Australian Shiraz Super Wines Blind - Episode #517

Gary: Hello everybody and welcome to Wine Library TV. Hi, I am your host, Gary Vaynerchuck and this my friends is the Thunder Show. I am taking it down a notch because I do know that 33% of the people that watch Wine Library TV leave after the explosion in the first second and they miss out on all the content, all the heartfelt great education about wine, family, life, sharing, trusting your own power. It just makes me sad Chris Mott, it makes me sad. Big shake and big shout out to Dino and Travis. Keep sending the T-shirts and I will keep wearing them.

Anyways, blind tasting Australian Shiraz. I have been noticing something with my wine drinking habits outside of the Thunder Show and I am noticing that my palate is starting to appreciate the Australian wines a little bit more. I have done enormous amounts of flying elbows, camel clutches which is actually this and iron claws to the head dome of Australian Shiraz wines and I am noticing the palate is kind of coming back circa 1998 to 2001 vintage Australian wines which was a couple of years later than that, I was addicted to those wines and I think my palate got overdone and just did not like them anymore and I started going more towards the earthy more balanced wines I guess but as anything else in life, peaks and valleys Mott, I started seeing myself enjoying Australian Shiraz a little bit more lately as I taste it.

I am excited about doing this blind tasting. We have four heavy rates, all blinds and so I am really excited about tasting these wines. They are all pretty expensive. Ian has taken all the foil off everything so here we go just completely blind, really a lot of fun. Let us kick it blind style. Wine number one. Consume it in Mott. You like that? Wine number one, and here I hole the Jet 16 record that Rick Farve and company are going to be bringing to New York.

All right let us give wine number one a sniffy sniff. PS, am actually worried about the Jets skiing, Pennington and the dolphins. I just have this weird feeling Mott, this weird feeling that Pennington and dolphins are going to cause me some trouble. Anyway. Really dark red color. Very dark almost black like, just give it a sniffy sniff. Big licorice, Kirsch Royal kind of thing going on. Tons of fruit coming through. Explosive nose. Raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, mulberry, schmelenberry, gelenberry, ballonberry, rifinberry, it is all up in here with the berry berry.

Very explosive on the nose. But considering a very happy level of cassis blackcurrant and blackberries so a lot of that. Let us give it a whirl. Very heavy, really aromatically explosive, big richness, black licorice, Kirsch Royal blackberry. Just intense fruit.

A little rusty on the spitting. Anyway, sorry. Some went directly in my eye. Big wine, definitely oakey a lot of vanilla coming through, a little cedar box, heavy tannens, dark, black chocolate coming through. Good weight. A little over the top for me but again lately seeing my palate enjoying the fruit balms a little bit more than I used to so not horrible, definitely too hot for me on the back end. A very young wine, well structured and well made. I like this wine, I think it is pretty decent but it is definitely a wine that I think it is probably a little over the top and I am going to make some secret notes and I am going to unveil them at the end. Let us see what is going on with the next wine.

Secret notes always bring a nice little element. I missed you Veiniacs. I missed you hard. Wine number two. Yes, you know what is going to happen on the Thunder Show, I already spit in my eye, I already made a big mess after all the Veiniacs that could not be with us. I am rusty. Let us see what is going on with wine number two.

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Zooming in baby, wine number two. They are off the deuce, double deuce, Billy D. Williams style. Let us give it a sniffy sniff. This nose, I like quite a bit. This is much more concentrated and focused on the nose, great beautiful color again. This has a little green pepper component going on but still very heavy on the strawberries and big explosi