Wine Tasting at CLO – Wine Bar in NYC

Wine Tasting at CLO – Wine Bar in NYC – Episode #699

July 2, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk visits a very cool wine bar and selects one of their wines to taste.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Rolf Binder Hubris

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

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July 4, 2009

Rich Ritter in NY
What ever happened to the Twizzlers references? I love Twizzlers.

QOTD: shhhhh…terrior.

God Bless America!
July 4, 2009

Angela Carlson
QOTD: Alameda Wine Company, Alameda (SF Bay Area), CA. Karen, the owner likes many of the same wines and styles that I do and has taken the time to help me educate my palate. Her Tasting Menu changes every two weeks and she does both 3 oz and 6 oz pours. Keeping her prices low and wine accessible to drinking public is her goal. She’s celebrating her 1st year Anniversary on Bastille Day (7/14).
July 4, 2009

Dean
Oh, on Clo. I like the concept, but I’d rather have stone and wood around than metal and plastic, not to mention it seemed noisy in a “busy mall” kind of way. Good wine selection and I do like the machines (if they let you purchase just a taste as an option).
July 3, 2009

David
Well my favorite wine bar, was a wine shop in Kobe (Japan), called Bellier. Free Wine / Sparkling tastings on Sat, Sun, they would have 5 – 15 wines on the counter. random tastings, tastings by region, by type, awesome place for a hot summer afternoon….. but it closed…
July 3, 2009

BrianAF
Wow that place is really cool. The problem with places that have a high degree of novelty is that you are likely to pay for that novelty rather than the products that are contained therin. To me those prices for a glass (and this goes for most wine bars) are absurd. I don’t mind paying for a good bottle of wine, but 14 dollars for a glass of “I hope this is good” just isnt worth it. But the technology was impressive, if only we can get a wine bar to make the wine truly approachable.

QOTD Brix in Sunset Beach, CA
July 3, 2009

Dean
We have a wine bar at one of the local movie theaters. -about 24-32 bottles. I like that you can select two four or six ounces (full glass). So, if you just want to taste a more expensive wine, you do not have to pay an arm and a leg, if you love it, you just get more. Very nice system. My palate is not refined enough to say it affects the flavor or not.
July 3, 2009

AG
Gary I believe you will like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KzprGxpZU
July 3, 2009

Stuart Reb Donald
My favorite wine bar right now is the Wine Loft in Mobile, AL. Maybe because it is the only true wine bar I have ever been to. . .
July 3, 2009

Vincent Jones
Nice place and I love how they did the wine menu.
It seams that there a little pricey though, and I don’t think you got $19 worth of wine. Cool concept but I think I’ll pass if I’m ever in NY.

Vincent
July 3, 2009

steveg
kir in portland oregon!
July 3, 2009

Rob
Cosmic technology at CLO.

Gary, wish you had tasted the Jonata which was one to the left from your taste. Have their inaugural vintage and have not opened yet!

@shorespeak
July 3, 2009

The Lurk Monster
That technology was sick. I am completely blown away.
July 3, 2009

John
Gary, you can’t rate a wine that has been sitting under gas. Pop and pour one and then judge. Under gas it can get a little flabby and certainly subdues the tannins. It hurts the wines balance. Yeah, I didn’t believe it until my wife (a pinot lover)was disappointed with a glass of Roessler pinot noir and the sommelier said “I keep telling them not to put that wine under gas”. He opened the same vintage, he said it came from the same case as the gassed bottle, and it was like a different wine, great nose, nice fresh acidity and a much longer finish than the gassed wine. Pinot’s are finiky so maybe they are more sensitive to that treatment and most can’t sit around under vacuum, gas or recorked and refrigerated very long and still be drinkable, but I would not rate any wine from a “wine dispenser”.
July 3, 2009

Richard Shaffer
My fave wine bar right now is Lelabar wine bar in Manhattan – west Village.

Richard
July 3, 2009

DAveA
nice interview of a new spot. thanks. My favorite wine bar is my dining room table with friends or neighbors over.
July 3, 2009

Carson Black
58 Degrees and Holding in Sacramento, CA
July 3, 2009

M
QOTD: You’ve asked this before and I still have the same answer, Domaine Hudson in Wilmington DE.

CLO is like Disneyland or maybe it’s like Willy Wonka’s wine bar would be.
July 3, 2009

glenn
Clo is a place i can clearly skip in September. too antiseptic and techy. or i am too old?

QotD: W.I.N.O. in New Orleans is like a cool version of Clo.
July 3, 2009

Flavio
QOTD: Terroir in NYC is the best there is. Inoteca comes in at #2.
July 3, 2009

Jason S.
QOTD: Proof in DC
July 3, 2009

LisaPeacea
QOTD:I dont go to any bars. But if I did, I would go to that one.
July 3, 2009

Ben
QOTD: Lincoln St. Fredericksburg, Texas http://www.lincolnst.com/
One of the only good wine bars I’ve been too

QOTD for you, What do you like better, baby artichokes or fried okra?
July 3, 2009

Michael Clark
What I really like about you Gary is that you are not intimidated by your environment. You can sit in ‘their camp’ and tell it like it is on the wine you are tasting. Love the honesty. Love the variety of location. Love the show.

QOTD: Three Rivers in Walla Walla. My first real experience with wine. I will never forget that memory.
July 3, 2009

BobbyTiger
QOTD: It’s in my dining room.
I have a great house, great wife, great selection, at a great price point.
What’s not to like?

ps. Next time you have a cough, try the menthol drops. They won’t turn your tongue red.
July 3, 2009

MT
Terroir, in NYC’s East Village. Wine guru Paul Greico’s selections are always provocative and thoughtfully chosen.