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EP 897 High End Bordeaux and Rhone Reds

Gary Vaynerchuk opens up 3 special French reds from the high end wine room.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte RougeGraves/Pessac-Leognan
2006 Pierre Usseglio Mon Aieul Chateauneuf Du PapeChateauneuf du Pape Rouge
2005 Ferraton Ermitage Le MealHermitage Rouge


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90/100

lines of the day – ‘I don’t want to get naked for you’ and ‘This is like Hulk Hogan v Rocky v Mike Tyson’

This show makes you wish you were rich so you could taste all those $100 + phenomenal wines

Tags: Chateauneuf Du Pape, Hermitage, pessac-leognan, Video

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  • spellus

    Best $100 bottle we had so far? I’d say Bollinger R.D. 1990 if Champagne counts. As for the favourite hot dog style — danish: with boston gurkhas (some kind of pickled cucumbers), onions and mustard.

  • Brooklyn Winery

    QOTD1: Hamburger!
    QOTD2: 2001 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

  • Good start.

    QOTD: Ketchup and Mustard

    QOTD: Had a few over 100 bottles, but nothing seems to stickout as the best.

  • passion4wine

    Hot dog- def mustard and kraut! I spent 2 months in France this year, and flying home layover in Frankfurt airport- had the best meal of the trip- sausage, kraut, mashers and mustard- yum yum!
    I have had the Smith Haut Lafitte several times-we decant at least 5 hours before drinking.
    Best 100 bucks spent? umm… I know what you will say, but I really love the Silver Oak Napa, also the Paradigm Cab Sauv

  • passion4wine

    French ain’t so easy!

  • Adrian van Velsen

    QOTD: I never had a hotdog 🙁

    QOTD2: probably the best $100 wine that is broadly known and mature was Ch. La Conseillante 1995. And to give you a hint of a just VERRY VERRY GREAT Swiss Wine in the $100 range i recommend “Lo Grafion Grande Reserve 2006” from Cedric Flaction (Cave des Cailles) – this will give you the thunder 🙂

  • It was a 2005 Chateauneuf Du Pape Gary … and I hate it is so expensive …

  • B-727

    Several winner and several losers at $100. Best was ’94 Bryant Family around 3 years ago.

  • Gary Mele

    1995 casa nova di neri cerratalto brunello di montalcino

  • Anonymous

    spent 2 months in france and the best meal on the trip was in Frankfurt. What happen to good French food? 🙁 maybe too much good French wine and you can’t remember…

  • Anonymous

    GV – The big boys are reppin’ WLTV! Can you dig it, I can dig it!

    QOTD: Loved the 1988 Dom Ruinart!
    QOTD 1/2: I go with ketchup and mustard…occasionally relish!

  • Mcamp787

    I usually enjoy a hotdog drizzled in catsup, mustard, onions, & sliced PICKLES.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Gary, I just saw the show today and it was awesome. QOTD1: hot dogs Carolina style: mustard, onions, chili no beans, cole slaw mayo based. QOTD2: I had a JP Insignia 3 years ago that I remember paying 100 bones for that a friend of mine and I drank while cooking out at the beach.

  • Mick Walsh

    QOTD1: A Dublin Hot Dog is a Sorry, Sorry thing.
    QOTD2: Montus Madiran Cuvee Prestige 1990. Totally enchanting.

  • badabingmike

    Opus One 1997

    Spicy mustard, raw onions, hot chilli or Rutts Hutt w/ special relish, spicy mustard.

  • QOTD: I would say Château de la Negly, La Porte du Ciel 2004 (it might be more expensive than 100 bones).

  • passion4wine

    Maybe, steak tartare was a close second though. French food is very rich and it started to bother me after a few weeks.

  • Tom T.

    Hey Gary…I’m with you on hot dogs. Mustard and sourkraut all the way!
    Regarding $100 wines I probably had a few but honestly cannot say which was best.
    Good show.

  • Zino

    QOTD: Peby Faugeres 1998. Hope you do more shows like this, as it can pull out some nice results like it did with the Hermitage, not that surprising though as we’re talking about a great appellation that often brings the thunder in my experience. Would be good though to see some less famous regions bringing thunder also. Don’t get predictable like Parker has become, great critic though he is. Good show.

  • Anonymous

    dude for your first splurge spend it on the type of wine you *love*. If you love Cali Cab, try a chappellet or a caymus, if you like bordeaux, try some 2001 classified growth (great Decanter issue on 2001 outshining 2000 a couple months ago). DONT splurge the first time on a wine you want to “try”; if you dont like the style, you may inclined to hate the top shelf stuff more than the $15 bottle because the top shelf is a pure example of exactly what you dont like in the style. When in doubt or indifferent, get some kick a@@ barolo because no matter what your style is, barolo = elegant.

  • Anonymous

    In ’92, I came across 4 bottles of ’87 Smith-Haut Lafite, in a neighborhood that was going downhill. they were under $25/ bottle. I filled a case w/ them, some vintage ports, and Geman Estate Rieslings, all for around $200 – minus 10% case discount. They were opened from ’97, -2000. Drank a bit young, but in general, as the most expendable of the better wines in my ever evolving, but not really growing ‘par’ of wines at home. I pretty much loved each bottle more than the last, as one might only hope for. It was good for me, all the way around.

    QotD – back in the 80’s, compared to more recent times, few wines had the audacity to charge $100/bottle. When I first tasted Silver Oak ( ’86, prob in ’88,’89, at work), it was totally clear what that was all about. Opus didn’t come across so obviously, but I was well aware that my palate had not yet developed to top league. Bordeaux smelled great, but were most often, still, WAAY tightly wound on the tongue. Over those next couple years, with diligent attention, I saw my palate grow immensley. Then the boutique wineries gained exposure, and next, the cult wines, and now anybody can make $100, and in many very good wines, not even from their own friut.

  • Anonymous

    Ted’s hotdogs in Buffalo: the works: extra charred on the charcoal, slashed to bits on the grills, the works (chili onion mustard etc). If not at teds, Ketchup and relish is the go to. Recommend zwigels hotdog sauce as a one-stop.

    QOTD: Two bottles that stick out are 1997 Silver Oak Napa (the one that turned me) and 2004 Caymus regular bottling (only $70, but still, thats a LOT of $$$$$). Worst $100+ bottle, 2006 Tignanello: i knew exactly what it was when the sommelier suggested it, i replied that i thought it would be too youthful, and they assured me after a decant it would be wonderful. The meal was wonderful, the wine was eh. Wish i had the money back and would have done a 2004 brunello regular bottling, because they are off the hizzie…should be $100+ bottles that retail for 40 bones.

  • Anonymous

    Of recent years, I think one of the top things at $100 was the ’92 Delectus Cuvee Julia. Which the distributor brought to us, along with Linda, and Gerhard. They offered us only one 1X6 wood box, w/ signed bottles, which we greedily took. Some weeks later, we got a second 6 pack (!), and sold it as fast as the 1st, but secretly hoarded, in plain view, but in the wrong cellar slot, 2 of the bottles for a favorite customer.

  • Haven’t eaten hot dogs for about 6-7 years, and I can’t recall having had anything that may have been $100. That said, on 7/10 I probably tasted quite a few bottles that approached $100, but who could have kept track of anything that evening?

  • Anonymous

    QOTD1: I have a Sniffy Sniff wrist band.
    QOTD2: Hot dog with ketchup, mustard and relish…messy but good.
    QOTD3: First I was thinking the only $100 wine I’ve had was a gift, 1990 Dom Perignon. It was terrific. Then I remembered I’ve had the 2006 Opus One which was listed at $185. It was delicious but more fruit forward than I would have expected. The winner…1990 Dom P.

  • Anonymous

    QOTD #1 – Mustard & Ketchup
    QOTD #2 – Never tried a wine that expensive, way out of my price league.

  • Hoze67

    Definitely mustard and sauerkraut any time it is available!

    Since you indicated that the 2005 Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge is young and probably to early to taste, is there a rule of thumb that indicates when a wine should be consumed?

  • RonDarling

    QOTD1: Spicy Brown mustard and relish, tons of relish

    QOTD2: I dont think I have ever had a 100 dollar bottle of wine.

  • Darren_herbst

    Mustard and Saurkraut, no wrist band but would like one, and Penfolds Grange……

  • Bearsfan

    I live 30 miles from Chicago so naturally I eat my dogs with the garden on a bun…onion, relish, tomato, dill pickle spear, and naturally yellow mustard.

  • 1. Sauerkraut for sure
    2. Girlfriend once surprised me taking home a whole left over (!) bottle of L’Evangile from a business diner

  • hokie wino

    QOTD: Unfortunately I’m one of those boring people that just use ketchup. I don’t have a wrist band but I would like one. Being a unemployed college graduate doesn’t quite pay well enough for me to spend $100 on a bottle of wine but one day.

  • QOTD #1: 90% of the time I go simple: Bun, dawg, ketchup. Simple yet complete, in my mind. Love a Chicago style dawg from time to time tho.

    QOTD #2: Never been confident enough to drop that much on a bottle. Hoping to change that soon…

  • Slushpuppy

    Definitely Chi style at Bill’s Hotdogs in Evanston. That’s a David Berg wiener, on S.Rosen’s poppy-seed bun ofcourse. Drag it through the garden; ripe tomato, pickle relish, and raw chopped onion, selery salt and pepper. I don’t eat big any more, but I’ll take three!
    Smell it first. TR

  • Slushpuppy

    I forgot the yellow mustard dude. Never would put sweet ketchup on a hotdog.
    Smell it first. TR

  • Bryanpederson

    QOTD 1: Ketchup and mustard…yes…QOTD 2: Kaesler Old Basterd Shiraz…cool name and great wine.

  • Anonymous

    Hot Dog: Sauerkraut, dijon mustard and corn relish.

    While I have a few $100 wines in my cellar, I have never drank any. But I can confirm enjoying Dom Perignon, Krug and 2nd Growth Bordeaux on a Singapore Airlines flight.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a holy-trinity guy with hot dogs: ketchup, mustard, relish. Used to be heavier on the ketchup, now a little heavier on the mustard as the pal digs the acid more as I age.

    $100 wine? Red? Marcus Schulz Shiraz from Barossa, eventhough I’m not a Barossa lover, normally. White – Domaine Weinbach Pinot Gris Altenbourg, which there was only 35? but here is a) unavailable, and b) would cost $100 if it were.

  • David M Roberts

    For me, the supermarket wine episodes were a good idea, and appreciated. That’s the beauty of the show; it covers all things wine, and explores all angles. Hopefully most people “get” that.

    QOTD 1: For me it starts with a Kosher dog, such as Hebrew Nation – I don’t mess with the stuff that is composed of who-knows-what. From there, just ketchup and mustard, with a slightly toasted bun. I keep it simple.

    QOTD 2: I have had few wines over $100, but the last that approached that price and that was incredibly bold and fruit forward was Amon Ra, which is a Shiraz from down under – think you had a decanting show that featured that wine early on. It lacked all the complexities you noted in the wines here, however. I dropped about $90 on an Elyse cab a few montsh back and was underwhelmed by it totally – though it was also likely too young. Point being, there is a real risk spending $100 on a bottle unless one is certain it is actually worth that, and I think few probably are. I’d rather buy two exceptional bottles for $50.

  • SCKen

    Hot Dog: Carolina style with chili, slaw and mustard, though I also like chili and tobasco a lot too.

    Thus far, I’d have to say Dancing Hares is my fav $100 wine ($95 actually). I’m on their mailing list and can’t wait for my allotment each year.

  • JimChem

    Polish with saucer kraut, relish, and mustard.

    I can’t remember the last $100 wine I had.

  • Anonymous

    Way to break out the big guns GV.

    QOTD: Chalk another one up for the Chi-town doggy. Oooh-weee, that celery salt sprinkled on the sauerkraut and mustard is so freakin’ good. Add a few sport peppers… mmmm… all day! =)

  • Anonymous

    Love this episode. This is my kind of drinking!

    The last $100 bottle was a bottle of Chateau Montelena Cabernet. I try and drink them sparingly and only share them with people I like. 🙂

  • NJStickist

    Gary…for the record I thoroughly enjoyed the Supermarket wine reviews. My QOTD response for this episode would be “I have never had a bottle of wine that costs $100”. And that’s one of the reasons why I liked the Supermarket wine shows. Because I can both find AND afford them! My day-to-day price point is about $15. I get your Wine Club B every month and those are the most expensive wines I get to have on any kind of regular basis. Other than that, maybe once a month or so I’ll spend up to $30 on a bottle that’s not one from your wine club. In the next WLTV episode on Wine and Chocolate, you talk about moderation. I wouldn’t want you to review Supermarket wines all the time, nor would it be any fun if you reviewed wines I could never afford. Always best to have a bit of everything! 🙂

  • Randall

    But yer mild Irish sausages are AMAZING!!

  • Anonymous

    QOTD part 1: Plain hot dog with ketchup or catsup depending on location of said hot dog.
    QOTD part 2: At exactly 100 Yankee Dollars, Mas de Bouislazoun Tintot 2007 was it. 100% Mouvedre and it was exceptional. The fake muscles, tatoo lipstick and butt implants weren’t there. Loads of earth, dark fruits, rocks, tea leaves and spices rolled across the palate and weren’t done after several hours open. It was a great young wine, but I would love to have it again in 20 years.

    Recently had 1998 Diamond Creek Volcanic Hills and was surprised/pleased all around. Still very much a baby, but a great soldier was lurking underneath. Clocks in well over a benjamin and did seem worth it, although worth it in “California” dollars. So graded on a California scale, more has been spent for less.

  • B.J. Austin

    I absolutely loved the 2005 “Dancing Hares” Cab by Andy Erickson. Absolutely stunning.

  • Sleak

    QOTD: 1997 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard! 1977 Fonseca Port as a close second.

    Great episode, but I loved the supermarket wines as well. If you had to do one category of shows from here on out “value wines” would be my vote.

  • Terrypk1

    Hi GV
    Mustard, Saurkrat here as well with some onions.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the advice but don’t worry about that I’ll make sure I get something I know I’ll like. Absolutely agree on the barolo though. Elegance for days.

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