GIVE US MORE OF THOSE!😍 Goliath vs. David should be a whole Series please 🙏🏼

@GreatNate

4 ай бұрын

agreed!

@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine

4 ай бұрын

I will!

@AnarchoKapital

4 ай бұрын

+1 There should be an episode on every „essential“ wine that one should have in the cellar.

@darillus1

4 ай бұрын

@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine excellent!

@theskilled99

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. This is a great format.

Next David vs Goliath should be on the sparkling wine category! The classic champagne grapes are used all over the world

@PierreDybman

4 ай бұрын

Neither the grapes nor the method are enough to fully emulate the terroir. But I have tasted excellent Crémants from many different countries...

@reestyfarts

4 ай бұрын

To my reading the only defining characteristic of Cremants is the 4 atmosphere CO2 pressure vs. 8 atmospheres for the method traditionnelle wines. @@PierreDybman

@gamemeister27

4 ай бұрын

I hear Argyle is really close to a champagne that costs over 10x as much

@hhallengren

4 ай бұрын

No, not necessarily as the CO-pressure is regulated by a minimum in the AOC so they can be at the same level of pressure today. And both Cremate and Champagne use the traditional method. Although grape verities can vary vastly. But I think that what @PierreDybman is getting at is the fact that that even if you use the traditional method and the traditional grapes you won't be able to emulate the terroir of Champagne; so it would be a little bit to easy to pick out in a line-up.@@reestyfarts

@jonikaranka3393

4 ай бұрын

Lots of options using the traditional method: cremant, cava, cap classique, franciacorta. Been impressed by Franciacorta and Cap Classique more than any Cremant. Would be great to include the new Corpinnat appelation.

The next David vs Goliath could be a continuation of a Burgundy vs the world theme, Pinot Noir!

@jimcricket8334

4 ай бұрын

A $100 burgundy pitted against $50 Oregon, Santa Rita Hills, Germany, etc might come in last 😂

@wsgiessen

3 ай бұрын

@@jimcricket8334right, but could you call a 100€ Burgundy a Goliath? That‘s like one of David‘s older brothers :)

Next one has to be Pinot Noir/Spätburgunder/Blauburgunder PLEASE !!!! I want to find some bang for the buck wines through that aswell :D

The little Rully that could. That's what happens when you drink a ton of wine and know good from bad and what your personal tastes are. I've had all sorts of mega expensive bottles and the vast majority of my favorite wines fall into the regularly-affordable category.

GO KONSTANTIN GO! Love seeing you taste blind and talk through the steps/nuances. Detektiv Konstantin.

I love the blind tastings. Please keep them coming. Always nice to see David bring down Goliath.

I generally find that the more expensive the bottle, the more the bottle appreciates some time in the cellar. It doesn't work for me to put a $25 bottle and a $100 bottle side by side from the same vintage because the less expensive bottle will generally be more open and just drink better. But if the $25 bottle was from 2020 and the $100 bottle was from the 2015 vintage, I would think I had leveled the playing field and now I would expect the people to prefer the more expensive bottle. I should add that, given cellar time, I expect the more expensive bottle to show more complexity. Keep blind tasting as I admire your bravery and your honesty. Blind tasting keeps us all humble.

@michaelosborne9279

3 ай бұрын

Some of thoae chards should age pretty nicely. Certainly some Margaret river and NZ do, although admittedly I am thinking of a slightly higher price point. But the white burg goliath would probably premox anyway and so lose... 😂

I vote for Pinot Noir as the next one! And perhaps the concept of ‘Bordeaux Blend’ as a second one? Although this varies much more wildly as any single variety wine of course.

would love to see a syrah/shiraz david and goliath

There are so many varieties to choose from... I'd suggest Syrah :)

Do Bordeaux-style blends next! See if anything can topple the 2010 Pontet-Canet.

Another vote for this becoming a series. I think this was one of my favourite videos from you. Great work.

Pinot Noir / Spätburgunder / Blauburgunder wäre interessant bei der nächsten David vs. Goliath. Wäre schön gewesen bei Chardonnay einen Schweizer Wein drin zu haben. Vielleicht bei Pinot Noir?!

Do the David vs Goliath with Bordeaux blends. You could include a growth wine, a super Tuscan and have Bordeaux blends from some more unusual areas as well.

Cabernet sauvignon would be interested. Although I guess a lot of the very expensive vinyards uses the grape in blends. Would love to see one with cabernet franc too. Great video as always 😊

Would love to see cab sauv from the new and old world

love to see margaret river chardonnay on the channel, mchenry hohnen do great stuff

Syrah or shiraz would be interesting! Primativo, CA, WA, Aus, France, etc. It'd also be cool to see some less talked about varieties like petit verdot.

Great idea for a blind tasting. Watching you go through the evaluation process was very educational for a wannabe blind taster like myself. This theme could be used for many more tastings on your show. Also, the production quality on your channel is very good - I appreciate that very much.

The results are certainly interesting. Great video. Maybe a pinot noir would make for a great challenge?

One of the best and most useful episodes so far. More, please.

"I'm winning I'm winning "

Loving it! Thank you

@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

great video!

Loved this tasting. Very interesting.

Easily the most honest and revealing wine tasting I’ve seen on YT. BRAVO Constantin!

You're absolutely brilliant Konstantin! Part of what makes your channel so great is that you take risks which then translate to viewing pleasure. David v Goliath challenge Bordeaux blends please!

Always enjoy your presentations. The honesty and professionalism, with the light- hearted approach just adds to the enjoyment. Well done!

Either Pinot Noir or Cabernet Sauvignon would be great choices for your next David vs. Goliath. Keep this up!

Loving these types of tastings. PLease do more.

This was one of your best videos so far, great concept, well executed, and a great learning experience. Way to start 2024, Konstantin (and Leon)!!🙏🍷🌺🌺

Worthwhile format. Really enjoyed it. Please turn it into a series. Great suggestions from many if your other fans.

Great video. Riesling and pinot would be very interesting in this format 👍

Great concept for a video series. Especially love the honesty and humility of putting yourself out there when it could be tempting to revise your opinions later after learning the wines to inflate scores of the more expensive wines. Thanks for another great video!

Very nice series idea! NoSediment just had a guest who talked about how inaccessible a lot of discussed wines are so this is good

Love the swords. Keep up the good work Mr. Baum

I love all your videos and your honest, unpretentious style. I loved this one and hope you will do more. I would agree on the Sparkling wine category. I think you could also do this within a specific wines like Barolos, Brunellos, Super Tuscans to find great value wines vs the well known Goliaths.

Love this, great format Konstantin (well played for the NZ one!) and great selection Leon :) Rully for the win! For a subsequent one I would suggest either Chenin or Sauvignon blanc, both being present in different countries, styles and price points. Would also love a similar exercise with different Nebbiolos, even though it would be geographically narrower.

Another awesome video, Konstantin! It'd be great to have you evaluating chablis in a chardonnay line-up on another occasion. Best! Wojtek

great concept for the video with a fascinating results😅

great content

Awesome format! 👏 And nice to see a Rully on top - I have had a bit och a fling with that area for the past couple of years as I've experienced it to have one of the best QPR for white Burgundy. I would love to see Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah and Grenache in the future!

This is an amazing video. I also want to share this video with so many “snobs“ (not to be confused with nerds) around me who sometimes say, there’s nothing interesting outside cote d‘or or Bordeaux. Thanks for making these super interesting, authentic and creative videos!

Always gotta re wind and rewatch your blind series from the start after you reveal the labels to understand the style of each label, vs the first time where it’s a play-along. Love the double experience in a vid haha

Awesome content! Cabernet Sauvignon next please :D So happy to see Margaret River represented, some of the best Chardonnay around is being produced there.

Great video! Despite the discrepancy in price between #3 and #5, they are both French burgundies.

It would be interesting for you to do a tasting with the real top tier wines that run in the hundreds to thousand in their intended prime (6-10 years?) against the cheaper wines in their intended windows (much younger) to use a real goliath and a real david while comparing them all in their primes.

Just the type of tasting of which we need more. I guess it means lots of good content for you. I would like more red wines my preference being cabernets. Thanks for the content.

Love your videos - please consider trying some Martinborough wines from NZ, seriously underrated.

Ziereisen Hard is such a good wine, had two older vintages; ages beautifully

Great video and blind tasting concept! With Burgundy prices skyrocketing I would love to see a Pinot Noir David vs Goliath tasting.

I enjoy seeing the variety in flavour profiles of the same grape, while still having qualities that tie them together. I have been enjoying grenache recently and would enjoy a David vs Goliath of this grape varietal. It is delicious, but doesn’t sit much in the spotlight.

Great video. Fascinating! I’m a huge Lamy fan and take the wines ep every year. Olivier ((the son) is a meticulous winemaker. You are right that Rully producers make terrific wines and are more price worthy. Lamy is now much pricier than when I started laying the wines down in 2010. Champagne/sparking would be good. Also Syrah/Shiraz Thanks again

I would like you to make a similar video about Bordeaux wines :) cheers!

Great content KB, brilliant, more like this, down to earth, believable, I want Rioja! Do Rioja!!

Would love to see you do a focus on the Alto Adige! They make amazing interesting whites! Especially Andriano / Terlano! Thanks!!!

Great video KB, love the concept. Would love to see Pinot Noir & Syrah blind tastings at different price points.

Such a great format. You should do more of these for sure! Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot, Syrah and Riesling would all make for great David v Goliaths.

New Zealand does fantastic chardonnay; when I was there recently I had to add the Kumeu River chardonnay to my cellar on your recommendation, and the home block chardonnay from Te Kairanga in Martinborough.

Would love to see a video of your personal wine collection😊

Super cool tasting! Lot of interesting insight from how you dissected fruit, oak, and winemaking style which is so curiously challenging with chardonnay. I guess Burgundy is not invincible after all haha!

nice video again! Where'd you get those 'Bottle-Hiders' with numbers?

Amazing tasting Konstantine! Definitely Cabernet Sauvignon for the next David vs Goliat.

Great video and it seems that we are all in agreement that this format should be an ongoing series. I would be curious to see a Pinot Noir David vs. Goliath, as it is a tough and finicky grape to grow. But it can deliver incredible wines that are both enjoyable and intellectually challenging as well. Cheers!

Love the David v Goliath. Echo other sentiments. Make this a series!!!!

We just opened a bottle of the 2020 Dog Point Chardonnay. I couldn't find the 2021. Very good. Perhaps more mineral than the one you tasted. Thanks for these ideas!

🇮🇱 Danku Doc! Good VID! Great Schvitz... Its really wonderful perspective.. though the scaling numbers could be more precise. Carry on! God bless Us. 🙏🧿🥂

Very good and most intersting. New Z got me curious. A new to try, Grenache perhaps?

exactly what I was going to write 👍 Pls do a southern Rhone tasting - D vs G

A gr8 tasting as always, let's buy some of the cheap Goliath straight away😊

Great video! Would you be inteested in tasting wine from my vineyard in North Carolina?

Interesting. Good to see even the expert can get it wrong sometimes. Thanks.

Excellent tasting! A similar one for red Burgundy and various other Pinot Noir from around the world? Cheers 🥂

Thanks!

@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

This was great fun! Red wine, please!!🍷

Thanks Konstantin. this was enlightening but proves the old adage that the price and vineyard in Burgundy is not a guarantee that you will get the best wine. It’s all about the grower. I would love to see you stay in Burgundy and compare pinot noir, there are so many countries producing fabulous pinot’s and if you stay at a price range below some of the crazy prices for some of the Grand Cru’s, your Goliath may not be a Pinot from Burgundy. This would be very interesting.

I think the next grape variety should be Nebbiolo

Very entertaining exercise, Master! As I watch this, I am enjoying a glass of 2021 Jim Barry Lodge Hill Riesling from Oregon, which is pretty delicious. Next time do a Riesling D vs. G. Cheers 🥂!!

@donaldcook3112

3 ай бұрын

. . . Any Riesling worth it’s name is worth allowing to sleep for 5 to 10 years. The better one’s n e e d a m i n i m u m of, at least, 10 years.

I really want to see another David vs Goliath challenge, this is a great format for a video! My vote is cabernet sauvignon.

Hi Konstantin, I‘d like to see a Bordeaux Blend David vs Goliath. Cheers

I would love to do these for each of the major grapes. Cabernet, syrah/shiraz, malbec, riesling,

So interesting that the 1er Cru burgundy was the WEIRDEST for you in terms of blind tasting…. What only the cote dor brings!

Fantastic video - thank you. How about a Swiss wine some time? 🙂

Please try the Marcillac wines made from the Fer Servadou (aka Mansois) grape.

Goliat should be 5 times bigger than David... IMO

Many thanks not just for this tasting but also all the others. As I have aged-aka matured- I have become less and less a fan of the expensive wines regardless of region. I have been fortunate to drink wines that cost many $100’s and collected many of them. Many of them have been sold as I realized a few years ago that they weren’t worth it taste wise or at least my palette could not taste the last 3 or 4 points between 94-97,98,99 points. Nor was I able to, hand on heart, justify the jump from $30-50 to $500 for those few extra points which I could not decipher anyhow. I appreciate some can taste those point differences which is why I felt good about selling the wines on. For what it is worth, I have come to the conclusion that the sweet spot is in the $20-50 range. Thereafter, I am not sure that what I am paying for goes into what I drink rather than label, marketing etc. Sure, if you need to impress a great Bordeaux etc will do it over a cheaper wine but once you are over the need to impress, it is what is in the bottle that counts. As to the future, further battles within the grape varieties is always fun as you be an analysis of price vs points. On that note I have often wondered when MVs give say, 90 points to a grand cru and 90 to a cheaper wine are those 90 points the same or not. Thanks again for all the great work and all the best for 2024.

Not surprised a Margaret River Chardonnay showed well. Without doubt Australia produces some of the best Chardonnays on the planet, from a variety of regions - Margaret River, Adelaide Hills, Tasmania, Yarra Valley, Beechworth, Macedon Ranges among others. I am fond of NZ Chardonnay too but IMO Australia has its nose clearly in front of its Kiwi brethren at this stage at least.

I would say pinot noir or cab sauv or Bordeaux Blend tastings should follow 😊

Great tasting. Young good quality Chardonnays can be difficult to tell apart. For me as they age is when the great one’s separate from the pack. Pinot Noir would be a nice Goliath tasting. Cheers!!

This was great. I do think usage of wine discs could better ensure the “blindness” of the test. Even the best wine bags can’t fully hide the bottle openings which can betray the origin of the bottle (screw cap is most likely New Zealand when it comes to high end wines)

Great concept this, would love to see more of it. Gotta say, a Saint Aubin 1er Cru is hardly a Goliat in Burgundy though prices have gone up the roof recently. Would have loved to se a high end Puligny-Montrachet or something like it but thats only because I dont have to pay the bill.

@holgerheuermann

4 ай бұрын

…and also it is a bit difficult to compare the vintages from 2021 and 2020 from different winemakers and different climats. 2020 was such an extraordinarily great vintage in Burgundy. In these years one can find wonderful wines from less expensive wineries, giving you an astonishing enjoyment for a quite reasonable price point.

I raise these questions because, living in the tropics of Northern Australia, almost all the wine I have in my cellar has come by the dozen, over long distances, and sometimes through warm temperatures (although bottle temperatures on arrival have never been more than 30 C). Two general points are relevant to your tastings. First, if the wines you drink been transported to you recently, and if this is over long distances, or where they may have been shaken around, do you allow time for them to settle and acclimatise themselves to your cellar? Second, with wines that are screw cap, do you open them in advance sometimes, or taste them again the next day to see how they've evolved. I find this second issue to be important, because many screw-cap wines are ‘closed’ for some hours, sometimes for at least one day. Indeed, I generally open my ‘rizzas’ the day before I intend to drink them, and sample a half glass to let some oxygen into the bottle. Third, you don't always comment on the seal of the wine. In this tasting the two southern hemisphere wines were obviously screw cap, so my question above becomes especially relevant and I would love to know if you revisited the dog point the next day was it even better? I strongly suspect it would have been; I just did exactly that a day or two ago with a wine from very close by, also rated very highly, the Isabel estate, and that was most definitely better than the next day, when it opened up even more.

Next Goliath vs. David showdown? Bordeaux blends!

Hi Konstanin! Could you probably make a video on a topic of fake wines? Something that is not easy to find any info on the internet.

Next David vs Goliath. Please Cotes du Rhone from southern Rhone vs. Chateauneuf du Pape

great format. especially as the "davids" are reasonably priced and not from the "gut & günstig supermarket ecke" (ifykyk). please do brunellos :)

Do more of these. Are we paying for consistency?

Can you make a top ten list of different wine categories and different price ranges? For example, Top 10 Riesling from Germany till 20€. Would be great.

Very interesting comparison, as all your videos, thanks. But for a St. Aubin 1er Cru 100€ seems a bit stiff, unless it is from a famous winemaker. I am in Auxey-Duresses once in a while, and there you pay a lot less, on average, also in Meursault (unless it is from Coche-Dury). Cheers from Switzerland🍷