Ampelos Santa Rita Hills Syrah Gamma

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April 23, 2009

jwink
I enjoyed the episode yesterday more, crowd not as persistently talking, and 50 mintues of the same thing (slowly getting more drunk throng ended up being a bit much). That’s just my $.02.

Don’t drop these, keep them going and experimenting….anyone got a “shhhhhhhh” count between the two shows? I’ll put the over under at 85.

QOTD: blue razzzzzzzz
April 23, 2009

Robert Howells
Root beer freezer pop
April 23, 2009

Don
Ugh, that was tough to listen to with everyone talking in the background… Second day in a row it was a struggle to get through the show, which is a shame because there has been so much momentum recently! I’m sure you’ll follow this one up with some serious Thunder, you always do!!! Keep you the great work.

QOTD: #1-Pink, #2-Grape, #3-Orange. Agreed that Red is poop. Tastes like Robitussin, which is clearly not as delicious as DIMETAPP.
April 23, 2009

Brian Smith
Fla-Vor-Ice where I grew up. Although certain little league parks had Otter Pops. It’s all about the original Fla-vor-ice green, orange, and purple.
Gary have you ever had a rootbeer float with chocolate icecream?
Float in one hand, orange icy in the other = summertime back in the day.
April 23, 2009

castello
Fruit bombs but no Oak Monster?
What flavor was YELLOW. The grape was a sugar rush for sure.
April 23, 2009

festriaqua
sorry gary, i just cant finish this episode, the background noise is just too annoying…seems like a fun show tho
April 23, 2009

KB
Good stuff

QOTD: Let’s get him !

Ha ha, that kills me…. “let’s get him”… ah man
April 23, 2009

Jennifer Avery
You said that if I leave a comment, you’ll come to my town! haha!

I’d love to know how I can get you to review Pennsylvania wines.
April 23, 2009

Marc-China Wine Tours
Nope…I’m still on strike. No qotd answers until you get a real microphone so we can hear you!! Come on GV..you’re better than this.
April 22, 2009

manonthemoon
QOTD: Grape
April 22, 2009

John Rogers
Ssssssh. Either too small a room .too many people or too much wine drinking
whatever the case hard to hear you over the din.

QOTD ; never heard of it.
April 22, 2009

David T (@ONUMello)
You asked about locations to hit up- Columbus Ohio! But seriously, wherever you go next, PLEASE have a “no talking unless asked a question” policy. The constant “shhh”ing was VERY VERY VERY annoying. People need to be more respectful. They were there for you & to be guests at the taping. Would they have done that if they were at WL in Jersey? The interaction with you was fine, but they couldn’t have been focusing on you when they chit chat the whole time.

QOTD: Orange
April 22, 2009

rossdrum
I love Wine Library TV but the background noise …man. This episode was a challenge. I actually turned it off about five minutes in. Can’t do it. See you next time, Gary.
April 22, 2009

J Crazy
I don’t likes sweets that much but among the sweets my least favorites are chocolate and Ice Pops. Among all the flavors of Ice Pops my least favorite is Grape followed closely by orange and red (it really didn’t taste like cherry). I get angry when I see grape juice, grape candy, grape gum…Once at the dentist’s (I was about 10) they gave me grape flavored floride and I spit it out all over myself.
April 22, 2009

tuscanbob
Stay classy San Diego.
April 22, 2009

Wes
It’s Fla-Vor-Ice! And I like red. It’s too bad that the wines were lacking. The Merlot blend sounds interesting. The live audience makes it fun. Thanks.
April 22, 2009

David
QOTD: I usually ate the lime and gave the rest to the neighbor kid that my brother and I hated. The orange was pretty good, grape tasted like cough medicine.

To everyone posting here…I was in the audience. I was standing right behind Matt and the rest of the crew for both episodes. They did an excellent job of making sure everyone there got a pour of everything. A true accomplishment, in my book, considering the number of people there.

I can verify that most of the crowd (at least everyone that I could see, which was almost everyone) was totally into the show, totally into the wine, and a lot of the background chatter you hear in the video was comprised of folks enjoying the wines, exchanging comments, and of course trying to engage Gary with their thoughts. I think that’s exactly what Gary wanted, and what Gary stands for. Of course, there were a few folks who had a few too many; there were a few “club chick”, gold-digger cougar types who rolled in to the event in packs and bought tickets at the door because it looked like a classy wine event where they could meet their next meal. But for the most part, it wasn’t a bunch of smash-drunk, babbling idiots with no idea what was going on as is being portrayed by some of the folks here. I understand that you love Gary and you love your Wine Library TV, just as I do. But cut everyone some slack.

There was a younger married couple standing next to me who were both holding their wine, disposable cameras, and copies of Gary’s book. They were intently listening to what Gary had to say, exchanging their own opinions, and they must have said “wow, this is so cool” 50 or 60 times. There were folks in the audience who were hitting the flavor profiles on the button; there were others who were trying to figure out exactly what the hell Gary meant by “This wine tastes like Razzles”. Most of the people that were annoying me were on the outer edge to Gary’s left, and they had wandered into the hotel bar that had gone into full swing and weren’t even part of the event (they didn’t have wristbands or wine glasses anyway). I didn’t see anyone stumbling drunk and quite a few people ended up going to dinner afterwards at the same restaurant we did. Unless they sobered up on the five minute walk down Front Street, I don’t think they were wasted.

I enjoyed the show, I enjoyed the crowd interaction, and I fed off of Gary’s energy. I do agree that this isn’t the best format for rebroadcasting on the Web, but I also think that if Gary launched a national tour doing this kind of show, he’d sell them all out.

If this format keeps the wine snobs away, I’m all for it. If you’ve got $99, you can join Parker’s site and get all the bottles of BORING that you can drink.

Rock on, Gary.
April 22, 2009

J dubs
Second my thoughts from yesterday… noise too high in the back might not be as annoying as it’s need to be shushed…
QOTD: it’s the only think i like in this artificial flavor…
…grape (Melt it down you got that purple Drank yo!)
April 22, 2009

RANDI
GARY!!

QOTD: Blue!

Hope youre enjoying the cruise…Im aboard on the next one!!!!!!
xoxox
April 22, 2009

Pepel
Shhhhhhhhhandiego! That must’ve been awesome to see it live tho.

QOTD: Otter flavor. duh
April 22, 2009

John Farrin
See yesterday’s comment: ditto squared

QOTD:lime
April 22, 2009

Couves
Ha, ok, note to self: next time do show _before_ cocktail hour.

The crowd’s reaction was hilarious, but the white noise was a bit too much to take.

If wine commentary could be distilled to something with a booming base, I think that crowd would dig it!
April 22, 2009

Tenacious E
Tom Brady was a pretty good sub, yeah?

Actually, what you need to do is do an episode next February when you’re back in South Sioux. That is what you need to do. Well, you don’t NEED to exactly, but it would be fun.

QOD: Green (although all we had was Fla-Vor-Ice, which all tasted pretty much the same).
April 22, 2009

Rocco
Where are our “Green Wines” for Earth Day?!
April 22, 2009

*/^_^\*
props on the composure…..that could not have been easy to handle….