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EP 913 Celebrating #Cabernet Day

Gary Vaynerchuk participates in #Cabernet Day, where you celebrate the noble grape Cabernet Sauvignon by using social media sites to share your thoughts. Gary tastes 4 California Cabernet Sauvignons at a variety of price points.

Wines tasted in this episode:

Lot 205 Cabernet SauvignonCalifornia Cabernet Sauvignon
2006 Chateau St Jean Sonoma Cabernet SauvignonSonoma Cabernet Sauvignon
2006 Provenance Rutherford Cabernet SauvignonNapa Cabernet
2006 Haber Family Cabernet SauvignonNapa Cabernet

Links mentioned in todays episode.


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luca bercelli

89/100

line of the day – ‘you may not like tennis, but you have to respect Roger Federer’

Solid episode, but not the most interesting subject

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  • Yes! #Cabernet Day is here!

  • Anonymous

    I love St Jean!!!!! I had one last night….!!!!

  • Anonymous

    sneaky early

  • NY Pete

    hey hey

  • Anonymous

    wow early!

  • Opps….I had the St. Jean 2001 Cing Ce’pages….. now that was good!!!!!!

  • jamjo

    Billy Crystal SNL REF>Lot 205

  • Early enough for lunchtime viewing, tnx Mott! 🙂

  • NY Pete

    good show dude

  • Happy #Cabernet Day GV ! We’re tasting through our Anjou Rouge, Anjou-Villages, Cabernet d’Anjou and Cremant de Loire Rosé here at Domaine du Closel in Savennieres !

    Kenny G.

  • QOTD: Favorite cab this week is Larkin 2006, Crocker & Starr stone place 2004, St. Jean cing cepages 2001, Stags Leap Artemis 2005, Larkmead 2004, Plump Jack 2004 & Martin Estate 2003…. hey, it is the end of the summer ya know!!! Gotta clear out the wine cooler here at the shore.

    Fav of all time……hummmmm…. that’s hard!!!!! I’ll get back to you on that

  • tjvalla

    Didn’t know about #Cabernet day before. It’s a good idea, though. Are there any other varietal days?
    By the way, Gary, interesting double episode on beers! Thoroughly enjoying WLTV lately!
    Cheers, T

  • hey! was just going to catch up on the beer episodes…but this is fresh cab…

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: Probably the two best cabs I had last year were the 2005 Pomum Shya Red and the 2004 Chateau Beausejour Duffau. My all-time favorite is still the 1970 Charles Krug “Vintage Selection” Cabernet Sauvignon made by Peter Mondavi. It was transcendent.

  • QOTD: current favorite – anything by Larkmead. All time favorite – 1996 Araujo Eisele Vineyards

  • QOTD: Favorite cab of the moment? Titus 2006 Napa. Excellent, well-balanced but powerful, nice fruit, firm tannins (and some ageability! The case I’ve got now should probably go away a bottle a year for the next 12.).

    Favorite all-time? 2004 Napa Wine Company Pelissa vineyard. Next-door neighbor to Rockpile vineyard, this is an estate-grown wine that just blew me away, especially for it’s price point (under $40!). Cool place to visit, too — just south of Opus on 29 (like, across the street!).

  • Stoked for the #Cabernet Day show. I will be sharing a 2006 Twenty Bench Cabernet Sauvignon with my bride tonight.

    Mott kicking out an early episode for us.

    Gary, are you headed to the US Open and if so let’s see a wine tasting hook up from Flushing Meadows!

    QOTD: Favorite cab of the moment is the 2006 Twenty Bench and of all time is which ever one I a sharing with my bride at the moment.

  • I particularly liked the elbow in the symphonic ear…

  • Super early and still brought the thunder. The show had a great flow to it.

    QOTD: My current favorite Cab is…? Unfortunately, I have avoided them.

    All time favorite cab was that Chateau Montelena Estate Cab…. still in my formative drinking years and I imagine I will taste a better one in the next couple of years.

  • Anonymous

    Ahhh, back to my kind of show. A couple of things: that is the first time I have ever heard Martha Stewart and Andre the Giant mentioned in the same breath. Second, Chateau St. Jean is in my opinion is one the very best wineries to visit in Cali. They have an incredible lineup of great drinking wines. I agree their 06 Cab is fantastic, especially when you compare bones to quality. QOTD: my current fave weekday Cab is still the 08 Villa des Anges. You can’t beat it for the money. QOTD2: my alltime fave Cab has got to be some of the Silver Oaks from the 90s.

  • waynooo daaa wino

    YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAW, VINOOOOO iinn daaaa HIIIIIIIIZZZZZYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    :oD

  • I had no idea about #Cabernet Day. Cool idea. Good show. Really good tempo/time. Keep it up.

    QOTD: I recently had a 2002 Ristow… Really really really good. Favorite of all time is probably a tie between a Quintessa that I had (can’t remember the vintage) and the 2005 Grand Ciel Cabernet from DeLille.

    Oh… and the elbow on the organ was PRICELESS! Literally LOL’d.

  • JoeinLA

    Favorite Cab(s) now are the Farrella by Realm Wines and Chateau Boswell out of Napa… Favorite all time..hmmm. Tied between a 97 Grgich Yountville, 94 Caymus Special Select, 98 Insignia ( Yes, 98!) and the above two by Realm and Chateau Boswell. I’m a huge fan also of the Burgess Enveire when they were making them late 90’s into early 2000’s. I throw in Penfolds Bin 707.

  • Nice…will have to see what we have for cab in the cellar tonight.

    QOTD: have not been drinking any cab lately, except for when I’m taste-testing from the carboy of Chilean Curico 2010 that has finished ML.
    The 1988 Don Melchor that we had a few weeks ago was really spectacular…

  • Anonymous

    I dont remember which Cab it was but it was the one I was drinking when the Jets lost to the Colts in the AFC championship game last year

  • jamjo

    Dude…is this all you got? Bringing your A game HIZZY WIZZY?

  • waynooo daaa wino

    Yo jamjo, Hopefully I’ll have “more” if my Computer cooperates, I’m tryin’
    to WATCH this Episode, but me Computer keeps CRAPPIN’ OUT on me…..
    Me Computer must have da ROT or Something……. :o(

  • Michael Obrien

    I loved a bottle of Beau Vigne I drank recently, to your point it had everything I liked in a bottle of wine. But the wine that got me collecting and aging wine was a Caymus ’89 that a drank about 5 years ago — that was killer and made we understand what an evolved wine tasted like

  • Jaybird76

    Right now I’m diggin’ Washington but it’s gotta be Chilean’s Concha y Toro Don Melchor.
    Of all time was the ’82 bordeaux tasting I went to… pichon longueville comtesse de lalande, La Cases, and Mouton

  • Anonymous

    QOTD…1978 BV Georges…..2002 Andrew Will Ciel du Cheval

  • This should be great – love the category and love Chateau St. Jean, many good times there

  • Anonymous

    I was remiss in NOT giving Gary total credit for both of my last year’s favorites. If it weren’t for him I never would have even known of either the 2005 Pomum Shya Red or the 2004 Chateau Beausejour Duffau. Thank you Gary!

  • Anonymous

    Excellent show on the heels of “Beerfest”. I love Cabs and this was a good representation. Nice to hear that you are giving Cab some love once again.

    QOTD: My favorite cab of the moment is Boudreaux Cellars 2005 out of Washington. I think my favorite cab of all time would be the late 90’s Mondavi cabs – especially the Reserve Cab and the Oakville. Just outstanding stuff for my palate and still drinking beuatifully (we had a 1996 Oakville cab the other night and it was lovely and powerful).

  • NeilMc

    Good shot with the cork. I blinked. Once at a restaurant I copied you when the waiter presented me with the cork and I “punted” it with my finger like a football across the restaurant. My wife was embarassed but the table next to us thought it was a funny thing to do. Glad it didn’t land in someone’s soup though. I guess my point was what should you do with a cork? Sniff it? Yeah right. Punt it I say!

    QOTD: My favorite cabernet – REVERIE Reserve on Diamond Mountain. I love mountain fruit. Anderson’s Conn Valley is also a consistent winner – the Estate Cab is really good. You can get it in Wine Library for 44.99/btl which is a steal because they charge 69.00 US bones for it at the winery and strange as it may seem they don’t give wine club members a discount. Another of my favorites is thge Hartwell Estate Cab.

    My wife and I are going to be up in Yount-Vegas this week end – can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • NeilMc

    Maybe GV can taste with Federer 🙂 or better yet with Maria Sharapova!

  • There are a whole host of amazing tennis folks he could to the tasting with, the problem is to get time with the will the Open is in full swing.

  • waynooo daaa wino

    Cooool Episode, as much of it as me Computer would let me watch. Me Computer
    must be on it’s last leg…… :o(

    qotd 1 & 2 : Don’t drink tooo many Cabs. Had several Dehlinger & Rafanelli Cabs
    (on their mailing list) which were pretty Good. Also had several Caymus Cabs that
    were pretty enjoyable…..

  • Allan

    I over dooooose on da vino alla da tiiiiime!?!!! :O

    Rock solid show, Great fun, great entertainment.

    You on a roll here GV.

    Qotd Now: I really find Don Melchor really pleasurable for my pal, and have tasted every vintage since the 2000.
    Qotd Of all time: 1995 Diamond Creek Volcanic Hill. Quite possibly the greatest bottle of red i’ve ever had. Only Barolo and Barberesco and some Auzzie Shiraz’s can come near. 😛

    That is all. Oh, good luck with the second installment of Radio Ga-Gary :OP

  • Anonymous

    Great to see you supporting an online event like this (but of course you pretty much invented the internet so no surprise there) I hope we continue to see it on Cinderella wine this evening too!
    QOTD: Having only been drinking wine seriously for 2-3 years now I haven’t been able to try any of the Cali Cult Classics or any older vintages to compare things too, but I was at a tasting this past weekend that had the Rubicon Cask Cabernet (IIRC the 06 vintage) and it was pretty great stuff.

  • Anonymous

    drinking mostly Sauverain cab
    all time fav: 1970 BV Private Reserve. My first case purchase was of this wine around 1975.

  • pezman

    Happy Cab Day! Great show. I really have to try the Haber Family cab.
    QOTD: Now – 2007 Shafer One Point Five; All-time – 2006 Schrader Beckstoffer Tokalon Vineyard

  • Sleak

    great episode gary. You are on a roll the last few months.
    QOTD: Same as an earlier comment below, for Cabs, drinking lots of Souverain recently.
    All time fav: 1997 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard. Wedding gift in 2002 from a dear friend and drank it for our 5 year anniversary in 2007.

  • Anonymous

    Well I’m a White Wine kinda (White Zin, White Merlot, Muscoto) guy but I have visitised a few Central and Northern California Wineries last month and enjoyed The GV Cab along with the Beringer Reserve Cab. They were good.
    Friday! My Wife and I are off to Temucula Valley to try about 3-4 Wineries. I will try their Cabs as well. We were going to Take the Harleys but I’m not going to Spit all the Wine so the Car will have to do.
    M~R

  • Anonymous

    I’ve also has the 97. Started off funky but ended strong. Lot’s of chocolate on the back end.

  • thnx man, thats awesome 🙂

  • What would GV be saying if the tastings were blind…?

  • Dave in LA (Louisiana)

    Gary, Great show again. I see three out of the four wines every day at the local grocery (the Haber being the exception). I’ll pick up some Chateau St. Jean tonight. I attended a wine dinner at a local restaurant Baton Rouge last night (Ruffino’s – made famous by Kirk Herbstreet annointing it the best restaurant to eat at before a college football game). It featured a blind tasting competition between Napa and Sonoma. Each course featured two wines, poured blind. Sonoma won the Chard and Merlot rounds, Napa the Pinot and Cab rounds. I’m usually a Napa guy, but, I may buy a few more Sonoma products after having an opportunity to compare.

    QOTD: Drinking Sawyer and Bennett Family now. All time favorite – 1999 Chapellett Pritchard Hill

  • Lvine

    I struggle with cab because it’s difficult to pair it with what I usually eat…not a big red meat fan. Some of the best I can recall are from the Chilean vineyards Perez Cruz (Alto Maipo Valley) and Falernia (Elqui Valley).

    Saludos!

  • Favorite Cab right now, probably 2003 Freemark Abbey Sycamore. Got several cases of it for a tasting, so I drink it every day. Favorite all time, 2002 Shafer Hillside Select. Enjoyed some at release, & tasted it a few months ago. Definitely a special place in my heart for the Shafers (& Elias).

  • KAHUNA

    Bring back the 5 minute episodes

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