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Hello everybody and welcome to Wine Library TV, I am your host Gary Vaynerchuk and these are my friends, Is the Thunder Show, aka, the internet’s most passionate line program and it is lead back Friday up in this peace and it is a big Friday. It is a little gloomy will not you say Michelle? Kind of like to me a bad weekend weather wise. But, what is going to be a great weekend is when my New York Jets take on the New England Patriots this weekend in the middle ends. And I am excited about that. I will be there.
So if you are going to be there, please put it in the comments. Maybe we can link up. I will be twittering out where I am going to be. My official prediction, I am going to go right in to it today, Jets 20, Patriots 10. I expect to have a very good year predicting the Jet games.
Today, we are talking about a wine that I am very excited about. There is a lot of buzz around this wine. I have had it in prior vintages and you have loved it, the ’04 here. It is a 90 point David Schildknecht who is writing for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. It is a $12.00. This has all the making of the perfect football wine, tail-gaining wine, weekend party wine, real wine but an unbelievable price point. And what I am talking about to you today is the Chat Grande Cassagne Hippolyte 2004, Costieres-de-nimes 2004. It is a blend of predominantly Syrah but a little Mourvedre as well. And it is $12.00 from the old four vintage.
Now, what is interesting is that what I want to really focus on is the Costieres-de-nimes, very interesting area that lies between the Rhône and Languedoc. And it is a very kind of interesting spot. It used to be known as Costières du Gard up to 1989. And so, it really heads the researchers with the renaming. It is definitely right at the cracks of where Rhône meets Languedoc. A very different route from Brignoles, little red pebbles is really what is going on there. So like little pebbles in the vineyards. I mean, that sort of wine comes out of it just like pebbles, it is crazy land going on there. A little bit more towards the Rhône style of wines normally than of the Languedoc.
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Let us get going. Let us pour it, let us sniff it, let us evaluate it, it will be very happy. Let us twirl, let us twirl, let us pour a little bit. Here we go. Let us get this a sniffy sniff. I really believe in my heart, I talk a lot about Languedoc and Provence but I really do believe that the Costieres-de-nimes is an area that has big potential to make a big statement here in the US. The wines are extremely undervalued. I mean, think about the Euro dollar conversion and it is 90 points or it is rolling in at $12.00. Take a way to score. Who cares if it is about that, trust your own palate, do not listen to me, do not listen to David, do not listen to Bob Parker, do not listen to anybody.
But that being said, a major critical. I have a lot of respect for David Schildknecht, has scored this wine 90 points for a $12.00 wine. That is exciting. It has got a very interesting cherry juice component coming through. I taste like cherry juice but then squeezing strawberries into it. Like strawberry pulp with cherry juice around it, very fruity on the nose. You are getting that syrah coming through. I do get a little roséberry coming through as well in nose. It is a very big nose, very explosive. I find this to be very exciting I think for a lot of people. I just see a lot of people really getting into a nose like this, very creamy even on the nose which I like quite a bit. Let us give it a whirl.
Now, Chat Grande Cassagne makes a lot of interesting wines but what we are going to look for is the one that have protrude on it. I think you might want to find this. It is very musty. I mean, it has got some black pepper; it has got some really great backbone structures. Here is how I am going to articulate this to you and I really want you to p
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