Hello everybody and welcome to Library TV. I am your host Gary Vaynerchuck and this is my friends is the thunder show a.k.a. the internet’s most passionate wine program and we’re going show down.
This is a goon. This is like a legit battle. This would have been what Maywheather-Pacquiao couldn’t have been Mot. This are two wines in their prime, you know top condition just matched up perfectly. We’re talking about St. Veran today which is in South Burgundy in between Bochoule and—
AOC’d in 1971 made from 100% chardonnay, great wines, and really intriguing white burgundy wines. Chardonnays that have you know a different style than what we see out of California. Less oak, tend to be a little bit more you know crisp, a little more minerality and really just interesting wines. I think chardonnay is as people get a wine education tend to get a bad rep. you know it's hard to great value because white burg is really $40, $50, $60.00 but, St Veran still rolls in a value half-value prices but considering the quality, well-priced wines.
This wine is 28 bones. This wine is 22 bones, 90 points Josh Reynolds, love him. 91 points Allen Meadows, hottest wine critic in Burgundy over the last five to seven years. Kermit Lynch is the importer of this stake hole out of Florida. This is like powerhouse stuff per se, big name. Robert DeNache makes amazing wines. 07’, I just want to confirm. I got a little scared there for a second. Just really, really, really powerhouse match up of two chardonnays that I have nothing but high expectation for. I'm excited.
If you want a little more about St. Veran, we will start doing this a little bit more as well. This could be a little fun. Mot, let’s link up episode 541 where we go into St. Veran a little bit more. We could be doing a little bit more of this Mot. You know linking up prior episodes where people can get really into the subject matter. Big shout out to everybody who’s been commenting, loving that, feeling that, needing that and enjoying that. Are you ready for this contest?
I was going to leave you with Mot but clearly, he wasn’t looking forward to entertain. I feel a lot better this head-to-head because you know now same glasses, no excuses. Let’s get back into it. Okay, so, first thing I noticed is the Burgess is slightly darker. So you're getting a little bit more color out of the Burgess and this is fun to kind of you know see the wines head-to-head this way. I think this fun to kind of you know see the wines head-to-head this way. I think this kind of makes it fun. So these head-to-head battles having the same glass makes a lot of fun.
Let’s start with the first wine, Robert DeNache, Le Pomords single vineyard via vins, old vines, St. Veran $28.00, 91 points Allen Meadows. And let’s just do it this way. The Burgess 2007, 90 points Josh Reynolds, $22.00, and screw top for a very prominent French producer. That’s a pretty interesting move. So I like that. Sniffy sniff—
Wow, geez! That was unbelievably delicious. Wow! This is one of the five to 10 best noses of a wine that we've had at Wine Library TV history. This smells like gorgeous passion fruit. I'll tell you what it smells like Mot. Do you remember the erasers from the 1980s? They were white and they put like action figures or he-man on it or my little pony and you’d erase them, they have like a sweetness smell to them that you almost wanted to bite them they smelled so good? That’s what this smells like a little bit to me. Passion fruit, I get guava, do you like the smell? It smells good, right? It smells like a Capri San. And Capri Sans are delicious. Very, very pretty nose, I would be battled and stunned if the Burgess can bring the thunder in the nose because I think the early rounds, this is so good. This will be one of those I would even say flash knock down by this amazing St. Veran. I think the DeNache might have a flash knock down here in the first round. It's so good. sniffy sniff—
It's pretty good too. I don’t know if I'm in the—is it the glasses? This is pretty good too. It's coming with a little bit more oak so right off the bag. I'm going to like this a little bit more but this is pretty serious too. I don’t know why these aromatics are hitting me so hard and so lovely, white flower. I get that similar eraser thing that I got in the last wine. I know a lot of you are going to leave in the comments. I know you remembered these. These white erasers, they were white like white-white. And they would have like you know different pictures, Skelator, Yoda, you know cool and the gang. But you know really nice nose but not as vibrant and not as explosive and not as attractive and this is more fruit-driven. So the early rounds definitely go to DeNache. Let’s get into the palate, let’s give it a whirl.
Really good wine, good acidity, good! Wow! This wine brings serious thunder. This is very well-made, great acidity. I get this gorgeous apple flavor in the mid palate, rounded out by small Asian pears on the back end finish. A little heat, room temperature white with higher alcohol, most people won't taste that. I get this gorgeous fresh lemon-lime juice. I feel like almost looks like a Mexican restaurant, margaritas, lemon-limes. I'm just like this very fresh cilantro, it's just very fresh ocean minerality on this wine.
I love it, crushed up clam shells on the palate. Just beautiful minerality, rocks and just greatness, a little chalkiness on the back end. This is a spectacular chardonnay that absolutely shows what this varietal can do in proper teraqua and when it’s not got too much makeup on it. I really like this wine quite a bit. This lemon-lime zingy, zing zang, zing-zing is delicious. I enjoy it! Allen Meadows is one tough SOB in scoring here. He is quite conservative. So when I saw the 91 points score, I was like wow!
You know it really caught my attention. I see why. I think this wine has got just enough creaminess in the back end to not make it Sauvignon blank and it's got great complexity. And literally, all I can think about right now is man-oh-man do I wish I had a great piece of fish in front of me right now. You know chard, nothing else just on the grill, just give it to me. I'll suck the eye out. I don’t care. Don’t touch it. I I'll get rid of the bones because I want it fresh and clean right at the ocean with a bottle of this. You know you'll never hear me say this.
I want to be fishing on a hot day pulling it out, throwing it out right on the grill and having this nice and cold. It's that quenching of a wine and really one of the most interesting white wines from the chardonnay grape varietal that I've had in a long time. Kudos! Kudos to Robert DeNache! This is an amazing effort. I'm going to score it 93+ points. I love it. You know what I'm going to score it 94+ points. I'm not going to be bashful. There is no reason. No reason for bashfulness.
All right Burgess, I'm just thinking like team Burgess. The people out there Mot wearing the team Burgess t-shirts, they’re just like oh crap! Yeah, it's going to take all that and a bag of chips to win this match. Let’s give it a sniffy sniff one more time. It's starting to open up even more but it's a little bit of like a nutmeg-almond kind of thing going on. Let’s give it a whirl.
Too bad, this is a wine too. Now this is a very nice bottle of chardonnay, a little more oak which is great. I even felt that. This is why I couldn’t get to 96 to 97% score range if I just had a little bit more. But this has a little bit more textbook solid, right? I think Josh Reynolds does a great job. He goes 90 points in this. This is probably what it's going to end up on. For me, I'm just going to taste a little more. There is no denying this common kind of almond paste meets lemon juice thing going on which I think is quite good.
And actually, there it is a little marzipan action which I think is quite interesting. But there is a little plasticness that comes along with that marzipan-y thing which I think you know could turn-off some palates. A medium to full bodied, nice bottle of chardonnay, definitely can hold its own with most chardonnay conversations but when you bring it in with a beast of a wine like this, it does get over shadowed. But I want to keep it within itself. I don’t want to kind of mess it up. I'm going to still score it 90 points. I think it's very, very good. And at 22 bones for chardonnay, not a lot of things get me tat excited.
But all in all, you know it's got some of that white flower which I like so much, a little bit almost like a white pepper just like these little kind of interesting spiciness on the mid palate that has a lot of dream flavors besides this little chard oak, little burnt stick. I almost feel like I went camping and had marshmallows on a stick. You know when you do that Mot, sometimes like the stick will still have some marshmallow residue. Nobody is looking, you kind of give it a little bite so you can get a lot of that sweetness but you also get a little bit of that char and the stick, the wood. And that’s kind of the flavor I get here. This is really like marshmallow stick from a camp fire when you're a boy scout.
And so, I like it! It’s a 90 point wine and I would recommend it but it’s got butt beating by just a better you know. There is a good analogy of knocking these because it would hurt my feelings but that’s exactly what just happened here. And so, I think that this is a very intriguing episode. I hope it opens your mind to St. Veran in general. I hope you do click episode 541 when we go a little bit more into the wines.
And most of all, I think that once again it proves that Kermit Lynch is an amazing importer for finding this producer and there is value out there. It's tough for me t say 20 and 22s value, I get it but its value can hurt of the plenty of the $40.00 Remy and high vineyard chardonnays from California. The same is to—you know that didn’t bring it from Australia. Some of these pedigree wines, some even of these Polini Montreal, you know same old stuff. These are really great wines. I think St. Veran is vastly underrated. But please don’t just go out and buy Louis Ch?teau or Louis Latour because you're going to get that standard commodity supermarket brands. Don’t try to find some of these smaller producers because that’s where the thunder is.
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