The VaynerNation is always psyched when we new a new episode. And we love traveling with you. Thanks!

Excellent show. Always great to see how the classic wines are holding up. You are a lucky man.

QOTD: I just opened a 1998 (over 10 years, so I thought it counted) Artesa Pinot Noir that is still screaming blackberry. What a great wine.

Great show GV, you did seem tipsy 🙂

QOTD- Latour 86, bought primeur by a friend’s father in 87. Great souvenir. Cheval Blanc 95 and Yquem 95, Dom Perignon oenotheque 84

QOTD2 – Golf, got sunburnt in Jersey ! can you imagine that ?

1993 Dom Perignon Oenotheque! Really amazing! Transcends price.
1999 & 2001 Screaming Eagle. But….does NOT transcend price. Can’t get over the price. They were also amazing wines (esp the 2001, sorry, i know the 99 is more highly rated).
Thanks to our guests who let me partake.

What a great life! What an incredible tasting! The wines & the who’s who in attendance!

I have a btl of 1982 Mayacamus stashed. Not positive of the provenance. But, I want to give it a whirl now.
That 1988 La Mission had deep color. Crazy deep color. Is that possible for a 21 year old wine?
Great way to finish the week.

Loved the episode. Thanks for taking the time to share some EPIC wines with us.

QOTD: 1995 Beaulieu Vineyard, Private Reserve Cab Sauv. Maybe not epic in the true sense of the word, but an epic for me.

Thanks for the show Gary, do you think you can give us tasting scores/notes on all the other wines that you had over lunch, I know most of us cant drink them everyday, but everyone loves a bit of wine porn from time to time!

QOTD: 1982 Pichon Longueville-Lalande, the most multi layered, complex wine I have ever tasted, the wine that really made me understand great Bordeaux.

last epic wine… 1996 pontet canet,.375mls. 94+ points. the 750mls needs years to be ready.after that i bought a wine cellar and started buying good to excellent vintages of bordeaux for long storage. previously, a bottle of farella park terrace reserve 2003. bought at a charity auction in napa and served at a tasting at a local retailer who annually bids for as much as he can for the store and his own cellar. probobly very little of this available anywhere at $133… 95+.

Last epic was 61 lafitte Rothchild 1/2 bottle…all that and then some!! My birth year, have 1 more bottle. My QOTD to you.. when do I open theis last one??

Hi Gary,
Excellent Ep. QOTD: Reading over my last 300 or so TN’s, I guess this is one time where I don’t have a quick answer. Most everything we drink is within 10 years old, so I wouldn’t qualify any as old and epic. Later this year for our anniversary we’ll probably drink a ’91 Dominus. Otherwise the last epic bottle I had was an ’89 Pegau CDP. Cheers, CK

QOTD: No popularly recognized big hitters. Had a great Sea Smoke and a 2002 Mayacamas Mt Veeder Merlot (I think I got that right) within last couple of years that I really enjoyed.

Classic GV feel to the show. Appreciate the fact that after 600+ you can cycle back into “honeymoon” mode with the WLTV audience. The new energy comes right through the episode and into the GVnation. Keep it up. Peace.

I love Haut Brion. I remember that 88,89,90 string of vintages (in Bordeaux). They raved em’ all up, then, subsequently, everyone in the press, down to the vintage charts seemingly blew off the 88, as though it wasn’t that great after all. Man those wines were great, from the classified growths, down to modest little wines like Beaumont, which was downright cheap! Real affordable, and I drank a bunch of that for a few years.

Mayacamas IS really ageable, and they had a classic style, in which their alcohol was kept down to a Bordeaux-like 12%. In 2002 a friend and I had a ’79, and I recall it had that minty note overtone, and a dusty aura that made the steaks feel really juicy.

A local distributor sold out some years back, and the President sold lots out of his cellar to industry guys. My distributor got our hands on maybe a hundred bottles of Bordeaux, dating through the seventies. Lots of Fourtet, and other St. Emilions, as well as Margauxs, and St. Estephes. I bought 8 bottles, and poured most of them at a wine bar for industry peeps, and thier customers. Highly informative to help people know what happend to the fruit after 25-30 years, cause you often get more cranberry, olive, and phenolic components than fruit scents and flavor.

QOTD: last epic wine… ’90 Cheval Blanc

Would appreciate hearing the grape varieties of the wines, eg. Haut Brion: cab, merlot, cab franc.
I haven’t had any epics. We had a 1982 “Charles Krug Cabernet we got for $5.00 a bottle.
You have a great job!

WHOOOOOOOOOA, NIIIIIIIIIICE VINOS!!!!!!! Yo G, looks like you was
under da Grip of da Grape…….. 🙂

qotd: Nothing outstanding…. Had the 1999 Rieussec & 2001 Guiraud the
other day, if that counts??

Thanks for sharing your experiences with those wines. I like the top flight wine episodes quite a bit if for no other reason than to see soebody enjoying some classics.

QOTD: 2000 Angelus. At Bacar in SF about a year ago.

Thanks gary

Looks like you are up for a great weekend!

QOTD1: can’t really think at the moment so I’m assuming nothing much recently.
QOTD2: this weekend heading across to Cebu in the Phillipinnes, which should be very cool

Cheers
Andrew

QOTD: studying for LAW SCHOOL FINALS! kill me now!

Thanks for doing some older wines. I’m just getting into wine and have wondered about the older vintages. So for the QOTD – nothing yet.

’82 Chave but that was almost a year ago…

Had a bottle of 1970 Hermitage in January. The label didn’t even say who the producer was and the wine was phenominal.

Had a bottle of 1976 Paul Jaboulet Cote-Rotie in February and it knocked my socks off. Have another bottle of that — can’t wait to open it.

Can I just say that I really miss when the show sign off was

“You, with a little bit of me, we’re changing the wine world, whether they like it or not”

since when did we start caring what the wine world thought?

Great show! Love the classics, especially since the Napa Cab stole the show! QOTD: Hmmm, unfortunately have not had the opportunity to try too many classics. I’d go with the 99 Sebastiani Cherry Block Cabernet.

QOTD – 1976 H. Josef Fries Noviander Honigberg Riesling Auslese
had at the forum Rieslingfest in March. The oldest wine i’ve had, and it rocked the house – it was my WOTN. Golden honey color, very weighty but fresh and vibrant – it did not show its age.

Gary,

LOVED the show, Flip Cameras are awesome (I have one too)! Thanks for letting us experience the wow factor w/ you!

I have a bottle of 1979 Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon that I plan to open this weekend to celebrate Mother’s Day. Also, I have family coming into town to celebrate my son’s 1st birthday (and I’m sure they will LOVE the fact I’m opening something from my cellar).

The vintage wine I had recently was a 2000 Silverado Cabernet Sauvignon which paired perfectly with a ribeye steak.

Keep up the AWESOME work!

Jessica
The Unemployed Mom

QOTD – haven’t had many old gems.

Had a good weekend – spent yesterday in the city. Went to the Intrepid Museum – which was pretty cool. Then met up with a few friends at Blue Ribbon Wine bar. Great time there (glad you did some shows there to inspire our visit).

Cheers!