Film Noir: A Pinot Noir Blanc Tasting

Film Noir: A Pinot Noir Blanc Tasting – Episode #695

June 25, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk breaks down a white wine made from the Pinot Noir grape.

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“Cool show guy. Very interesting how different the grape is w/o skins….” by yowens
“Interesting show – I have read about Pinot Noir blanc with the Domaine…” by Dan-o
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Anne Amie Prisme Pinot Noir Blanc

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

The “Crush It!” announcement page

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June 26, 2009

jason carey
Ps the Anne Amie Riesling is excellent
June 26, 2009

Mauricio Fernandes
I’m envious of that tablecloth!!

Wasn’t easy to see all that wine being wasted! Send me some next time GV. I would love to have the privilege of tasting the tons of awesome wines that you do. I was unfair with me and unfair with the winemaker’s effort.

QOTD: I have a mini cellar in my bedroom, that’s very nerdy. I watch, every single day (that is on-air), an online video show about Wine. That’s pretty damn nerdy. But I love wine. So, it’s OK. And, I’m currently reading the biography of The Veuve Clicquot. That’s outrageously nerdy. (A very good book by the way.)

See you soon GV.
Save me some wine!!
June 26, 2009

jason carey
Pinot Blanc is a Mutation of Pinot Noir, as is Pinot Gris
June 26, 2009

Ryan D
QotD: Gone to AdventureCon!!! [One of those comic book/Star Wars/Sci Fi/D&D convention thingies.]
June 26, 2009

PrimoVino
Willamette Valley! Represent!

QOTD: 1) Saw Fast/Furious Four. 2) Bought a domain/website and did nothing with it. 3) Bought two Enrique Iglesias songs from iTunes. 4) bought a bottle of wine from you and paid more for the shipping than the wine.

Great job as always Gary… now go mop up that Pinot you poured all over the table.
June 26, 2009

Daniel Schlossberg
nice to have the kind of dough to be able to pour out almost a whole bottle! such a waste…
June 26, 2009

BurroBoy
Very interesting…did not realize someone was ding that here. Just tasted a few from Burgundy that a business partner brought back, but no comparison as they were most likely tainted by chardonnay. We have been trying whatever pinot blanc we can find as of late…a wine distributor friend said that the La Crescent we made came across more like than than the sauvignon blanc I thought…I think it is somewhere in between.

I feel for the dismay and outrage about the spilled wine, and yes, I am more like Sasha and have a hard time “wasting” any wine that is still drinkable.
(Folks, believe it or not, try freezing it…)
However in GV’s defense I have also gotten enough exposure to wine trade events and the folks who frequent them, to understand how one can become desensitized in a way that the consumer might not. Add that to GV’s penchant for passion and mania…and well, it’s not a party until something gets spilled?

QOTD: we just built a home made Aeration-oxidation apparatus for doing S02 on our wines in an attempt to avoid shelling out several hundred bucks for the fancy unit.
June 26, 2009

lando
Here is nerdy wine question for you Gary:
In your opinion, do you think the fruit and aromatics were sufficient enough to make the wine in a stainless steel-non MLF style? Or do you think the wine benefited from the barrel ageing, and MLF?
June 26, 2009

Harry
Nice job expanding our wine worlds. I’m curious what motivated Anne Amie to make this if it cost so much, as it must be nearly impossible to market beyond their tasting room. A deep love for Blanc de Noirs?
I’ve been nerding up my wine knowledge lately, tearing through the Terry Theise catalogs until 2 AM.
June 26, 2009

aj
I’m gonna have to agree w/ Vintage59. Some of us are struggling to get our bills paid, have two jobs to make ends meet and only have the luxury of purchasing a $45.00 from time to time. So what do you do? Make an ass of yourself by pouring damn near an entire bottle of wine and waste it. I don’t think you understand how this offends some of us. It doesn’t matter if the wine tasted like shite or not. It’s the principle. Please try to show some restraint and humility. We always hear about your humble upbringing but I think you are starting to lose sight of that.
June 26, 2009

Herm Dunwald
Thanks for the episode Gary…..I do Nerdie things all of the time…..One of the most Nerdie things I’ve done might be to demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle using a beach ball and a leaf blower….
June 26, 2009

Sassodoro
At least for Vayniacs in the Chicago area, there is a white Pinot Noir available for a lot less money. Frecciarossa is a wine producer in the Oltrepò Pavese area of Lombardia, Italy, and they make a white Pinot Noir they call “Sillery.” Wine-searcher.com shows the 2007 to be available at Binny’s for $17 and at Sam’s for $18. It also shows it at Cabrini Wines in New York for $16.53. (Knowing about and suggesting Sillery is a pretty wine-nerdy thing. Does this count as my answer to the QOTD?)
June 26, 2009

Jayhitek
Huge Mess! Clean that flucker up.
QOTD: Go to a fish aquarium hobby meeting/auction.
June 26, 2009

Uncle Meate
Gary you need two buckets.

1. The Spit Bucket(copyright 2009) to spit into.
2. The Rinse Bucket(copyright 2009) to dump rinses, over-pours, wring out the tablecloth, etc …

Then you can re-bottle The Rinse Bucket and sell it for half the price to us po’ folk. Sometimes it would be a varietal and sometimes it would be a blend. The Spit Bucket re-bottling is optional, but it too may be very lucrative.

QOTD: Besides building a wine cellar in our basement (pretty nerdy) I have rekindled a childhood passion of collecting 1973-1976 vintage Wacky Packages (the ultimate in Nerd-ism).

I drink with my nose.
June 26, 2009

Adrian aka AnGkEr
Great single wine episode…..so far in my excursion to my liquor store I’ve yet to find a Pinot Noir Blanc…..hmmmmm…
June 26, 2009

Patrick
Mott brought the Thunder at the beginning of the show with his comments. I wholeheartedly agree.

Nerdiest thing: Playing D&D.
June 26, 2009

Ola
Do you really have throw out that much wine. I get it when you rinse. But pour so much to leave half on the table and then just throw out almost whole glass to the bucket.

It’s like burning money. It is exagareted, don’t you think.

QOTD: I guess starting yet another blog;)
June 26, 2009

Glen
Great show Gary! I have white pinot noir wines al the time! i live near germany (Belgium) and here they are easy to find (without the oak and high alcohol)
June 26, 2009

Phil M
Heya Gary!! Sorry but I’ve been away for awhile.. Having a pregnant wife is like having a second full time job… I hope to get back to collecting soon!!
June 26, 2009

Michael D
QOTD: Reading a book about modern Spanish wines and “drinking” my way through Iberia! Killer wines for the money.

Question back to you GV – how does a wine maker control the amount of alcohol in the wine?
June 26, 2009

Augustus
The nerdiest thing I do every year is quite simply this: I watch, every single day, an online video show about Wine. That’s pretty damn nerdy. But I love wine. So, it’s okay.
June 26, 2009

lmnopinot
QOTD: I work for the BCLDB ( British Columbia Liquor Distrabution Branch ) And when people return empty bottles for there bottle deposit, I’ll dig through the bin to see what’s out there that I’ve not yet tried….hunt it down….and taste it. ( I mean try a “fresh” bottle.)
2nd nerdiest thing is writing comments on Wine Library T.V. ( According to my girlfriend ).
June 26, 2009

Matt P
QOTD: Difficult to narrow it down, but I think the nerdiest thing I’ve done so far this year is take some Star Wars action figures (old school 1995-style!) with me on a trip to my girlfriend’s parents’ house. And yes, everyone got to play with them.
June 26, 2009

Mike Nelson
Gary,

I love the choice of the wine, but I found your actions and comments quite contradictory. You began the show by being over the top (your usual self) by pouring out most of the bottle. What a waste of a nice (pricey) bottle on the table and in the spit bucket. You then go on to tell viewers that this bottle is too expensive to recommend to the everyday drinker, though you praise it for being a good nerdy wine. Next time sync up your words with similar actions. Don’t waste a great bottle and then tell your viewers to not waste their money.

Mike
June 25, 2009

Orion S.
qotd: my wife let me build a home theater pc for my birthday