In this informal, diarized YouTube video, NBA star Jimmy Butler III travels to a Tuscan winery (often referred to as Sessicaia/Sassicaia) via helicopter, accompanied by a sommelier, friends, and references to Mark Wahlberg. The video blends chaotic banter, helicopter arrival, and a guided tasting of several vintages, including Sessicaia 2010, a 1985 bottle touted as the winery’s best year, and other barrel selections. Butler recounts how Mark Wahlberg introduced him to Sessicaia, describing the 2010 vintage as his first red wine experience and a pivotal moment that sparked his lifelong affection for the label. Throughout the tasting, the sommelier explains viticultural details—temperature swings during harvest, tannin structure, sediment removal, and aging potential—while Butler attempts to learn wine terminology (e.g., “sommelier”) and Italian phrases. The group discusses the winery’s history, its 100-acre estate, and the significance of the name “Sesakaya” (land of the rocks). The video concludes with gratitude toward the hosts, a promise to return, and a playful nod to future collaborations, including a reference to a signature pizza and potential branding opportunities. The tone is conversational, humorous, and enthusiastic, with moments of genuine appreciation for the wine and the experience.
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Here we go! Ah! The heli, the fun to be had! The pilot, the other pilot. Shashikaya. Here we go. Oh my gosh. All right. Take off then, Mr. Pilot Man. Get up there. This one way smoother than the other one, wasn't it? We going down, I'm going to sleep. I'm just going to sleep. I'm going to die in my sleep. I'm not staying up. Is he out here driving like a bat out of hell? I ain't scared of nothing. Oh! Come on, man! What is he doing though? Why is my hand shaking like this? Oh! Jimmy! Woo! Yeah, we was just going down. I was just playing with y'all. I was just playing with y'all. Oh shit! Sessi, we here! Oh, I can't wait to get inside and see where I be spending all my money at. I'm very happy to see you. I'm Carlo. Hi! It's wonderful to see you. Oh my God. '67 was the last to be produced for their own family consumption because at first Sessicaia was judged as one horrible wine, disgusting wine, because it was too different from the palate and the mind of the He tried the wine before. Really? Mark gave it to me. Mark gave it to you? Yeah. As a present or to share? Yeah, he gave it to me as a gift. He's the one that introduced me to Sessicaia. It's actually the first red wine that I've ever drank. It's Sessicaia 2010. And so that's why Sessicaia 2010. And you are here, that's why you are here. That's why we're here. For the Cabernet Sauvignon, it's very important during the harvest to have the high temperature during the day and low temperature during the night. It enters in your mouth like in the toes, eh? Toes? So it's in the toes. So it's very delicate. I would like to taste an Emprimère 2017 and 2016. Okay? From the barrel. From the barrel? Yes. Oh, yes. That one? No, I just— no, no, no, no. This one has a J in it. J for Jimmy? Yeah! Jimmy— no, Patrick! Big dude! I'm just doing what he does. Thank you. Champagne is good. It is. I don't know what I'm really tasting for. See, that's why I gotta take the classes. I take the classes and I can come work for you. Come work for you and then I'll get all the free wine. And now Jimmy will choose a bottle in 2017. No, I want you to choose this time. Okay, why? You get to choose. No. We'll choose together. Oh, this one's easier. Sorry. Sorry. It's easier. It's easier for my man to get to the top. Can I try? No. Here we go. Wow. You can give somebody a concussion with this. Jimmy Butler III. Grazie. Not good. Not good. You see it? You smell it? Yeah. I can smell it. This is the first lesson. We need to eliminate the sediments inside, so we do the rocking. Yeah, next week. Next week? Okay. Uh-uh. See, again, we're here. No! He dumped it in the bucket so quick. He lowkey got mad too. Like, the nerve, yo, to put this in my glass. It's happening. So it's not bad. It's just a phase of the wine. Now the tannins are very strong. Wine feel young. You need to stay for other one year. For another year? The helicopter can take the cases. One of you. One of what? Yeah. No, because I would like to leave you and to your friend a cases of wine. Oh, okay. Yes, yes, yes, I can see. Oh, okay. Yes, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I appreciate it. I don't know where Mark is. Right there, I saw it. Right there? Mm-hmm. Put on— ah, so good. They just showed so much love. Now we're going to lunch. They're going to let me drink a 1985 bottle. I've had it before. Mark gave it to me. Really good. They say that that's the best vintage, actually. So we'll find out. DJ! I'm going to teach you moves and how to render your opponent powerless and then show mercy. Watch me. How I attack and disable my obedient servant, Kachin! Ha! He get him though, so quick! Man! I thought they were fake. I walked over there and it's alive. Oh, it is alive! Yeah, it's not a statue. That thing is moving. Like she said, that's just me. Yeah, I just saw it move. This little leg right there moved. Look, look. Look at it, she jumped too. Y'all see it moving? That thing is real. Why are you lying? She's so cute. Grazie. Salute. Grazie. Cheers. Grazie. Sommelier. Sommelier. Sommelier. Sommelier. I learned how to say sommelier. The bad words, actually, right? Yes. But after today, I learned how to say, um— Right, okay. Thank you for allowing me, my group, to be here, to be a part of something so special to me. And Sese Chaya, the main reason that I wanted to come to Italy, to Tuscany, to Bolognese. Bolognese. Y'all have He's been very generous to us and very friendly and welcoming. I'm very appreciative, and I hope to come back again and experience it with some really good people. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] I lost it! The day before my birthday, we were sitting in his trailer in Chicago when he was filming, and he pulled out the bottle, Sessakaya 2010. Opened it and poured it around for all of our guys, and he made a little toast. And then ever since then, Sesakaya has been my favorite wine. And you can write this on the label of this bottle? Yes. Really? To remember your story with Mark Wahlberg. Fantastic. September 2013. September 13th, 2013, Mark W. and Jimmy Butler III drink this vintage in Chicago, Illinois, to forever make Jimmy Butler III a lover of the wine. We have to maintain the bottles in the office in order to wait the arrival of Mark Wahlberg again. Ah, yes. And we need to have The signature pizza of Marco's. May I? Yep. Ah! Let me make sure you see my Sesakaya sign. That's wonderful. So we got 100— literally, Sesakaya means land of the rocks. And we have 100 acres, and it just all depends on The sun in the summertime and the wind blows in the fall because right over, right over is the water. It's the ocean. Right over is the ocean. We're not going to use all the barrels. Sometimes a barrel may be bad. Get it out of here. We don't need that. But, you know, and they say 1985 is our best year, but 2010, perfecto. Perfecto. That's a jacket? I'm in the game! Get out, get out, get out. No, it's not. No? Oh, I'm in the game. Hold up now. Gotta be fast and forward when I do what I do. Como mate? En thou, en thou, en ski. You getting this? Look, you know what, can you see that? Look, see that right there? I don't know if y'all can see it. Let me, you gotta zoom in. When you zoom in, you see S-A-S-S-I-C-A-I-A. S-A-S-S-I-C-A-I-A. A-S-A-S-S-A-S-S-A-S-S-I-C-A-I-A. Thank you. Oh, I got the clothing. Oh, I got the clothing. Oh, I'm part of the brand. Says the guy with the best wine in the world. Y'all need some, don't call me, call Mark Wahlberg 'cause he put me on too. He might put you on. He probably won't, but that's just beside the point. Still a good dude though, Mark. Thank you for everything. Really appreciate it. Wouldn't be here without you, Mark Wahlberg. Wouldn't have these cool glasses on without you, Mark Wahlberg. And damn sure wouldn't have been in Italy, in Toscana, without you.
