EP 365 Valpolicella Wines From Italy

Italian red wines are always among the most sought after however these wonderful efforts from the Venato go very unnoticed!

Wines tasted in this episode:

Allegrini ValpolicellaValpolicella
2003 Mazzi Valpolicella PoiegaValpolicella

2005 Zardini Valpolicella SuperioreValpolicella

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John__J

Haven't had any Valpolicella's by those wineries, I do have an '01 La Poja from Allegrini that I hear is supposed to be really good

Tags: Italian, red, review, Valpolicella, Video, wine, wines

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  • Paul M

    QOTD: (Football) – under the football is a fake superbowl ring for you to keep on your desk as a goal until you can buy the Jets and get a real one

    QOTD: (Contest) – Photo contest with best/funniest picture with a WLTV wristband … this way you will actually get people to finally send you picture with the wristbands

  • QOTD For the contest,, create a GaryVee and the gang series of thundercats.

    Vote for Mott as Snarf!!! (Panthro?)

    Come on,, you know you see it!!

  • QOTD For the contest,, create a GaryVee and the gang series of thundercats.

    Vote for Mott as Snarf!!! (Panthro?)

    Come on,, you know you see it!!

  • Greg Ztolg

    Great show. New wine for me. I bought some. Thanks, and I will let you know what I think.

  • Greg Ztolg

    Great show. New wine for me. I bought some. Thanks, and I will let you know what I think.

  • tarheel17

    QOTD: Contest idea…hmm….
    Throw out a list of 10 wines you’ll taste on the show. Whoever guesses your favorite wine of the ten (when you taste them, a day or week after announcing the 10) wins. Or, rather, of the people who guessed your favorite, draw a name.

    Who am I kidding, I just want to be in the running for the next contest. I’m sure someone else has a better contest idea…

  • tarheel17

    QOTD: Contest idea…hmm….
    Throw out a list of 10 wines you’ll taste on the show. Whoever guesses your favorite wine of the ten (when you taste them, a day or week after announcing the 10) wins. Or, rather, of the people who guessed your favorite, draw a name.

    Who am I kidding, I just want to be in the running for the next contest. I’m sure someone else has a better contest idea…

  • Sweet… you know I love Valpolicella! I’ve had plenty of Mazzi, but not this particular one… generally very good! The Zardini sounds incredible! Too bad I’ve blown my wine budget this month ALREADY… but I’ll think about it.

    QOTD1: I think there’s a Vino-Seal glass “cork” under that Jets thing. Answer number two, and you KNOW I’m right, so I should win by default… I think the table cloth is under the Jets thing! You’d better not deny my prize…

    QOTD2: The contest for the “bigger” prize… dang it, I can’t think of anything good right now and I have to head to dinner (one of those expense account dinners.. we’ll see what’s on the wine list!). I just wanted to comment to be sure I could compete. 😉 I’ll post again if I think of something good…

    David

  • Sweet… you know I love Valpolicella! I’ve had plenty of Mazzi, but not this particular one… generally very good! The Zardini sounds incredible! Too bad I’ve blown my wine budget this month ALREADY… but I’ll think about it.

    QOTD1: I think there’s a Vino-Seal glass “cork” under that Jets thing. Answer number two, and you KNOW I’m right, so I should win by default… I think the table cloth is under the Jets thing! You’d better not deny my prize…

    QOTD2: The contest for the “bigger” prize… dang it, I can’t think of anything good right now and I have to head to dinner (one of those expense account dinners.. we’ll see what’s on the wine list!). I just wanted to comment to be sure I could compete. 😉 I’ll post again if I think of something good…

    David

  • Dammit… I just watched your review of the Zardini and I had to buy four… couldn’t resist… I love Valpolicella… and this sounds awesome. That wasn’t a very long hold out.

    David

  • Robert F

    QOTD #1: Under the football is one of those wine magnets 🙂

    QOTD: The next contest should have two finalists, then for the final prize they will have to battle it out in a double blind tasting on WLTV.

  • QOTD:
    some kind of photo contest would be cool. it could be judged or you could just draw a name from all that participate. plus, you could make a great webpage of all the entries.

  • Dammit… I just watched your review of the Zardini and I had to buy four… couldn’t resist… I love Valpolicella… and this sounds awesome. That wasn’t a very long hold out.

    David

  • Robert F

    QOTD #1: Under the football is one of those wine magnets 🙂

    QOTD: The next contest should have two finalists, then for the final prize they will have to battle it out in a double blind tasting on WLTV.

  • QOTD:
    some kind of photo contest would be cool. it could be judged or you could just draw a name from all that participate. plus, you could make a great webpage of all the entries.

  • QOTD1: It’s a smaller jets football. A football matryoshka! Or…. just to throw something out for all the physics/astronomy nerds out there… It’s just footballs all the way down.

    QOTD2: Maybe an intro contest? Maybe a contest to create theme music? Wine tasting in the strangest places contest?

    For the record, I would destroy you in pencil fighting. I owned my schools in pencil fighting. We also used to do this one where two people would spin quarters around, guess what it would land on and the winner got both quarters. I used to clean up in that one too.

    OHH! Maybe the contest should be a pencil fighting or paper football tournament!

  • QOTD1: It’s a smaller jets football. A football matryoshka! Or…. just to throw something out for all the physics/astronomy nerds out there… It’s just footballs all the way down.

    QOTD2: Maybe an intro contest? Maybe a contest to create theme music? Wine tasting in the strangest places contest?

    For the record, I would destroy you in pencil fighting. I owned my schools in pencil fighting. We also used to do this one where two people would spin quarters around, guess what it would land on and the winner got both quarters. I used to clean up in that one too.

    OHH! Maybe the contest should be a pencil fighting or paper football tournament!

  • QOTD: For the next contest have us do a video tasting our favorite wine or do a WLTV intro video!!

  • QOTD: For the next contest have us do a video tasting our favorite wine or do a WLTV intro video!!

  • DAMN! Darcey and I really wanted to hang with you for a day!

    QOTD: Contest idea: a little complex, but … brown-bag three (or more) wines similar, then have a show where you taste them, describe them, and rate them, but you only give us the names/vintages of the three wines and we are to match them up correctly. All who answer correctly are entered into a drawing. The prize? A trip for two with you for a week to the wine-tasting region of 1.France 2.Spain 3.Italy or 4.California (only one, of course, unless … ?).

    Thanks G V-N-Ch for all you do!
    Keep it up.

  • DAMN! Darcey and I really wanted to hang with you for a day!

    QOTD: Contest idea: a little complex, but … brown-bag three (or more) wines similar, then have a show where you taste them, describe them, and rate them, but you only give us the names/vintages of the three wines and we are to match them up correctly. All who answer correctly are entered into a drawing. The prize? A trip for two with you for a week to the wine-tasting region of 1.France 2.Spain 3.Italy or 4.California (only one, of course, unless … ?).

    Thanks G V-N-Ch for all you do!
    Keep it up.

  • I forgot … under the football? Your new Vayniac wristband!!!

  • QOTD: Does this mean the question of what is under the football thing is going to be a question another day?

    I think the next contest should be sending in pics of your wine collection, whether it is a cellar or just a few bottles. This would be a lot easier that the last contest but could be very neat or compare cellars or lack thereof.

  • I forgot … under the football? Your new Vayniac wristband!!!

  • QOTD: Does this mean the question of what is under the football thing is going to be a question another day?

    I think the next contest should be sending in pics of your wine collection, whether it is a cellar or just a few bottles. This would be a lot easier that the last contest but could be very neat or compare cellars or lack thereof.

  • MARSHALL

    QOTD:You should take a tour of the entire country, starting in New York and ending in Southeren California with two or three lucky vayniacs. You should only go to local cult wineries, and try the “under the rader states” like Michigan and Colorado, etc. ANND!!! document it on video, like the great beer documentary “American Beer.” BRING MAHT.

  • MARSHALL

    QOTD:You should take a tour of the entire country, starting in New York and ending in Southeren California with two or three lucky vayniacs. You should only go to local cult wineries, and try the “under the rader states” like Michigan and Colorado, etc. ANND!!! document it on video, like the great beer documentary “American Beer.” BRING MAHT.

  • Harley Stan

    Congratulations to the winners of today’s contest!!!

    QOTD- a WLTV trivia contest with some obscure questions like first appearence of Jet spit bucket, or which episode featured a Strawberry Shortcake bucket, make them hard so every one has to research all 365 episodes just to get into the drawing. You could make several versions of the test so not everyone has the same questions and send them out via the Forum personal message tool. Then on top of that everyone gets an additional entry for every episode the comment on from the start date forward. We get a chance at really cool schwag and you get a ton of hits to your website, more registered forum members, and lots of comments. I think it would really bring out the lurkers.

  • Harley Stan

    Congratulations to the winners of today’s contest!!!

    QOTD- a WLTV trivia contest with some obscure questions like first appearence of Jet spit bucket, or which episode featured a Strawberry Shortcake bucket, make them hard so every one has to research all 365 episodes just to get into the drawing. You could make several versions of the test so not everyone has the same questions and send them out via the Forum personal message tool. Then on top of that everyone gets an additional entry for every episode the comment on from the start date forward. We get a chance at really cool schwag and you get a ton of hits to your website, more registered forum members, and lots of comments. I think it would really bring out the lurkers.

  • Mike Z

    Good show today… Congrats to the winner in the Great White North (Canada); peace to all those who need it.

    QOTD #1: Under the football is… keys to the store (Wine Library) for a private $500 shopping spree with Gary!
    QOTD #2: Next contest- a limerick contest about the best wine you ever had. GV, Mr. Sasha V, and Mott can be the judges to pick the top 3 and the Vayniacs vote for the final winner…?

  • Mike Z

    Good show today… Congrats to the winner in the Great White North (Canada); peace to all those who need it.

    QOTD #1: Under the football is… keys to the store (Wine Library) for a private $500 shopping spree with Gary!
    QOTD #2: Next contest- a limerick contest about the best wine you ever had. GV, Mr. Sasha V, and Mott can be the judges to pick the top 3 and the Vayniacs vote for the final winner…?

  • Chris

    QOTD: The prize for the next contest should be a tasting tour with Gary of several vineyards in a region.

    Attending a Jets game with GV is a good idea but the football season would most likely be finished by the time the next contest ends.

  • QOTD: The prize for the next contest should be a tasting tour with Gary of several vineyards in a region.

    Attending a Jets game with GV is a good idea but the football season would most likely be finished by the time the next contest ends.

  • Cassie

    Okay I’m thinking….the contest should be the best public service announcements for the Oak Monster. You know how they have PSA’s for like, smoking, etc? Like that. Its a kind of out there idea so I’ll try to think of something better.

  • Obama_Man

    Gary,

    1) Thanks for the HUUUUUGE SHOUT-OUT! we’re so pumped up right now!
    2) For the contest:
    You should delay delivering the score for one or two wines during an episode and leave it up to the viewers to guess what you scored the wine based solely off of facial expressions! You can even do it for numerous episodes and narrow it all down in the end. Of course, it will increase comments AND viewership!

    Best,

    Arthur
    &
    ObamaNYC!

  • Cassie

    Okay I’m thinking….the contest should be the best public service announcements for the Oak Monster. You know how they have PSA’s for like, smoking, etc? Like that. Its a kind of out there idea so I’ll try to think of something better.

  • Obama_Man

    Gary,

    1) Thanks for the HUUUUUGE SHOUT-OUT! we’re so pumped up right now!
    2) For the contest:
    You should delay delivering the score for one or two wines during an episode and leave it up to the viewers to guess what you scored the wine based solely off of facial expressions! You can even do it for numerous episodes and narrow it all down in the end. Of course, it will increase comments AND viewership!

    Best,

    Arthur
    &
    ObamaNYC!

  • QOTD: Two contest ideas.

    1) Best cork sculpture, lego style. Of course, you would have to provide a topic/theme just in case anyone already has some sort of giant thing already made.

    2) A scavenger hunt. Since everyone can’t be in one location, make it a virtual one. In other words, register a bunch of domains. The first clue forces you to unscramble something, put together the name of a second domain, that gives a different clue to go to the next, and so on.

    What’s under the football? New wristband perhaps.

  • Cassie

    Oh, ALSO! I think the winner should get to taste rocks with Gary. That’s my dream anyways.

  • QOTD: Two contest ideas.

    1) Best cork sculpture, lego style. Of course, you would have to provide a topic/theme just in case anyone already has some sort of giant thing already made.

    2) A scavenger hunt. Since everyone can’t be in one location, make it a virtual one. In other words, register a bunch of domains. The first clue forces you to unscramble something, put together the name of a second domain, that gives a different clue to go to the next, and so on.

    What’s under the football? New wristband perhaps.

  • Cassie

    Oh, ALSO! I think the winner should get to taste rocks with Gary. That’s my dream anyways.

  • Malphas

    QotD: When are we going to start working on labels for the Vayniac Cabernet? That would be a contest I’d be thrilled to jump in on.

  • Malphas

    QotD: When are we going to start working on labels for the Vayniac Cabernet? That would be a contest I’d be thrilled to jump in on.

  • Yiannys

    QOTD: contest should be like a scavenger hunt…..You put out the first clue during the show. Then you could use different aspects of different websites the clues could like add up to reveal like a wine. It would be hard work on your guys’ part but I think it would be a lot of fun…
    And I got that Idea from watching The Totally Rad Show with Alex Albrecht. They did a thing on the Rocket Race….

    Eagles Rule!!!
    YD

  • OrionSlayer

    Congratulations to the iPhone and Guest host with Gary winner!

    QOTD: The next contest should be for we Vaniacs to send in short video clips of a group of people saying: “You, and a little bit of me, changing the wine world!”

  • Yiannys

    QOTD: contest should be like a scavenger hunt…..You put out the first clue during the show. Then you could use different aspects of different websites the clues could like add up to reveal like a wine. It would be hard work on your guys’ part but I think it would be a lot of fun…
    And I got that Idea from watching The Totally Rad Show with Alex Albrecht. They did a thing on the Rocket Race….

    Eagles Rule!!!
    YD

  • OrionSlayer

    Congratulations to the iPhone and Guest host with Gary winner!

    QOTD: The next contest should be for we Vaniacs to send in short video clips of a group of people saying: “You, and a little bit of me, changing the wine world!”

  • Kelly In South Dakota

    We all send Gary one bottle of wine and he picks the best for the winner.

  • Kelly In South Dakota

    We all send Gary one bottle of wine and he picks the best for the winner.

  • RandyB

    Another great show. I love these wines and the amorones.

    QOTD 1: Figurine of Marcus Dell Gastineau

    QOTD 2: It’s time for the homemade wine contest

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