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EP 884 Interesting 90 Point Reds Under $20

Gary Vaynerchuk picks out 2 esoteric reds to try, a Freisa and a Cotes du Roussillon, that received good press.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2007 Cascina Gilli Freisa D’astiFreisa d’Asti
2007 Nidoleres La RaphaelleRoussillon

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luca bercelli

94/100

line of the day – ‘It’s like smelling Batman…dark’

Great show, absolute classic. Mott back to his psychophantic best – after saying he smells a heavy dose of barnyard GV says it’s not there, try it again. Mott caves in – ‘it’s disappeared’

Great to see GV so pumped for a show, His enthusiasm is contagious. Capped all by the hilarious ‘hair on chest’ moment at 4.20

Tags: Freisa d'Asti, red, review, Roussillon, Video, wine, wines

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  • RANDINTHECITY

    Castello…Your Discuss tip.. I tried it, but still same problem…But thank you!!!!
    Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

  • BenBurch

    QOTD 1: Never. Haven't even heard of it.

    QOTD 2: George Fitzwater. We call him Pappy. Friend's grandfather. The guy works all the time, went on vacation to see his daughter and grandkids (I was living with them at the time) and worked 8 hours a day tearing down their fence and building a new one. When that was done he trimmed their trees and landscaped the whole yard in a day. Worked every day he was there for 2 weeks. He only drinks folgers dark and drinks it black… every day. Lives out in the country side in Virginia, drives a 1920 something Chevy that he rebuilt and a Cadillac. Ran his own Topsoil company and was self-employed his whole life. Do you get much more old-school than that? I'm not sure you can. It's sort of New World Old School, very American style old-world. But I'd say he takes my cake.

  • Allan 2.0

    This was the finest of shows G!

  • castello

    Indeed! You also have the 06 even cheaper. Might need to do a side by side. Has anyone had the 06 Freisa D'asti?

  • castello

    Good luck. Mott said make sure your browser is allowing cookies!?? mmmmmcookies

  • castello

    TEQUILA!

  • Anonymous

    It’s a joke. He likes merlot and regrets the “sideways effect.”

  • Allan 2.0

    mmmmmmmmm…… 🙂

    Ronal'doh!

  • Funny you brought up Michael Broadbent, he really was responsible for my wine education in the very early 90's. Old school yes, but very classy. Did not want to stir any hard feelings because of the Rodenstock/Koch case. But whatever his role in that case was or was not, Michael Broadbent inspired me back then. Cheers for your kind comment in regards to my guest appearance. Would be delighted to be back anytime, but that's up to Gary. So humbled to have been there.

  • drt999

    Alas, no.

    Define 'old-world' person. . . .

  • castello

    That old guy you have on this show once in a great while. What was his name?

  • Allan 2.0

    BRING BACK SASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Silvian

    Hello Gary. I am Silvian from Romania and I like very much what you do. More succes in the future.http://twitter.com/bestautovest

  • Allan 2.0

    I agree he's got class, like some of us have got fleas! 🙂
    What a lousy reference…..

    You're welcome. The least i could do. Rock on!
    :0)

  • cellarrat5

    Holy inoculated must batman! Great show, loved the enthusiasm. Always good to see you nerd it up while simultaneously introducing wines that many have not had. No moss on this WLTV rolling stone, keep it up!

    QOTD 1: No

    QOTD 2: This guy that comes and picks up our pressed skins and stems after crush. He drives a dump of a truck, is a decorated Vietnam vet, must have been in the army for a million years. Has a handshake like a vice, he and I try and break each others hands every time we cross paths. Really nice guy but obviously extremely old school/old world?

  • Latour90

    QOTD 1 — Never had it QOTD 2 – Maurice J. Minnifield. Actually he is the person played by Barry Corbin on Northern Exposure. He was an eccentric, wealthy ex-astronaunt, wine enthusiast. Def. old school. Because of him i got into wines. He was so wine savvy. He mentioned a Brunello (i never heard of Brunello at that time) and i had to get one. There was one incredible episode where someone broke one of his Bordeaux, i think and iconic Lafite. They tried to replicate the wine and added all kinds of things. It was hilarious.

  • “This is smack you in the face if you get out of hand in 1963 at Sears.”

    “Cuts a mooses head off, then goes back into the city, shaves, takes a shit, puts on a little cologne and goes out and gets the ladies.”

    I'm still laughing at those classic lines….you are on a roll.

  • KAHUNA

    884 episodes and you finally find a wine that defines why we watch- thank god I can stop watching now;)
    More importantly why does Mott know what a sheeps ass smells like?

    Actually it would have been 2 Guys or Bambergers where the smack would have happened in 1969 or maybe even Gimbels

  • Porkcrackers

    Great show Gary. I'm a big big fan of lots of French wine regions. I have been doing some studying and would love to see you do an episode on Irouleguy. California wines have been starting to see some additional interest in the Tannat varietal and this region uses this as their 'Cab'. Thanks again. Jusden

  • Van Vick

    GARY! NO WINE OR WINE CLUB SHIPMENTS TO TEXAS?!!!! PLEASE FIX IT!!!

  • KAHUNA

    Maybe the 2nd greatest line ever “I could drink this wine all day” – Astronauts on the moon HAHAHHAHAH

  • Van E. Vick

    Love the Roussillon & Languedoc Southern Rhone blends that you enjoy, and tried to order
    this Roussillon, but SUDDENLY YOU DON'T SHIP TO TEXAS! What about my WINE CLUB “A” SHIPMENTS?!!

  • Gladys

    Mr. Penfield, third grade teacher. His classroom is across the hall from mine (student teaching). He plays classical music in the morning and late afternoons. He wears a fedora hat sometimes. I heard he's also a lawyer and a clergy, I was too shy to ask.

  • DmitriEn

    I see Gary was bitten by the energizer bunny particularly hard this time 🙂
    Great show!

    QOTD: no
    QOTD2: my new boss 🙂

  • ONUMello

    no/ QOTD: I don't know anyone FROM the old world, and no one I know reminds me of what I think anyone from there would be.

  • Alexandre-CF

    solid 93 +.

    QOTD 1: Never. i'll try to find one .

    QOTD 2: i donté know his name but is an old guy that lives across the road with a long brushed beard, always on suit, make his own beer and collects birds.

  • If the two wines on this show match the passion and energy you demonstrated…I must find them now. Really good stuff.

  • sethsethy

    never even heard of freisa d'asti, sounds interesting though.

  • Jrouss

    QOTD #1: NO

    QOTD #2: Sorry, but have to go with my grandfather. Greek Immigrant and decorated US WWI Vet. Had the distinguished service cross, silver star, purple heart with clusters, and 13 other medals. He was a translator and rifleman on the front lines at the battle of Verdon. Spoke 13 languages including Russian. Any way one day a burglar knocked on his door holding a pistol and asked him for his money. He said just a minute it's in the closet. He reaches into the closet and pulls out a shotgun. The thug takes off running down the street and my grandfather goes chasing after him. He's about 90 years old at the time. So my dad asks him if he really would have shot the guy. And my grandfather answers “Hell No, the gun wasn't even loaded I was going to club the B….D with it.”

  • johnfarrin

    mini QOTD: Yes, served to me by Lucretia Borgia during a clandestine dinner 😉 Okay….no.

    50 years ago I used to cut an old Check lady's grass. She lived next door and all my brothers and sisters were afraid of her because Mrs. Anna Lunic didn't take no sass. She paid me with apple pies (as good as you'll ever have) and poppy seed bread and all kinds of homemade baked goods. Don't know if I've had a better wage since.

  • nice…you know it's the thunder when GV leans way back on the chair and slurps it down.

  • Bioman_83

    QOTD 1: No

    QOTD 2: Great Uncle age 79, holds 3 jobs; runs a dairy farm, principal of the high school and then drives the bus. Smokes a tobacco pipe and has outlived all 3 of his brothers. While smoking his pipe during my brothers college graduation he used the fire hydrant to get the ashes out of his pipe in front of a city cop. The cop replied excuse me sir and my Great Unlce replied well that's what they're for aren't they? And the reason that holds so many jobs is because ” he'll rest when he is dead”. Good man.

  • Uncle_robby

    I am feelin' ya with the 1963 at Sears comment!!

    QOTD: My friend George's mom Nina.

  • NeilMc

    Good show today…this is WLTV, not some Sopranos infomercial. Never had a Freisa D'Asti, tried one from Rousillon, Prieure des Mourgues St-Chinian. Actually I liked it a lot once it opened up about an $18.00 play. The most old-school at present would have to be my mom. She only likes red wine that smells like a barn yard.

  • Bioman_83

    forgot to mention he's an old-school German

  • Fresia only once, some time ago and would have to check old notes..it was a mouthful I remember that much.
    QOTD: got to give the old world award to my uncle Henry (actually my grandfather's uncle, albeit a few years younger than gramps…big Italian family)…he's always making limoncello when his trees are producing fruit, and asking how my wine is coming along…goes into stories about how his uncles used to have him start the siphon on wine in their cellar, when he was a kid, and his mom getting pissed at them for sending him home wrecked.

  • Phaser

    cuts the head off a moose???? What the heck was that hahaha

    QOTD: fine I'm trying to think of someone old school and you start talking about pasta and such at the end. Me, I'm old school, do what you say and say what you mean, die on your feet, facing the bad guys and after it is over, kiss the damn girl.

  • rwino

    Great show Gary, this is what I like!
    QOTD1: No
    QOTD2: Me, all my friends think I'm too old school. Their wives and girlfriends think I have the mentality of a caveman, and am bad influence. I like to think I'm just “classic”.:-)

  • DAveAll

    side Q – no.
    Glad you are finding value priced wines. good stuff.
    QOTD: Most old world- my grandpa, he worked the Pa mines for 30 years and prior was a blacksmith (horses, yes). Killed Germans in WW I. He was an antique in the 60's. mean guy, never liked me. as old world as I ever found.

  • Gary Vee today you were in “the zone”, two for two… great!

    QOTD1: nope, but like you said, it's what I'm here for, to learn about new things.

    QOTD2: The most old world person I can think of is Frederick Price, my father's first cousin. He was an engineer, had a masters in electronics and PhD; he was into steam engines and oscilloscopes, electronics and art; a renaissance type of guy, well versed, educated, fun to be around with, loved movies and strange literature, and had no trouble teaching you about sex or how to make a transistor radio no matter what age or sex you were, He was a very interesting guy.

  • Phil

    dude, he collects birds, how random is that…love it!

  • LurkerKing

    Now we're talkin!

  • I had the 2007 La Montagnetta ?Bugianen? Freisa d?Asti. Dried plums, black pepper, cherry cola, a little tobacco. It was a slightly bitter, more of an Amrone lover?s wine. It was about 15 bones, nice but not a 90 point wine.

    Going wine tasting in the Santa Clara Valley on Saturday, 40 minutes south of San Jose…

    Erik

  • NY Pete

    hey hey

  • laurieinvt

    side QOTD: nope
    Good show! I will look for these!
    QOTD: Henk and Janet Schurink who ran the riding stable where I spent my teenage years- exposure to Europe without ever leaving my provincial little town!

  • NY Pete

    no on the freisa

  • David

    No, never had a Freisa.
    QOTD: My 72-yr-old father in law, who constantly talks about 1969 Bordeaux's that he used to buy for a couple dollars.

  • Rsparks1

    Great show!

    QOTD 1. No. Never heard of it before today.
    QOTD 2. My good friend Rick. He's a country/60's kind of guy. Lives a simple, non materialistic kind of life. Knows how to live well on remarkably few resources. Self-employed and very self-sufficient. Willing to help a friend any way possible at the drop of a hat. The world could use more like him.

    Gary, I'm very glad to see you bringing Mr. Mott into the show more these days. I think he brings a lot to the table these days. It's very instructive to hear both of you bounce your perceptions off of each other.It definitely helps me understand a bit better sometimes.
    On days like today, when you don't have guests or a large number of guests to deal with, maybe you could pour a second glass for Chris and do the sniffy-sniff and sippy-sip together?

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