Knitting and Sauvignon Blanc

Gary: Hello everybody. Welcome to wine library TV. I am your host, Gary Vaynerchuk. And this, my friends, is the thunder show aka the internet’s most passionate wine program. And today we’re doing a little bit of a day in a life episode. I had a whole different kind of episode playing for tonight but something really cool happen and you’ll see why I just open that in a minute. I had a pleasure of having Stan Steve from life wine company and actually, from Volta in Napa, come in here for a new meeting, just some guys that rode in depends on what you do. We’re starting new wine thing, have a couple of questions. And really fundamentally 2 of the most awesome guys I’ve ever met, really loved them. They really were down to earth and really have a lot of passion for the wine industry. This was their first ever, the volta 2005 Napa cabernet which comes from Hamelin. Only 291 cases are produced. And you know it’s funny a lot of people, I haven’t met with a lot of wineries like this recently because well you know to be honest with you, I’m very spontaneity with a lot of things going on, traveling like crazy. When I’m here I want to talk with team and meetings, taping, and doing the you screen, twittering and turn bound down to my emails. So the days with me meeting with wineries and the people behind the wine have wine library have become very far and few between when that was my whole career from 1998 to 2003 and I missed it. I had a really enjoyable time with these guys and really sweet guys who really care about making great wines seems like. And we had a great time. You know, I kind of like them going like this, you know what, why not matt do like a little day like what would have happen if we weren’t taping, what would have happen is we will pop the wine just like this and this happens so much, so much. No decanting knows this, pour them, taste them, evaluate it, and make a bind decision matt. I mean that’s what we really want a lot of people to do now. A lot of wineries that are watching now will say no we will open it and a lot of people do. Plenty of times I had wines that have already been open and breathing. But many of times throughout my career that the pop and pour situation and this is a 60 dollar retail wine. Again, did I mention 291 cases is very small production? 291-production wine, they’re really going to be emailing me probably mailing a list of the restaurant play. But I’m excited to have nice little cards that they gave me all these stuff, it’s like a fun presentation. By the way, big shout out to one wine dude, he’s got a great little blond mutt, Joe Roberts, they got less little plug in here. Ad so I figured you know what, kind of interesting day, interesting people, really liked them. So I’ve got to admit, I’ve got a lot of vested emotion in this wine. I though this was very real. You know, when you go in wanting to love the wine. I’ve done that so many times in my career and I always wondered, do I buy them because I like the people or the wine. You know pallets change because your mind set. But this wine comes from high mountain which is my favorite fruit sources, I mean the shiprenzin Matt which I’m using for thanksgiving because Bobby’s coming over. From High Mountain, big fan of the fruit up there, 60 bones. We talked about this yesterday, that 50 to 75 dollar range because of the wine we had yesterday. It’s a big premium Napa valley week matt. But 60 bones and they were kind of like well a lot of people have been telling us that we value at 60 bucks and I kind of interrupted them and said, guys there’s no such thing as a value driven 60 dollar Napa cab with great dialogs. So good pips, I want to evaluate their wine, this is kind of taking me out of the road of buying the wine on a heavy level because I want to put on a thunder show. But I thought it would be interesting for you guys to kind of see a little behind the scenes like people coming in, dropping off a bottles, tasting the wine, and let’s see what’s going on here. I don’t know. Based on their personalities, you just have a lot of gut feel that this wine’s going to be pretty good. Thank you for participating, I mean this is so, I just like their quite of sale, pretty interesting stuff. Let’s see what’s going on here, anything else I can tell you volta 2005 Napa caps spent 2 years in new French oak barrel. Oh by the way, Matt did you see comments? That wine was not a hundred percent new French oak score one for the pallet. I was pretty excited about that. Our wines are un-fine and unfiltered, handcraft the fruit. Alright, let’s see what’s going on here. I’ll be the judge. Little sniffy sniff action guys. Cabernet kick by the way, kind of interesting. Getting really nice black licorice complex coming through a nose, heavy dosage of plum fruit coming through. Really nice package, don’t you think Matt? Kind of classic, really good black fruit coming through, plum is coming through, good fruit on nose. Not getting that over crazy oak either which is good to see, a little bit because I’m getting a little of that vanilla milky action dairy kind of component that I talk about when I see oak. Solid fruit though. Let’s give it a whirl, I bit my tongue there. Heavy concentration of fruit, very big on the pallet, very tannic and tight, makes sense because we just pumped it. Clearly big wine, I mean, big broad shoulders, big, big quality of black fruit of a back end. The fruit sources just clearly excel in this wine. I do taste a hint of the alcohol, 15 percent alcohol. It does get a little big boy on you. And I don’t mean big boy for my outcast. Very solid stuff, purple type wine, purple I’m wearing today. You know that beak inkiness big structure of good dark chocolate is coming on. I really like the guys and they probably does impact me a little bit but as you could see yesterday I loved sue there and I want to call it like I see it. So it has a lot of lusciousness, good fruit. Mine’s a little more of the 06 yesterday than the 05 which has any of the daily viewers, you know, that watch the thunder show. No that’s a good thing. Let me get a one more shot. Ripe, focus, I get almost like a purple bleakly chew component fruit. You know like purple bubblegum flavor on the back end with a little shredded dark chocolate. Good length, really wraps around your whole mouth. To me, this kind of sums up what I felt yesterday. 75 bucks yesterday, 60 bucks today and my intuition urge says what’s at 40 that tastes like this. This is the same ball part. Though I will say one thing about this one. The length is quite obvious, I mean I still taste the wine, really culture pallet even more so than yesterday’s wine which is also very good. Like this wine, like it a lot, I have to admit add some deep dark level of being transparent, it wouldn’t have hurt if this sucked. Because I’ve prepped it, I mean the guys are really amazing if you ever get the chance to meet these guys, really great human beings. I kind of like the fact that, I think they like me too, I think I kind of like the fact of coming in here and giving me an 85 point score. That was kind of the romance I’m doing this show today. Makes me like, I told you, I’ll keep it real. But we’re not going to be able to that because this wine really does bring some serious thunder. Matt, too big for you? Matt: No it’s not. Gary: Interesting. Matt: Did you get a tobacco? Gary: I’m not getting a lot of tobacco. I can’t eat yesterday. Maybe I Matt: beak at you real quick— Gary: But you got the tobacco in the beginning? Matt: in the middle Gary: What I really sense is like some really good herbatious black tea, green tea kind of thing coming across our nose? Matt: That’s it better Gary: Is that a little bit more of where you’re going? Matt: Yeah. Gary: I get that a little bit. And I get it as it opens up. Again, way too early. I mean, Matt, we should be canting this for an hour or two or three or four. How’s the beard come across? Matt: Not bad. Gary: Not bad, right. They would win this week. They win this week, Matt. They beat the titans, they’re going to be hot. They’re probably beat the broncos. I mean you got, you know San Francisco, it can get really scary up in here. We have a power renegade. Well not like yours. I’ve got to admit, not like yours but I’m telling you now we have a big time running game. Hammer shorts is the number one Russian YFC. He’s having a big time here. Tony Richardson kills people. Listen, we won the ball and I’m going to find out this weekend because these titans are tough. So we’ll find out. What you guys did, I watch the whole game, very impressive. Alright, back to the wine. Really feeling this wine on the pallet, on the length this wine’s go tremendously well with beak foods with heavy sauces. This is the kind of thing you can have like a real big blackberry sauce ostrich kind of thing going. You know what I mean, you just really dense thick you know your heart might stop, it’s too thick, you know, kind of like just over and top hedonistic meals. This is the kind of wine that was built for that kind of food. Volta is really bringing thunder. Kudos to those guys. I save this to the end because I was probably not trying to distract myself. Kudos they all just kind of big 92 point score from the wine spectator. Yesterday I thought Laubee was on point. I think James Laubee is on point again. I think, oh but look at this, this is funny, they called him James Lauber, move in there. I find that kind of very fascinating. They guy kind of drop the E there. Oh nice, Laubee’s kind of in advantage of now everybody wants to put the C before the K. Got to fix your point of sale boys. This volta brings serious thunder, I’m going to go 93 points in this wine. I think it’s spectacular. If I didn’t love them so much, I’d give them a 92, probably. Really well made, good structure, and to me its 60 bones very well plead. If this was a 45, 42 dollar cab, this would remind me of some of the vintage use of alcumura, staglin. Peter Michaels, eurospas, those wines at that price point. It’s that kind of pedigree, great fruit. Again if this is a 48, 49 dollar wine, I’d be screaming and yelling it everybody down saying this is what you want to buy in California. Sixty push at a hair higher than I like to see it. However, it is a clear indication by their passion in the room and you know who cares of passion, I got to have the champs, I talked about it a lot. The champs in the bottle that this Matt, do they have it? Voltawine.com. Matt, link it up. We rarely tell you that you have to join the mailing list, 291 cases; I don’t see them growing super fast. This is the mailing list you going to be want a part of, I think in my opinion. This wine doesn’t cost you anything so sign up. I’m just going to try one more time because it takes you 3 minutes to sign on our list, I don’t want to vdx time on. I mean this is text book. If you love cabernet, you’re going to love this wine. I mean, that’s, it’s made for you. It’s a little boring for me, just a hair, so it doesn’t, you know wine like this that’s so well made. Doesn’t get 95, 96, and 97 for me, whereas a great pomelo will. Just a second through your flavors, but this is extremely well made, I love the buttered chocolate on the back end pallets what I will call, buttered chocolate, that oak coming through. Happy birthday to Pedro Alonzo, big ups PA happy birthday to you. And this was fun, kept it simple, one wine. Matt, when you pump up 600 shows, you got to have different approaches, kind of fun. Show the people the kind of things people bring me and the business cards. Steven Stanner, excellent people to get a chance, email them, go and visit them, they seem very social and share a bottle of wine with you. I think they would do that. Really like this wine, like the wine yesterday too. I mean Napa cab starting to get my radar. Matt, you know what it might be time for Napa cab blind tasting again. There’ll be time for that again, yeah. Question of the day, what Napa cab have you had between 25 and 50 dollars that you’ve really liked? I like to see some names. Curious, got to be honest. 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