EP 394 Sagrantino Di Montefalco and Heart to Heart!

Gary Addresses what’s going on with all this talk about ending the show and focuses on some amazing wine.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2003 Milziade Sagrantino Di Montefalco RossoSagrantino di Montefalco
2003 Martinelli Sagrantino Di MontefalcoSagrantino di Montefalco
2003 Paolo Bea Sagrantino Di Montefalco Pagliaro SeccoSagrantino di Montefalco

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  • Tstank

    Yeah baby thunder-show is going forever. For some reason I thought you were going to tell us that Lizzy was pregnant and you needed time. I think the thunder show going on is a great but close second.

    QOTD: Best non family thing I have ever done was help homeless children get off the street. It is a wonderful charity that you should seek out. You put a purple Stand Up For Kids shirt on and hand out food, cleaning supplies and bring homeless children into foster care. If you want a life changing event do this they have it in almost every state.

  • Andrew H.

    First I want to say Thank You Gary for caring so much about all of us. For me personally, you have been a key part in my wine education and have helped me become more adventurous with my wine selection. Thank You!

    QOTD: The greatest non-family related thing that I have ever done would have to be my acceptance into nursing school. I have worked very hard for three 1/2 years and made many sacrifices just so I could have an opportunity to become a nurse. I look forward to helping people and educating the community about health related issues. Thank You again Gary!

  • Andrew H.

    First I want to say Thank You Gary for caring so much about all of us. For me personally, you have been a key part in my wine education and have helped me become more adventurous with my wine selection. Thank You!

    QOTD: The greatest non-family related thing that I have ever done would have to be my acceptance into nursing school. I have worked very hard for three 1/2 years and made many sacrifices just so I could have an opportunity to become a nurse. I look forward to helping people and educating the community about health related issues. Thank You again Gary!

  • Rani Haykal

    Great Show!!!
    …and from the heart, thank you for sticking around. Your show has well surpassed a 20min. entertainment show to me. I personally really look up to you. Your knowledge of wine and great success in your life is an inspiration to me and continues to provide positive motivation in my life.

    QOTD: The greatest thing I have ever done without my family was probably my trip to Napa valley this past October. It was a dream of mine for a long time, and I finally made the trip happen. Since that trip I decided to take at least one wine related trip every year. Definitely looking forward to March 29th…..I’m hoping to be able to make it from Texas.

  • Rani Haykal

    Great Show!!!
    …and from the heart, thank you for sticking around. Your show has well surpassed a 20min. entertainment show to me. I personally really look up to you. Your knowledge of wine and great success in your life is an inspiration to me and continues to provide positive motivation in my life.

    QOTD: The greatest thing I have ever done without my family was probably my trip to Napa valley this past October. It was a dream of mine for a long time, and I finally made the trip happen. Since that trip I decided to take at least one wine related trip every year. Definitely looking forward to March 29th…..I’m hoping to be able to make it from Texas.

  • Garrett C.

    Gary, thank you. For everything.

    QOTD: Being a part of my college track team…I miss it every day.

  • Garrett C.

    Gary, thank you. For everything.

    QOTD: Being a part of my college track team…I miss it every day.

  • Dave Canada

    Wow….now that was an awesome episode! hip, heart, head, liver…it was all there. Great to have you stucking around.
    QOTD – Gotta be visiting the Potala Palace in Tibet with one of my best buddies…..awesome experieince!

  • Dave Canada

    Wow….now that was an awesome episode! hip, heart, head, liver…it was all there. Great to have you stucking around.
    QOTD – Gotta be visiting the Potala Palace in Tibet with one of my best buddies…..awesome experieince!

  • theleatherman

    Cheers Gary!!, love WLTV. im from england and am 18, but have lived in switzerland for 8 years. the drinking age is 16 there so ive been drinking beers, spirits etc. but now have just gotten into drinking wines. absolutly love this show. thanks for the advice on some of the cheaper wines as im on a student budget. hehe

    QOTD: would have to be watching the sunset in the middle of the bush in south africa with a few mates on holiday.

  • theleatherman

    Cheers Gary!!, love WLTV. im from england and am 18, but have lived in switzerland for 8 years. the drinking age is 16 there so ive been drinking beers, spirits etc. but now have just gotten into drinking wines. absolutly love this show. thanks for the advice on some of the cheaper wines as im on a student budget. hehe

    QOTD: would have to be watching the sunset in the middle of the bush in south africa with a few mates on holiday.

  • Tooch

    QOTD: I’m a tortured Philadelphia sports fan, so after the Birds made the Super Bowl in 2004 I ran around my neighborhood in Center City Philadelphia with a pot and a big metal spoon screaming “we’re going to the super bowl!”. It was cold that night, around 5 degrees, and I was outside in my sweatpants and tshirt that i’d been watching the game in. Best part about the entire thing – I ran into probably 100 other people doing the same thing. We hugged in the middle of the snowy streets, and i think i might have even kissed a lucky girl along the way.

    What a night!

    Side note: VERY happy you’re sticking around Gary – I had a panicked phone call to my dad in the middle of the night yesterday about the show concluding. he was alarmed and said that a fellow Edisonian wouldn’t leave his friends behind like that! Guess he knew what going on!

    Cheers

  • Pastafari Pirate

    QOTD: best non-family thing I ever did? Well, I once diverted an asteroid (with diameter the size of Ecuador) that was on a collision course with Earth, using intensely focused mental visualization and willpower, hours of continuously repeated polysyllabic mantra, 2 sheets of cellophane, and a flexible sipping straw, thereby saving the inhabitants of an unsuspecting Earth a swift & sudden annhilation. No thanks were ever offered me, but then, congruent with my humility, none were sought.

    No, wait…. that was Tom Cruise who did that for us. Sorry, I get the two of us mixed up. But if you were to ask him your QOTD, well, then THAT was the best non-family thing that Tom Cruise ever did. (I’ll have to get back to you on my answer.)

  • Tooch

    QOTD: I’m a tortured Philadelphia sports fan, so after the Birds made the Super Bowl in 2004 I ran around my neighborhood in Center City Philadelphia with a pot and a big metal spoon screaming “we’re going to the super bowl!”. It was cold that night, around 5 degrees, and I was outside in my sweatpants and tshirt that i’d been watching the game in. Best part about the entire thing – I ran into probably 100 other people doing the same thing. We hugged in the middle of the snowy streets, and i think i might have even kissed a lucky girl along the way.

    What a night!

    Side note: VERY happy you’re sticking around Gary – I had a panicked phone call to my dad in the middle of the night yesterday about the show concluding. he was alarmed and said that a fellow Edisonian wouldn’t leave his friends behind like that! Guess he knew what going on!

    Cheers

  • Pastafari Pirate

    QOTD: best non-family thing I ever did? Well, I once diverted an asteroid (with diameter the size of Ecuador) that was on a collision course with Earth, using intensely focused mental visualization and willpower, hours of continuously repeated polysyllabic mantra, 2 sheets of cellophane, and a flexible sipping straw, thereby saving the inhabitants of an unsuspecting Earth a swift & sudden annhilation. No thanks were ever offered me, but then, congruent with my humility, none were sought.

    No, wait…. that was Tom Cruise who did that for us. Sorry, I get the two of us mixed up. But if you were to ask him your QOTD, well, then THAT was the best non-family thing that Tom Cruise ever did. (I’ll have to get back to you on my answer.)

  • Dave

    Tough question…

    Thanks for keeping the show going! How else would I learn about wines like Sagrantino Di Montefalco? Do people really say radool in NYC? Hopefully “snap” has jumped the shark.

  • Gary, I go away for a week and come back to this! You scared the bejeebus out of me, man! Thanks, for sticking around. I wanted to say that I’m going to my first wine tasting next week. I would have never thought I was going to ever do something like that!

    QOTD: I was going to say work, but dammit they’re family too…dysfunctional, but still family. I don’t really have an answer. Family is so much a part of my every day life..

  • Dave

    Tough question…

    Thanks for keeping the show going! How else would I learn about wines like Sagrantino Di Montefalco? Do people really say radool in NYC? Hopefully “snap” has jumped the shark.

  • Gary, I go away for a week and come back to this! You scared the bejeebus out of me, man! Thanks, for sticking around. I wanted to say that I’m going to my first wine tasting next week. I would have never thought I was going to ever do something like that!

    QOTD: I was going to say work, but dammit they’re family too…dysfunctional, but still family. I don’t really have an answer. Family is so much a part of my every day life..

  • organicmexican

    I guess I have to be a Jets fan now. I think I made that deal with you. Thanks for not leaving us!

  • organicmexican

    I guess I have to be a Jets fan now. I think I made that deal with you. Thanks for not leaving us!

  • ED PHX

    THANKS for keeping on

  • ED PHX

    THANKS for keeping on

  • fredhead

    It was Blutarski, wasn’t it? Who can resist the inspiration of that speech?

    QOTD: Got to play a set with Todd Snider. Absolutley unbelievable.

  • fredhead

    It was Blutarski, wasn’t it? Who can resist the inspiration of that speech?

    QOTD: Got to play a set with Todd Snider. Absolutley unbelievable.

  • AngioRanger

    Thanks for keeping the torch lit GV. As reflected by all the comments you are much appreciated.
    RE QOTD: I’m fortunate that my job is helping other people so that’s the coolest non-family thing that I do although sometimes it also feels like family too.

  • AngioRanger

    Thanks for keeping the torch lit GV. As reflected by all the comments you are much appreciated.
    RE QOTD: I’m fortunate that my job is helping other people so that’s the coolest non-family thing that I do although sometimes it also feels like family too.

  • GV, if it’s too much with everything you have to do…cut back on the number of shows to 1 or 2 a week. Just don’t every stop!

    QOTD: Coolest thing in the world was when I flew from JFK to Paris in the cockpit of the Concorde from take-off to 60,000 feet and Mach 2! Now that was damn cool!!!

  • GV, if it’s too much with everything you have to do…cut back on the number of shows to 1 or 2 a week. Just don’t every stop!

    QOTD: Coolest thing in the world was when I flew from JFK to Paris in the cockpit of the Concorde from take-off to 60,000 feet and Mach 2! Now that was damn cool!!!

  • Jeff D.

    You’re an amazing guy and I’m glad you’re going to keep going with the show. Keep bringing the thunder!

  • Jeff D.

    You’re an amazing guy and I’m glad you’re going to keep going with the show. Keep bringing the thunder!

  • There is a G-d! I’ve had an excruciating long day traveling from DC to Ny and back again, sat down with a glass of TGIF Dominus and I am surprised by this monumental declaration!!! Ohmigosh! On top of thagt, just before launching the show, I was explaining with tears that we were ready to watch one of the last shows from WLTV! To my excitement, the G-Man is back!

    QOTD: Tough one . . . not that it would be easy even if it were “family” related but I guess I would say one of my most memorable non-family things I’ve ever done was finished one of my childhood goals of graduating college at the prime old age of of 41! I celebrated by traveling to Europe on my own and walking through the train station and opening the doors onto the Grand Canal is a site I will never forget.

    Thank you, thank you, Gary for staying with us.

    CHEERS!

    YES!

  • Dear Mr. Vaynerchuk,

    Ok, that doesn’t sound quite right…. HI GARY!!!!!!!!!!!

    hmmmmmm. Too thirteen-year-old.

    Yo Gary! ‘Sup in da hizzle?

    I am super stoked you are going to continue WLTV! That aside (and it’s hard to put that aside!) This was a fantastic show. Deep, dark, dry, tannic, huge – that’s what I’m looking for! Watching you taste is really inspiring and exciting!

    I wanted to share with you what happened at the last store tasting I went to: I was tasting a wine, and it seemed to have some hot/dusty aromas similar to Aussie Shiraz’s I’d had, so I asked the importer if it had been a hot year. He looked surprised and said that was exactly right! Then later I tasted a wine that smelled more like BBQ ribs in every way than BBQ ribs, if that’s possible. I told him and some of the store staff what I thought – and no one really agreed. Between having my ego stroked for guessing it was a hot year, and nailing a flavor profile that no one else agreed with, guess which made me feel like a million bucks? The ribs, of course!

    Peace and health

    Rajiv

  • There is a G-d! I’ve had an excruciating long day traveling from DC to Ny and back again, sat down with a glass of TGIF Dominus and I am surprised by this monumental declaration!!! Ohmigosh! On top of thagt, just before launching the show, I was explaining with tears that we were ready to watch one of the last shows from WLTV! To my excitement, the G-Man is back!

    QOTD: Tough one . . . not that it would be easy even if it were “family” related but I guess I would say one of my most memorable non-family things I’ve ever done was finished one of my childhood goals of graduating college at the prime old age of of 41! I celebrated by traveling to Europe on my own and walking through the train station and opening the doors onto the Grand Canal is a site I will never forget.

    Thank you, thank you, Gary for staying with us.

    CHEERS!

    YES!

  • Dear Mr. Vaynerchuk,

    Ok, that doesn’t sound quite right…. HI GARY!!!!!!!!!!!

    hmmmmmm. Too thirteen-year-old.

    Yo Gary! ‘Sup in da hizzle?

    I am super stoked you are going to continue WLTV! That aside (and it’s hard to put that aside!) This was a fantastic show. Deep, dark, dry, tannic, huge – that’s what I’m looking for! Watching you taste is really inspiring and exciting!

    I wanted to share with you what happened at the last store tasting I went to: I was tasting a wine, and it seemed to have some hot/dusty aromas similar to Aussie Shiraz’s I’d had, so I asked the importer if it had been a hot year. He looked surprised and said that was exactly right! Then later I tasted a wine that smelled more like BBQ ribs in every way than BBQ ribs, if that’s possible. I told him and some of the store staff what I thought – and no one really agreed. Between having my ego stroked for guessing it was a hot year, and nailing a flavor profile that no one else agreed with, guess which made me feel like a million bucks? The ribs, of course!

    Peace and health

    Rajiv

  • Anthony L.

    What an awesome episode. Oh, how I love the big Tannin Italian wines. I’m definitely going to go out get some Sagrantino Di Montefalco.

    Gary, I’m so pysched that you are continuing the show. You just put a happy ending on a crummy week. I’m so glad, I don’t have to try to explain to my sone Mike that the show was ending. Anyway, just wanted to say thank you! Really, THANK YOU.

    QOTD: Outside of family things, it’s hard to say, because like you, I’m all about my family. I guess it was when I argued and won a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court.

    Dude, keep the Thunder Rolling…

  • Anthony L.

    What an awesome episode. Oh, how I love the big Tannin Italian wines. I’m definitely going to go out get some Sagrantino Di Montefalco.

    Gary, I’m so pysched that you are continuing the show. You just put a happy ending on a crummy week. I’m so glad, I don’t have to try to explain to my sone Mike that the show was ending. Anyway, just wanted to say thank you! Really, THANK YOU.

    QOTD: Outside of family things, it’s hard to say, because like you, I’m all about my family. I guess it was when I argued and won a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court.

    Dude, keep the Thunder Rolling…

  • I honestly don’t know how you do it. It has to take hours to get back to all of those emails. I’ve been a small business owner for over 8 years. I am leaving that one and starting another, so I understand the lack of time.

    I love the shows, but truthfully it is hard to listen to all of them. I haven’t always left a comment, but I wouldn’t say I was a lurker.

    I don’t know how you do it, but I lift my glass to you and the show.

    J-

  • I honestly don’t know how you do it. It has to take hours to get back to all of those emails. I’ve been a small business owner for over 8 years. I am leaving that one and starting another, so I understand the lack of time.

    I love the shows, but truthfully it is hard to listen to all of them. I haven’t always left a comment, but I wouldn’t say I was a lurker.

    I don’t know how you do it, but I lift my glass to you and the show.

    J-

  • Grapedigger

    Glad to hear that you’ll still be doing the show!! THANKS…
    QOTD: Well, I am currently involved in exciting large-scale clinical scientific research to find genetic causes for neurodevelopmental diseases such as mental retardation, autism, and schizophrenia.

  • Mike S,

    QOTD – My nephew is awesome.

    Awesome episode. Loved the excitement and truth!

  • Grapedigger

    Glad to hear that you’ll still be doing the show!! THANKS…
    QOTD: Well, I am currently involved in exciting large-scale clinical scientific research to find genetic causes for neurodevelopmental diseases such as mental retardation, autism, and schizophrenia.

  • Mike S,

    QOTD – My nephew is awesome.

    Awesome episode. Loved the excitement and truth!

  • LB in KS

    G…
    Kinda was hoping you would at least stick around till I can send you a bottle from from small vineyard I planted last spring. http://www.primevine.com

    QOTD… i don’t know if it’s my GREATEST thing…but it’s the first thing that popped into my head. Christmas/New Years 1980/81. I was 17 years old and I make a trip from Kansas(with no family, or anybody else I knew for that matter)to China. I hooked up with some people I’ve never met before in Denver then on to San Fran then to Hong Kong and next China. No, my parents weren’t anywhere near rich, but I had the opportunity and they let me go. I spent New Years in Bejing… went to a party where I had bubbly that I loved, loved, loved, (my first taste)..drove around Bejing with a cabby that evening, he couldn’t speak a bit of english, I couldn’t even begin to speak Chinese. An evening I’ll never forget, yet I know nobody that I can say…”hey, remember when……..”

  • LB in KS

    G…
    Kinda was hoping you would at least stick around till I can send you a bottle from from small vineyard I planted last spring. http://www.primevine.com

    QOTD… i don’t know if it’s my GREATEST thing…but it’s the first thing that popped into my head. Christmas/New Years 1980/81. I was 17 years old and I make a trip from Kansas(with no family, or anybody else I knew for that matter)to China. I hooked up with some people I’ve never met before in Denver then on to San Fran then to Hong Kong and next China. No, my parents weren’t anywhere near rich, but I had the opportunity and they let me go. I spent New Years in Bejing… went to a party where I had bubbly that I loved, loved, loved, (my first taste)..drove around Bejing with a cabby that evening, he couldn’t speak a bit of english, I couldn’t even begin to speak Chinese. An evening I’ll never forget, yet I know nobody that I can say…”hey, remember when……..”

  • QOTD: TR conference in Cali. A few hundred people ready to change their lives for the better dancing, singing, laughing, crying. Raw humanity. The human spirit laid bare for all of us to see and wonder at. Awesome.

  • QOTD: TR conference in Cali. A few hundred people ready to change their lives for the better dancing, singing, laughing, crying. Raw humanity. The human spirit laid bare for all of us to see and wonder at. Awesome.

  • Chester

    Hello Gary i am new to the wine thing. i started watching your show just before christmas, since i decided i wanted to start to get more serious about wine. i ask my wife to buy be a very small wine cellar only 16 bottles to get started. i have ordered a few bottles from you during the free shipping sale and a looking forward to trying them while watching your shows. to try and see if i can smell and taste what you are describing. Thank you for not stopping this show. you have made me fell more comfortable learning about wine then i though was possible. i hope to meet you one day and thank you in person. Keep bringing the thunder.

    PS how do i get a wrist band?

  • Chester

    Hello Gary i am new to the wine thing. i started watching your show just before christmas, since i decided i wanted to start to get more serious about wine. i ask my wife to buy be a very small wine cellar only 16 bottles to get started. i have ordered a few bottles from you during the free shipping sale and a looking forward to trying them while watching your shows. to try and see if i can smell and taste what you are describing. Thank you for not stopping this show. you have made me fell more comfortable learning about wine then i though was possible. i hope to meet you one day and thank you in person. Keep bringing the thunder.

    PS how do i get a wrist band?

  • Big Nick

    Gary, thanks for everything. I know what you mean when you say you have too many projects going on. Just from my end I run a business, have a family, am on call 24/7, have a wife who is fantastic, have employees who need my attention, and then there is maybe some time left for ME. I don’t know how you do it. I hope some day the wife and you get the greatest gift of all…..a child. That will be a life changing event.

    QOTD: One of the best things I have done was backup with some friends for 3 days through the upper areas of Michigan. We had a great time, enjoyed the company, and escaped from the routines of college life. You learn about people when you listen. This is much easier to do when you remove yourself from the everyday grind.

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