The Sake Education Show – Part 2

The Sake Education Show – Part 2 – Episode #694

June 24, 2009

Beau Timken continues teaching Gary Vaynerchuk about Sake while they taste 3 different kinds.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

Joto Chikurin Fukamari JunmaiJapanese Sake
Tsukinokatsura Yanagi “Willow Tree”
Taiheizan Tenko “Heavenly Grace”

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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June 26, 2009

Mauricio Fernandes
Hi Gary! Hi Beau!!

Awesome 2-part show! It’s always nice to learn other subjects, and this Sake episode opened my eyes. To this day I only drank Sake in Japanese restaurants down here in Brazil, mostly Gekkeikan (Kyoto – Japan) and Azuma Kirin (São Paulo – Brazil). After this episode, I’m surely going to Liberdade neighborhood (big Japanese community in São Paulo, Brazil) to try some premium Sake.

The guest was amazing, it’s funny how GV cuts him all the time, but the result was a very, very god show.

QOTD: My eye-opening moment on a beverage was a 3-staged one:

1) In 1997 I went to Portugal with my grand-father to visit some of our family there. The Portuguese wines won me over, and from that trip on I mostly dank wine.

2) The second moment was in 2005 when my dad brought home a bottle of Amarone, that he is a big fan, and BANG!! That wine was SO good that awakened me that wine is much more than a beverage, is a life experience, full of culture, history and geography! It’s a human science! From there, my quality standards only developed, and my taste for wine made me read a lot of books and go to seminars about it.

3) The third moment was when I stated watching Gary classes (to call it a “show” doesn’t fully represent what it is!) on Winelibrary TV. From this 3rd moment on the quest for quality went around the world, as I try “expand my palate” always now.

Keep Crushing It GV!!

Best wishes,

Mauricio Fernandes.
Brazil.
June 26, 2009

Michael Clark
OK, so I’m lurking more than posting..excellent show..I’ve been going back and watching all episodes from #1..this two-parter will rank in the top..great job guys!

QOTD: It happened for me when I visited my first wineries and tasted my first wines in Washington and Oregon (I had always been a beer drinker) and I said to myself, “This is it..I HAVE to learn about wine..and I bought a copy of Windows on the World Wine Course by Kevin Zraly. I’m an entrepreneur and I stumbled upon GaryVaynerchuk.com which led me to winelibrarytv.com. Anyway, I’ll have to start learning about sake!
June 26, 2009

Jayhitek
Gonna be honest. I skipped around a lot on the 2nd episode. The two back to back were like an hour.
My time is valuable!
“we don’t give names”? What is he in the CIA? Give it up dude, it’s sake!
He was reborn from a Japanese Master 400 years ago….. ok..sure..
QOTD: Purple Passion grape juice that had booze in it.
real answer to that question.. It was probably when I had a good glass of red wine and realized that I only hated merlot and not all red wine.
June 26, 2009

victor
Gary,
in case I don’t have internet access at next stop somewhere in Tuscany, congratulations on #700!!! and mamy many more. With your daughter’s help who know how far this will go. Could you please give a shout out to my niece Raissa in Halifax from her dad and uncle missing her in Tuscany and wishing she were with us…love love the sake!
June 26, 2009

Francesco
QOTD: 1997 Shafer Hillside Select about 4yrs ago, still one of my favorite wines
June 26, 2009

K89
Great episode- never found a sake I liked, but I’ll keep looking
June 26, 2009

Elliot K
What a cool dude.

– Elliot K. *The Original C.K.C. Representative
June 26, 2009

Zev
6 months ago, I decided to try out some serious coffee and grind it right there. I tried this mainly because of a friend who made fun of my chock full of nuts habit, saying that’s what his grandparents drink. And I got a french press and grind ed some Hawaiian Blue and I was blown away, It was the first time i really tasted the coffee, yeah I’ve been to Starbucks and got a coffee or a frapaccino (WHICH ARE AWSOME)but i never really thought about what I was drinking.
Now, I am a full fledged junkie, I have multiple grinders and a slew of french presses, vac pots, aeropress’es, drip percolators, high end espresso machine, a super-automatic espresso machine, Turkish coffee pot.
I get all my beans fresh roasted and expedited shipping then I immediately vacum pack them to keep them as fresh as possible. A total coffee nerd. And, I love it.
June 25, 2009

Canada_Fletch
Long time Lurker, first time poster. Gary, this episode was so great I had to post. It was educational and entertaining at the same time. All you have to do to keep people interested in anything is to be passionate about what you do. Both of you showed that tonight.
QOTD: After university and drinking beer every summer I decided to have a “Summer of Scotch”. What a summer! It only took one year however for me to move on to wine and I haven’t looked back.
June 25, 2009

David T (@ONUMello)
GREAT guest, great chemistry between you two! You need to have him back soon so he can talk about the ’sommelier license’ and trying some of the other glasses there in addition to the cedar box.

QOTD: It was wine, when I was in Italy & it was one of the first wines I had had and to this day one of the best. It really got me passionate about wine which has continued for years.
June 25, 2009

TBA lover
Passion squared! Loved it.
QOTD: Epiphany moment: Back in 1985… David Bruce Pinot Noir Santa Cruz 1978 – like velvet magic in a bottle.
June 25, 2009

Vinny
Good show – really knowledgeable guest. I have never tried Sake but I honestly think I will go out and try some. Partly because I have been meaning to for a while .. but also because of this episode.

QOTD – My original epiphany beverage was coffee. That is the first beverage where I started to really recognize and approeciate the differences in quality and styles of production.
June 25, 2009

Albert Winestein
Great segments. I look forward to expanding my palate and trying all kinds of Sake.

Q.O.T.D. Tech gadgets
June 25, 2009

thejob
Great set of episodes. I look forward to trying some decent sake. QoTD: technology.
June 25, 2009

Pendrops
Best guest I’ve seen in a long time! It’s great to see two people who are super passionate play off each other. Makes me really feel inspired. And it makes me want to drink more sake.
June 25, 2009

Adam J
Straight up, this guest brought serious thunder! Truly, the amount of information and passion in this episode really rocked. Thanks to Beau and GV!
QOTD: It was wine…and it was a 1989 Lynch Bages. It was the moment the I realized, YES- wine can taste as sublime, as how the wine writers describe the best wines.
June 25, 2009

BobMac
Great show! Loved learning more about sake.
June 25, 2009

Cathy
can’t wait to try sake for the first time…..

love the show, so glad I couldn’t sleep the night you were on Jimmy Fallon – I didn’t know you existed until then…..

Please come to Niagara
June 25, 2009

Dev
Super informative. thanks! There’s a saké tasting in Hawaii next month with 300 different sakés up for grabs. I’m so there now after this show. Btw Gary I’d like to see you try this one day… powdered red wine! http://tinyurl.com/nr2gzk
June 25, 2009

DAveA
really awesome guest. When you gonna come to NC and do some fruit wines?
June 25, 2009

Phredd
Still not diggin’ the show, although the interplay of the personalities was entertaining enough to give it a whirl. Gary, never, NEVER, interrupt someone in the QOTD. Give the guest that much freedom, at least. At least he was cool enough to step in a shut you up once or twice earlier in the show so he could finish his point. You really tanked his question, though. Not good.

QOTD, narrow version: I never had an epiphany moment on a beverage. On about my third trip to the Napa Valley, I finally realized that I didn’t think wine completely sucked. A year or so later, I realized I genuinely liked the stuff. It took a couple years after that for me to pay it enough attention to want to find out a lot more.

QOTD, broad version: As a philosophy major in college, I took a philosophy of law class. When I realized that I had just spent 15 minutes passionately debating natural law theory with the instructor while the rest of the class groaned with boredom, I realized that I had to have a JD.
June 25, 2009

ilbe
Awesome last two episodes, it’s just that much better when the guest is honestly passionate about the beverages in question.

QOTD: About a year ago when I started working for a liquor store, first a german weissbier during a warm summer day and a little later a Zenato Ripassa with beef tenderloin. Yeah I’m new to the whole thing, but a fast learner.
June 25, 2009

Lawrence Leichtman
Good show overall. Interesting that you have on someone who is basically a competitor at least in his own niche. WL does not carry that much Sake. Not sure what Sake has to do with a healthier lifestyle as it is an alcoholic beverage that I have seen may day workers completely blitzed on. I like Sake and continue to drink it and buy it but am not fooling myself that it is any healthier than anything else. As to epiphanies and beverages. The first time I had a well age Haut Brion, that was an epiphany for my wine drinking.
June 25, 2009

DANNY
great show loved it will try some this weekend
June 25, 2009

Lau
Great episode!