EP 721 Vance Sharp of Sharp Cellars and the Sonoma Sausage Company

Gary Vaynerchuk interviews Vance Sharp, a founding member and past president of the Association of African American Vintners.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2004 Pinot Noir ‘Keenan?s Cove
2005 Zinfandel Hailey’s Creek Vineyard
2007 Zinfandel Hailey’s Creek Vineyard ‘Black Label

Links mentioned in todays episode.

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Interesting episode! Vance Sharp’s insights were great.

What was the most surprising thing you learned from this interview?

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  • Anonymous

    This was a very fun episode. What a salesman, and quite the history. Fun show all around.

    QOTD: Bald is just an appearance. If you’re a good person, folks will like it.

  • Phredd

    This was a very fun episode. What a salesman, and quite the history. Fun show all around.

    QOTD: Bald is just an appearance. If you’re a good person, folks will like it.

  • Edward Salonia

    Great guest! Great show!

  • Edward Salonia

    Great guest! Great show!

  • wooden palate

    Gary, thank you for introducing us to a truly terrific human being. Great show.

    QOTD: As someone who can no longer call himself balding, I hope the world thinks well of us.

    (And I hope commenter Justin L. Ove above is a Firefly fan, because I laughed out loud.)

  • wooden palate

    Gary, thank you for introducing us to a truly terrific human being. Great show.

    QOTD: As someone who can no longer call himself balding, I hope the world thinks well of us.

    (And I hope commenter Justin L. Ove above is a Firefly fan, because I laughed out loud.)

  • EmZee

    Great show! We really enjoyed it. I’m filing away Sharp Cellars as a place we’d like to visit.

    QOTD: Bald is great, especially if you can carry it off (as the guest does well) and it’s always better than Trying To Pretend I’m Not Bald.

  • EmZee

    Great show! We really enjoyed it. I’m filing away Sharp Cellars as a place we’d like to visit.

    QOTD: Bald is great, especially if you can carry it off (as the guest does well) and it’s always better than Trying To Pretend I’m Not Bald.

  • CrazyManAndy

    WOW! Great show. Definitely one of the most, if not THE most, enjoyable guests shows I’ve seen on WLTV!

    QOTD: I think bald is very cool! Some of the coolest people I know are bald! Some people pull it off really, really well (like Mr. Sharp), and some not so much. Nevertheless, bald is virtually always better when faced with serious thinning.

  • CrazyManAndy

    WOW! Great show. Definitely one of the most, if not THE most, enjoyable guests shows I’ve seen on WLTV!

    QOTD: I think bald is very cool! Some of the coolest people I know are bald! Some people pull it off really, really well (like Mr. Sharp), and some not so much. Nevertheless, bald is virtually always better when faced with serious thinning.

  • bryan cintel

    Great show and an interesting guest. Keep up the great work.

  • bryan cintel

    Great show and an interesting guest. Keep up the great work.

  • suzanne

    I love the new tagline: the galaxy’s most passionate wine program! Love love love it.

    So who doesn’t your guest know? It seems like he knows everyone who is everyone and a few folks who aren’t! I love it. Great guest. Thanks for bringing him on, Gary.

    QotD: I love bald men when they aren’t ashamed of their baldness or trying to hide it. A bald man who is down with his appearance? Yum!! Very sexy.

  • suzanne

    I love the new tagline: the galaxy’s most passionate wine program! Love love love it.

    So who doesn’t your guest know? It seems like he knows everyone who is everyone and a few folks who aren’t! I love it. Great guest. Thanks for bringing him on, Gary.

    QotD: I love bald men when they aren’t ashamed of their baldness or trying to hide it. A bald man who is down with his appearance? Yum!! Very sexy.

  • I had to call my buddy Brain Glisson — capoeirista extraordinaire — to have him watch. Vance Sharp is Brian in 30 years from now. From his spirt to the way his fingers lay. Even down to his fingernails. I loved this episode. What a guest. What a guest. Vance is my kind of people.

    QOD: Bald people seem to be very brilliant. 🙂
    If I wasn’t blessed with this great head of hair — I would like to be bald.

  • Great great show! Def want to have some of the sausage.

    QOTD: I think bald guys are brave and intimidating.

  • I had to call my buddy Brain Glisson — capoeirista extraordinaire — to have him watch. Vance Sharp is Brian in 30 years from now. From his spirt to the way his fingers lay. Even down to his fingernails. I loved this episode. What a guest. What a guest. Vance is my kind of people.

    QOD: Bald people seem to be very brilliant. 🙂
    If I wasn’t blessed with this great head of hair — I would like to be bald.

  • Great great show! Def want to have some of the sausage.

    QOTD: I think bald guys are brave and intimidating.

  • hotsoupgirl

    Gary-

    cool guest, anyone who can pair wine, sausage and dark chocolate is awesome !Love your show.

  • hotsoupgirl

    Gary-

    cool guest, anyone who can pair wine, sausage and dark chocolate is awesome !Love your show.

  • Dex

    gary when and where is your book signing? I just recently moved to Sonoma County and would love to meet you

    qotd: that was a great question, as a 28 year old who has recently been noticing some hair loss i have been wondering the same thing

  • Dex

    gary when and where is your book signing? I just recently moved to Sonoma County and would love to meet you

    qotd: that was a great question, as a 28 year old who has recently been noticing some hair loss i have been wondering the same thing

  • mattw

    absolutely tremendous week of topics and guests gary, this is easily the best week of episodes i’ve seen since i started watching about 9 months ago.

    qotd – you say bald guy, and i think of george costanza. hilarious, but it doesn’t mean i want to be bald.

  • mattw

    absolutely tremendous week of topics and guests gary, this is easily the best week of episodes i’ve seen since i started watching about 9 months ago.

    qotd – you say bald guy, and i think of george costanza. hilarious, but it doesn’t mean i want to be bald.

  • HansC

    Great show Gary, loved the guest, definitely up there in the top episodes in my book.

    QOTD: Shiny.

  • HansC

    Great show Gary, loved the guest, definitely up there in the top episodes in my book.

    QOTD: Shiny.

  • In.Vino.Veritas

    QOTD: I have never met a bold man I wanted to mess with.

  • In.Vino.Veritas

    QOTD: I have never met a bold man I wanted to mess with.

  • gsanmiguel

    Love the show as per usual, loving that yer mixin in food along with wine, because food to me, is a HUGE part of enjoying wine.

    QOTD: Bald is awesome. Bald is so awesome, people with full heads of hair shave it off just to have that look. So if yer goin bald dont fret, yer not getting old, yer just ahead of the trend.

  • gsanmiguel

    Love the show as per usual, loving that yer mixin in food along with wine, because food to me, is a HUGE part of enjoying wine.

    QOTD: Bald is awesome. Bald is so awesome, people with full heads of hair shave it off just to have that look. So if yer goin bald dont fret, yer not getting old, yer just ahead of the trend.

  • Great show, very enjoyable. Come on! I know it’s about the wines but I really wanted a critique on some cooked Sonoma Sausage. Being from Texas that’s a major downer…sorry, meats come before the wine tasting.

    Interesting guy, interesting wines.

    Bald Men: Every good “hustler” I’ve “hustled” with in the past 8 years have been bald. Bald guys can sell. I don’t know why.

  • Great show, very enjoyable. Come on! I know it’s about the wines but I really wanted a critique on some cooked Sonoma Sausage. Being from Texas that’s a major downer…sorry, meats come before the wine tasting.

    Interesting guy, interesting wines.

    Bald Men: Every good “hustler” I’ve “hustled” with in the past 8 years have been bald. Bald guys can sell. I don’t know why.

  • Today’s show was great because it had a very chatty, relaxed and interesting guest which is a nice change. Had not had any of is wines yet.

    QOTD: I think the world really likes bald men, they somewhat convey trust and presence.

  • Today’s show was great because it had a very chatty, relaxed and interesting guest which is a nice change. Had not had any of is wines yet.

    QOTD: I think the world really likes bald men, they somewhat convey trust and presence.

  • Dave

    QOTD: brother… they think we’re sexy as heck 😉

  • Dave

    QOTD: brother… they think we’re sexy as heck 😉

  • Richie

    Vance was one of the most fun quests in a long time. Really great guy.
    QOTD: I think it has got stil. But there are not much guys that look good with it.

  • Richie

    Vance was one of the most fun quests in a long time. Really great guy.
    QOTD: I think it has got stil. But there are not much guys that look good with it.

  • Crazyannie

    Gary — talk about THunder with a capital T & H. Vance Rocks! I think you have just found a new subsitute hosts so you can take some time off for book signing. Would really be interested in being one of those 700 in October.

    Great guest — Great Show

    QOTD: sorry, I like them hairy.

  • Crazyannie

    Gary — talk about THunder with a capital T & H. Vance Rocks! I think you have just found a new subsitute hosts so you can take some time off for book signing. Would really be interested in being one of those 700 in October.

    Great guest — Great Show

    QOTD: sorry, I like them hairy.

  • M

    QOTD: Bald is beautiful. There are so many bad hair implants and hair pieces. Just be bald.

    Great show!

    Vance the third didn’t punch GV for interrupting a zillion times.

  • M

    QOTD: Bald is beautiful. There are so many bad hair implants and hair pieces. Just be bald.

    Great show!

    Vance the third didn’t punch GV for interrupting a zillion times.

  • Talking Zin, I’ll have to suggest GV to go to IKEA and by a jar of lingonberry jam. At lot of Zins seem to smell and taste lingonberry mixed with other stuff.

    Good show even when GV interrupts the guest for the fivehundredth time

    QOTD: Nothing. Balding the last 15 years, but don’t care. Are we different, really?

  • Anders

    Talking Zin, I’ll have to suggest GV to go to IKEA and by a jar of lingonberry jam. At lot of Zins seem to smell and taste lingonberry mixed with other stuff.

    Good show even when GV interrupts the guest for the fivehundredth time

    QOTD: Nothing. Balding the last 15 years, but don’t care. Are we different, really?

  • Jagron

    Great show. The show’s with the guests are awesome.

    No response to the QOTD.

    Off topic – What’d you think of Sanchez Friday night? You guys got a good one. Fight on!

  • Jagron

    Great show. The show’s with the guests are awesome.

    No response to the QOTD.

    Off topic – What’d you think of Sanchez Friday night? You guys got a good one. Fight on!

  • brian L Glisson

    Gary thanx for this one!!! Interesting episode. That Vance is “Sharp” he’s the man. Cant wait to taste his wines!

    QOTD: First off brotha Vance you already know your generation probably made being bald cool. Also when the hair is cut (bald specifically) thought tends to lean toward the idea and attitude of military, ritual, and a life called out to the dedication to a priesthood and elite group. And from what I can see you fit all!

  • brian L Glisson

    Gary thanx for this one!!! Interesting episode. That Vance is “Sharp” he’s the man. Cant wait to taste his wines!

    QOTD: First off brotha Vance you already know your generation probably made being bald cool. Also when the hair is cut (bald specifically) thought tends to lean toward the idea and attitude of military, ritual, and a life called out to the dedication to a priesthood and elite group. And from what I can see you fit all!

  • VINOMADDOG

    Long time viewer……CRUSHED IT!! With this episode live in Milwaukee WI lets bring some Sonoma Sausage to all the Cheeseheads…..Great interview and Gret Wines…..Keep CRUSHIN IT

  • VINOMADDOG

    Long time viewer……CRUSHED IT!! With this episode live in Milwaukee WI lets bring some Sonoma Sausage to all the Cheeseheads…..Great interview and Gret Wines…..Keep CRUSHIN IT

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