Gary, Great Episode with Santiago! I really enjoyed Santiago’s perspective on winemaking and his vivid personality. I have really enjoyed Argentian Malbec and will need to scope out some of these Achaval Ferrer treasures. The Wine Library TV has been a great new event for my Hobby. Keep it going Gary, great character and certainly would be welcome at our monthly wine club tastings, here in Groton, MA 🙂 (Jersey Transplant and big Giants fan). Salute, Ralph

Gary,
As always a great show. A few weeks back I opened an ’02 Finca Altamira, decanted it and gave it 3-4 hours. I was rewarded with a deep, jammy,dark berry, earthy, jem of a wine. It is well worth any investment.

Dear Mr. Vaynerchuk,

I am a big wine enthusiast from Buenos Aires Argentina and a friend that leaves in NY told me about your internet TV show. Congratulations, its great!!!!. Im glad you did a show on a great Argentinean winery. I agree with you The Quimera is one of the best Argentinean wines, and the Malbec is one of the best Malbecs produced. Together with those two wines I would include the following malbecs:

Malbecs:
Trapiche Malbec Pedro Gonzalez 2003
Lagarde Single Vineyard DOC 2003
Bodegas Noemia Patagonia Malbec 2002/2003

See you in your next show. Congratulatios again and hope you have a show on this wines soon.

regards,

Lucia Calvete

good to know Scotty. I bought an ’02 Finca Altamira about 9 months ago on a whim, with little knowledge of Achaval Ferrer, only to find out later that it should be one of the best Malbecs out there. Lucky buy!

I just tried the Quimera and was blown away. Very exotic nose, well balanced, and smooth as silk all the way. Excellent value. Thanks for bringing it to our attention Gary.

Gary – Really enjoyed the show. I hope you listened to Santiago. He truly understands what “terroir” is. For you to describe, as you did in previous episodes, a wine as terroir driven when you actually meant it had an earthiness or minerality is a total misuse of the term. Santiago understands it to mean a sense of place that maintains its character identity from vintage to vintage.

What was the siren sound in the background? Gary are u being arrested for selling wine

Santiago:
Great to see your smiling face, particularly after having visited your winery in Mendoza, and just a few days ago, having tasted (again) your Quimera wine. Incidentally: your English is better tan your father’s! Please tell Alberto that we have seen and heard you. Are you planning to visit California? If you do, let us know.

Julio Taleisnik

Great to learn about Terrior. Before WLTV I always thought it was the earthiness to a wine. I guess what is being said here is that if a wine has a chocolate nose, and keeps it vintage to vintage, then that is part of it’s Terrior?

B

Being a great Malbec lover, this episode convinced me that I have to try the Achaval Ferrer Malbec 2004. Hope you keep presenting these type of wine reviews as they certainly help someone like myself in finding good wines. And that’s what it’s all about. Thanks again!

i think, to speak about terroir its not only soil, sun, autochtone varieties etc… Think also about using the non regional yeast. I think they do change the wine sensorics a lot. And its not the only thing. It is hard to speak about typical terroir – when u use yeast from italy, barrels from canada and grape clones brought from caliornia..

Santiago:
How ironic we used to drink milk or lemonade at Alberto and Elena’s home dinners in the mid 60’s.
Agree with Julio, your voice is your father’s but your English is better and with less of “tonada Cordobesa”
Looking forward to see you next month in Cambridge (Boston). By any chance are your parents coming?
Jose Gutrecht

Hi Julio,

No, they won’t be able to come 🙁

See you in Boston on the 27th!

Santiago

These wines are monentous….enough said!

This guy is amazing. He really knows his stuff about these wines. What a history he has too.

This has got to be one of my favorite episodes! I think that it is so great when you find people who make products because they love the stuff!

Very Interesting to see the people involved with the wine on the show.

Good episode – Great winery!

This was a great show! I really learned a lot from it…and now I want to find his wines before they become outrageously priced!

nice show

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Great guest and remember well back in my “lurker” days. It would be interesting to try and find the last one to see if it has evolved over the years.

it would be cool to bring some achaval back to the WL

Great episode!I’m from Neuquen Patagonia Argentina. We also have excelent expresions of red wines! You would certainly love and apreciate them- You’re invited to our place!!

Great episode Gary. Nice to see an Argentinian winemaker as your guest this time. Being that the guest was Santiago Achaval is just icing. Love is natural terroir driven way of winemaking. Especially trying to use natural yeasts whenever possible.
Would be awesome to see you do more episodes focused on natural winemaking like that. Vin jaune comes to mind, where they rely on the natural flor that develops on the wine to make one of the most unique styles of unfortified wines out there.

Love HIS natural terroir driven style of winemaking.

What a great guest Santiago was, good personality, enjoyed listening to him. I only think I have tried his wine at a wine tasting, will seek it out, especially the Quimera. Gary…no spitting……LOL http://www.winelx.com