Gigondas from the Southern Rhone

Gigondas from the Southern Rhone – Episode #678

May 18, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk sits down and tastes 3 wines from Gigondas a place where he feels some of the most underrated wines in the world are coming from!

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I’ve been catching up on old shows. I ordered a Gigondas…” by Erin
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Raspail GigondasGigondas
2005 Guigal GigondasGigondas
2006 St. Cosme Valbelle GigondasGigondas

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

The “Crush It!” announcement page

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May 19, 2009

YoungDave
GIGONDAS!!! Excellent show topic! … but don’t get too loud about the value here. We all need our go-to QPR wines!

QOTD: Finding out my cousin (who is like a brother to me) and his wife are going to have a baby in September! And it’s a boy! And they want my help with a name! And I’m (basically) going to be an uncle! It’s exciting, GV, and I wish you the best with yours.
May 19, 2009

E dog
Hey Gary !

First of all, congratulations to AJ, and I hope all is well with the baby !

Great show, Gigondas and Vacqueyras are two of the best values in the Rhone today in my opinion. But shush… don t tell anyone

QOTD: With my graduation in a few weeks, I realised how much my family expects of me, and how I am a role model for my brothers and how I should show the example by working hard and being sucessful !
May 19, 2009

TimCub
QOTD: That childhood experiences of pedophilia could have such a profound effect on how one views today’s issues of the gay community. See guideoftheblind’s channel on YouTube for more info.
May 19, 2009

Gerardo Ritchey
QOTD: I had just finished remodeling one of the bathrooms in my house, and I was finally getting a chance to use the brand new tile shower stall that I had spent 2 weeks putting together. I was unhappy about the way some of the courses of tile had turned out. It was only after I had finished taking a shower and I stood there, that I realized that things don’t have to be absolutely perfect, they just have to work. This realization has helped me get over tons of hang-ups.
May 19, 2009

teckdeck2008
qotd: how much of life is all about luck. it certainly takes skill and go get it type attitude to capitalize on stuff, but if your having a streak of bad luck and aren’t getting any opportunities to use your skills or energy then good things won’t happen. it seems like my life is just now turning around and i’m getting lucky in life and one of my best friends is starting to hit an unlucky streak; we’ll both get by about the same and hit our stride out of college, but its just an interesting reversal of fortunes that seems to have surprised me.
May 19, 2009

Waiterboy
Gary good luck to you.
The expectation of fatherhood is just about killing me with so much hope and too much fear. It worse than falling in love.
This opens my beyond eyes beyond anything I’ve experienced in the past.
Thank good to fine women who can spend time with us and good family to help us along.
May 19, 2009

MagnumGourmet
Good show today Gary. Though I do find it hard when you jump between multiple vintages for a single appelation. When you do it would be nice if you would go into more detail about the growing conditions of each vintage. It’s hard for me to say that the ‘05 Guigal was bad due to vintage or winery issues.

QOTD – How news media can infulence behavior and how much it points out that we need media that wants to report on the news, rather than making it.
May 19, 2009

Terence Fox
Too bad about the Guigal – it’s been stronger in previous vintages and I was eager to see what you thought about the ‘05. I always read the list of wines before I watch the show, does anyone else do that? Always like when you get all quiet and serious for a big wine. Top ten in complexity? What are the other 9?

QOTD: Working for my internship at rcrdlbl.com, web 2.0 is a strange and complex beast.
May 19, 2009

Phil Dunn
Sorry about that – Google Chrome is killing me. Wouldn’t accept ‘add comment’ click. Until it showed up 4 times… ug.
May 19, 2009

Phil Dunn
Bravo – love the info-density. What’s your take on a wine bar in Grenwich Village called Ino? We loved it when there. Were wondering if it’s still in action. Toaster oven crostini w/ goat cheese, fennel fronds and crunchy salt.

I did not have a kid born this year..but did in 07, 04 and 02.. so that won’t qualify for QOTD. Sports-wise the Ducks beating the Sharks in 7 was bigtime. And a blackberry patch of a wine I drank on Sat night…Jam-time, which I’m usually not big on, but this was unreal. Guy brought out two of them.. hence the lack of label recall.
May 19, 2009

Phil Dunn
Bravo – love the info-density. What’s your take on a wine bar in Grenwich Village called Ino? We loved it when there. Were wondering if it’s still in action. Toaster oven crostini w/ goat cheese, fennel fronds and crunchy salt.

I did not have a kid born this year..but did in 07, 04 and 02.. so that won’t qualify for QOTD. Sports-wise the Ducks beating the Sharks in 7 was bigtime. And a blackberry patch of a wine I drank on Sat night…Jam-time, which I’m usually not big on, but this was unreal. Guy brought out two of them.. hence the lack of label recall.
May 19, 2009

Phil Dunn
Bravo – love the info-density. What’s your take on a wine bar in Grenwich Village called Ino? We loved it when there. Were wondering if it’s still in action. Toaster oven crostini w/ goat cheese, fennel fronds and crunchy salt.

I did not have a kid born this year..but did in 07, 04 and 02.. so that won’t qualify for QOTD. Sports-wise the Ducks beating the Sharks in 7 was bigtime. And a blackberry patch of a wine I drank on Sat night…Jam-time, which I’m usually not big on, but this was unreal. Guy brought out two of them.. hence the lack of label recall.
May 19, 2009

Phil Dunn
Bravo – love the info-density. What’s your take on a wine bar in Grenwich Village called Ino? We loved it when there. Were wondering if it’s still in action. Toaster oven crostini w/ goat cheese, fennel fronds and crunchy salt.

I did not have a kid born this year..but did in 07, 04 and 02.. so that won’t qualify for QOTD. Sports-wise the Ducks beating the Sharks in 7 was bigtime. And a blackberry patch of a wine I drank on Sat night…Jam-time, which I’m usually not big on, but this was unreal. Guy brought out two of them.. hence the lack of label recall.
May 19, 2009

yankee22
Great show. I gotta get my hands on that St. Cosme. No point buying just one bottle; have to drink one now and cellar one.

QOTD: That this country still can have the death penalty. 11 out of 27 jurists can opine, as they did today, that an inmate may be in fact innocent, but that man is still likely to be killed by the State.
May 19, 2009

my2cents
Nice to the wines make you happy.

Thanks for opening my eyes to Gigondas. I am ready to try some.

I am also a fan of the facts, and the comments recap.

Can’t wait for you to miss an episode because of “little Vaynerchuck” having arrived, and opened your eyes WIDE! You’ll be a great daddy Gary.

Mmmm maybe I have had my eyes closed for a while since I can’t remember the last time something ripped my face off opening my eyes.
May 19, 2009

james marinello (bajayngo)
Would love to see more Gigondas in my town, have only had a few but loved them.

QOTD : people are complancent including myself and on the wine side, Sancerre and mussels are the freaking bomb!!!
May 19, 2009

Anthony
Gary,

great show. Recent fan and cant get enough of the show. I will be hitting my local wine store tomorrow to seek out Gigondas wines. Question-how long do you wait from opening wines to doing your tastings? when you are drinking the wines in privacy do you typically decant most of the Red’s you are drinking.

Again-great show.
May 19, 2009

Ryan Lesperance
qotd:
GV’s wine and web 2.0 wisdom
May 19, 2009

liangtfm
Really great show today Gary! I can’t wait to try a Gigondas wine Please restock the 2006 St. Cosme Valbelle Gigondas at WL!

QOTD: The biggest eye opener for me this year is my motivation to work and #crushit
May 19, 2009

Thomas
Realized just how freakin’ powerful Google is. The best and most powerful company in the world.
May 19, 2009

eagleputt
Another good, tight show about a wine varietal I probably would not have tried w/o tuning into your show. Thanks.

QOTD – The fragility of the world economic system.
May 19, 2009

melbourne rob
Great show gary – loved the informative nature of it.
I’d love to know more about specific vintages of wines you taste and where that vintage sits in the overall scheme of things. I think that is an extremely important aspect that many reviewers overlook. After all, producers can only work with the conditions they are at the mercy of – as we know all too well here in Victoria, Australia, sadly.

QOTD: finally realising that my path is coming into shape without me even realising it. ironic?
May 19, 2009

Vecchio
Another well done show!

Love that area of France even though I’ve never been there.

I have found the Chateau du Trignon Gigondas to be a nice drink and have a couple of Montirius Vacqueyras laid down for the next five or so years.

Great news about the baby!
May 19, 2009

Little Jonny
Love the Rhonies, and can’t wait to try the ‘other’ southern rhone wine!

Sorry I’ve been spotty on my viewing lately, lifecomes at you fast!…

QOTD: The cost of living like an average U.S. citizen (A.K.A. living like a sultan)
May 18, 2009

PMHJ
Great show today, fan of the quick fact intro. how about a vacqueyras show in the near future?