Congratulations to Gary Vaynerchuk on his 500th episode of wine library tv. For those of you who dont know of Gary, he has been delivering the thunder about new wines and a new vocabulary thru his podcasts that appear 5 days a week, sometime between 4:00 and 6:00 EST.

What I find interesting about Gary is his use of social media to promote his message and his personal brand, and I will discuss that more later at Relevantly Speaking, but he has defiantly taken the medium and the message by storm. He is active on Twitter and he is all over mainstream media. Some people are put off by his loud, in-your-face style of broadcast, but it seems like the increasingly large number of fans have acknowledged that this might just be the wake up call that the often-times snooty and snobby wine industry needed. I for one hope to be able to do an interview with him here at DrinkSomeWine, with the assistance of my mentor Scott Parent, who produces the ever so famous podcast AmericanCliche.

For his 500th episode, Gary did a live audience show at CrushPad in San Fransisco and talks about a 2003 Araco Crianza Rioja, a 2001 Bodegas Primicia Rioja Reserva Rioja as well as a 2006 Lucien Crochet Sancerre Le Chene Sancerre Blanc.

If you are still reading this, I would highly recommend buying Gary’s Book - Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World. ANd yes, buy it from here so I get a sniffy sniff of the sale from Amazon.