Gary V Expands His Own Palate with Some Old World Wines

[Music Playing] Gary: Hello, everybody and welcome to Wine Library TV, I am your host Gary Vaynerchuck and this my friends is the Thunder Show, AKA the internets most passionate wine program that always intends to expand their palate. While making you trust at yourself while enjoying it with you friends and family, the ones you love that is why I do the Thunder Show Mr. Matt and we have some cheese and we have some pinot and I am very excited about it. We have pipers pint in the house, on just a good old fashion day Matt, it is a good day, have you joined the thunder cruise yet? Cabins are going quickly, Matt link it up, thunder cruise action, I really-really hope you will join us. Deposits are needed sooner than later, cabins are going quickly, we also have something brewing with American express and visa that will probably make the cabins disappear itself quicker the better. Very interesting shows today, we are talking about wines from Valtellina, which is an area that a lot of people do not know about. Matt zoom it up real good, Valtellina is in Lombardy, which is right next door to Piedmont. It is actually more known for its ski resort than anything else is. You got that in there Matt? It is on very mountainous area in Italy producing very interesting wines mainly Nebbiolo they were starting to see some other grapes, I think merlo and pinot are starting to be planted. Very hilly it is going east to west on the mountainside so it goes east to west so maximum light exposure Matt and vainiacs. Very similar to Sicily but a cooler area so you get a different style of wine made in Viola who are, a little bit lighter the maybe the counter parts from Piedmont. Which are big massive respective wines but this is an area, Valtellina that is brining some thunder very much under the radar so for you and the you screen peeps at home, I am really trying to expand your palate. Make you can find new things and that is something I am very excited about. I am just getting people to try different things. It is just imperatively important to me Matt. One thing, I want to check on Ian, there is one thing here that freaks me out, 2940345, once I have Matt. It is me again. Matt: Hello. Gary: Give them something good Matt. Matt: I am going to try the cheese. Gary: Good idea, I knew it, I think I knew it, hold on, nice job. I knew it, Matt I knew it, Matt I knew it, I knew it, and this is why the Thunder Show rocks so much because I did something I have not checked, and I was right. I looked in the back labels and Ian went to slacks that got me, he said this one was 36 and this is a 18, it is the other way around Matt. My natural gut wine instincts saved my behind today, let me shake it for all the vaniac my little behind, I saved it, Matt that was for you right there do you like that, it is good stuff. Well Bart Farb is watching now so I have to figure maybe, anyway, so yes the first wine is 18 bones not and I will explain to you why I kind of taught that. Anyway, we also have some Piave right here, this is the Piave Vecchio the red label so that means it has been aged for one year made from pasteurized cows milk. Piave is a very interesting cheese that is has been getting a lot of interest from the Baleno region in Italy so we are going to be pairing this up because the gourmet people said it pairs well and because we are talking about doing more cheese this year. There is two milking in this pasteurized stuff one of them is skimmed, aged through one year cows milk, Piave. So we will be tasting that as well in a little bit. Now the reason I flop, there something wrong was this one is 12.5 alcohol and this one is 14, that ought right off the back tells you there could be something going on but also I am going to jump ahead a little bit right here you will see Sforzato, it is Sforzato right? So that term means rosining. Almost like an amarone style so this is like a nebiolo in an amarone style, right like you would normally would do with the bebpo cello so I kind of also taught that it would be higher plus the bottle and I mean everything right? the bottle is bigger I mean I just knew something was up plus anything that is made in the recioto amarone style, sufrazo just feels like it is going to be that stuff. So anyway, jumping ahead, this is one of the most famous producers from the Valtellina, this is Sandro Fay. This is the Sassella, $18.00. Let us see what is going on here, now I have very little experience with this wine myself so I am expanding my palate as well. I probably have had, probably two or three in my entire life, very little, low demand on these wines from the Valtellina but again Nebbiolo grape pit, if you are not familiar with that. Again found very much in Barolos and Barbarescos, some nice color, rustic red; let us give it a snippy sniff. [Demo] Classic old world, I mean you get some petrol component coming through on this; you have some kind of old sour cherries, like a little tobacco coming through. Oil, I just get a heavy dose of oil, crude oil kind of thing going on, this is definitely a turn off for a lot of people. Very rustic old world, rusty nails comes to mind, let us give it a whirl. [Demo] Wow, high acid, really big in tannic wine for 12.5 alcohol content. I get roasted red peppers coming through on this wine. I get a steely component almost like I got smacked in the face with a pan, with a frying pan that was like greasy and never cleaned with rust on it. I mean just, and a little tomato sauce right, I mean just very, very rustic old world would be appalling to 85% of the drinking public in America but for the 15% that is looking for the new ounces, looking for different things this would be a wine that appeals. For me I had a lot of Italian wines that are interesting and different under 20 bones that are better than this, even some under 15 that I like more especially with the Nebbiolo grape, let me just give it one more whirl. [Demo] Try with the cheese; it is a brutal wine, really big. Oh! Matt, try that. Matt link up that cheese. Wow! Does get better this is why it is so great, I mean the fatter the cheese coats the palate and definitely makes a little come out a little bit more. As a matter of fact, this time, I get a little bit of like a leafy flowery almost like Indian Tarshil tea kind of thing going on, which is quite nice but again, still very rustic, a little overrated in my opinion. Overrated, let me rephrase that, over priced for what it is, 18 bones. I am going to 86 plus points. I just think it is kind of met, I do not see any reason for you to try it other than to expand you palate which I think is imperatively important. Let us rinse and move on. [Demo] Same producer, again Valtellina, not that many different producers, so this is a Sforzato style wine again this is the Sforzato Di Valtellina from the Centro, same producer. Let us see what is going on here, again this is made a little bit in the amarone style, there are a lot of people loving amarone out there, remember? This could be a Pirelli, this is 36 bones, not 18 Ian, let us give it a snippy sniff. Great color by the way, just gorgeous. [Demo] This is very nice, very romantic. Made me think of Christmas right off the bat, almost like eggnoggy, and spearminty and pepperminty, very minty coming through which I like quite a bit, let us give it a whirl. [Demo] Wow, one more second, this is the 05 and that was the 03 so it is a younger wine and a bigger wine. This is like the gorgeous love child of a great amarone and a tremendous Barolo and Barbaresco instead. Going a little more rustic, wow, this is exceptional; these is balanced, elegant, tons of fruit, really, really, really solid stuff explosive yet balance right. It is like, it is not fruit body. It is just around. It is very focused and tight and fresh. Bright and elegant while having a teeniest to it, very similar to that, almost like the darjeeling thing going on, maybe that Indian trip affected my palate, I drink a lot of darjeeling tea. The bright candy ripe fruit, I love the blackberries that are coming through here, I love blackberries by the way and finally decided they are my favorite. Just gorgeous