EP 977 Taurasi Wine Tasting

Gary Vaynerchuk delves into the subject of Taurasi, an Aglianico based red wine from the Campania region of Italy.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Mastroberardino Radici TaurasiTaurasi
2004 Terredora TaurasiTaurasi

Links mentioned in todays episode.


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luca bercelli

90/100

Lines of the day – ‘How much are candy bars these days? – like three bucks’ and ‘Smells a little bit like a scab’

Super pumped GV absolutely loves one of these wines

Tags: Italian, red, review, Taurasi, Video, wine, wines

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  • Milk – totally Milk!
    Unless I’m racing, then water so that I don’t have to babysit the milk warming up =)

  • RobinC

    Why am I totally out of sync on the time line of my comments? I have Chrome.
    QOTD: milk (skim for me), unless you use unsweeted cocoa I think you have to cook it on the stove with water – I haven’t done it for a while so I’m not sure.
    Sorry, I don’t have a house wine. I am looking to expand to the less common wines like Taurasi.

  • Anonymous

    So what happened to the “aka, the internet’s most passionate wine program…”? It’s been missing from the last 2 shows. Great show BTW. Interesting wines.
    QOTD1: Milk. Without a doubt
    QOTD2: Calera’s base pinot. A great pinot for $20-25

  • u control the sorting, it write under the box where u type a comment

  • Paul Sheridan

    You can check it out at http://www.charlessmithwines.com/wines.php – the winery is sold out, but it’s still widely available – I think he made 20,000 cases. A search into google shopping will find many options, or a good wine shop should have it. The further away from the West Coast you are, the better the wine shop will have to be.

    Amazing with Asian Food.

    He only makes one version with respect to sweetness. I would call this off dry. There’s 1.4% residual sugar, and great acid to balance it out.

    Gary tasted an earlier vintage of this with the winemaker, who is a trip. Check out episode 549.

  • QOTD1: I am not a cow, I am a human. I do not drink cow’s milk.
    QOTD2: Always lean towards Pinot Noir but often go for a Meritage.

    Needed: Ad sales rep for Indie film. Anyone? Anyone?

  • Anonymous

    Gary, that was a great show with a great wine.
    Taurasi from Terredora is awesome. Ans as you pointed out, the white wine is fab: fiano and falanghina ……. oh, heaven.
    But, do not pronounce the g in aglianico.

    QOTD1. What a silly question, hot chocolate with water?
    QOTD2. I do not realy have a house wine.

  • Anonymous

    At last some one from Belgium!!!!!!
    The last three years I felt so lonely here :)))))

  • QOTD1: definitely milk, whole milk
    QOTD2: Brancaia, Tre, IGT Toscana, Italy (Sangiovese, Cab, Merlot), possibly the 2007, excellent value. Link: http://www.brancaia.it/produkte/weine_treterre-en.asp

  • Anonymous

    I made a reply but don’t see it. So I try again.

    At last some one from Belgium.
    I felt so lonely the last three years in this forum :))))

  • Anonymous

    QOTD2: For a while it was the Dinarells Negre 2009 (http://en.cooperativagarriguella.com/red-wine/emporda/dinarells-negre-2009_R_3.aspx)
    Haven’t found a replacement though… still looking for good QPR – not always easy to find here in Norway.

  • Anonymous

    QOTD2: For a while it was the Dinarells Negre 2009 (http://en.cooperativagarriguella.com/red-wine/emporda/dinarells-negre-2009_R_3.aspx), but nowadays I’m looking for a replacement wine. Not always easy to get good QPR here in Norway.

  • Anonymous

    Episode #999 and #1000 should be an epic multi-part show that blends seamlessly from one into the other. Possible features could include wines previously recommended from way back to see if they held up to the hype. I would submit bottles if need be or GV could taste with the guest that brought the bottle.

  • Anonymous

    Good show and good to see GV in a better mood these days. I really like the shows where you nerd it up and try something that I have not and/or am not familiar with. While I’ve had some Aglianico del Vulture wines, I’ve never had any Taurasi wines – although when you say Taurasi, I think of former UConn standout women’s basketball player, Diana. πŸ˜‰

    QOTD: I don’t really have a “house wine” because I have about 1500 bottles at home in the cellar and a lot were purchased by the case.

    QOTD2: Milk

  • Anonymous

    House wine for 2010 would have to be the 2005 Sebastiani cab and merlot. We drank a **it pot of it and it was good especially for the QTP.

    Also, who wants water in their hot cocoa???

  • Why couldn’t I be Murph or Lou Barlow?

  • Gary!!! Loved the episode. Definitely got my mind thinking and wanting some new bottles. First QOTD: Soy. I know it’s not an option but I hate cocoa with water and I’m a larctard sooo no milk for me! Second Question of the DAY::: My by far favorite red wine to drink with or without food is…drum roll please… M. Chapoutier Belleruche Cotes du Rhone. A delicious light bodied full flavor wine that I literally open right as I get home. Hints of dirt, earth, peat dark and red fruits. Goes great with goat and sheeps cheese, since they’re the only ones I can eat(read: lactarded)

    Keep it up Gary. I can smell the 1000th episode and it smells a little Oaky and smokey with hints of Vanilla and bourbon=)

  • So you drink human’s milk??

    I’ve been looking to get into Meritage. Can you recommend any?

  • A_S

    QOTD: 1991 Ridge Monte Bello……

    seriously, I don’t have a “house wine”.

  • I knew someone would “touch that line” πŸ˜‰

  • Anonymous

    QOTD1: Definitely milk. And whipped cream on top.
    QOTD2: Perrin et Fils Cotes du Rhone Reserve Rouge. Or any other Cotes du Rhone, really…

  • Anonymous

    Cool ! Where are you from? I live in brussels

  • Anonymous

    QOTD1: milk, no question
    QOTD2: not sure it would be considered a house wine, but the one I probably had more than anything else was http://winelibrary.com/wines/53921-2009+Marcel+Lapierre+Morgon+750ML

  • Anonymous

    It was featured on a previous episode of WLTV. With the rock ‘n roll winemaker (can’t remember the name) as a guest who does not taste but drinks! A lot! πŸ™‚

  • Anonymous

    episodes like this are exactly why i watch this!!

  • TheSmirkingLurker

    Had you been Lou, you would have been Sebadoh86. Had you been Murph you would have used your real name, Emmett Jefferson Murphy III, duh.

  • House wine: Foris Flyover Red. It’s the most complex $9.00 bottle of wine I’ve ever had. Coincidently, I grew up three miles down the road from the vineyard in Oregon. (It’s made from Washington and Oregon grapes)
    http://www.madwine.com/633488/products/Foris-Vineyards-Fly-Over-Red-2007.html?CID=00011012

    Hot Chocolate: I actually mix milk and water together, is that weird?

  • QOTD (side): Milk. No two ways about it.

    House Wine QOTD: I’d have to go with the Chaleur Estate Blanc from DeLille Cellars. I know it’s not exactly an everyday/house wine price point, but it helps working for them… πŸ™‚

    http://www.delillecellars.com/index.cfm?method=pages.showPage&pageid=30794cb8-aa54-51e9-9b07-c7038f67e188

    Absolutely amazing stuff.

  • Great show!
    QotD1: water…used to be milk…then had some lactose issues. πŸ™
    QotD2: White: 2009 Picada 15 http://www.cheapwinefinder.com/2010/08/2009-picada-15-white-blend/ Easy drinking, fun white wine. Simple and good.

    And a guilty pleasure: http://www.apothic.com/ If wine came in powder form with the instructions of “just add water” it would be this wine. Over extracted, fruit goo…would go great with Twizzlers!
    Red: 2005 Small Gully Robert’s Formula Shiraz http://winelibrary.com/wines/50475-2005+Small+Gully+Robert%2527s+Formula++Shiraz+750ML I love this wine. If you wonder what kind of wines I like…drink this and then you’ll know.

  • Tried to edit my post, but couldn’t. The “guilty pleasure” part should’ve been at the end. The Apothic is a red wine blend, not a white.

  • QOTD: Milk all the way!

    Enjoying the tight format!

  • Anonymous

    Been drinking Bodegas Borsao’s temprenillo all year and it has been an absolute joy every bottle evolving. began with ‘noggy’ Christmas spice notes on release and then after nine months or so have notes of orange marmalade with nutty spices that I will forever associate with Spain. Spain in a bottle and value at around $7 a bottle, and I think the introductory price was even lower. Opened their Tres Picos Granache for christmas and it was wonderful with the turkey. Raj Parr and Jordan Mackay’s book ‘Secrets of the Sommeliers’ actually had it picked as the value play for typical granache. which was serendipitous as i received it from my wife for Christmas. so thankyou Gary for introducing me to Jorge OrdoΓ±ez and raj parr et al. p.s. My go to BBQ wine is Francis Ford’s Rosso

  • Anonymous

    QOTD1: Either, but I would probably lean towards milk.

    QOTD2: Tie
    1.) Palestra 2007 Douro- Can’t find it anymore though πŸ™ I did try the 2008 last night and it was good, different, but good.

    and Stump Jump Shiraz 2008 http://www.wine.com/V6/dArenberg-Stump-Jump-Shiraz-2008/wine/99737/detail.aspx
    Definitely a new world Shiraz, but not over oaked and at $9-12, it is a good buy.

  • QOTD#2: House red is Lapierre Morgon. House white Matrot Bourgogne Blanc or Macon from Rosenthal/Lynch/Wasserman

  • QOTD # 1 – MILK. Water sucks, it really really sucks, water sucks, it really really sucks. #Waterboy

  • ALLAN

    I’m Late!

    Qotd: Say WHAAAAAAAAATTTT??????? πŸ™‚

  • Anonymous

    Great show

  • Anonymous

    Nice show Gary, what’s with the vid hiccups Mott?
    QOTD 1 – Half & Half Baby
    QOTD 2 – I’ve been drinking a lot of 2007 Raymond ‘R’ Collection Lot #3 Field Blend, its got almost every Cal red varietal in it, good juice. Every day with a steak – Bogle Petite Sirah.

  • Anonymous

    Great Show GV! Nice wines!

    QOTD1: Milk!
    QOTD2: Uxmal Alto (Cab-Merlot blend from the Catena group) http://www.mistral.com.br/product.aspx?idDept=0&idProduct=20092

  • Giornata Il Campo. Sangiovese, etc.

  • Giornata Il Campo. Sangiovese et al.

  • QOTD 1. Milk
    QOTD 2. Yalumba Y series Pinot Grigio http://www.yalumba.com/vintage.asp?p=154&b=15&l=732&v=5274

  • QOTD 1. Definitely milk! Love it with a bit of whipped cream on top… Now I want one!
    QOTD 2. Nuragus di Cagliari – White wine. Costs like ?4 at Lidl a supermarket here in the netlands. http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=877761

  • Anonymous

    I have never had a Taurasi wine, but I do love Aglianico. Concepcion and I love every time you say “tremendous!”. We heard a rumor about Mr. James Suckling and WLTV. We are tuned in, and can’t wait!!!! QOTD #1: Milk. QOTD #2: I am a bit embarrassed, but I think that I drink a lot of Ruffino Orvieto Classico. It’s very inexpensive, it has great acidity, and I use it often in preparing my pasta sauces. Gary, how’bout a show on middle eastern wines?

  • Anonymous

    QOTD 1: milk.
    QOTD 2: 06 crognolo.

  • Anonymous

    Like the Segries, brought to me in the past. by Kysela Pere et Fil, but even moreso, was a fan of the Terres Falmet, and a number of the small boutique products of Patrick and Connie Allen of United Estates wines. http://www.unitedestateswines.com/portfolio-of-wines/
    Some of their wineries I’d supported in the past:
    Domaine de Tabatou, Chat. Noel St. Laurent, Dom. Rocheville, Trevallon, and Dom. Barrubiou’s pretty incredible Minervois , cuvee Marie- Therese.

  • And I heard about it from WLTV of course! If you haven’t tried it Fort Ross is also quite solid. RIght down the road from Flowers if you like them.

  • Anonymous

    This was a reply to mattgman, on the 2nd oldest page, but disqus again, drilled me, and put my comment on the real time chronologie, rather than as the reply that it is.

    I loved Aglianico de Vultura, and Vesuvio, long ago, and am sure that they’d still be to my liking, yet, the wines ofthe Taurasi area never quite floated my boat. Even the great Radici- in ’95, while in fine restaurant position, I’d had it a couple of times, and found it not so welcoming – required you to go slowly, and go to it, rather than it even trying to meet you halfway. Not really my thing, I recall. But i’d never write off a classic region without revisiting, even many years later.

  • Between my local wine shop and all the wine lists you have me signing up for my inbox is pretty full πŸ˜‰ but I will add myself to your list since you asked. I was just saying it might be a better if the deal was live when the show went live. My $0.02. Love the idea of house wine BTW. I am always looking since I like to drink a glass with dinner every night.

  • Thnx pal!

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