EP 681 Tasting with a Long Time Vayniac

Gary Vaynerchuk returns to the laid back Friday couch to taste with Tim F, who has been watching since episode 1.

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Eddie Feraud Chateauneuf Du PapeChateauneuf du Pape Rouge
2005 Shafer RelentlessNapa Syrah/Shiraz

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luca bercelli

90/100

line of the day – ‘did you really think I missed those eyes you made at the camera just then, I OWN this space.’

Good laid back episode, glad the guest said ‘no’ a couple of times and stuck to his guns when asked if he detected a particular flavour. Most guests cave in immediately and say yes, even though you know they haven’t tasted it. As GV says, there is no right and wrong when it comes to one’s own palate.

Tags: Chateauneuf Du Pape, France, napa, red, review, Sirah, Syrah, Video, wine, wines

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  • bygdawg1996

    Great Show missed the laid back friday format!!!!!
    Can’t wait to hear the goods news of a Mini Gary Veee being born!!!

    QOTD: When the Jets win the superbowl.

  • bygdawg1996

    Great Show missed the laid back friday format!!!!!
    Can’t wait to hear the goods news of a Mini Gary Veee being born!!!

    QOTD: When the Jets win the superbowl.

  • chicago mark

    someones tasting too much black tea lately.

  • chicago mark

    someones tasting too much black tea lately.

  • Great episode. Lots of fun. Gary should have been a Giant’s fan. It makes little sense that he found the Jets.
    QOTD: With the Jets beating the Giants in the Superbowl.

  • Great episode. Lots of fun. Gary should have been a Giant’s fan. It makes little sense that he found the Jets.
    QOTD: With the Jets beating the Giants in the Superbowl.

  • cancelit

    Tim is an awesome guest. HONEST! great show. Hopefully it never does. Classic does not end.

  • cancelit

    Tim is an awesome guest. HONEST! great show. Hopefully it never does. Classic does not end.

  • MelbourneRob

    definitely nailed the laidback friday vibe
    that couch looks so comfortable

    QOTD: with a big bang

    gotta track down that relentless – looks interesting

  • MelbourneRob

    definitely nailed the laidback friday vibe
    that couch looks so comfortable

    QOTD: with a big bang

    gotta track down that relentless – looks interesting

  • MikeyK

    QOTD: This ends with Gary putting away a wine for his newborn child…21 years we wait for a reunion of thunder

  • MikeyK

    QOTD: This ends with Gary putting away a wine for his newborn child…21 years we wait for a reunion of thunder

  • I tried the Relentless last spring while visiting Yontville (Took my wife to the French Laundry for her 40th birthday). It was excellent. The Hillside Select was very good as well but at $200 a bottle, a little out of my price range. For my palate, the wines I had at Shaffer blew away the Insignia we had at Joseph Phelps the day before.

    QOTD: It doesn’t, it just keeps going and going and going, just like the Energizer bunny. Although, I do expect a BRIEF hiatus when Gary’s baby comes.

  • I tried the Relentless last spring while visiting Yontville (Took my wife to the French Laundry for her 40th birthday). It was excellent. The Hillside Select was very good as well but at $200 a bottle, a little out of my price range. For my palate, the wines I had at Shaffer blew away the Insignia we had at Joseph Phelps the day before.

    QOTD: It doesn’t, it just keeps going and going and going, just like the Energizer bunny. Although, I do expect a BRIEF hiatus when Gary’s baby comes.

  • I’m the scariest person on WLTV!!! Go me! Wait…..
    That totally made my month though 😉

    Love the big ass glass and the friday couch. Man these episodes go by so fast!

  • I’m the scariest person on WLTV!!! Go me! Wait…..
    That totally made my month though 😉

    Love the big ass glass and the friday couch. Man these episodes go by so fast!

  • Antony

    Great job by the guest in bringing something new to the table/couch. QOTD – ep’ 999… with 1000 kept up your sleeve for old times sake.

  • Great job by the guest in bringing something new to the table/couch. QOTD – ep’ 999… with 1000 kept up your sleeve for old times sake.

  • this is my first comment! I’ve been watching for a while…really started becoming faithful once I started wine school in Florence last fall (I just graduated a week ago woohoo!). Your show has been so helpful with my education and you’re definitely an inspiration to anyone who wants to enter (and change) the wine world. Anyways, just wanted to say that I enjoyed this show, loved to see you hanging with one of the Vayniacs. You guys had great chemistry which really enhanced the whole hanging on the laid-back sofa vibe.

    QOTD: there will be no end, only evolution. (when baby Vaynerchuck takes the reins?)

  • this is my first comment! I’ve been watching for a while…really started becoming faithful once I started wine school in Florence last fall (I just graduated a week ago woohoo!). Your show has been so helpful with my education and you’re definitely an inspiration to anyone who wants to enter (and change) the wine world. Anyways, just wanted to say that I enjoyed this show, loved to see you hanging with one of the Vayniacs. You guys had great chemistry which really enhanced the whole hanging on the laid-back sofa vibe.

    QOTD: there will be no end, only evolution. (when baby Vaynerchuck takes the reins?)

  • guymandude

    Great “F” in show!

    QOTD; Badly

  • guymandude

    Great “F” in show!

    QOTD; Badly

  • David Benjamin

    QOTD:

    How will it end?

    My guess is it will end when Garys demand for more family time and biz opportunities overwhelm his schedule. He is the energizer bunny…but even those batteries need recharging or replacing once in awhile.

    As someone who you have yet to meet in person but looks forward to that opportunity, best of luck on the soon to be baby V.

    MI fan,
    David B

  • David Benjamin

    QOTD:

    How will it end?

    My guess is it will end when Garys demand for more family time and biz opportunities overwhelm his schedule. He is the energizer bunny…but even those batteries need recharging or replacing once in awhile.

    As someone who you have yet to meet in person but looks forward to that opportunity, best of luck on the soon to be baby V.

    MI fan,
    David B

  • Tom

    Great Show

    QOTD: After 130,932 shows, Gary’s great-grandchild (now the host) decides that he would rather be an actor.

  • Tom

    Great Show

    QOTD: After 130,932 shows, Gary’s great-grandchild (now the host) decides that he would rather be an actor.

  • Waiterboy

    Great show.

    QOTD: Have no idea, its a mystery that I’m loving a little more than ‘Lost’ right now.

    Tim F thanks for being infected by Gary V’s passion and runnig with it.

  • Waiterboy

    Great show.

    QOTD: Have no idea, its a mystery that I’m loving a little more than ‘Lost’ right now.

    Tim F thanks for being infected by Gary V’s passion and runnig with it.

  • Pittsburgh Alex

    the A. C. Slater stands for Albert Clifford.

    QTOD: I bet pretty soon with the little Vaynerchuk on the way.

    Pens in 4

  • Pittsburgh Alex

    the A. C. Slater stands for Albert Clifford.

    QTOD: I bet pretty soon with the little Vaynerchuk on the way.

    Pens in 4

  • Dick M

    GV: You were rocking on this episode!

    Tom F is a fracking poser! Hope he’s a great customer. If not, please don’t invite wannabee’s like this again. He doesn’t eat radish’s? He needs to stick to the salad bar and avoid the other parts of the buffets.
    He’s swishing face kills me. I need to loop it for my next party. Faker.
    He may need to try some tea and expand his palate.

    QOTD: End quickly with you as a guest

  • Dick M

    GV: You were rocking on this episode!

    Tom F is a fracking poser! Hope he’s a great customer. If not, please don’t invite wannabee’s like this again. He doesn’t eat radish’s? He needs to stick to the salad bar and avoid the other parts of the buffets.
    He’s swishing face kills me. I need to loop it for my next party. Faker.
    He may need to try some tea and expand his palate.

    QOTD: End quickly with you as a guest

  • Dick M, you have an appropriate moniker. QOTD: It will be proxied to someone else and then fade.

  • Dick M, you have an appropriate moniker. QOTD: It will be proxied to someone else and then fade.

  • Jeff Smith

    Love the Episode
    Love the couch
    Love the glass
    Love the guest
    Love the wine

  • Jeff Smith

    Love the Episode
    Love the couch
    Love the glass
    Love the guest
    Love the wine

  • stevo

    I had to come out of the wood work to comment one the episode with Tim F! Tim, great job man.

    Gnarly QOTD: I think the show will taper off, that is, Gary may begin to do fewer and fewer shows per week…and then, eventually, something else in his business life will be too big and the time will be right to end the show. (tear)

  • stevo

    I had to come out of the wood work to comment one the episode with Tim F! Tim, great job man.

    Gnarly QOTD: I think the show will taper off, that is, Gary may begin to do fewer and fewer shows per week…and then, eventually, something else in his business life will be too big and the time will be right to end the show. (tear)

  • J Crazy

    Awesome episode, Tim F, Gary V, Laid Back C.

    Priceless stuff.

    QOTD: I think the doctor will finally find out who his real father is.

  • J Crazy

    Awesome episode, Tim F, Gary V, Laid Back C.

    Priceless stuff.

    QOTD: I think the doctor will finally find out who his real father is.

  • Anonymous

    BIG UPS TO THE OLD SCHOOL VAYNIACS!

    QOTD: I’ve been thinking about this more and more lately… maybe at 700 or in the 700s.

  • YoungDave

    BIG UPS TO THE OLD SCHOOL VAYNIACS!

    QOTD: I’ve been thinking about this more and more lately… maybe at 700 or in the 700s.

  • hollisdevillo

    good stuff gary. it’s amazing how many things you can smell and taste in a wine when you don’t feel the pressure to smell and taste the same as the critics. thanks for the inspiration. i smelt balloon in an McLaren Vale shiraz today. i was so excited! hope all goes well with the baby. don’t feel pressure to pump out more episodes, you’ve paid your dues, as you said. and we’re all the wiser for having known you. cheers!

  • hollisdevillo

    good stuff gary. it’s amazing how many things you can smell and taste in a wine when you don’t feel the pressure to smell and taste the same as the critics. thanks for the inspiration. i smelt balloon in an McLaren Vale shiraz today. i was so excited! hope all goes well with the baby. don’t feel pressure to pump out more episodes, you’ve paid your dues, as you said. and we’re all the wiser for having known you. cheers!

  • matt w

    i’ve been watching daily since my mom’s/gary’s birthday, episode 578, and believe it or not, this is only the second episode i can remember with the laid back friday couch, so of course i loved it. gary, bring it back every friday!

    qotd: sadly i feel like this is going to end pretty soon. the baby is on the way, gary can’t keep up with email anymore, he’s off to conquer the world. all the stars are lining up.

  • matt w

    i’ve been watching daily since my mom’s/gary’s birthday, episode 578, and believe it or not, this is only the second episode i can remember with the laid back friday couch, so of course i loved it. gary, bring it back every friday!

    qotd: sadly i feel like this is going to end pretty soon. the baby is on the way, gary can’t keep up with email anymore, he’s off to conquer the world. all the stars are lining up.

  • Susan B

    Enjoyed this episode with Tim F. who seems very knowledegable about wine. The conversation between the two of you made for a entertaining and informative episode.

  • Susan B

    Enjoyed this episode with Tim F. who seems very knowledegable about wine. The conversation between the two of you made for a entertaining and informative episode.

  • Ben Janssen South Australia

    Natural progression of the pallet… Big comment don’t agree with that. But hey that is what makes us all unique.

  • Ben Janssen South Australia

    Natural progression of the pallet… Big comment don’t agree with that. But hey that is what makes us all unique.

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