Gary: Hello everybody and welcome to Wine Library TV. I am your host Gary Vaynerchuk and this my friends is a wine show on the internet. Matt, you know I am soon to be a father so I have got to be much more serious about the things I do now that we have announced the big news.
Hello everybody and welcome to Wine Library TV, I am your host Gary Vaynerchuk and this my friends is the thundershow aka the internet’s most passionate wine program. And today, as you can see, we brought out the brown bags. We are blind tasting — double blind tasting on the thundershow for the very first time and other 46 blind tasting. That is right. All of these wines are from the other 46, a term – I do not know if I own – yes, it is pretty much mine because I excluded New York. The other 46 or the 46 other states in America that make wine that are not California, Oregon, Washington State, or New York – so all six of these wines are from other States. We have a lot of people by the way.
I just opened this from an original package. It was peeling off. Trust me. I did not want to. Matt, smell this. I mean honestly, I have got to give myself a lot of credit. If you smell some Burgundy in it and low cabernet franc from Chinon Noir Valley wines, there are so many wines that smells like this. Though you will never see spectator of Parker say it. It is there folks. And that is why when you drink wine and when you taste wine, you must always talk and give notes from personal experiences because your pallet is your pallet and not me, not Parker, not Steve Tanzer, not Allen Meadows, nobody should tell you what you are tasting. So please always speak from the heart. Do not hold back because we all have different pallets.
Speaking of pallets Matt, I got to give a big shout out to Jonathan Fields who sent us this cake during the Holidays and I have been saving it in the fridge. This comes from Blissful Bakers, which is right here in Maple, New Jersey. This cake is very – thank you Matt. Enough with the cake Matt. You give us so much of the face time. But you know, I thought of bringing it out now with the big announcement. Pretty cool cake so I just want to give a big shout out to Jonathan Fields from Career Renegade for sending that over. It is really cool. And while I am on that cake, happy belated birthday to Nicole Levista, four years old and happy belated birthday to Jeremy Osborne. Have I mentioned the Giants were knockout at 12’s Matt and you know, I said Matt text and I do feel bad for you guys. I could not feel with another Giants super bowl. I am all about the Cardinals facing and all bird super bowl.
So, all six of these wines are from States that are not from the big four producing states in America. I do not know what varietal they are. I do not know where they come from. I am going to guess a little bit. This is difficult to go double blind with something that is not so common for my own pallet. I mean, a lot of times, some of the — some of the brutal and some of those remarkable wines. We think back to Oklahoma Cab Merlot blend from that Community College on Oklahoma, very interesting wines throughout the country but sometimes not typical to the varietal. So in a way, I am putting myself in a pretty bad spot in my opinion today. I will probably get a lot of the varietals either wrong. Of course, yes, I am definitely prefacing it. But at the same token, a lot of times –yes, how many Michigan’s chardonnay’s I have ever had.
Anyway, well that is wine number three. Wine number one, first thing you do when you are blind tasting is you feel the bottle. Keep in mind, wine number one. Let us give it a pour and see what is going on here. All right, so let us see what is going on here from across America. Light color, you always — I spend a lot of time in color when I double blind taste. Let us give it a sniffy sniff. This is pretty much, where the majority of my decision-making actually comes in. Classic Riesling nose coming through like little sugarcane, I am getting a lot of melon on this wine. There is a little smokiness coming through. There is a little
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