EP 228 Old World Wine

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Today Gary Vaynerchuk takes a walk on the Old World side. Bordeaux, Burgundy and Alsace will make their appearances today.

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Krishna Patel

love coffee ice cream! cant wait for you to come here at Virginia Tech!

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  • Les

    Old world wines!!!! I’m a fan – great episode, GV – I WILL seek out some of these wines. Red radishes were quite popular in my childhood, in the north – my mom still grows them in her garden every summer. We get beautiful radishes most of the year here (way way up north) in the grocery stores as well.

    QOTD- Steak tartar made fresh at your table in a wooden bowl by a team of servers in a Romanesque, very expensive steak joint – picture mirrored paneled walls, big chairs, plush silence – think JR Ewing, old school enough for you?

  • Les

    Old world wines!!!! I’m a fan – great episode, GV – I WILL seek out some of these wines. Red radishes were quite popular in my childhood, in the north – my mom still grows them in her garden every summer. We get beautiful radishes most of the year here (way way up north) in the grocery stores as well.

    QOTD- Steak tartar made fresh at your table in a wooden bowl by a team of servers in a Romanesque, very expensive steak joint – picture mirrored paneled walls, big chairs, plush silence – think JR Ewing, old school enough for you?

  • E

    What, nobody’s mentioned those ’60s-era Jets uniforms? Like, none more old school than that.

  • E

    What, nobody’s mentioned those ’60s-era Jets uniforms? Like, none more old school than that.

  • Seth – MacGeek

    Gotta love the contrast.. Big fan of salty sweet. Like salted peanuts on ice cream or potato chips on cheese cake (try it)…

  • Seth – MacGeek

    Gotta love the contrast.. Big fan of salty sweet. Like salted peanuts on ice cream or potato chips on cheese cake (try it)…

  • Matt Czinger

    QOTD: When me, TJ, and G-Dubs would knock back some madeira and ’87 d’Yquem (… that’s 1787). If only I’d saved a few bottles with Tommy’s initials etched on ’em. Sally kept whisking them away.

  • Matt Czinger

    QOTD: When me, TJ, and G-Dubs would knock back some madeira and ’87 d’Yquem (… that’s 1787). If only I’d saved a few bottles with Tommy’s initials etched on ’em. Sally kept whisking them away.

  • KC Dan

    Nice one Gman Qotd OLD School GAS PRICES !!!!

  • KC Dan

    Nice one Gman Qotd OLD School GAS PRICES !!!!

  • geespot

    Way to show us that good Bordeaux is still rediculously expensive, woot. Otherwise, good ep. Love ’em nice and stinky.

    QOD: Who can forget Voltron? That show owned me most of the 80s. Topps baseball cards. With the waxy, hard piece of gum inside.

  • geespot

    Way to show us that good Bordeaux is still rediculously expensive, woot. Otherwise, good ep. Love ’em nice and stinky.

    QOD: Who can forget Voltron? That show owned me most of the 80s. Topps baseball cards. With the waxy, hard piece of gum inside.

  • Greg B.

    From one G to another. Nice to see ya keeping it Real! QOTD Old school food.

  • Greg B.

    From one G to another. Nice to see ya keeping it Real! QOTD Old school food.

  • Long time waiting for an ep like this. Great. My fingers go itchy for the Groffier. It’s way above my budget, but just your discription made my mouth water (I am just awake btw – watching you with a mug of coffee). Was Mothy in this bottle?
    QOTD: favourite? Difficult to say. So much I love about old world. Maybe it’s hot chalkiness. Some wines, especially some well made traditional Sicilian whites can just taste like a hot chalky boulder in the middle of an olive yard, with crickets chirruping in the scorches grass surrounding it and some chunky lemons squashed on it. They just carry the smell of the sun. Gorgeous.

  • Long time waiting for an ep like this. Great. My fingers go itchy for the Groffier. It’s way above my budget, but just your discription made my mouth water (I am just awake btw – watching you with a mug of coffee). Was Mothy in this bottle?
    QOTD: favourite? Difficult to say. So much I love about old world. Maybe it’s hot chalkiness. Some wines, especially some well made traditional Sicilian whites can just taste like a hot chalky boulder in the middle of an olive yard, with crickets chirruping in the scorches grass surrounding it and some chunky lemons squashed on it. They just carry the smell of the sun. Gorgeous.

  • fatdoi

    QOTD… old school….. got to be Gundam 0079, period.

  • fatdoi

    QOTD… old school….. got to be Gundam 0079, period.

  • NathanN

    QOTD: The 80â??s St. Louis Cardinals with the baby blue uniforms Ozzie, Willie, Her, Oquendo, and manager Whitey Herzog. Now that was an old school baseball team.

  • Jon B.

    Great episode. Transylvania vid was great. Qotd Mellow smello scratch and sniff stickers.

  • NathanN

    QOTD: The 80â??s St. Louis Cardinals with the baby blue uniforms Ozzie, Willie, Her, Oquendo, and manager Whitey Herzog. Now that was an old school baseball team.

  • Jon B.

    Great episode. Transylvania vid was great. Qotd Mellow smello scratch and sniff stickers.

  • hugh

    old school? a great pen, and Pac Man (no, not Pac Man Jones)
    Coffee ice cream and pickles…..what’s gonna happen when u r pregnant?!

  • hugh

    old school? a great pen, and Pac Man (no, not Pac Man Jones)
    Coffee ice cream and pickles…..what’s gonna happen when u r pregnant?!

  • Lynne

    QOTD: My VERY favorite….the ’67 Mustang I had my first date in. I can still hear that car a half mile away on its way to pick me up. Today, I don’t have the car, but I married the guy who drove it!!

  • Lynne

    QOTD: My VERY favorite….the ’67 Mustang I had my first date in. I can still hear that car a half mile away on its way to pick me up. Today, I don’t have the car, but I married the guy who drove it!!

  • The Belarussian sensation was firing on all cylinders today! Between the ‘former soviet union on your ass’ and old world ‘kumbaya’ comment- yeehaw!
    No worries about Mossy man on New England, he’s an apathetic infestation of an athlete that will permeate his bacterial infection throughout the squad, rendering them useless. What a waste of space, and a STUPID move for a discipline team to pick up an aloof loser (in his twilight, I might add).

  • The Belarussian sensation was firing on all cylinders today! Between the ‘former soviet union on your ass’ and old world ‘kumbaya’ comment- yeehaw!
    No worries about Mossy man on New England, he’s an apathetic infestation of an athlete that will permeate his bacterial infection throughout the squad, rendering them useless. What a waste of space, and a STUPID move for a discipline team to pick up an aloof loser (in his twilight, I might add).

  • Frankallen

    Salted Peanuts poured in your Coke,Sock Hops with real slow Music, and playing Marbles on the School Playground!

  • Frankallen

    Salted Peanuts poured in your Coke,Sock Hops with real slow Music, and playing Marbles on the School Playground!

  • Michael Browning

    Great show! The wine descriptions were awesome, makes you want to go out and grab a bottle, but the price is to much for my pocket book.

    QOTD: No Traffic, and lisening to 60 & 70’s music.

  • Michael Browning

    Great show! The wine descriptions were awesome, makes you want to go out and grab a bottle, but the price is to much for my pocket book.

    QOTD: No Traffic, and lisening to 60 & 70’s music.

  • Robert F

    Love the old school dirty wines, especially the dirty burgs.

    QOTD: Old school 80s rap – Run DMC style “It’s Tricky!!!”

  • Robert F

    Love the old school dirty wines, especially the dirty burgs.

    QOTD: Old school 80s rap – Run DMC style “It’s Tricky!!!”

  • cdavis

    What is your favorite coffee ice cream? Mine would have to be Starbucks java chip!

    QOTD: Love my Old School Nintendo! SMB, Bubble Bobble, Excite Bike, RC Pro Am, Dig Dug, and the list goes on. I break it out about 4x per year.

  • cdavis

    What is your favorite coffee ice cream? Mine would have to be Starbucks java chip!

    QOTD: Love my Old School Nintendo! SMB, Bubble Bobble, Excite Bike, RC Pro Am, Dig Dug, and the list goes on. I break it out about 4x per year.

  • Dave-from-Katonah

    Gary – Great episode. I love OW wines! Now, how about another OW ep, but this time on the wonderful wines of Rhone?

    QOTD – definitely bell bottoms, quiana shirts, and blowdrying my long hair…which I don’t have anymore so I buzz it to a crew cut.

  • Gary – Great episode. I love OW wines! Now, how about another OW ep, but this time on the wonderful wines of Rhone?

    QOTD – definitely bell bottoms, quiana shirts, and blowdrying my long hair…which I don’t have anymore so I buzz it to a crew cut.

  • Herm

    QoTD: I loved listening to the Doors on an eight track tape player….still do….great episode,thanks

  • Herm

    QoTD: I loved listening to the Doors on an eight track tape player….still do….great episode,thanks

  • Scruff

    QOTD: Punk rock 😉

  • Scruff

    QOTD: Punk rock 😉

  • wayno da wino

    QOTD: i’m wit SCRUFF (comment #96); Ramones,
    Joan Jett, Green Day, YOOOOOOOO !!!!

  • wayno da wino

    QOTD: i’m wit SCRUFF (comment #96); Ramones,
    Joan Jett, Green Day, YOOOOOOOO !!!!

  • SoCal

    BTW….expresso gelato ROCKS!

  • JimVarney01

    QOTD!!!!! Dead heat for Old Skool Rap (Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Fat Boys in the HOUSE!!!) and Old School WWF action, Saturday Nights Main Event, Steel Cage Matches, Jake the Snake throwin his python (Damien?) out into the ring, Brutus the Barber cuttin people’s hair after he won, and George the Animal Steele tearin apart turnbuckles with his teeth when he won!!! So glad my dad got me into that!

    Speakin of which, what the hell happened to Nikolai Volkov?

  • SoCal

    BTW….expresso gelato ROCKS!

  • JimVarney01

    QOTD!!!!! Dead heat for Old Skool Rap (Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Fat Boys in the HOUSE!!!) and Old School WWF action, Saturday Nights Main Event, Steel Cage Matches, Jake the Snake throwin his python (Damien?) out into the ring, Brutus the Barber cuttin people’s hair after he won, and George the Animal Steele tearin apart turnbuckles with his teeth when he won!!! So glad my dad got me into that!

    Speakin of which, what the hell happened to Nikolai Volkov?

  • Capt M

    Muchas gracias Señor Vaynerchuk. Very nice selection; thanks for tasting such expensive wines for us. I’m not much of an “old world” style wine fan, but any serious wine connoseaur or taster comes across old world more often than not, so you have to know how to interpret and appreciate them.

    QOTD: MUSIC, man.. CLASSICAL MUSIC! Every now and then, to enjoy at the theater or at home, either a dvd or just the music of Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Nocturne Serenade)), or Brahms’ or Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, or one of Beethoven’s Symphonys. Pair that up with a glass of nice Port or any red wine. Pretty classic and old world, and pleasant. Haydn’s Quartets; I love chamber music too.

  • Capt M

    Muchas gracias Señor Vaynerchuk. Very nice selection; thanks for tasting such expensive wines for us. I’m not much of an “old world” style wine fan, but any serious wine connoseaur or taster comes across old world more often than not, so you have to know how to interpret and appreciate them.

    QOTD: MUSIC, man.. CLASSICAL MUSIC! Every now and then, to enjoy at the theater or at home, either a dvd or just the music of Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Nocturne Serenade)), or Brahms’ or Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, or one of Beethoven’s Symphonys. Pair that up with a glass of nice Port or any red wine. Pretty classic and old world, and pleasant. Haydn’s Quartets; I love chamber music too.

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