#1…#1…I did it!!!
Keep up the great work!

Nice tour. Love those tropical fish.

Best cab: 1992 Chateau Montelena Napa Valley Estate Reserve. Tasted several months ago. Absolutely singing now.

Best Cabernet based wine I ever had was the 1994 Chateau Montelena Estate. Also was part of my “Best” wine stories from your first question….So I’ll give a close second. The 1996 Chateau St. Jean Cinq Cepage was so delicious. It could have been the hype, it could have been that we cheated and recieved more than our allotment, it could have even been the price, but all those put together with an absoltuly perfectly balanced wine that thumbed it’s Sonoma nose at Napa made it a close number 2….sadly I only have one bottle left.

Thanks for the mention on the graphics!

B

Thanks for the tour! How many bottles do you guys have on stock? And: What was with all the corks today?

It’s great to hear about NY wines. I once had some wine from the Finger Lakes that was about 10 years old (at the time…and I can’t remember what it was), but my co-workers and I were actually quite suprised by it. It didn’t totally blow us away, but it still had some fruit and balance and was just a nice little wine.

My overall favorite Cab based wine, which I’ve had at 3 tastings and 1 dinner (by a very generous client) has to be the 86 Mouton. I can’t afford it, so I’ll probably never get it again, but man….nothing has been better to me.

Go Bears.

It’s great to hear about NY wines. I once had some wine from the Finger Lakes that was about 10 years old (at the time…and I can’t remember what it was), but my co-workers and I were actually quite suprised by it. It didn’t totally blow us away, but it still had some fruit and balance and was just a nice little wine.

My overall favorite Cab based wine, which I’ve had at 3 tastings and 1 dinner (by a very generous client) has to be the 86 Mouton. I can’t afford it, so I’ll probably never get it again, but man….nothing has been better to me.

Go Bears.

Somehow I pictured your “theme” music sounding like that.
T

Really enjoy the episodes. Sharing them with all my wine geek friends.

Best Cab is 2001 Beringer Private Reserve.

Hi again Gary,

As a New Yorker i have been consistently disappointed with “our” wines…for $20 you can have stinker after stinker….maybe someday that will change

You mentioned Idaho and i had a solid Idaho cab in Utah last winter-Snake River Vineyards 2001 or 2, very nice and surprised the heck out of me

Your ? of the day for me is easy to answer, having had the access to my in-laws’ cellar.

I have had many great Cal Cabs or Blends-the Insignia 1992 comes to mind…but for me Bordeaux is “it”, and the Latour 1961 (yes, 1961 IN MAGNUM!) was, and will always be numero uno

61 MAG…HOLY VAYNERNOD!

Just recently came across your site (actually from a link to your “Carlo Rossi” episode) Spent the better part of my lunch hour catching up, and all I can say is “Keep them coming!”.

Best Cabernet…
Caymus Special Selection 2003 – Had this at a business dinner a few months back (obviously I wasn’t paying) and it was just wow; silky, balanced, and all that jazz.

Oh, let me echo others in previous episodes a request a port tasting!

The best cab I ever had was the amazing Chateau Leoville Barton 2000. Tasted like nothing I ever had…

Best Cab wine: ’86 Cos d’Estournel in March of this year decanted and served with a six course meal I cooked for my wife on a big birthday (not allowed to say which). The wine was in many ways still quite young after all those years but with extra notes that comes with maturity–just like us.

Did not want to mix the nice memory of the Cos and my wife with a wine bashing, but we tasted at quite a few wineries on Long Island about 6 years ago, and I was quite underwhelmed. They kept displaying “gold medals” and the like, but I found few efforts that were even drinkable, much less “winners.” I hope things have changed. Appropos Gary’s tasting, the reds were the weakest.

Next trip east, I have to stop by the WL. The store looks like it would be a blast.

Another good episode GV. NY wines are definitely hit or miss. I actually just went on a tour of LI wineries last month and found that the white wines totally outperform the reds, at least of the ones that I tried. LI also produces some wonderful dessert wines that are made from late harvest riesling grapes. Definitely check them out if you have not had the opportunity to do so.

Best cab based wine was a 2000 Joseph Phelps Insignia that we had for my friend’s engagement party. In fact it may have been the best wine overall that I have ever had. It was so well structured and the finish was amazing. Definitely include that one in your high end cab tasting!

1996 Pichon Longville – though I probably spelled it wrong… damn French.

Best Cab……………?
Can’t think right now. Great episode. I can’t wait to get up there and check you guys out.
Still waiting for the WLTV Fanatics tasting. I WILL fly up from Atlanta for it!

BEST ITALIAN CABERNET SAUVIGNON – JUST DRANK AT CHRISTMAS

1997 TENUTA LA PALAZZA ‘MAGNIFICAT’

EMILIA ROMAGNA

Gary –

Big fan…but you’ve got to do us all a favor. You need to get your head a good bit into that spit bucket so we are spared the visual of the wine streaming out of your mouth. That’s a bit much, even when the wines suck.

Best cab (my wine budget more limited) was:

2001 Beringer Private Reserve Cab

I echo Rich S’s comments and found LI whites to show better than the reds… I thought Paumanok had some pretty good reds, particularly the Grand Vintage wines and bordeaux style blend named Assemblage…

Best cabernet based wine was a 1985 Sassicaia, in Magnum that my boss purchased for our group during a holiday lunch at Felidia in NYC. Unfortunately there were about 11 of us, so I only got about a glass worth, but boy did I savor that wine.

Vaynerchuk…Good Job…
On Aug 3rd,1995 Former Pirate pitcher Jim GOTT
played his last game.GOTT means GOD in German and GOD was 1995 SILVER OAKS CAB.ALEXANDER VALLEY the best cab I ever had.Good wine and good dine.

Gary….great shows. I wanted you to know that I am watching from Hong Kong. Your show is the first thing I do in the morning (your evening – 12 hours difference in time) when I arrive at my office.

Best Cab based wine was a 1961 Chateau Gruard Larose.

I have only been a wine drinker for a few years, and the first vintage I was exposed to was 97. My first wine love was the 97 Estancia I went through cases of that stuff, and when it seemed every store was out of it I happened to be traveling to Canada out of EWR and went to the duty free shop and what did I find? the 97 Estancia. Now that I know more and my tastes have matured. My last favorite was the 01 Quintessa. Man, do I miss that 97 vintage thought, for my taste buds no vintage has touched it. Love the show!

I have only been a wine drinker for a few years, and the first vintage I was exposed to was 97. My first wine love was the 97 Estancia I went through cases of that stuff, and when it seemed every store was out of it I happened to be traveling to Canada out of EWR and went to the duty free shop and what did I find? the 97 Estancia. Now that I know more and my tastes have matured. My last favorite was the 01 Quintessa. Man, do I miss that 97 vintage thought, for my taste buds no vintage has touched it. Love the show!