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EP 1000 Episode 1,000

Gary Vaynerchuk has finally made it to episode 1,000 of Wine Library TV! It’s been an amazing ride since that day in February 2006, with great guests, amazing (and sometimes awful) wines, as well as a lot of Jets talk. Today, the main focus is a huge thank you to all the Vayniacs who helped make this community…and a huge announcement from Gary.

Wines tasted in this episode:

2008 Jerome Prevost La Closerie Les Beguines BrutFrench Brut Vintage

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  • Anonymous

    How your new job going ??? settled in yet 😉

  • Chateau Pichon-Loungeville Comtesse de Lalande

  • I think he didn’t answer it. Actually I think only I did. Will that make me the most …..?
    😀

  • John__J

    Thanks for asking! It has been going really well, you do still have all the stress with starting something new. There is definitely a lot to learn being on this side of the fence now. Some things I was pretty surprised to learn. The hours are way better too which always helps.

  • Good question TP. Geez, I will go with Neibaum-Coppola.

    http://www.rubiconestate.com/flash.php

    Majestic

  • AndersN is correct. I have yet to answer since I needed to ponder my own question. The left side of my feeble brain was battling with my right to come up with an answer. Obviously, there is no “right” or “wrong” answer but one that should be discussed at length over a glass of fine wine.

    Here’s my Top 3:
    1) Socrates (Since he had few written texts it was Plato who documented his teachings)
    2) Jesus Christ (This one is tough since we may not even know of JC if it were not for St. Peter spreading Christianity after his crucifixion)
    3) Johann Gutenberg

    So my analysis comes down to Socrates instructed society on the processes on “how” to think, Jesus on “what” to think and Gutenberg put it down for all to see and communicate to the masses.

  • Lisa S

    Triple Like! Good choices (even better than Eve.)

    I remember seeing the Guenberg Bible at the Library of Congress in D.C.
    Impressive.

  • Anonymous

    Dominus, I am truly sorry for the passing of John Mackey today. The things that man had to endure that were caused by the playing of professional football. He will be truly missed. 🙁

  • John__J

    Visit again, meaning been there before? Au Bon Climat. Jim Clendenen, the head honcho is fantastic and he treats his staff as such. I’m not sure that they’re open to the public, but if you got a buddy in a restaurant or wine shop, they can probably get their sales rep to set you up.
    Anyway, no big grand pretentious tasting room exists, or any tasting room at all. Just wine making. He has lunch everyday with all this great food with all his staff around and if you are there you have lunch with all of them too. The whole time they pass around tons of bottles of different Au Bon Climat’s from all different varietals (including their awesome monduese), vineyards and a breadth of vintages. Chardonnays wines are served barely chilled (perfect temp for it!). I must’ve tasted 10 chardonnays spanning a bunch of vineyards and spanning maybe 10 years, they all held up. They’ll take a 1 ounce pour, then they pass the bottle and it’s on to the next wine. I love that, the 1 ounce pour lets you taste so many different wines of theirs.
    You can tell he treats the staff great and they love it there. They’re all really friendly and unpretentious and love to talk with you while you all sit around each other for lunch.
    I remember tasting 3 different syrah’s out of barrel. One was whole cluster fermented or close to it, the other 2 to lesser degree’s, maybe one not at all. I remember the one with the highest % of whole cluster had the strongest smell of black pepper I’ve ever smelled in my life. I could’ve sworn it was infused with it, I’ve never had anything like that before.
    But great, great people, great wines and a great time.

    But man the list of wineries I want to see but haven’t been to yet….

  • John__J

    My WLTV QOTD: When you’re leaving a public restroom, do you prefer paper towels or the air blower machine?

    (I’m in a lot of restaurants these days due to my job so I’m seeing a lot of different public restrooms.)
    I much prefer the paper towels.

  • John__J

    I answered it, I said the fire guy (or gal).

  • John__J

    One of the few Bordeaux’s where I had their ’82 vintage, excellent wines.

  • You had their 82??? Dang now I’m really jealous. I havent had the chance to get hold of one yet. One case slipped my hand in auction in june, went to high for my wallet…

  • John__J

    A guest brought it in to a restaurant I was at and gave me a glass a few years ago. I was pretty psyched, I was happy just opening the bottle!
    That’s one good thing about working with wine, is you get opportunities to try great ones sometimes. Lord knows getting a case of that at auction is out of my league!

  • Paper towels, hands down or up 😉

  • Thanks NWID, yes, a truly sad story.

    I’m sure the Colts will do a memoriam before the first home game provided there is a “first game.”

  • After work at home today.
    Yakut Öküzgözü-Bogazkere, Kavaklidere 2010 Turkish wine.
    Light red with blue streaks, see through. A smell of hot forest floor, blue fruit and cypress wood. Taste is initially light blueberry and blackberry lemonade, dry mid palate with small tannins portraying ahint of white pper and oak. Backe end lush and sk´mooth but very light, a slight bitter taste lingers when all the fruit is gone. To light for me 84-85p Nose better then taste.

  • Paper, paper man. Hot air full of germs no thanks

  • situated where?

  • I can’t find the link on the dealership’s website but this one is awfully close except mine is dark blue which looks black at night.

    http://www.cox-motorcars.com/incoming-2009-mercedes-benz-c300-sport1.html

  • Well, those are both great cars but since I’m partial to Audis, I would go with the A4 in the order of your colors: 1) red, blue then black.

    I think that’s why I had that massive dizzy/anxiety spell when I realized I will need to cut back on my free-spending wine purchases. 😉

  • Lisa S

    Beautiful car! Love dark blue, too.

  • Lisa S

    🙂 Yeah, that would cause an anxiety spell. Hmmm.. Kosta Browne vs sexy German car???

    I am so ready for a fun car. My silver Toyota is boring, boring, boring.. (but in excellent condition and it’s paid for).

    Thanks, Dom I love the Audi, too.. Just worry about reliability. Hopefully it’s better now than in the past.

  • Lisa S

    Speaking wineries we’d like to visit. Have any of you heard of Palmaz wine? They specialize in Napa cabs. I hear that the winery is something to see. Julio Palmaz holds a patent(s) on at least a couple coronary artery stents.. His stents revolutionized the way we treat coronary artery disease (angioplasty instead of open-heart surgery,etc). Anyway, yrs ago I heard that he started a winery. My brother just raved about his 2004 cab recently and he doesn’t get excited about wine like I do.. I’ve had some of the best with him (Insignia, Pahlmeyer) and you’d think he was drinking 2BuckChuck.. well ok a bit of an exaggeration. 🙂

    Anyway, the ’07 is available at the winery for approx $100. Just curious if any of you have heard of it, or tried it..

    http://www.palmazvineyards.com/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Palmaz

    The guy collects Porsches, too. 🙂

  • John__J

    Santa Barbara, California

  • John__J

    Interesting, blueberry and blackberry lemonade. Cool that you got a Turkish wine. Mine must’ve been one of their different ones because I’m sure it didn’t say Bogazkere anywhere on the label. Is that another varietal, so would that mean it’s a okuzgozu-bogazkere blend?
    Not sure I’m going to race to seek it out after your review though, but thanks for posting!

  • John__J

    I just looked it up, bogazkere is another native Turkish varietal. Still cool that you got to try that oddball, even if it wasn’t the best

  • John__J

    I’m not familiar with it, but I’m going to try and get my hands on a bottle now. Thanks Lisa!

  • Anonymous

    High Roller 😉 …. If it was your recommendation then I’d buy it sight unseen, but since it’s your brother I will have to research it 😉 I’m on it now …

  • Anonymous

    towels … hands down. 😉

  • Anonymous

    I will have to research it ….. sounds like a hell of a time 😉

  • Anonymous

    good call … love their high end stuff. 😉

  • Anonymous

    got their 2000 wine ready to go … 😉

  • Lisa S

    Hahaha! Smart boy, TP! 🙂 I’m surprised there are any ’07s left since my brother bought enough to get a discount.. BTW: I mentioned this winery to a friend who is in medical-device sales (and his territory is Napa) and he says the winery is a must-see, state-of-the-art, etc. (by appt only.) Let’s do it. I wish we could organize a TTF tour. How fun would that be???

  • Anonymous

    well done. 😉

  • Anonymous

    What wine will be consumed this weekend ????? I got my eye on the Insignia 2001 😉

  • at the Phelps’s? 🙂

  • John__J

    That Turkish wine I came across got me a bit curious. The sheer amount of indigenous varietals fascinates me with the possibilities there. This is just the 1st paragraph on wikipedia on Turkish wine:

    Ampelographers estimate that Turkey is home to between 600?1200 indigenous varieties of Vitis vinifera (the European grapevine), though less than 60 of these are grown commercially. With over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) planted under vine, Turkey is the world’s fourth-leading producer of grapes.

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey’s first president, established the country’s first commercial winery in 1925. According to the OIV, the total wine production in 2005 was 287,000 hl. In the first half of 2009, wine consumption in Turkey reached 20,906,762 litres.

  • I saw a Peruian wine at the state monopoly store. A Chardonnay.
    Any one tried wine from Peru? Or maybe I should buy and try 🙂

  • NY Pete

    first off before I start my rant I wish to apologize to my fellow Vayniacs that call this board home.

    since`I have been temporarily suspended from the wltv forum. I need a place to vent.

    so the great eye in the sky saw it fit to kick my ass off for baiting the fat loud ignorant bastard from East Aurora NY.

    so this is suppose to teach me a lesson … ha ha ha.

    It has not.

    my only hope is that the so called innocent one from upstate is also serving time in the penalty box. if not then this is a total farce and CM has lost all my respect.

    thanks for understanding.

    time to pop a bottle.

    cheers!

  • NY Pete

    fwiw

    I see BLew is still posting his usual nonsense over in the forum.

    CM … you suck.

  • John__J

    I haven’t but I’m the type that would buy and try unless it was pricey just because I’ve never had a wine from there before

  • $13.50

  • That’s Ok Pete. I never got on the forum though I tried twice. Git first wrong when clicking on wrong button and got a message that I should get a permission from my parents to register since I was under age. I guess under 50 is to you 😉
    Tride some months later, but my eamil was already listed. Sen tmessages to board admin once but never found the mailadress after that. So I didn’t pursue that more.

  • Can you read the posts even when banned?

  • Lisa S

    Wow. I am sorry, NYPete. That must have been some “conversation.” Sometimes it helps to vent one’s spleen (along with a really good bottle of wine).

    Obviously this was in reply to NYPete below.. Wish I could blame it on Disqus (user error).

  • Lisa S

    That’s too funny, Anders!

  • NY Pete

    yes I can continue to read but I’m banned for participating. CM sucks. BLew sucks even more.

  • NY Pete

    give me your email address and a password you would use, I’ll get you in.

  • NY Pete

    the sad part Lisa it really wasn’t much of a “conversation” … it went like this …

    NY Pete
    Post subject: Re: Contemporary Forum EventsPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:48 pm

    beware my friends, it’s another 3 bottle night in the boonies.

    ________________

    BuffaloLou
    Post subject: Re: Contemporary Forum EventsPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:13 pm

    mind your own F-ing business… 3 divided by 2 peeps = 1.5… And that’s from 5:30 to 11:15! (and there’s still 1/2 a bottle left… )

    “boonies” – And one may wonder why there’s an issue with “the city” and the rest of the state…

    A$$ wipe.

    _________________

    NY Pete
    Post subject: Re: Contemporary Forum EventsPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:33 pm

    where’s a moderator when you really need one?

    since we’re being nothing but honest here Louie, grow a pair and say what you mean right away instead of coming back to your post 3 or 4 times to add more nonsense.

    boo hoo hoo poor BLou can’t take having his balls busted.

    _________________
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