A Little More Thunder from the Cruise

A Little More Thunder from the Cruise – Episode #672

May 7, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk relents to overwhelming crowd demand and tapes one more live episode on the Thunder Cruise.

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“Krug NV…” by JD_Jonny
“Meh…” by JayZee
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2000 Diva Napa Valley Sparkling Wine
2007 Dashe Dry Creek ZinfandelSonoma Red Zinfandel
2006 Titus ZinfandelNapa Red Zinfandel
2000 Domaine Gilles Barge Cote-Rotie Cuvee Du Plessy

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October 30, 2009

JD_Jonny
Krug NV
June 3, 2009

JayZee
Meh
May 23, 2009

Dan-o
Don’t know what to say. Pretty lame show – you honestly seemed a bit out of it, perhaps “cruised out”.

QOTD – 2002 Chateau Leoville Las Cases – I was expecting so much and although it was an “off” vintage in Bordeaux, I expected more. Seemed pretty dull, perhaps closed.
May 15, 2009

Marc-China Wine Tours
GV, I’m going to slap you silly if you don’t plug a mic into that camera!!!

QOTD: Haven’t been disappointed in the last 30 days!
May 13, 2009

Sean
Love the episodes from the cruise…defiantly a better audience than San Diego. Hope to join you next year.

QOTD; Four Sisters Chardonnay It wasn’t a bad wine (would work great as a generic table white) but brought no Chardonnay THUNDER. I wanted some butter, I wanted some OAK, and this wine gave me neither Huge disappointment!
May 12, 2009

KW
QOTD: Based on the hype I expected more from the 2004 Leeuwin Artist Series Cab. It was good but certainly not a 94 rated wine and don’t think it is worth the $34 price tag on it at WL. There are better values around $20.
May 12, 2009

Drew
The Bogan Shiraz. Nuff said.
May 12, 2009

NZ Dennis
QOTD – In the last 30 days, all good wine. Most disapointing ever – Cabernet Sauvignon from Hajos (Hungary). If you want to expand your palate and don’t mind disapointment, this is a must try.

I think you have to experiment with the disapointing ones to appreciate the good ones fully!
May 12, 2009

Logan
Good thing the Dashe Zin showed well at least!

QOTD: 2007 Sokol Blasser white blend- was excited to try it because of the cool label, cool website and good buzz around the wine, as well as the intriguing grape blend (Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, Viogner, Sauvignong Blanc, as well as five others, I believe); it didn’t taste bad, but it was very unfocused, and ended up leaving me very unimpressed.
May 11, 2009

Dave Munyan
Gary,

I talked to a few couples from the thunder cruise and they are definitely interested in a monthly bus from Cherry Hill up to the store. I know there were couples from Cherry Hill on the thunder cruise. I am VERY interested if you start a monthly bus. My wife hates North Jersy traffic. I tell her that it is not as bad as New York, but she won’t go for the ride up to the store. Start the Bus !!
May 11, 2009

victor
qotd
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49954307@N00/3513381331/in/set-72157604714395399/
Keep it going! Shout out to niece Raissa!
May 11, 2009

Jeff R
Gary:
I enjoy Dashe wines and have been following them from the very start – I think ‘96 was their first vintage. They produce nice stuff.

QTD – Kay’s Hillside Shiraz 2002 (screw top). Based on what I paid for it, it undeperformed. Note: Celler is passive, maybe this had something to do with. Have another bottle – have to see how that one plays out.
May 11, 2009

Pete B
Sounded like a pretty disappointing show. No wonder that guy gave away the $70 bottle, he knew it sucked.

QOTD – I would have to say the 2005 Merlot from Bedell Cellars in Long Island. I am getting married there next year and I was not happy with their Merlot. Hopefully we can find something enjoyable to serve our guests.
May 11, 2009

innA
QOTD – not from the last 30 days, but I had a week recently in Prague and bought 6 or so bottles (from known regions in Spain/Italy etc) that were all some of the worst I’ve ever tried. All had to be tipped down the sink.

We could only find decent wine at a very expensive Italian food/wine shop!
May 10, 2009

Dave Butterworth
QOTD: Cancelli Coltibuono red Italian/Tuscan Blend. Imbalanced wine, little fruit that is present is overwhelmed by minty/medicine taste. Finish is very short with no mid-palate. 70% Sangiovese and 30% Syrah
May 10, 2009

steve41602
Looks like the Thunder Cruise was a great success. Hope to join you next year.

QOTD: Allendorf Rheingau Spatburgunder (German Pinot Noir) – I keep hoping to find a German Spatburgunder that doesnt suck. I guess I will keep looking. This was cloudy and brownish out of the bottle. First sniff/ taste wasnt bad, but the finish was like sour manure.
May 10, 2009

Tom
Wow – I’m definitely going to make the next Thunder Cruise, looked pretty cool.

If there is one thing that I learned from the last two episodes, its that Vaniaks have class! Sure, they get a little rowdy when necessary, but they shut up and listen when Gary is talking. This is a huge improvement over some of the last couple shows in front of audiences (San Diego anybody?)
May 10, 2009

Chris Lotz
sorry bout the rotie, thats a bummer, at least youre on vacation. i went to the lauber tasting in the city, tasted alot of good ones, but the one that disappointed me the most was the montebello by Ridge. their whole line is so amazing, but the montebello just didnt do it for me like their lower cab blends (santa cruz mount. and home ranch) that could be a show G-man! wink wink.
May 9, 2009

Eric Godfrey
Couldn’t agree with you more on the ‘07 Dashe Zin…I tasted it very recently, and it is showing EXTREMELY well for my palate. Definitely brings some thunder!!

QOTD: Gary, I recently took a day trip to the Unionville Winery down here in central NJ. While I did taste a few really interesting wines (a nice dry riesling, fairly decent chard, and a decently complex cab franc based red blend), there were 2 which were absloutely AWFUL!! The Merlot was a one dimensional fruit bomb, which lacked and structure or complexity and had zero finish whatsoever. We also tried a port which was way too over the top…Almost like mixing robitussin with a ton of fudge. Way too syrupy and really wouldnt pair well with much of anything. Overall, we had a nice visit and like i said, there were several interesting varietals to try.
May 9, 2009

M
QOTD: Philip Le Hardi Pinot Noir
May 9, 2009

G
Hrmm, was unfortunate you found the Diva from S. Anderson. I’ve been drinking the 2000 Late Disgorged as my main bubbles for the last year. But in truth every now and then, they hit a vintage that is just plain skunky. And you found one.

QOTD: It was a Grenache that I had at Splash Wine bar in San Diego. It was really over the top on fruit and seemed to have way too much residual sugar. Don’t recall the details other than it was french and I needed a moment to recover to move on with the tasting
May 9, 2009

my2cents
Bonterra (aka Fetzer) Sangio, I think it was 99. Just got too old and tasted like nothing my own fault for letting it stay around.

Wishing I had been there.
May 8, 2009

Robin C
QOTD: In the past 30 days I’ve just had some wine that was too old – a 2005 Cambria chardonnay, but going back further, I think the Oklahoma wine was the most disappointing.
May 8, 2009

Drew Matich
Well that was a downer…

QOTD: Yesterday. I had a 2000 Far Niente Estate Bottled Cabernet. Great nose and excellent upfront fruit. So far, so good.

Then…nothing. Not what you want for the high 2 digits…very disappointing.
May 8, 2009

pedro
may be if you use a real glass and not that sucky fishbowl your drinking out of the wine would have been better. None the less it’s hard to find a zin that IS good (to my palet).
As well your in the middle of the ocean was there a lot of low pressure in the air? that clubs down the wine
qotd= I had a materized bottle of Chaputier a Hermiage Blanc single vineyard. My friend is the rep so he opened it and it sucked that it was good at one point and had gone south?
Pedro Rusk