Gary Vaynerchuck: Hello everybody and welcome to Wine Library T.V, I am your host Gary Vaynerchuck and this my friends is the Thunder Show, a.k.a the Internet, most passionate wine program. And today as you can see, I didn’t get to the office, but I thought, we still need a show, I still have to come through. I've got a couple of shout outs that I have to do from yesterday actually. And I thought, I’ll go into my little wine cave and pick up a couple of bottles, wine coolers, not cave, you don’t have caves in apartments of New York City. And so I focus on Pomerol, I have two bottles of Pomerol, one from 2001, one from 2003 that I thought we could taste along together, because that’s what we do in the Thunder Show. I think Pomerol is a very interesting area.
Pomerol which is a home to Chateaux Petrus and Chateaux Trotanoy, and Le Pin, so one o the most famous Bordeaux in the world, it's a very interesting place, it's really counter cultural, if you really think about it. It's a right bank wine, very Merlot-based. Right now after Sideways, Merlot is like – in America. Ridiculous!
And also, there's no official ranking in Pomerol. They're a little bit more chill that way, so like Chateaux Petrus is not a first growth people. So there's no rankings, and it's extremely small, like 3 sq. miles in all of the area. It's about like 2000 acres planted less than 2000 acres planted I think actually nowadays. And so, the smallest of all the appellations in Bordeaux, but because of Chateaux Petrus and demanding thousands of dollars a bottle, it really has a big time reputation. So it's kind of like Mighty Mousy that way, like Ivan Putski, little wrestling reference.
You know small but big. And very interesting and I thought it would be a lot of fun to kind of taste side by side actually, I’ll pour this now in the glass. A 2001 and 2003 Pomerol. Now, to a lot of people watching right now, 2003 was a pretty big vintage. I mean it got so overshadowed by ‘05, so a lot of people felt like 2003 was just as amazing thing, but kind of ironically. ‘03 is considerably probably a weaker vintage than 2001 is in Pomeral in the right bank. On the left bank, ’03 has a little bit more height and respect, but ’03 in general in Pomerol was a tricky vintage for a lot of people. Parker for example, you know on his vintage chard, I mean I haven't check awhile, much lower I think on ’03 than ’01, I don’t if I'm wrong about that.
Other that, I'm excited about trying these, I'm excited about new formats, and I'm excited about like this rejuvenation of the show, I feel like reading comments has been phenomenal. Reading the stuff, as I always have, has been so fun, but now knowing that you guys know that I read them, yeah. It's speaking lot of fun. So let's go to yesterday’s episode real quick on my laptop here, I don’t know if it's going to make the screen, little flip cam.
The Mezcal episode with Richard Betts, let's see, Martial wrote, “Damn! I got writers’ block,” I understand Martial. Let's see what else everybody had said here. Whinno, who is a great Vayniac, got a lot of comments, said, “Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…..finally a cure from insomnia, this episode, Zzzz……” Clearly, he did not like it, he was a little bored by the Mezcal. I understand, you know it wasn’t wine, so maybe that’s—you know this whole thing.
Lorrisa Yaso said, “How much do you pay the Burros, I would like to see an actual video of the Sambora Mezcal process.” I agree bets you need to kill that. So much opportunity to show us what it's all about, because it sounds awesome.
Tom from Manchester, UK, big ups to the UK scene. I'm getting a lot of emails from London and UK, in general. “Mezcal sounds very interesting, loved the interview both on Wine Library TV and the New York Times,” yes I did that in New York Times episode. He said, “Matt, pick up a little New York Times article from yesterday, let's see some English wines,” I agree. Question number one, no. Question number two, stay positive, always have optimism, and let's see if we can find one more.
Rolent, who’s also a great commenter, I have to give him a shout out. Question number one, no. Question number two, in the future. So, let's get into these wines. We got an ’01 and ’03. Let's start with the ’01. We got the Chateaux Petit Village, 2001 Pomerol. This wine is 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet. The only price point I could find, it was 49 Euros, you couldn’t really find this in the US, kind of interesting. Let's give it a sniffy sniff, you’ll see the color, it's kind of dark. Not a brown, little into browny-brown, getting around the edges. Don’t be scared of the browny-brown. Let's give it a sniffy sniff. Dark from coming cross, a little bit of leather action on the nose, which I like quite a bit, more sniffy sniff. Kind of like dark dried fruits coming across. Almost like I went to like a fruit market, in the certain area, by the raisins and the grapes, kind of dark fruit little moldy, from like the wood, like a flea market, fruit smell. Flea market fruit, you know what I'm saying. Let's give it a whirl.
I'm homing off the drive. Good fruit, upfront, kind of like dried what have you. Then it's gets creamy, very smooth, very soft though, a hair boring. I’ll give it one more shot. Definitely some seeder box coming through on the backend, a little hint of tobacco and a little leather, but all and all, pretty boring one dimensional wine, some black fruit, again that seem kind of like dried fruit thing that I got in the nose it's coming through here. Almost just like dried plumps, if that make any sense. But, good length, a hair boring, has little copper cinnamon thing, kind of cinnamon thing going on, on the backend right now that I'm tasting a little bit. But I got to be honest with you, I'm pushing it, I'm trying to make this better in my mind. Mainly, because I have been sitting on this wine for 5 or 6 years, I remember this wine when it first came out. And I thought it had huge potential, I was wrong.
This wine is not showing very well. It's quite boring and at some level, I'm glad it's out of collection. This wine scores 84 points and give it a pass, I would not recommend anybody dropping 46 Euros on this wine. I'm not sure I’d recommend you dropping 4.9 Euros on this wine. Let's move on.
Chateaux Gazin, Pomerol 2003 Vintage, this wine rolls in about $60.00, it's 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Souvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, 89 points is proper. But what's funny about Gazin, when I looked up the rating on Parker, his tastings was kind of interesting, he said, “I always end up rating Gazin better and better, as it evolves. It's always difficult to pick it out early, it's kind of tight, it's kind of awkward.” And that’s something I've heard from a lot of people that are big Gazin drinkers. It has a little bit of coke bottling. For some reason I've run across two or three in my time. I believe is so big in this wine being immature and then kind of developing later. I think that’s just some nice way to say that they like the producer and they're just saying, “Don’t evaluate it right now.” I don’t know, I've seen some older Gazins come together pretty well, but I wouldn’t say like it's so shocking and so different than any other winery.
Let's give it a sniffy sniff. This is much more bright fruit, like some cherry twistlers on the nose, and you know we love the twistler. Good fruit coming through. Little bit of like a – I would say French onion soup kind of thing going on. I get this soupy kind of thing, actually it's mushroom soupy. Yeah, I get a little bit of like a fungus kind of play here. It's a little bit of fungi and I don’t mean fun guy, a little fungi and a little dark fruit coming through. Let's give it a whirl.
Much better wine than the Petit-Village, get sour cranberries on the backend, very bright fruit, almost like dried apricot kind of thing coming across, which you almost like Shafer, Sauterns, and Tochi really. Not that it's the main component, but there's like this lingering kind of peach little, like the apricot thing on the backend that’s quite wide, bright cranberry and raspberry in the mid palate, so it's like raspberry jam in the middle. So attacked by cranberry, dry cranberry sort of way, then a little raspberry, and there's like a apricoty kind of thing, which is definitely not a red wine term normally. But same what I'm tasting. Let me give more shot.
Yeah, nice cider, the wood integration in this wine is terrific. I really like the balance of this wine and it's quite elegant. I feel like I popped it a little early, but I was forced, I want to pump up a show out for you. But another 3 to 4 years and this wine really comes together. 60 bones, this economy, but I’ll try you right now, classically well-made in a hot vintage like 2003, the fruit is not getting out of control. It's dark, there's this kind of like charcoaly, Choco thing now picking up on the backend, I like to see this wine in about for a couple more hours. A good solid Pomerol, destroys the Petit-Village, actually I even want a little high note, go back to 81 points assess on this. I like this wine, good fruit, good balance.
You know let me read the shout outs, I got this on my laptop as well. Happy 21st Birthday to Chris Lotz and happy birthday to Christian Spangler, and also Matt, link up the Facebook fan page for Wine Library TV, I've got something brewing exclusive episode in there, coming soon from Southwestern Texas, where I'm going in a couple of days of today for a couples days. I've going to tape an episode there, what wine goes with barbeque, because that’s the whole scene there, so look for that.
And you know a bit of Warner Parker on this, I like this wine, I'm going to go for 90 points. And would I go 89, if it wasn’t directly out of cellar? I would not. So, I'm feeling this wine, it's a good wine. If you see this on a wine list, it's doing quite well right, I think 2 to 3 hours of decanting and I'm sure even better.
Again, Pomerol, my kind of place out of all the steam and Petrus and Le Pin and all that class, lots of small producers like Gay, very small area. And they still are chilling of not to have a ranking system, I kind of like that, but don’t get it twisted, they're very serious when you go there. And the wines are very serious, but a lot of small producers, because it's a very small area, making profound Merlot-based wines. We’ll get in some 2000 Pomerol tasting, maybe two Pomerol tasting. We get 98 Pomeral tasting, we can flip your face off, and when you face flips, it's get crazy.
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