Epcot Wine Festival Opening with Gary Vaynerchuk

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Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV fame at the opening to Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival.  Even though I’ve had the chance to meet Gary at BlogWorld and Affiliate Summit, our paths just had not crossed until now.

I also love wine — I just don’t know much about it, other than I know what I like.  So, this was a great opportunity to learn more about wine, what to try, what to look for, what to pay, and so on.  Gary is great in this respect, as he keeps wine-tasting simple.  He absolutely destroys the “hoity-toity” persona normally associated with wine connoisseurs.

I learned a lot from Gary in a very short period of time, including — 1) You need to “de-cant” your wines, always.  If nothing else, open the bottle and let it sit for a while.  We even noticed the wine getting better just by sitting in the glass for a little while.  2)Try everything!  Don’t get stuck in a rut and focus on one varietal.  The only way to develop your palette is to try lots of different wines.  3) Smell makes a HUGE difference with the wine.  Wow!!  Literally, night and day difference if you swirl the wine, get a good sniffy-sniffy, and then drink.  You can get some great tips about wine just watching Gary’s daily video podcast at WineLibrary.tv, every day.

I took a little video with the Flip (of course) and you get to see Gary tell us a little about himself (I was shocked how many people came to the event that didn’t know Gary), a little sniffy-sniff, and finally, Gary’s tasting technique.

I had really hoped that Gary would have some advance copies of his new book, Crush It, but he did not.  Oh well, I really want it on my new Kindle, anyway

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