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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

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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

Tags: cabernet, red, Video, wine

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  • NY Pete

    holy crap … I got sirius to work on my PC …
    what’s the call in number GV?

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: Mantra 2005 (the black label, not the silver Alexander Valley label). Surprisingly, in a blind tasting this beat out many phenomenal wines such as Royal City Syrah and a 100 RP CDP. Granted, most of the tastees were nubes, but it was still delicious … particularly at $25/bottle. Best cab ever, well, I too am a wine nube and all of my great Cabs are in my wine cave, so I would have to go with the Mantra that night.

  • Anonymous

    The mead show is during your next date! Put one in the fridge, and during the course of your time, before dinner or after, pour her a glass, and one for you, talk. Now, you’re golden. You know what to do.

  • NY Pete

    jerk

  • Winston Baby

    QOTD-Right now has to be 2006 Titus Andronicus from Napa Valley, it’s a Bordeaux style but still 77% Cabernet Sauvignon. My all time favorite is 2004 Turnbull Cabernet, check out episode #250 and watch Gary’s review of it! I have just 3 bottles left and it’s the most exciting and depressing thing each time I open another bottle! I get the joy of tasting it evolve over the last 3-4 years, but then feel very sad that I have one less bottle!

  • I kinda liked the one wine episode too…. I can’t believe I agreed with Kahuna. 😛

  • Ryanguynn

    Best Cab I’ve had this year 2006 Ovid. (at my wedding)

    Best all time. 1997 Shafer Hillside Select

  • Randall

    This is summertime, G! Where’s the Vinho Verde show? Domestic bubblies? Zins and BBQ pairing?

    Just saying…

    🙂

  • Anonymous

    To my taste, you are 3 for 3, with a keen eye! I really liked practically everything I tasted from Norm Kiken/ Reverie/ Daydream. Even the partiallly purchased fruit of Daydream Cab, discovered just this year, was very dense, impressive, and at a very modest $24. A.S. Kiken, too, was so good, and priced well below premium levels. But to have Diamond Mountain fruit of such quality – well worth their pricing structure. Hartwell Cabs, and the Proprietary red blew me away seeral years ago. And Anderson’s Conn – well, the point scores have actually tended to deliver what I’d tasted, through severqal vintages. Those Magnums always look delicious!

  • There once was 2 men who loved brew
    Who used to always comment in haiku
    The wowed the rest
    But they failed their last test
    Now all that is left is poo

    I’m a regular Walt Whitman aren’t I? 😛

  • Randall

    I would like to see a mead show, as well. Many of us judges/homebrewers make meads w/ local honey, etc. Some of them have been spicy and complex and Completely Mindblowing!!

    p.s. After dinner…
    ;P

  • Randall

    Good God, man!! You curse CT w/ your presence also?!?!?
    *takes CT off faves*

  • Randall

    *said in the monotone voice of Ben Stein*

    Jack?

    Jack?

    Jack?

    🙂

  • Randall

    Punted it across the restaurant? You ARE the man!!

    (Changing the wine world, one cork at a time… whether they like it, or not!)

  • Randall

    Yeah, waynooo, but first go check yer cellar…

  • scottEJ

    Thanks, G. Cabs are one of those wines I don’t drink alot of, but, certainly crave them from time-to-time. Like your variety tonight. Didn’t know anout the Cartlidge & Brown thing. They were always one of my go-to wines.

    QOTD: I’m no baller, but, the few that come to mind are Waypoint, Don Melchor, and probably my ultimate classic – Caymus.

  • norcalking

    QOTD; Lately, Sbragia Family Wall Vineyard 05.
    Of all time, very tough to say, probably BV George De Latour from the 70’s or 80’s
    This could of been effected by the company, or that time in my life or?
    I used to dig the BV. They got bought some years back and sort of lost it for me.
    Gotta try that Shafer, and watch that Margo episode….and get off my lazy ass.

  • A dumb Rhein king

    QOTD: I really enjoy Geyser Peak 2005. I’ll leave that as the answer for both.

  • QOTD: ’05 Jordan

  • PrimoVino

    QOTD: Trefethen

  • waynooo daaa wino

    Good Idea, i need somethin’ ta NUMB me OUT, Wheeerrrzzzz me Vino????…..

  • Randall

    Dat’s why I said go check yer cellar. MelbaLI in a stick shift Fedex truck, burn-out marks acroos yer lawn, starting at yer cellar door, and a strange, girlish laughter fading away down the block… Might be a good idea to see if you have ANY vino left…
    ;D!!

  • NYESQ54

    QOTD: A 1974 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard, had with burgers on the deck of a good friend’s house after graduating law school in 1985.

  • brad the canadian

    HEY DID YOU FIND OUT WHAT THE CALL IN NUMBER IS?

  • NY Pete

    to answer your qotd … I need to think about it …
    some more … 🙂

  • waynooo daaa wino

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!! me Vino is GOOONNNE!!!!!!! WOOOOOOE IIISSS
    meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……….. ;o(

  • Gpscracer

    Drank the Chateau St. Jean along with gary. I was drinking the 2007 though… The price-point was good for my ckc wallet (12 bones) Tasted good but I there was some alcohol on the back end I felt… Still a newbie so I am not going to answer the QOTD but QOTS (Question of the Summer) Are the JETS ever gonna get revis?

  • Globex

    “Darling, you look maarvelous” made famous by Billy Crystal’s impression. By the way, I agree with you on the Chateau St Jean, a fantastic value of which I bought a case of it.

    QOTD: my all time favorite is hard to say because I’ve had so many that I’ve enjoyed, but I recently bbq’d steaks for the family on a beach of an island about 23 miles off the coast of Calif and we had a couple bottles of 2007 Dominus that I enjoyed.

  • TheSmirkingLurker

    GARY:
    WOW! SAME VARIETAL. 4 DIFFERENT PRICE POINTS. 4 DIFFERENT AVAILABILITIES. THIS IS GENIUS. DO IT ***AGAIN*** WITH ANOTHER VARIETAL.

    EXCELLENT. ROCK ON.

    -R

  • James6581

    favorite cab of the moment is farella-park 2005. $42. silverado reserve 2001. around $60 at the time.

  • NY Pete

    LOL … 🙂

  • Onewino

    Great Show!!!!!
    Favorite cab now 2004 Chiarello Eileen Cab
    Favorite All time 2006 Shrader RBS CAB

  • Anonymous

    The 2007 Vayniac Cab of course. Really do like it and wish I had more than 1/2 case. My all time favorite was 1978 Chateau Montelena Cab. I bought 4 bottles and drank them until mid 90’s.

  • At yet strangely, you find a trail of red wine bottles and cases leading away from the scene.

    😛

  • Anonymous

    Benchlands?

  • Huge Ridge fan here too. Waiting to open the 1992, 1997, & 2005… Good call.

  • QOTD; Nine Points
    Stags Leap

  • Anonymous

    Thank you to everyone who participated in #Cabernet day, and to GaryVee for the video luv today. It was a good time that happened 🙂

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: A few in the Cali style that I like are (I feel that they almost have to be distinguished from other cab styles like shiraz from syrah), Cliff Lede, Michel-Schlumberger, Liberty School, Tarica, Madroña, Robert Young.

  • Nice show… just got back from the Santa Ynez/Los Olivos/Lompoc area yesterday… went to Ampelos, Melville, Carhartt among others… you MUST do a show on alma rosa and what Richard Sanford is doing there… he talked with our group of 8 after we snagged him while he was walking by the tasting room… wonderful man with some HISTORY and GRAT stories to tell!!!

    QOTD: Now: 2005 Darioush… All-time: 1986 Dominus…

  • Randall

    Love the Sanford Pinot Noirs! A really good vino for the odd “nice” meal…

  • Anonymous

    I like. I think Cartiledge & Brown is great, and practically overdelivers in both reds and whites – they easily beat the better part of the slop that is sold in their category. Here’s where I becme a dick, for no reason. I don’t like the look of labels like that at all. But, that I now know it’s theirs (Thank You), it is def. worth spilling $10 on. I can already anticipate the density, profile, and glug factor.
    Margot Van Staaveren rules. I’ll watch that ep. I’d seen her pour at several events, and the best was around 5 years ago, and rode my bike 20 miles each way to be there when my car messed up hours before. Every wine she poured (at a nice seafoood house) commanded great attention, apreciation, and respect. She’s a World Class face for an organization which I still admire – and when they get bigger… they often tend to trail off into some conspicuous enterprises, interests, etc. She (or, they allow her to)’s still keeping them straight on track. the $10 tier is pretty meaningless, tohough.
    Provinance – I’m also, a little 50/50, sketchy on ’em. They’ve showed really strong for me, and also, meh… Tom Rinaldi, and partners are everything you could want in legacy & experience. Their source has got to be unmistakably prime Rutherford bench. But as you say here – if cranberry… well, I like that profile, in wines, and esp ,aging Bordeaux, so why does it come off in Napa as an annoyance to me? The unripe ’98 catastrophies were written with it all over, and had to marked down, spilled – whatever to get them out of my face, off the shelves, and away. I told everyone to drink, not save. But, again, a couple other times, Provinance was better than eveything else out on the table – all relative…
    Haber – new to me, but if you say Marco De Giulio, you are saying winner. My most recent encounter w/ hs stuff was to learn ,this summer, that Daydream was not just whites (I loved the S.B.), and was already a big fan of Kiken/Reverie(everything). So a gal at a competing store pulled the Daydream Cab, under $25, and it is among the best wines I’d had this summer, in the range of under 30.

  • Anonymous

    QotD – I’m so completely all over the place, and NEW must be tasted constantly, and Cab isn’t even one of my top 3 grapes (Cab Franc, Monastrell, Merlot). But I still be diggin on plenty o’ cabs, and blends. One recurrant thing that I had to get a few times, though, is Aurelio Montes Limited Seleccion 70% Cab/30%Carmenere. At the price, it just felt like they are throwing it at me. And the last time (about a month ago) – it turned out that I just wasn’t in the mood for that amount of wood… still sharedit . liked it.

    Q2 – All time? Have to be Haut Brion. (Cause we can’t call Cheval Blanc Cab. Sauv.)
    but for bottles that I could , and have actually bought, and consumed, as my own wine, – maybe the Prides of early ’90’s.

  • Agreed on the Freemark. I really like it mostly because I can drink as much as I want for free. Very inconsistent across the vintages though. My wife hates it too. Which means more for me…

    Shafer is another story altogether. Such a fan. I would do anything to get my hands on more 02/03 Firebreak or 02 Hillside Select.

  • L’egance of Looavull

    Tractor trailers in Kentucky? Come now GV, don’t use that stereo type 😛
    tried to call in again b/c I got cut short but didn’t get through, fave tv show as of late is The Big Bang Theory. Wanted to ask about cab day, what is the best cab you’ve had in 2010?

  • Mark McNabb

    2001 Peter Michael Les Pavots

  • John Rogers

    Great show, back to basics. You and the wine. Really enjoyed going to Cabernet varietal.
    Finding a decent cab for 10bones is tough but will check out the Chateau St Jean.

    QOTD; I have been drinking blends lately and can’t recall a really good cab off hand. My all time best cab was 1985 BV George Latour. I still remember it over 15years ago and it made a lasting impression.

  • Jasonbcarey

    Chateau La Mission Haut Brion 1981

  • Dan and Edie

    2006 Lewis Cab, not the Reserve just the regular 2002 Lewis Cab. Still is a delight to drink, lots of fruit…the way real Californias like their vino.

  • Anonymous

    QOTD- Water Wheel Bendigo Cab Sav

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