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EP 367 Box Wine Tasting

Can box wine be good? That is a question that maybe taking a very interesting spin in a new direction, as more and more under 25 year old wine drinkers enter the wine market wineries are thinking of new ways to brand to that demo and today Gary Vaynerchuk tastes some of the newer efforts in the market.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 Bandit Pinot Grigio
2006 Bota Box Chadonnay

2004 Cuvee de Pena
2005 Thirsty Lizard Shiraz

Links mentioned in todays episode.

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John__J

I'm open to wines in a box, although I feel dubious about them and have never bought one and don't have any plans to. I'm definitely not into wines in a can however, I know Coppola's even doing one of those. I tasted a cuvee de pena rose in a bottle, it wasn't awful for the $2 or 3.99 it cost wholesale.

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  • Shad

    I would have to say the worst steak I ever had was a sirloin during a Christmas dinner last year..it had no flavor, it was tough, and was a horrible gray color (that might have been a clue). The best was a steak I had in the Blackthorn Pub in Ireland heading south from Galway…I can’t remember the cut, but it was fantastic..tender, juicy….just awesome.

  • Harley Stan

    Interesting show today, I think I will stick with glass for now, I will leave the boxes for my Dad.
    QOTD- Best Steak was camping with friends, cooked perfectly over an open fire and seasoned just right. The worst steak is problably the five dollar T-bones at a little restaurant off Broadway in Denver.

  • Cliff

    QOTD The best steak was at the Chicago Chop House 3 years ago. Had it with a Leonetti Cab. The worst steak had to be some time ago on a United flight across country. Can’t remember the wine but it was out of a mini bottle.

  • Wanger

    Best Steak – Yousef 242 – Hickory, NC – Coffee-dusted New York Strip with Chocolate demi-glaze. Yum.

    Worst Steak – Outback (yep, the chain) – Filet Mignon – dried out chain crap.

    Love the box wine. What a hoot.

  • Dave Canada

    QOTD – Hmmmm. Best steak ever was a venison filet at Scaramouche….worst was a strip loin at NOBISO in Elora Ontario…..brutal!!!

  • Cliff

    QOTD The best steak was at the Chicago Chop House 3 years ago. Had it with a Leonetti Cab. The worst steak had to be some time ago on a United flight across country. Can’t remember the wine but it was out of a mini bottle.

  • Wanger

    Best Steak – Yousef 242 – Hickory, NC – Coffee-dusted New York Strip with Chocolate demi-glaze. Yum.

    Worst Steak – Outback (yep, the chain) – Filet Mignon – dried out chain crap.

    Love the box wine. What a hoot.

  • Dave Canada

    QOTD – Hmmmm. Best steak ever was a venison filet at Scaramouche….worst was a strip loin at NOBISO in Elora Ontario…..brutal!!!

  • Taylor

    I’d have to say awesome show because of the shout out, so jazzed
    QOTD Best: a filet from a small restaurant in Ithaca called the boat house it was Guinness braised and had brie on top so good!
    Worst: probably the first steak my ex gf tried to make literally no seasoning and totally over-cooked!

  • markfarrell22

    Good episode. I will have to pick up a couple bottles….eehh packs of the Bandit.

    QOTD: The best steak I have ever had was a filet mignon with a red wine mushroom sauce that I prepared. Not trying to be too arrogant. The worst steak I have ever had was prepared by me as well. I was a teenager and my mom called home before she got home and asked that I boil some ground beef for stroganoff. Not knowing what different types of beef were and being the absent minded teen I was, I grabbed 4 ribeyes and boiled them. I think my mom tried to dress them up with BBQ sauce or something, but I remember my teeth bouncing off of it because it was so rubbery. Needless to say my mom was not happy.

  • Adam Altman

    QOTD –
    Best Steak – Definitely my Pop’s Filet Mignon, each time it is different and each time it is the best steak I have ever had.
    Worst Steak – Overcooked nastiness at Ruby Tuesdays a few months back

  • Hamid Z

    Best Steak: Friends and I ordered a couple boxes of 8oz and grilled out… needless to say, it somehow resulted in this tender, juicy pink perfection on my plate.

    Worst: A rib-eye from what is considered a fairly nice restaurant in my area. It was either the cook or the cut, but I couldn’t finish it, which is a rare thing with me for steak.

    Also, the link to the Montana Legend site is broken, someone added an ‘L’ after ‘.com’

  • Taylor

    I’d have to say awesome show because of the shout out, so jazzed
    QOTD Best: a filet from a small restaurant in Ithaca called the boat house it was Guinness braised and had brie on top so good!
    Worst: probably the first steak my ex gf tried to make literally no seasoning and totally over-cooked!

  • markfarrell22

    Good episode. I will have to pick up a couple bottles….eehh packs of the Bandit.

    QOTD: The best steak I have ever had was a filet mignon with a red wine mushroom sauce that I prepared. Not trying to be too arrogant. The worst steak I have ever had was prepared by me as well. I was a teenager and my mom called home before she got home and asked that I boil some ground beef for stroganoff. Not knowing what different types of beef were and being the absent minded teen I was, I grabbed 4 ribeyes and boiled them. I think my mom tried to dress them up with BBQ sauce or something, but I remember my teeth bouncing off of it because it was so rubbery. Needless to say my mom was not happy.

  • Adam Altman

    QOTD –
    Best Steak – Definitely my Pop’s Filet Mignon, each time it is different and each time it is the best steak I have ever had.
    Worst Steak – Overcooked nastiness at Ruby Tuesdays a few months back

  • Hamid Z

    Best Steak: Friends and I ordered a couple boxes of 8oz and grilled out… needless to say, it somehow resulted in this tender, juicy pink perfection on my plate.

    Worst: A rib-eye from what is considered a fairly nice restaurant in my area. It was either the cook or the cut, but I couldn’t finish it, which is a rare thing with me for steak.

    Also, the link to the Montana Legend site is broken, someone added an ‘L’ after ‘.com’

  • late-start

    Hasselhoff??? come on who doesn’t know MacGyver. Anyway nice episode, I can see myself bringing that PG to a day at the beach.

    QOTD:
    Best-Filet au Pauve Grill23 (boston)
    Worst- not sure but my most disappointing was a Kobe filet I had at Davios

  • Kipp Bodnar

    QOTD Best Steak Filet with Fougrex butter Worst old tough cube steak of my youth.

  • late-start

    Hasselhoff??? come on who doesn’t know MacGyver. Anyway nice episode, I can see myself bringing that PG to a day at the beach.

    QOTD:
    Best-Filet au Pauve Grill23 (boston)
    Worst- not sure but my most disappointing was a Kobe filet I had at Davios

  • Kipp Bodnar

    QOTD Best Steak Filet with Fougrex butter Worst old tough cube steak of my youth.

  • George

    Gary,
    QOD: Worst steak, about 15 years ago, I was convince I could make a steak from about 2 years in the freezer taste good. I was wrong.
    Best steak: Last year, a three inch thick cut angus serloin that I made for our 20th anniversary. It melted in your mouth. Of course the 2000 Opus we had with it didn’t hurt.

  • George

    Gary,
    QOD: Worst steak, about 15 years ago, I was convince I could make a steak from about 2 years in the freezer taste good. I was wrong.
    Best steak: Last year, a three inch thick cut angus serloin that I made for our 20th anniversary. It melted in your mouth. Of course the 2000 Opus we had with it didn’t hurt.

  • Jason S.

    QOTD: Best steak – Peter Luger in Brooklyn, NYC. Worst steak – Outback steakhouse in any city in America.

  • Jason S.

    QOTD: Best steak – Peter Luger in Brooklyn, NYC. Worst steak – Outback steakhouse in any city in America.

  • Clinton

    Great show, Gary.

    QOTD
    Best Steak: From my local Vancouver, butcher – Tango – Grass Fed Beef, NY Strip, grilled on my Weber.
    Worst Steak: When I let one of my in-laws talk me into trying the ‘chicken-fried’ variety

  • Clinton

    Great show, Gary.

    QOTD
    Best Steak: From my local Vancouver, butcher – Tango – Grass Fed Beef, NY Strip, grilled on my Weber.
    Worst Steak: When I let one of my in-laws talk me into trying the ‘chicken-fried’ variety

  • Leftcoast

    Bandit Pinot Grigio is Sutter Home wine in a different package so its even cheaper to buy a 1.5L of Sutter Home than the Bandit!

    QOTD- Best:Cole’s Chop House (Napa) dry aged porterhouse. Worst: My attempt at grilling a strip steak over a campfire (covered in ash and burnt)

  • Kevin

    QOTD: Best steak I’ve ever had was from a small restuarant in Nipomo, CA called Jocko’s. The filet is just a monster of a steak. The worst was a new york strip at Black Angus that was over cooked tough.

  • Leftcoast

    Bandit Pinot Grigio is Sutter Home wine in a different package so its even cheaper to buy a 1.5L of Sutter Home than the Bandit!

    QOTD- Best:Cole’s Chop House (Napa) dry aged porterhouse. Worst: My attempt at grilling a strip steak over a campfire (covered in ash and burnt)

  • Kevin

    QOTD: Best steak I’ve ever had was from a small restuarant in Nipomo, CA called Jocko’s. The filet is just a monster of a steak. The worst was a new york strip at Black Angus that was over cooked tough.

  • Spinner

    QOTD:
    Best Steak, New York cut at Jockos in Nipomo, CA, or the Fillet at Madonna Inn (San Luis Obispo, CA) was nice too,
    Worst, anywhere else, but the works was a T-bone my dad and I were cooking last month. Got distracted with the vino, made some beef jerkey…

    Spinner

  • Spinner

    QOTD:
    Best Steak, New York cut at Jockos in Nipomo, CA, or the Fillet at Madonna Inn (San Luis Obispo, CA) was nice too,
    Worst, anywhere else, but the works was a T-bone my dad and I were cooking last month. Got distracted with the vino, made some beef jerkey…

    Spinner

  • carnyc

    Thanks for the show!

    QOTD:
    Best steak ever was in Montana with my family cooked over an open fire after a day of flyfishing.
    Worst steak ever was tough, dry, flat piece of Salsbury steak from Western $izzler in my hometown when I was a kid. I’m certain it has not yet been digested!

  • QOTD: My best steak would have to be the filet I had in Indianapolis at The Percussive Arts Society International Convention.

    The worst was probably the one I cooked at 3 in the morning last year in the dark. It seemed a little overcooked… as in you could carbon date it someday. It was so petrified.

  • passthecab

    QOTD: best steak, i hate to say it… Outback! As for the worst – its a no brainer – Golden Corral.

  • Very nice show. I had one of the Bicyclettes Tetra that wasn’t too bad.

    QOTD: Best: I had a really nice Porterhouse at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa last summer. Worst: The only one that scars my brain are the Swanson Salisbury Steak TV dinners we used to eat years ago. Really nasty stuff.

    Cheers!

  • carnyc

    Thanks for the show!

    QOTD:
    Best steak ever was in Montana with my family cooked over an open fire after a day of flyfishing.
    Worst steak ever was tough, dry, flat piece of Salsbury steak from Western $izzler in my hometown when I was a kid. I’m certain it has not yet been digested!

  • QOTD: My best steak would have to be the filet I had in Indianapolis at The Percussive Arts Society International Convention.

    The worst was probably the one I cooked at 3 in the morning last year in the dark. It seemed a little overcooked… as in you could carbon date it someday. It was so petrified.

  • passthecab

    QOTD: best steak, i hate to say it… Outback! As for the worst – its a no brainer – Golden Corral.

  • Very nice show. I had one of the Bicyclettes Tetra that wasn’t too bad.

    QOTD: Best: I had a really nice Porterhouse at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa last summer. Worst: The only one that scars my brain are the Swanson Salisbury Steak TV dinners we used to eat years ago. Really nasty stuff.

    Cheers!

  • SteveW

    Great Episode, nice of you to do Box Wines.
    QOTD:
    Best – Metropolitan Grill in Seattle, 20 oz Poterhouse.
    Worst – Sizzler

  • SteveW

    Great Episode, nice of you to do Box Wines.
    QOTD:
    Best – Metropolitan Grill in Seattle, 20 oz Poterhouse.
    Worst – Sizzler

  • DrWMD

    QOTD: Best steak…KC strip at Jesse and Jims in KC, Mo…Oh, baby! Worst steak…On a tour of the prison in Leavenworth, Ks. was served a nicely grilled piece of shoe leather. Would have made a wonderful weapon.

  • DrWMD

    QOTD: Best steak…KC strip at Jesse and Jims in KC, Mo…Oh, baby! Worst steak…On a tour of the prison in Leavenworth, Ks. was served a nicely grilled piece of shoe leather. Would have made a wonderful weapon.

  • Simple question regarding the Xmas 4 pack. Are the wines worth $20.00 each?

  • Simple question regarding the Xmas 4 pack. Are the wines worth $20.00 each?

  • Plminer

    Interesting show, can’t say I’m on the box wine band wagon, went through that phase when I was 18 😉
    QOTD: Worst steak I’ve ever had was at Sizzler, can’t imagine why. Best steak was at Delmonicos and I’ve had a few really nice ones from Whole Foods, dry aged NY Strips.

  • Plminer

    Interesting show, can’t say I’m on the box wine band wagon, went through that phase when I was 18 😉
    QOTD: Worst steak I’ve ever had was at Sizzler, can’t imagine why. Best steak was at Delmonicos and I’ve had a few really nice ones from Whole Foods, dry aged NY Strips.

  • Elliot

    QOTD:

    Best Steak = The last steak my Pops threw on the grill

    Worst Steak = Denny’s

  • Elliot

    QOTD:

    Best Steak = The last steak my Pops threw on the grill

    Worst Steak = Denny’s

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