3 White Wines that Everyone is Talking About

3 White Wines that Everyone is Talking About – Episode #687

June 10, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk returns to the thunder seat to taste 3 wines and hopes they live up to the hype!

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“About Tolosa…

I can’t buy that specific chardonnay and vintage be…” by Juho
“Gary, congrats on your healthy baby girl!…” by Brian
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2008 Simone Sauvignon BlancChilean Sauvignon Blanc
2008 Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc IconNew Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
2006 Tolosa Chardonnay Edna ValleyCentral Coast Chardonnay

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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September 18, 2009

Juho
About Tolosa…

I can’t buy that specific chardonnay and vintage because they don’t sell it in any stores here in Finland.

BUT, what I can say from my experience is that you should never taste oaky chardonnay after couple of dry sauvignon blancs. It just doesn’t taste right.

Sauvignon blanc attacks your palate with young acid and fruityness – and after that all most any Chardonnay will be a boring experience. It alters your palate and kills all balance of the wine.

Actually I’d like to challenge you to try out this theory.
August 5, 2009

Brian
Gary, congrats on your healthy baby girl!
July 8, 2009

Will Gosling
QOTD: Just streamed Slumdog Millionaire through Vudu box. Pretty great flick.
June 28, 2009

Thermorollen
Nice Vid, keep up the good work
June 28, 2009

Amanda Jack
The best movie I have seen recently would be Twilight. If you have not seen it you need to. My husband and I were recently married and on our wedding night we had a living room picnic with some chianti and we watched this movie. I reccomend it definitely for a date night.
June 27, 2009

jame
http://yahoo.com
June 25, 2009

Jason S.
QOTD: Taken
June 21, 2009

Dan-o
Good show GV – must be good to be back in the saddle, but I see a lack of shows?

TOTD – probably not going to waste my money on the wine.

QOTD – Taken – Liam Neeson in a bad-ass role.
June 18, 2009

tarheel17
QOTD:
Slumdog Millionaire. No really, it was beautifully filmed. And I like happy endings.

re: Tolosa – I’d love to see a thread on this in the forum…come on GV, do something wine-relaed for us, would ya? I’d love a discussion on who tasted the wine and what they thought…

Megan
June 18, 2009

ben from boston
Picnic Bird Chardonnay, I’m stealing that.

qotd- the ORIGINAL Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, starring Walter Matthau. Classic.
June 16, 2009

Stacy & Noah
buying the simone tonight, we can’t wait to try it. We just started watching your show and LOVE it. We are new into wine and watch atleast 3 of your shows a night! Keep up the good work. Thanks to you Noah is finally getting into whites!!

Just rented and watched for the first time ever “The French Connection”. Gene Hackman is like wine, he was great back then but has gotten better with age.
June 16, 2009

Sean
TOTD: Working on finding the wine, will get back to you once I find it.

QOTD: Changeling…GREAT movie, was SOOOO underrated when it came out.
June 16, 2009

Chris Rufkahr (@freewinetasting)
ROFLMAO over the description “Boring, like a white piece of paper with no crayons in sight”!!!! Hilarious.

Movie: Office Space

Did you get the memo?
June 16, 2009

Hugh McCabe
Gary great to see you back in the saddle along with Mott.Hope little Mischa is thriving, I am sure she is with such loving caring parents.

re QOTD-The “Band of brothers” DVD. Very poignant and well acted, with Tom HAnks as director. Watch it with my 16yo old son. Thank God we live in peace.

All the best
June 15, 2009

JD in DC
Glad to have you back, Gary. I can’t wait to try some Picnic Bird Chard!

QOTD: The Wrestler
June 15, 2009

Scottie P
Good show, great to have you back GV.
QOTD: The only movies I’ve seen lately have been Star Wars films. My 5 yr old son loves watching Darth Vader and beating me up with his red Light Saber. Priceless!
June 15, 2009

Vanessa Miller
I tried the Nobilio Icon a few weeks ago after reading 92 WS and 85 WE. It tasted to me like I pulled my not-so-ripe green pepper plant out of the garden and noshed.

QOTD: Probably not what Gary is looking for but maybe Lizzie would enjoy: La Belle et la Bete. French Beauty and the Beast film from 1946. Exquisite. From Netflix: Tokyo Joe with Humphrey Bogart. He finds out he’s a father of a little six year old girl and it changes his life.
June 15, 2009

Manny
Fun Show, now im craving Chilean Sauv Blanc!

QOTD= Last Chance Harvey….good movie about life and the people around you.

Synopsis:
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting–or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.
June 15, 2009

Chas
QOTD: James Bond: Quantum of Solace. I am really enjoying Daniel Craig as James Bond, way way way better than Pierce Brosnan IMO. Pretty funny about that Cali chard, I am going to have to go grab a bottle and tear it up on cellartracker.
June 14, 2009

Travis
Good episode….looking forward to tasting that sauvignon blanc.

the movie, JCVD – a little jean claude van-damme action.
June 14, 2009

mikek
Gary, it’s been a long time man, since I’ve commented on WLTV, although I have been in touch on FB. Huge “ups” on the birth of your beautiful little girl, Misha Ava (very pretty name)!

I have not had a 7 dollar bottle of wine all year, but the Simone truly brought “thunder”! I ordered 2 more bottles today.

QOTD: Old school: My Cousin Vinny & Clerks
New releases: Taken, Vantage Point, all 3 Pirates of Carribean.

Thanks for the time you still give so generously. All my best wishes to you, Liz, & the newest Vayniac, Misha! God bless you all, Mike
June 14, 2009

SiggiWine
QOTD: Angels and Demons, it was just ok, a little like the Tolosa that you tasted
June 14, 2009

Rick
QOTD: Defiance

P.S. The Hangover will be a classic for years to come!
June 14, 2009

GQsm
Picnic Bird Chardonnay mmwwhahahahahaha
June 14, 2009

YoungDave
QOTD: There Will be Blood…