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EP 963 Blind Tasting of Southern French White Wines

Gary Vaynerchuk recently asked for show suggestions on the WLTV forums and ran with Weston’s idea to taste more Southern French whites. One of Jimkay’s suggestions come through as well! Gary decided to make it more interesting and taste blind!

Wines tasted in this episode:

2009 St. Cosme Cotes Du Rhone BlancCotes du Rhone Blanc
2008 Janasse Blanc Chateauneuf Du PapeChateauneuf du Pape Blanc
2007 Chateau La Roque Blanc Clos Des BenedictinsPic St Loup

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Awesome video! ? Blind tasting is a great way to explore new flavors and discover hidden gems. Southern French whites are unique!

Have you ever found a new favorite wine through blind tasting?

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  • Cubatobaco (Ray)

    I haven’t been around in a while, so it’s great to come back the brown bags. Great idea for Southern France whites and was impressed at the value of the winner! Will seek it out and give it a try. Love the way Gary said “ash”….lol.

    QOTD: Holidays produce great movies. I’m going to have to go with Christmas Vacation. Running a close second is Bad Santa. Of course the staples are Home Alone 1 and 2, as well as, the classics!

    MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays, WLTV and the Gang!!!!!!!!!!

  • Cubatobaco (Ray)

    Forgot to mention, ‘A Christmas Carol” staring George C. Scott. He made the best one in my honest opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus

  • No disrespect Weston. Great and Awesome question. Just a lot of French wines lately…and maybe I was cranky from fighting Walmart lines…..

  • 55/3=18,333 16*4=64 54,98/16=3,44

  • I’ve been nice

  • New Jersey, Sweden, Croatia, Belarus, Slovenia, New Zealand

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: A Christmas Story. It’s the only Christmas movie I actually own on DVD.

  • Anonymous

    You passed the test 🙂 A sure sign that it’s time for bed!

  • Sure is! It’s 1.15 am. Merry Christmas

  • Anonymous

    hehe, those walmart lines. My cellar does seem to be french heavy 50+%

  • Anonymous

    And you – don’t eat too much chocolate!

  • Anonymous

    Gary sending us off to Xmas with the brown bags dancing in our heads, lovin’ it! Happy Holidays to everyone in the Vayner Nation!!!! Open up something special this weekend!

    QOTD: It’s a dead heat between Nat. Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Scrooged. Chevy Chase or Bill Murray, you can’t go wrong.

  • Like this short show. Blind is always good, and glad to see you found a true bargain!

    QOTD: definitely “A Christmas Story”

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: The Santa Clause (1994)

  • Anonymous

    I am usually a fan of trying new varietals, discovering a new wine is what I like most about wine, but gotta say not a fan of viognier which I find kinda funky on the nose and in the mouth, also has a couple of expensive white cdp and was not impressed, anyways Saint-Cosme is The epic domaine of Gigondas but because I live in Qc I only get their red gigondas and their deux albions, would’ve liked to try the white, just to confirm or not that I don’t like the Rhone whites but….

    Best christmas movie has gotta be the Scrooge cartoon, seen it every year for the past 20 yrs at least.

  • Anonymous

    That was fun and interesting! I’ll have to keep an eye out for the St. Cosme.
    QOTD: When I was 10 years old it would’ve been Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, now it’s Miracle on 34th Street. (one of the few things the who;e family agrees on!)
    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

  • Die Hard

  • Well…if you need anyone, you know, to take the chenin blancs or sparklers off your hands. Who am I not to help out…tis the season.

    ;P

  • Randall

    Gotta love those Brown Bags, Ray!!

    🙂

  • Anonymous

    “A Christmas Carol” Patton as Scrooge Rocks !

  • Anonymous

    “A Christmas Carol” Patton as Scrooge rocks !!!

  • Randall

    …the country of Georgia, South Africa, Mexico, San Marino… hey, wait!
    There’s no vino coming out of Sweden or Belarus. Is there?

    p.s. MelbaLI already mentioned Croatia…

  • Anonymous

    QOTD: Sniffy Sniff McGee’s Christmas Carol

  • Anonymous

    haha well your more then welcome to join me for some wine in Vancouver~

  • Four Christmases!!!

  • JACK WHITE

    QOTD:

  • JACK WHITE

    QOTD: A Christmas Story followed by Miracle on 34th Street,

  • I’m drinking a cheap red wine with a Rooster on the bottle. It is the #1 best seller at World Market. (Gary probably doesn’t sell this crap but it probably goes good with Captain Crunch.) Can you guess what it is? I’m enjoying it with some blue cheese! So much for the old diet. Last night I celebrated with Champagne. Check out my video about “Celebrating the Small Stuff!” http://www.restorationofspirit.com/profiles/blogs/celebrate-the-small-stuff
    Happy Drinking!!

  • Anonymous

    Kudos for another good show Gary, but…. at 3:55 to 3:57 you’re feeling the front of the bottle and at 3:58 you declare that you think it might be a white CdP. I think I could do that too if I felt the bottle. 😉

    Favorite Christmas movie? Gotta be “A Christmas Story.” I really identify with that one. Yours might be “Frosty” but I’ll bet I’ve watched it more this year than you by a long ways. My three year old granddaughter asked to watch that every time she came over to our house from through early May this year (about 5 times a week)… and she rediscovered it at Thanksgiving and has watched it several times again since then.

  • Saint Cosme, Got It! ( I am going to seek this one out ).

    QOTD: Oh man, holiday movies go from the very bad to the very artistic, and I enjoy almost all of them: comedies, drama, classics. I don’t watch as much anymore but I do enjoy a good time from filmed entertainment during the holidays occasionally…

  • Anonymous

    Saint Cosme, man hope those agents bring in the red I know they have the whites
    qotd: always liked that old puppet one rudolf?

  • Anonymous

    Love St. Cosme wines!
    QOTD: 1-Christmas Story 2 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 3 The Family Stone
    4 Home Alone

  • Anonymous

    Merry Christmas GV. I know you have a tree :). I just want to say how much i appreciate your show and how you have expanded my palate. I was a Cab/Bordeaux fan. Now im drinking Pinot, Merlot, Tempranillo, Verdiccio, Proseco, Malbec it goes on and so many more. Because of your I have learned more about wine that we all love and have spread the word to friends. Give my love to the Vaynerchuk family. Peace.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’ll find that 16*4=64 not 54

  • Anonymous

    Antarctica, New Guinea, Greenland, Iceland, DENMARK, South Korea

  • 😉

  • missed u pal!

  • Die Hard followed by Gremlins, hands down on both.

  • Die

  • QOTD: Die Hard hands down, followed by Gremlins.

  • RobinC

    I just had the 2009 St Cosme Cotes du Rhone rouge and the 2008 Saint Cosme Cote Rotie. They were great. Sorry I missed the blanc.
    I’m really sick of Christmas music and Christmas movies. I just like the visuals – trees, wreaths, poinsettias, presents, etc.

  • Anonymous

    A little more excitement today, ME LIKES!!!!!!!! Love’n the Brown Bags and always love when you tell it like it is GV! Being “FRICK’N PUMPED” is the best! I will try and “Find It, Try IT, Love It, Cherish It, Hold It Like a Baby, and Drink It”! AWWWWWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    QOTD: There are soooo many, but, “White Christmas” classic!

  • Super pumped about the Saint Cosme. I had a Roussanne-Viognier blend from South Africa a few months ago and have been hooked on those varietals ever since.

  • Randall

    Ah, yes… the world’s great producers of ‘Ice Wine’…

    🙂

  • Home Alone! I forgot about that one. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen that movie. Love it

  • Gary,

    Great show, QOTD I didn’t see anyone with my favorite: How the Grinch Stole Christmas the 1966 version.

  • Paul Sheridan

    QOTD: Die Hard, and don’t tell me that’s not a Christmas movie.

  • You don’t really think you’ll win. 😉

  • *tears up* you boys make me so happy. 😀

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