The 4 Hour Wine Tasting

The 4 Hour Wine Tasting – Episode #665

April 27, 2009

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week, tastes 3 Malbecs with Gary Vaynerchuk.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Bodegas Goulart Malbec ClassicArgentine Malbec
2005 Chateau Du Cedre Cahors HeritageCahors
2006 Lagarde Malbec Single VineyardArgentine Malbec

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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April 28, 2009

drew benz
I hope for the best in Sanchez but I have to be honest GV, it’s not going to happen. Nadda’.

And oh hell yes on the Argentina shout outs. I will add as well, Argentina rips bruts (think champagne) and syrahs (insanely underrated) and a crap load of solid whites, think torrentes, chardonnay and others. It’s not just about malbec done here.

And there is no cow on earth that can compete with the beef here. Fact.
April 28, 2009

JCN
Good show, looking forward to reading his book.

QOTD: I don’t think I would change anything.
April 28, 2009

Gabriele Rossi
I want to surf the big wave.
April 28, 2009

scalpa
I don’t know why but the guest gets on my nerve a little bit
Argentina is definitely the best value of the world, sorry Portugal

QOTD The same than today, as working in the wines and spirits biz, but would go back to France where I’ll have much more vacation !

Cheers GV keep up the good work
April 28, 2009

JB
Hey guys! Quality show as always. Tim is an amazing guy. The bits of random knowledge you dropped throughout the episode on various things was great.

QOTD: ‘Retire’ is such a misnomer. It makes it seem like a person gives up his or her ‘life’ of the past 30 or years to finally be happy. I don’t ever expect my life to be without projects (be it people or products/companies), so I plan to move on to new projects or finally finish some old ones. ‘Retirement’ will just be a formal deal not to work at a specific company on a given project anymore… no reason not to continue another on my own or somewhere else… always developing or working towards something new
April 28, 2009

rowland
Yo what the Funk, why did you cut out that nerd talk?

qotd; retirement? dude my family is poor and so am I, I dont think ill be retiring, ever. As Conan the Barbarian said, “time for the earth in the grave.”
April 28, 2009

Mr Beast
Great show. I like to hear about the wines you taste on the show and then Gary gives a few of his favorites from the same grape.

QOTD – I probably will work at the same job I’ve had for 30 yrs only take some additional time off to volunteer, travel, hobbies and maybe even see grandkids if I’m so blessed.
April 28, 2009

Diana LeRoi-Schmidt
Great show Gary and Tim! I just got finishing reading the Four Hour Work Week, two weeks ago. Loved it! and plan to read it again with a notebook handy.

QOTD: Photographer, preferrably a nature photographer.
April 28, 2009

Will Gosling
Hah! Thanks for the shout out Gary, the cruise was awesome. Anyone who thought about going but didn’t should definitely check it out next year. Quite a few good malbecs and other Argentine wines at the super tasting for sure (Poesia, Ksana, the Camino del Inca was really tasty…70% Tannat). I love malbecs with marinated skirt steak, Costa Rican style (shout out to Irazu in Chicago).

QOTD: Wow, that’s a tough question. I would hope one could continue to do whatever makes them happiest, or concentrate harder on trying to get to that point for the long-run. Lots of people seem to wait for retirement to travel, but I’m trying to see as many places as possible now as well…so many amazing places to see, you gotta start young and see the world whenever you can.
April 28, 2009

Bobbie
Gary, you look so cute in the frozen picture of the video before it loads. Great show!
April 28, 2009

kent levi
Tim: I would be a full-time Global Galavantor!
April 28, 2009

Jesse
Great show today! I loved 4 hour work week. Tell Tim I have applied the principles and am starting to live the dream!

QOTD: You have to have fun at work!
April 28, 2009

G
liked the show, have similar vocabulary problems describing wine, especially the aromatics. liked the final breakdown on the oak monster as not being sustainable over 3 or 4 glasses, very good job of translating by Gary.

QOTD: Technically, already ‘retired’ once, but it was from a job I loved (Navy) as that was a young mans game. So now I work a different job. And if I ever retire from this, expect I’ll do another job…so no change really.
April 28, 2009

M
I just enjoyed my first Xarel-Lo. It was 2005 Castell Roig, Xarel-Lo. GV liked the 2006 about a year ago. I found the 2005 last summer and it was tasty today. Perfect on a warm sunny day with a light dinner.
April 28, 2009

Grant
I just hope that Malbec doesn’t turn into another Pinot Grigio or Pinot Noir, where every large, commercial wine producer puts out a malbec.
April 28, 2009

Jamie Sanford
I can’t believe Gary pulled out some old-school Martika! LOVE IT.

Enjoyed seeing Tim on the show.

QOTD: I’d work forever but I’d make sure it was something that wasn’t making me wish for a shorter life. My own business perhaps, something with flexibility and most importantly something that is consistently enjoyable.
April 28, 2009

Paul Horan
QOTD: I’m that tough right-hand closer out of the bullpen for the Chicago Cubs… Flamethrowing at 80. Check it.

Paul in DC
April 28, 2009

Paul Horan
Zuccardi – awesome, but like 30 bones…
Aguaribay malbec is a Rothschild project – 12 bones and delicious.

Paul in DC
April 28, 2009

Robin C
I need to try more malbecs.
QOTD: Oops, I already retired.
April 28, 2009

Jayhitek
QOTD: I would be exhausted.. Having to work until I was 85? Please don’t let that happen. I want to move to Arizona or CapeCod and play golf. You can play lots and lots of golf Gary!
April 28, 2009

Zino
Glad you don’t dwell on the legs. There’s a myth that lots of legs running down the inside of the glass is an indicator of a good wine. This has nothing to do with quality, it’s simply the alcohol separating from the wine.
April 28, 2009

BurroBoy
GV, fine show and excellent rapport with Tim…great to see that as successful as he is, there is deep appreciation for the $10 bottle of Thunder.
We enjoy Argentinian Malbecs on a regular basis due the quality/price ratio, since there is lots of good stuff in the $9-$15 range. Have tasted a couple of French Malbec only bottles, but have just not been impressed…price wa sup there and the oak monster attacked. I can see how the French would want to horn in on the Malbec action, but the fruit is beaten up and not as apparent.

BTW, what is the deal with these folks that rush to be the first poster, have nothing to say, and then check out the show later on? Maybe they will have a better chance to be in the top 10 once they retire.
April 28, 2009

Kristen
BTW – 69 is a great number and I love telling people it is the year I was born!!
April 28, 2009

Kristen
What a great episode!! I just bought a Malbec over the weekend and it was amazing!

QOTD: I think I would do what I love without thinking I had to “make money” at it as much. I am sorta there now (at 40) but my DH is not with me there. It kills him to think I might choose to do something that makes little to no money…
April 28, 2009

RT
QOTB: I have never really expected to be able to fully retire. What I do expect/hope to be able to do is slow down in 40 years or so and move from a hands-on kind of job and move to more of an advisory role. Hopefully by then I’ll be wise enough to pull it off (or have enough grey hairs to fool people into thinking that I’m wise enough =D)