this was a great show. i would love to see you do more collector/older wine shows, if only because that’s a dimension we don’t see on the show very often.

qotd: i have never really had any older wines, and your experience with that sauternes is partially the reason for that. i’m afraid to blow $100+ on a wine that i can’t really be sure of. being only 21 now, i would love to start building a collection that i would still have plenty of time to drink when the time comes, but really don’t know where to start.

Love the quark knock-down!
QOTD: Haven’t had any older wines yet- I’ve always consumed from the 90+% that are meant to be drunken now.

lunch looked pretty rippin’
Had a 1974 Mondavi Reserve last year. A little tired tasting but still lots of interest/ pleasure…
Gonna dig into a 1979 Reserve (my birth-year) coming up soon.
Have a great trip.

Happy Birthday to Mama Vaynerchuk.

It’s my mom’s birthday too, we’ll be enjoying dinner (and wine) with her on Sunday as well.

Enjoy the day with your family!

Brock

GV – this show kicked some serious booty.

I love that you shared some of the classic “big boys” with us. I wanted to see more of these wines. I can’t wait for the follow up episodes.

Great job!

QOTD – 1989 Haut Brion – The sad part was, I was too young to appreciate what the hell I was drinking!

This a continuation of my earlier comment. I have been very fortunate in being able to taste some very old and great wines. Some of these were “Ah Ha!” wines, in that they changed my perspective on wine in general. Others were just great experiences in tasting great old wines. I was privileged to be able to buy (over a two year period, both in the last 10 years) two bottles of 1941 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon. This was a 100 point wine by Wine Spectator (in repeated tastings over years), and was rated by WS the number 10 best wine ever made in recorded wine history. The first bottle was definitely in the the 3 best bottles of wine I have ever tasted. The second was not so good, yet was an amazing wine for its age. As you so frequently say, old wines depend on the bottles. I also had the honor of attending a dear friend’s 78th birthday, celebrated at Fleur de Ly in San Francisco, where I had a 1917 Vintage Port that blew all twenty of the attendees away, and I have always put it in the the top three wines I have ever tasted. Perhaps the the greatest “Ah Ha!” wine I ever had was a 10 year old Grand Cru Burgundy that I tasted in the mid 1980’s that forever changed my perspective on Chardonnay based wines. Before this, I was convinced that the best California Chardonnay was always superior to white Burgundy (I have to admit that the runner up was a Mayacamus Chardonnay).

But given all of the above comments, I suppose my final reaction to today’s program is that I loved it, and always love retrospective tastings of great wines.

I repeat myself, but this is definitely one of my favorite episodes of Wine Library TV.

Remarkable! 1988 Ch. La Mission Haut Brion @ $200?? I would not hesitate to purchase. Flip-cam episodes are so much fun! QOTD: Concepcion and I are traveling home (Panama) tomorrow (saturday) afternoon, after more than two weeks traveling. I have not had an old wine in a while.

Happy mother’s day to Mrs. Lizy Vaynerchuk, to Mrs. Tamara Vaynerchuk, and to all!

QOTD: Last year I had an 85 Veuve Clicquot Rose. It was my birth year and also the my parent’s 30th year wedding anniversary. The wine was great, but having the bottle with my parents was better.

Good episode GV!

QOTD: My daughter, son-in-law and Johnny, who you graciously introduced to the Vayner Nation are arriving later tonight from Jacksonville to spend a week with me here in the SF Bay Area so, naturally, it will be one of the best weekends of the year. Johnny is 6 1/2 months old now and (no bias here) one of the cutest babies I have ever seen. I am pumped!!!!!!!!!!

Had an 82 Mouton last Christmas that I had cellared for 24 years and, Vayniacs, patience brings incredible rewards. Thanks for doing the older stuff Gary.

Thanks again Gary for all you are doing for us here in Nash-Vegas. I was at the lunch today, Gary V. is f-ing amazing.

QOTD – 1945 La Mission Haut Brion from a double magnum – unreal!!!!!

Great show Gary, always nice to see you try world class wines. Thanks for the heads up on the 98 Rieussec. The 74 Mayacamas must have been a real treat. I have some older Togni’s that I hope one day will be as fun to try. QOTD 1986 Chateau Gruard Larouse, still young but great complexity developing.

Hey, did I call it with the Burt Reynolds eyebrows in the hotel the other day or what? You even mentioned Deliverance yourself today (“squeal for me boy, you’re m-a-a-h piggy now…”): surely it can’t be coincidence?

Another great flipcam episode, and great to see you reviewing these world-class wines that most of us will never have the opportunity to taste. Nice to see the wine equivalent of the G20 all gathered together, playing nicely too. It’s the sort of thing we’d never get to hear about unless you were there to show us. Cheers Gary!

The weekend? I reckon a stroll round the Botanical Gardens is probably on the cards and maybe a spot of lunch at the Opera House over-looking Sydney Harbour. Call if you’re thinking of heading this way sometime — we’ve got a lot of winemakers who would love to shake your hand.

Jeez, if that’s you after you’ve had a couple, might I suggest you have a couple more?
Kidding.
Great energy and great show.
You keep pumping out the content and I’ll keep pumping up the comments.

Thanks for giving us a vicarious taste of WCWs (World Class Wines)!

QOTD: ’61 Beaulieu Vinyards Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon — in 1984 with my lovely wife & a wonderful meal at NYC Four Seasons Fountain Room. We were on a trip from here in Michigan visiting Grandma in Jersey to show off her new grandson.

Warning — Fatherhood will change your whole life … and it’s all worth it.

Mmmm, I can still taste that wine!

i think this may be one of my favorite shows in a long time – you appeared to have lowered your guard just a bit – nice to see you loosen up a bit (!). Great reviews – don’t worry about the edit – I think it added to the whole ep.
just because we’re changing the wine world doesn’t mean we can’t look into the old one once in a while, right?

qotd – I have a couple of 1986 St. Emilions (I know, not the best vintage – hopefully some good bottles – they’re from the the year I lived in Paris but i haven’t tried one in almost 20 years) wondering if they are past their prime? Did they even HAVE a prime? Don’t know when to find out.

d

QOTD: I have been quite lucky on the older wine front over the last couple of years, both from my own and my friends’ cellars. The most recent ones:

For my dad’s birthday a few weeks ago we cracked a 1979 La Mission Haut Brion and a 1975 Leoville Las Cases (birth years for my sister and I respectively). The 75 Las Cases, as usual, was phenomenal but the La Mission disappointed us a bit.

Last Wednesday, with friends and some good Argentine steaks, I had a 1979 Las Cases which definitely proved that Las Cases can make good long-lasting wine in any vintage… and a 1981 Lopez Heredia Bosconia Rioja that had an amazing silky Burgundian strawberry vibe (radically different style from today’s Riojas).

Great episode. Interesting wines. GV relaxed and unassuming. Good stuff.

Good to see Gary you a little tipsy.

QOTD: I am in the newly acclaimed Lake Chelan AVA in Washington State enjoying some wines with “RIPPING” acidity. Great show today. Love the improv, keep it up!

Cheers,
Dustin

An 1982 Chappellet Cabernet was rockin it just a few months ago. I also had some phenomenal 1970’s era wines from Monterey Peninsula Winery, Glen Ellen and a sublime 1976 Rieussec about a year ago in CA. Cali wines do age … stop player hatin’ Old World fans.

Cali cabs rockin the world!

Nice show, especially the length. But the effect is a bit lacking. Can you please get some training on how to film yourself and do a better preparation job before the camera starts?

QOTD: Most epic older wines tasted? ’77 Fonseca, ’82 Leoville Las Cases, ’82 Mouton

QOTD: Well the oldest wine I have had was a Riesling Spätlese from 1992. I had that last year and it was really fantastic.