WINE CELLAR TOUR – 1000+ Bottles of Wine Nerd NIRVANA!!!

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00:00 My Wine Cellar and Philosophy
02:52 Great Italian WINE
07:48 Riesling!
09:39 Gems from Eastern Europe
13:39 Bordeaux
16:36 American Wine
19:21 My most TREASURED Wines

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and then this wine is nearest and dearest to my heart so my seller is actually an old bomb shelter which is perfect there’s no light and it’s humid in fact it floods sometimes so I have rubber boots right next to the entrance in case it’s flooded sometimes there’s about four or five Ines of water I’m going to show you what I got let’s [Music] go I had to put a gate at the end it’s because a cat and a dog would sometimes sneak in here since it’s dark and cool and poop on the floor here it is even though it’s not hot out it’s super humid I’m already sweating I haven’t done a count recently cuz I don’t keep track but I think I have four to 500 bottles in here I think right now between my seller the samples and the studio everything that’s line out there’s about 1,200 to, 1500 bottles of wine here I get sent so many samples to be considered for review sometimes up to a thousand bottles a year so My workstation is just filled with wine all the time my studio is just got so much wine all over the place I know a lot of wine friends that work in the wine business and spouses complain people that collect wine it’s kind of Addicting you never really drink more than you buy usually people are just buying buying buying and the seller grows I’m just getting more and more samples so the seller continues to grow and sometimes they get duplicates so I store them here or I give them away I also get sent lots of argon gas cartridges from Corin almost like I never drink wines from the seller often times if I do drink I drink samples that I’ve reviewed but then again I don’t really drink that much at home because when you’re tasting all day sometimes that’s the last thing you want to do wine is awesome but at the end of the day it is work the Sellar floods often several times throughout the year in fact 6 months ago these wood legs rotted out and the Shelf fell down I lost about 12 bottles I went to the lumber yard got some treated wood and then bolted it into place if you go to a lot of sellers most wines are stored on their sides or maybe slightly up so the sediment falls to the bottom I read an article a few years AG go about how there’s enough humidity between the top fill of the wine and the cork so that should be enough to keep the cork moist especially here the seller is super humid also if I store them upright I can put more bottles in it’s easier to get to what I want but then again like I said I’m not pulling from the Celler that much so maybe it doesn’t matter who knows the good thing about this shelf rotting and breaking is I had to take all the wines out and put them back in and I could organize them a little bit this section is Italy I would say that Italian wines probably represent present the biggest proportion of my seller followed by unique Eastern European countries I bring bottles back in my suitcase on trips or when I visit if they mean something special to me Italy was my first love when it came to fine wine so that’s where it is let’s let’s let’s take a look and see what I got here it’s this is exciting for me too oh my first ever trip to a wine region and I guess it was the mark of me stepping into wine professionally I was a practicing chiropractor in in Southeast Asia I took a sabatical to travel around the world and that eventually became my wine writing and on youtubing Career my first stop in a wine region was pedmont because bolo barbaresco were some of the first Fine Wines I fell in love with this is a producer that’s way under the radar the wines always kick some serious butt especially in blind tastings Adrian Marco vorio this is the bazarin barbaresco 2011 they also make a Reserva which is just killer in fact I did a tasting with my collector friends while ago about pedmont Reds and that was one of the best wines of the tasting barbaresco I generally prefer to bolo because you can get fantastic value for money you can still find some gem producers as nebiolo prices keep going up so this is worth checking out this was off the same trip I remember I went to bolo then barbaresco and shipped two cases back this is the Pasqual pisero barbaresco chabat Reserva 2010 great vintage run by a lady her father founded the winery and everything was dedicated to her papa she was super I thought it was excellent at that same time I was going to different communes what happens when you go to places in Italy the different communes in wine regions or different villages will sometimes have their own Inka their own wine shop and then when I went to sarala I believe that this was this is the Franco contano petran bolo 2009 good vintage not as great as 2010 contero is a big name in bolo but a different contero although a lot of them are all related I remember this was good value for money oh this is from monforte near s monforte and songa wines they’re usually a little bit bigger so I’ll probably keep this in the seller for a little bit longer I also have a different philosophy when it comes to Wine collecting when it comes to price when you get in the 25 to30 let’s say $30 now with prices rising $3 to $50 you can drink some of the great wines of the world without breaking your bank if you fight hard you know what you’re looking for you’re either educated in wine or you know a shop owner that will point you in the right direction I know a lot of my friends that are in the wine business that have sellers especially from Europe because most of my wine writer friends are from Europe they’ll have big sellers but they don’t have ridiculously expensive wines I don’t have really ridiculous expensive wines here I don’t have first growths I do have some wines a little more expensive and near and dear to me and I’ll show you some of them I know several years ago there was a video on Munchies about Steven Spurrier the late great Steven Spurrier who I was very fond of I’ve actually got a little tipsy with him a few times he’s always been kind to me so when he passed hit me pretty hard but in that video he talks about when he bought the wines on release he wasn’t buying them from an investment the most he spent was 50 lb which back then was probably about 80 bucks on release and which is a lot already but you don’t need to spend a ton to get a great bottle of wine for a lot of wine collectors are buying 12 bottle cases and the rule of thumb is you’ll probably drink three bottles too young if you’re lucky six bottles at the right time and then three bottles past the peak I’m at the end of the millennial generation where we want a little bit more diversity I don’t buy six to 12 bottle cases I think in the seller the most I have of a single wine is maybe three bottles for me there’s an endless amount of diversity in wine that’s when I want to drink from I don’t need to be drinking the same wine over and over again although one could argue you have much different experiences with wine when you taste it through different stages of its Evolution wow I find some wines some of the wines that mean the most to me fre Venia Julia in Northern Italy is one of my favorite regions of the world big white wines fantastic Reds this is probably what’s considered one of the most culty expensive producers meani made in tiny quantities makes like 15,000 20,000 bottles a year I know that Australia only gets one case I used to go see him every year he’s like a farmer you can only go after 6 o’clock when the Sun starts to set he comes in on his tractor he loves whites Al though he makes great Reds I have the petan Rola giala 2015 these wines age their Barrel fermented white wines in fact his s yon is one of the greatest Sans I’ve ever tasted along with celx and pu fum also his charday Barack is like Grand crew burgundy unfortunately I don’t have any bottles of that he also makes the greatest Mero that I’ve ever tasted better than petruse better than chevel Blanc which is actually the why most memorable uh Mero based wine I’ve like this is the miani Philip single Vineyard Mero 2013 I’m waiting to share this with somebody special these wines are hard to get your hands on they’re rare and they become expensive when you get to the secondary third Market I I know that the fleet Mero is probably a $3 $400 bottle which is pretty insane I think the whites go for like $150 a bottle so see these are some of the more expensive wines I have in the seller let’s take a little break from Italy because Italy’s my big love we’ll come back to it I show you my most prized bottle in the seller a little bit later I know a lot of people hear me talk about reing how it’s my favorite wine grape in the world unfortunately I don’t have a ton of reing in the seller because I tend to drink it all I have let’s see I found a few this is one of my favorite producers in The Faults this is the Von vinning wrer fad recing this is a uraga a premier crew Von winning is really unique because all the reings are bar fermented is fantastic every single vintage I harp and tell people man you don’t need to buy grossest Gak the best most expensive reings I think you bu uraga the premier crew or the or wine which is the Village Wine they offer tremendous value for money and when you’re in Germany the reings are so cheap it’s ridiculous I do have one grossest GX of the vitman kers Spiel West hoffen reing grossus give ax 2022 these are getting ridiculous like 150 bucks I needed some reings from vitman For an upcoming video and I only needed one but they sent me several so I’m going to put this away and and keep it for a few years vitman makes the most memorable dry resling I’ve ever had the morstein I remember back in 20 2019 I stayed in Germany for two months just because I wanted to learn about Reeling I was visiting about three producers a day they taught me so much about canopy management one of the more educational two months of my life in terms of wine so I’m going to hold on to that also wines I wish I had more of but I just drink too much as I love sweet cabinet reing this is the Arman reing cabinet this is from Von buou 2022 these are like adult lemonade they’re so tart they’re so fresh they’re so delicious and in German they’re like nothing like 12 to 15 bucks a bottle in us maybe 20 25 but I think they offer tremendous value for money it’s literally a wine you can drink the entire day it’s so delicious and refreshing it’s the cool thing about wine Wine’s got a little bit like a time capsule it’s fun seeing what is back here because it Sparks up some memories I have here wine from Montenegro when I first did my Balan road trip I traveled through the Balkans for several months visiting all the producers I thought it was fantastic then I live there part of the year I have the book marcelin marcin’s a cross between Cabernet 7on and granach remember going up in the mountains way up in the mountains in Montenegro finding the small producer and he opened some older bottles and I thought this wine was delicious it’s not the greatest wine in the world but it’s a very good wine that’s the fun thing about collecting wine you don’t have to collect all trophies collect fun stuff another thing where my wine career started uh Armenia and Georgia this is the Zora karasi probably the most notable wine coming out of Armenia this is made of the grape areni 2013 the 2009 I think their first vintage ever was I think on Bloomberg’s top 10 wines of the year or something like that I can’t remember if it was Bloomberg’s or another publication I know they correct me on that I have this wine I just got last year this is the Alo Monastery ratat telli 2015 this is made by monks I got this while I was shooting video in Georgia last year I got pretty toasty at lunch with a bunch of monks getting blasted at lunch oh God and the Archbishop which was a pretty amazing experience and I brought this bottle back to share it with me I was going to share this with somebody special but uh uh not anymore I guess um I also have four wines here that mean a ton to me this is considered one of the greatest red wines coming out of Serbia and maybe all of EX Yugoslavia this is a producer called mataya This is the cran Ken cabern savan 2012 this wine won like tons of awards like best of show all over it’s considered like one of the greatest Serbian wines ever made I have a vertical of the first three vintages he made of this 11 12 and 13 still making it in excellent vintages I think I saw this wine on Belgrade because it’s so rare he doesn’t even have any maybe should even sell I think this wine was like three or four $500 now on release it back then it was like 30 I think now it’s like 60 bucks or something like that for the current release another wine here from that from the neighbor Croatia this is the boskin 2013 this is a also a Bordeaux blend the restaurant’s awesome just got a Michelin starbs congratulations but the late great Anthony Bourdain did an episode about Coastal Croatia and he went to this Winery and he’s sitting there drinking the wine eating the food and this I remember in one scene he looks over at his fixer the guy that was hosting me said which is saying something believe me wine is awesome right yeah is this is a cow this is the type of wine I want to drink for the rest of my life yeah me too going back to Serbia this is the Ivanovich number one half this is 50% procup Poots and the rest is K 7an and Mero procup Poots is one of my favorite grapes in the world I can did a bid blind tasting video on this I met this guy’s considered like one of the Godfathers of Serbian wine modern Serbian wine and he died during covid which is quite sad his son’s doing a good job but uh I’m I’m glad I still have this bottle I don’t know when I’m going to open it up another one wine that hits near dear into my heart from Croatia you can see it’s a little bit moldy to this is the coronica grand tan 2012 one of the best wines I think coming out of Croatia tan is the grape variety high acid high fruit reminds me of a kind of a cross between Barbara and sanesi and when it ages ages like great kianti Classico this is consistently one of my favorite Wines in Croatia and I’m glad I had the I have two bottles of this 12 so I’m happy about that let’s move to some of the countries you know about I don’t have tons of diversity in French wine I mostly have ran and Bordeaux I’d like to have more burgundy I just really can’t afford it we’re going to get to Bordeaux but if you want to hang out with myself and like-minded wine people I invite you to check out channel memberships every month I’ll be doing a live hangout tasting members in the Grand Reserve the second tier will be able to come up on screen share their wines their thoughts with me and other fellow wine lovers I did the first one we had a blast I’m also launching a live video podcast series and members in that Grand Reserve tier will be able to come on screen and ask a question almost like calling into a live radio show check out the joint button next to the Subscribe button and I’ll leave a link in the comments below I have three Bordeaux wines from the same ownership and they’re wines I really like this is just killer value for money this chatau lilan Louis from s Stef 2018 rer approachable vintage and board dough this wine I’ve seen it as in France you can get for like1 15 in America it’s anywhere from 20 to 30 bucks when it ages it tastes like out just outstanding Bordeaux like this is the Bordeaux I would buy cases of let’s see it the the other two here I have by the same ownership I think they’re ridiculous value money The Chateau lefon Roch from St EST neighboring and the Chateau de from Margo both 2018s I don’t know what the retails are on these wines I think they come in anywhere 506 bucks but they offer ridiculous value for money I think DSN is a third growth or maybe yeah third growth I think Leon rochet is a fourth or a fifth growth I don’t like you don’t have to spend a lot in Bordeaux to get excellent wines but I do have uh let’s see let’s see I do have some nicer wines I have the I have a magnum I used to have three of these from cateau C Stell this is the pagota de cost 2015 also from Santa Stef Left Bank based on kernet 7on I actually won this in a wine writing contest I had a few bottles one I drank one I gave away as a gift and I still have one left and you can see that this is moldy a little bit because uh this was affected by the flood this fell down when the Sellar flooded but luckily the bottle didn’t break thank goodness I don’t like to age my bordeau for super super long I think 10 years that’s when you kind of get the sweet spot that’s when you have still the fresh fruit but get the tertiary flavors here is the chat di coat 2018 from gigal this is I love K Roe I love SAR again I just don’t drink it enough I think these wines are really ridiculously expensive now like two 200 250 bucks and coat Ro’s age so well so I’ll hold on to that for a while and red wines often they don’t age as well as you expect I’ve said this on the channel many times I’m actually moved more by aged white wines when it comes to dry wines most of the time sweet wines fortified wines almost always age well but I can’t count the number of times we’ve opened an old age red and it was kind of disappointing let’s see here I don’t have American wines which I have plenty I don’t actually sell a lot of Napa Cabernet I actually give away a lot of Napa Cabernet that I get cuz people want to taste it I think I have here I got a lot of pinoir and Chardonnay let’s take a look here okay people know on the channel Santa Barbara County is my favorite region in America maybe one of my favorite regions in the world I have two of my favorite Chardonnay producers this is the liquid Farm white Hill chardet 2015 made more in of a sh style blend of several Vineyards these are excellent wines I prefer the golden slope it’s a little bit bigger white Hill sometimes is way too lean in acidic upon upon release but man they age well one producer I think is just amazing as deerberg this is the drum Canyon Vineyard chardet 2019 O this is ready to drink probably these wines don’t break the bank I think both these like 50 60 bucks I know it’s expensive but not ridiculously expensive let’s see a couple I got some pirs here but I think these wines these two mean a lot to me I have the a priority Cabernet 7on Reserve from Napa Valley 2014 back in 2018 I believe I was selected to be part of the professional wine riter Symposium in mealwood of Napa Valley so they give you a gift when you check in and this is one of the gifts this along with a marel Cabernet Franc I have somewhere I can’t find it around that same time I think I went to Virginia to visit a friend I went to the wineries to visit and this is like the the cult Winery of Virginia this is the RDV Lost Mountain 2011 it’s a Bordeaux blend back then I think it was it was expensive I think it was like 100 bucks but I think it’s a lot more enough and I think catto monrose just bought them or some Bordeaux property just bought them I don’t know when I’m going to open that but uh I’m excited to see how this taste maybe I’ll open up with my collector friends I don’t have a ton of champagne or bubbles because uh I drank them all too fast all right let’s move on here let me just rearrange this oh let’s see what oh I actually forgot I had some of these I have uh vut tment from sudy Southern Stan Austria this is the re gr nesburg San Blanc 2019 saleria is one of the great regions for San Blanc that a lot of people don’t know about these wines age super well again as you see not super old stuff oh rumaging around I guess I do have an old wine and it’s not even mine this is the birth year of my father my grandmother bought it for him on his birth year 1949 this is a Ken dry white bordeau look at the color on this bad boy not even mine it’s my dad’s it was he’s still alive you can see they’re not like a lot of trophy wines cuz it’s not an investment for me these are wines I want to share I want to drink four of my most prized bottles here are sentimental reasons they’re a little more expensive but uh but it’s more for sentimental reasons first I have the San Leonardo 2016 this is a Bordeaux blend from Northern Italy made by the late great jaot Takis who also created sasaka San Leonardo is a throwback to kind of old school bordo Blends you see 133% alcohol lower in alcohol more Savory has about 20% Caron a in the blend the reason that I held on to this bottle is I went to visit them after I spoke at wine to Wine a few years ago in Verona in Italy and I went to visit uh gelmo because I’ve been a big fan of these wines we did a mini vertical tasting some of the wines were just spectacular but the 16 for young wines were killer I’m going to hold on to this I’m probably not going to drink this for another 3 four years but man this is just killer wine awesome wine I think you can find them anywhere from in the US 80 to 120 bucks I know it’s expensive but that’s killer wine another I love San v as you know it’s my favorite red wine grape in the world world I just don’t keep a lot of it cuz I drink a lot of it this is one of my favorite producers in all of Italy this is the BOS gelli Veno Noble the multiple chano not canti Classico n Brunello Costa Grande 2016 again like the sun Aro 2016’s a great vintage in all of Europe in Italy especially anything you see 16 Reds and whites scoop it up because the wines are fabulous this is just I love boscarelli style because they’re a little bit bigger a little riper but they’re not trying to be Brunell they’re not trying to be anything that they’re not they’re just they are what they are are and then my two two lnes that are most memorable to me including the one I I hold nearest and dearest to my heart one here is Borgo detillo this is lonco deaa 2015 this is 100% freano from a single Vineyard when I first went to Frei Venia Julie I remember visiting Borgo deia Nicola the wine maker owner sat down I remember one of my friends was like that guy looks legit fantastic Barrel fermented whites although he makes some good Reds too this is just killer wine I don’t know when I’m going to drink this this is not cheap I don’t know what the price retail is now back then when I bought it was like €50 50 bucks in the seller but that was a long time ago and then this wine is nearest and dearest to my heart in colio in F Venia Julia it’s home to rakon grer two producers that are credited for bringing orange wines kind of back into the public eye this is the rakon rbola gala 2001 I remember when I visited stano rakan had just died just a year earlier that was the founder his son Sasha now took over and his wife we went through a tasting we bought several bottles of wine the wines are Stellar they’re old school they’re mated they’re aged for a long time they’re a little bit crazy for some people they don’t use sulfur or stano didn’t use sulfur I think Sasha is starting to use sulfur now but I think stano used sulfur until 2001 2002 I remember when I drank 2002 like this was like six years ago the hairs on my arm stood up up and I remember when I walked out after we bought a case Susanna ran out and gave us a gift this 2001 and I want to drink this but I don’t really know who to drink it with so this is my most prized bottle in the seller so that’s a little quick seller tour do you have a big collection of wines what are some of your most prized bottles I’d love to hear drop it in the comments below