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EP 852 Cru Beaujolais Tasting

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a category of wines that he’s passionate about: Cru Beaujolais.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Chapelle Des Bois FleurieCru Beaujolais
2007 Diochon Moulin A Vent VielleBeaujolais
2002 Champs Grilles Revillon St. AmourCru Beaujolais

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  • sergyha

    Great show! I know next to nothing about wine, but hope to learn enough to enjoy it knowingly via this program. Thanks a lot!

  • semi qtod. No wristband, send me one.
    talking about eating healthy, how are the love handles coming?
    one bad and one dead, not a “good” show
    QOTD:thsi weekend, well, that is was to short, which seems to happen often 🙂

  • kasperhip

    A “It will still get you drunk”-kinda vibe?

  • kasperhip

    Hey Gary!
    Listen to the sound of my voice……..as you listen to the sound of my voice, you feel your eyelids are getting heavy……you feel like you floating in wine and your thought are centered around the sound of my voice…..as you begin to think about what to is happening, you feel an instant urge to do whatever I say……you will do whatever the voice tells you to……….you must send sniffy sniff wristbands to Denmark right away……you will do it as soon as the voice disappears…….snap!

  • seb10

    Hi Gary,

    You are going to kill Ian aren't you. Now you are all smiles but after the show the monster comes out and you just ingrave him in cement somewhere. A new builiding with Ian foundations. Loved the show,drink beaujolais cru sometimes,but I am also finidng it difficult to find good Moulin a Vents or Morgons.
    Love,

    Seb

  • Domdomi

    I enjoy in the “hum hum” when you smell the st Amour 2002 ( is a huge and authentic adventure finding 2002 in Beaujolais!!!)
    You get a fanstatic buyer of beaujolais!!!, i hope u don't buy so much bottles of St Amour.
    So please don't kick so hard Ian ass.
    Please leave Ian alone !!!!!!!!!

  • Richie

    QOTD 1: Don't have one.
    QOTD 2: Nothing really.

  • The very last lurker

    Fleurie's vowels should be pronounced like those of turkey. Beaujolais wines are not for me.

  • scottEJ

    Thanks, G. I had a Moulin A Vent a few weeks ago and thought it a perfect pair with saltwater fish. Too bad yours disappointed today. How about a red borgogne show to maybe bounce back?

    QOTD: Nothing major. I was suppose to visit Spain last week and that didn't happen due to the volcanic ash thing. But, we were able to put together a last minute trip to the Sonoma and it couldn't have been better. So, I guess the reality of having to go back to work on Monday was probably my biggest disappointment.

  • WineTechie

    Thanks for the reviews. I went through my cellar and made sure I didn't have any Beaujolais lurking around!

    QOTD 1; Don't have one.
    QOTD 2; Nothing this past weekend. Yesterday couldn't go golfing due to rain!

  • Oakmon's BF

    I have/had the yellow wristband. It was my only WLTV swag. I don?t know what became of it. My mother in-law gave me a bottle of Beaujolais that they had been sitting on for decades. The cork crumbled when I opened it. This was not one of my better wine experiences. I have a bottle of Beaujolais that I?ve been aging for a couple of years. It?s not like I decided to intentionally age it. To paraphrase John Lennon, the aging of wine is the sort of thing that happens while you?re busy making other plans.

  • Allan

    Germany is sooooo underrated in general. Just you wait, in 25 years they’ll be the leading wine country in the world. (Maybe).
    Their reds are also on the up. Their whites are awesome, the best stuff of course. Not Liebfraumilch & Piesporter, forget that S***!!!

  • waynoooo daaaaa winoooo

    Pfalz Riesling AIN'T toooo Shabby either, especially Muller-Catoir !!!!!!! YUM, YUM,
    YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O)

  • LonelyGrape

    QOTD Spending 15 minutes trying to send an SMS on a new phone while trying to watch my footy team – who just happened to have their best quarter of football for the year!

  • In all fairness to Ian, I picked up a bottle of the St Amour last year and had it for Xmas, and it wasn't bad at all. Sorry it seems to have run its course.

    Still in kind of an experimental stage with aging Beaujolais – I've sat on some Duboeuf crus for a few years with surprisingly nice results, esp. for a wine that price, and there's some Tete, Chermette and Brun in the basement somewhere.

    Q: I'm not disappointed. Looking forward to a few months of relocation, reinvention and networking. Should be fun.

  • Anonymous

    Welcome lurker!

  • I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
    It's Ok it was worth the experience. Now I'm curious what else he has in his cellar!

  • Thanks! Taken under advisement. I have to wonder if Gillingham's Store over in Woodstock has some in their cellar…hmmmm.

  • fanbrew

    QOTD: Exterior Designers & Bath Fitters failed to install my new tub correctly again. They have now been to my house 5 times and the installation still isn't done. In fact we are starting over. Ripping out the tub they installed and putting in another new one. A major disappointment to say the least.

  • cliffordjames

    HA! Don't hold back, Gary! Gotta love how you call em as you see em … it's what keeps us watching year after year! Popping the Dead-Wine cherry — yup, that was indeed a very special moment together;-}

    QOTD: The biggest disappointment this weekend was … MONDAY

    As always, thanks for all you do … I'll be with you all the way to episode 1000, and hopefully beyond!

  • PurpleGrillz

    Biggest disappointment was Numanthia 06'. Bottle was just so so with a whole gang of tannins. No great secondary flavors, I will try again, probably an off bottle.

    @GV… You HAVE to follow up these clunkers with a show where you pop some bottles of the varietal that you know you like.

  • sub Q: Don't have that one.
    QOTD: This weekend? Can't say that I had one. It was a really excellent weekend.

  • Haven't had much Gamay-based wines lately. Maybe not the latter ones, but I will go hunting for some Cru-B.

    QOTD1: No yellow wristband. Sadness.

    QOTD2: I would say that the half-rack of Colorado lamb chops I ordered on Sunday were overcooked. Other than that, I wasn't as productive as I wanted to be.

  • Chris

    Those kats over at basic-wine-info.com have a nice take on wine too.

  • Just Jack

    It is nice to know someone thinks like me Allan! My preference is for The Balvanie double cask. But…I was out and too miserable to stop at the store so I had to make do with a couple shots of Pappy Van Winkle 15 year bourbon. It did the trick.

  • Allan

    My favourite is actually Ardbeg, have you had any of those???

  • old, who are you calling old? oh me, , yeah, your right. But evaporate, nah, it’s more of a continiuum that’s hard to keep up with!

  • PearlGirlWhirl

    Thanks for the info/link

  • Allan

    “Aren’t you the girl, who used to call me names……”

  • John_Kenneth_J

    qotd: I was supposed to attend a little wine party with the other wine steward where I work, along with some of our wine rep's and others in the business, and we were going to bring a 1953 Vosne-Romanee (which is supposed to be a really good year for Burgundy), we got a hold of. Which while it has maybe peaked, it shouldn't be bad yet (and we all wanted to find out). But he couldn't make it and I wasn't going to take it without him, so (sigh) I must wait for another time. Huge disappointment.

    As far as Ian and that 2002 St. Amour, I believe it's quite possible it was good a year ago. I don't know about St. Amour specifically, but I know that some Morgon's and Moulin A Vent's will go 10 years when it's from a good producer in a good vintage and be delicious. I'd bet that you'll see some Cru Beaujolais's from 2003 & 2005 be quite good in 2013 & 2015.

  • bret

    beaujolais CAN age sometimes.my wine of the year is a 1997 calot morgon.I drank 4 bottles last week.I currently glasspour 03 grangier julienas.

  • Tomas

    My biggest disapointment of the weekend was that the cork of my 1958 Barolo Serafino Enrico was leeking. Not surprising but nevertheless disapointing. That wine was dead!

  • Lb_in_KS

    I do in fact have my “sniffy sniff” wristy…. how long has it been since you rocked your original black/green vayniac wristy?

  • angelatcarslon

    The Rheinhessen and Nahe have some deliciousness as well!

  • just checked the bottle…
    2007 Cedric Vincent Pouilly Le Monial
    fruit was very austere in the nose and on the palate…delicate and lime-like, with some white flowers. Light- to light-med body, very dry, slightly chalky dusty finish.

  • angelatcarslon

    No wristbands, so sad. Would LOVE to have one, please nice Gary : )

    As someone who's in retail, “weekends” are work time for me.
    The store did really well on Sunday and over the weekend I saved someone from a possible tactical wine error of serving only Merlot and a big Cabernet with spicy Northern Indian cusine. Put quite a bit of Auslese and a few juicy Cote du Rhones in his cart along with a Merlot and a Cab for folks who had to drink “their usual”.

    I'll be highly dissapointed if the Tasting I planned for work today is postponed or cancelled.
    The Crew hasn't had a chance to try new wines in months and I can't pass along tasting notes if it hasn't been in my mouth.

  • foongfest

    Got a sniffy sniff wrist band – in fact that's my first!

    QOTD – The Cutters winning yet again at the Little 500 (a bike race also known as the greatest collegiate's weekend and featured in the Oscar winning “Breaking Away”)
    Seriously, those guys keep winning year after year and because of that I lost my chance to claim the title my senior year in college a few years back. Darned second place.

  • hyllos

    I would only wonder if this specific bottle was dead. When you have a tasting disappointment, do you taste again? In my case, I never make a final decision before a minimum of 3 tastings.

    I would also be very happy to see more aged wine wine tastings, it would be enlightening towards the probable palate differences between France or Italy and the USA.

  • Anonymous

    You won’t do that again!

  • jcrazy

    Mos definitely have the sniffy sniff wrist band.

    Biggest disappointment this last weekend was falling asleep around 4pm Saturday to then wake up at 10pm completely awake. The “bummer” of it all was that I missed going out to drinks with my friends but was so well rested I couldn't get back to sleep until around 4am.

  • CtWalt

    unfortunally I don't have the sniffy snif wrist band, but I just got the vayner nation statue of liberty one!!! YES!!!

  • Phredd3

    Fun show, even if the wines didn't bring it.

    sub-QOTD: Nah, don't have it. In fact, I don't have any wristbands at all. I think you just don't like me. 😉

    QOTD: Easy – I didn't get the Vayniac two-pack. Can't afford to buy more wine at the moment, and that REALLY disappointing because I can't get the wristband. I'm just dyin' here!

  • Tomas

    I mean leaking…

  • charlzee

    Good show GV, don't be disappointed. Appreciate the air quotes effort!

    Do you really suck the eye out of the fish…then swallow??

  • QOTD. We couldn't get a reservation to Casa Mono while visiting NYC this past weekend.

    Yeah, man! Keeps frightening Americans with your whole fish comments. I love the eye suck! Or if you want to REALLY scare them bring out a head-on shrimp! And vein on!!! 😀

  • adam_riley

    Bummer that these were disappointing, I've tried a few Cru Beaujolais and they were all pretty good!

    QOTD: I got sick this weekend but got to stay home and watch some old Wine Library episodes!

  • Just Jack

    I’ve heard the name but haven’t tried it yet. Some, but certainly not all, of the Islay scotches come across a little too heavy on the iodine for my taste. I am big on the more peaty, smokey caramel flavors.

  • Just Jack

    I’ve heard the name but haven’t tried it yet. Some, but certainly not all, of the Islay scotches come across a little too heavy on the iodine for my taste. I am big on the more peaty, smokey caramel flavors.

  • Just Jack

    Been there done that Dave (I guess who hasn't). That is one of the most disappointing things.

  • Phil G

    Yes, I have the sniffy sniff wristband – but I want the green one!

    Clunk indeed.

    QOTD – disappointed I wasn't able to see my girlfriend over the weekend – but she was out of town visiting friends

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