Totally worth the price of admission!
I love it – and am a believer now in developing one’s palate vocabulary through food… and dirt.

I just opened a Black Swan (Australia) Riesling, 2007 and found a new one… Sucret’s cough drops – not just any cough drop brand but the Sucret Mentholyptus. Whew – lots of bite!

Best episode ever!

OK, seriously, you are TOO FUNNY! 🙂 I laughed through this whole episode. I get your point, though, and I must say…it’s amazing what you will do for your fans! Of course, now I want to have a food tasting party but I think I’ll leave the cloves out….they seemed to do you in!

Holy Smoke this is Great, nice way to make a Wine Materialize … Good show man and crazy idea that works – I say 99.999999999999999999 – fire in the hole !!!!!!!

Peace
Michael

Great show!!!! Can’t wait to try this.

I watched this episode, but did not think to write down everything. Is a recommended list published anywhere that I can use as a starter grocery list?

Wow, we just sat and watched the back episode. That is amazing on training ones palette. Thanks for taking one for the team Gary, I will bring this idea up to the group that we do wine tastings with.

D & L

now former lurkers

Wow man, way to take one for the team. Great show!

WoW!!!! Great show! I am basically a self-taught wine lover! After seeing this show, I will go out and buy several of the items you ate (and snorted!) and hopefully will improve my palate!

Thanks for taking one for the team!!!!

love it! insane tasting – gonna go out and do it! and, finish off in style!

one question – did you think about trying flowers/plants?

thanks for the site – love it! trying to get my wife and friends on board for the thundercruise!!!!

OH… MY… GOD…

Awesome… been a Vayniac for a month now and I’ve been looking/lurking at past webisodes…

This is the best yet!

My wife and I have been hosting wine tasting for 5-6 years… this is a must do at our next one…

Hope your enjoying SoCal… sorry about your Jets last night… my Ray-Duhs aren’t any better… 😉

Ciao…

Amazing…we stumbled on 148 tonight while eating pizza and drinking a ’99 callifornia red zin…we have tears in our eyes…

This is required watching for all new Vayniacs…Mott…let’s link it up again!

dm

A good place to go for people to train their palate for cheap would be a bulk store. Here in Canada there are stores called “Bulk Barn” where you can bag as much or as little of whatever you want. They have spices, candies, cereals, jams, chocolates and a bunch of other stuff.

Brother, you crack me up.
Excellent espisode, but I got to tell you, I almost lost my lunch with the sweaty sock bid.
Keep up the great work.
THANKS!!!

PS. I seem to taste a lot of Tamarind in my white wines, check it out.

Hey Gary,

I’ve really gotten into the show recently. I’m relatively new to wine, but I’ve always loved trying different and unique foods and spices, which I think really comes through in my palate now. This was a great episode; I wish more people we so enthusiastic about experiencing new flavors, or so enthusiastic about what they do for a living!

BTW, The reason you couldn’t taste anything in the arrow root was because there really isn’t anything there to taste. It’s just a refined starch that is often used in lieu of wheat flour in products made for people with allergies or gluten intolerance. You always say that you’re “changing the wine world,” well count me in…

Hey Gary-

This was my first time watching the show. I saw 2 previous episodes, then this palette tonight from a friend’s recomendation. AMAZING!!! I love your show. I am a recent wine enthusiast, starting in the last 3 years. Been to Napa, Santa Barbera (Flying Goat Pinot Noir!!), and the new “napa”- Paso Robles. I play guitar for Saturday Night Live and been getting some of the other band members into wine too. Already passed your show on to a bunch of people. thanks for the show. it’s incredible!

Jared

gary – im a new viewer, i don’t even drink wine and WLTV ROCKS. This episode is absolutely nuts..i can’t believe you ate all that stuff. keep up the good work man.

Interesting episode #148 “Palate Trained”. I think there are mnay items to add to the tasting list. There are some that could have been left off and others shold be added. add: Pine, Oak, Rose, Dandelions,more of the plant and wood family. I don’t agree with the processed foods but lean toward the fresh stuff. Go show. I would add at the palate party to mix the flavors go from the sweet to the hot or sour items to really get the palate going.
Enjoyed~

You’re the best!!! I just started watching about two days ago and I can’t wait to learn more about wine from you.

Dirty Gary, all I can say is that I was glad to see this episode on pretty close to an empty stomach. No I have never done that, I think my wife would have me taken out and shot if I tried. I watched with delighted horror.

I was glad you did not bring one or more varieties of manure.

Apart from having the guts to do this, I am impressed with the way you can remember this cornucopia of flavours, and the wines that seem to go with them – especially the different Italian reds.

Very well done – and I need a drink too.

I’ve seen this video about 3 times in the past year, and I keep coming back to it.

Great episode!!!

A friend of mine turned me on to this website, since I’m very new to wine. At first, I thought it was a little silly to try all the different flavors, like chocolate and the berries, because we all know what they taste like. But then the more things you tried, the more I understood what you mean. To honestly understand the flavorings of wine, one must try it. How else would one be able to say, “Oh, this tastes like a wet rock”? To be honest, I just thought that wine tasters just kind of made it up, because I could never taste what they did. But perhaps it’s because I haven’t tried tasting dirt or eating peppers. So I want to say- Thanks. Now I know how they’re coming up with these different tastes. I’ll be sure to check out more of your videos. You explain things in simple terms, easy for newbies, such as myself, to understand.

What a great episode! I’m going to try it. Hey, $180 is a lot cheaper than a Le Nez du Vin kit!

I think as your show gains popularity you should recommend newbies to watch this episode.

And I don’t see how you could add anything else to that tasting without getting sick, but I would suggest addding tobacco leaves.

You never fail to amaze me, Gary!

This was hilarious and really informative. My wife and I recently purchased one of those Wine Taster Essence kits, but I think your method would have been much more useful.

I often taste cardamom (whole pod, not ground), Nilla wafers, and also flavors I call fireplace and golf course. I guess that would be ash and cut grass. Although I will admit I don’t really taste these tings distinctly. It’s much more of an inference or intuitive response to the flavor, almost like it triggers a sense memory.

What about bread or yeast? I’ve read that this can be undesirable but there are times when a bready, almost subtle garlic-ish quality seems to enjoyable. Thoughts?

Mr. Vaynerchuk,
A wine salesperson I deal with recommended your website to me and I was impressed. You and I have a similar approach to wine. On my website I state that wine is an individual sport and it appears that you agree with this philosophy. Your show on training the palate was great and I believe should be done on a much smaller scale over a longer period of time. You have mentioned dairy qualities on a number of occasions, plum, and many other flavors. I think the point you are trying to make is that if you have a passion for wine you will pay attention to flavors and see how they relate to the juice you are enjoying at the time. It is a learning experience to buy a bottle that was recently reviewed, drink it and try to extract the flavors that they refer to. A recent experience I had was when you had Charles Smith on your show and you tasted his Chateau Smith Cab. You made a reference to red radish on the palate. I asked for a sample of this wine from a rep. When I tried it I have to say you hit the nail on the head…… Red radish all the way. It even had the after burn of radish. So, not only is it important to try different flavors, it is important to drink wine and compare it to the reviews. This is very helpful in developing a good palate. One thing you have to make sure of is that you can trust the person doing the review. YOu have earned my trust. Thanks. Stan