"The Wine Industry doesn't have an education problem, we have an engagement problem". Paul Mabray is an outspoken voice in the wine industry when it comes to data collection and how to properly use it to engage our customers. We thought this was a good time to have him back since all of us in the industry are scrambling to connect with our customers in a meaningful way. Stay safe, order wine, listen in and turn on. Cheers [EP141] Thanks emetry.io paul @ emetry.io
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr
Jordan Kivelstadt joins us on "lock-down" this week to talk about his new project KIvelstadt Cellars Wine Garden & Eatery that was set to open April 18th in the former historic site of Fords and Schellville Grill. Jordan and his chef Matt Tucker have had to put things on hold so they shifted to a wine and meal delivery service to stay connected with their clients and the community. Sam and Bart talk about their new "virtual tasting" experience that rolls out this week. Stay safe, order wine ...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min
One of our favorite guests joined us on the show this week to chat about the state of the global wine industry, virtual wine tasting and how damn tasty moose can be when cooked properly. Enjoy !!! wakawakawinereviews.com lilyelainehawkwakawaka@gmail.com
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr 30 min
The "shelter-in-place" order has been given by our California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Wine Makers are working from home this week. We decided to practice "social distancing" and try out the Zoom app to continue to continue recording shows for our listeners. Sondra Bernstein, owner of the girl & fig restaurant, sits in and talks about the state of the food and wine industry going forward. Her restaurants and catering business closed on Monday with no projected opening dates. It's getting w...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 13 min
In 1989, Carl Doumani discovered the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, a Viennese painter, architect, ecologist and philosopher. Believing that the wine world had transformed a beverage of consummate pleasure into an absurdly serious pursuit, he commissioned Hundertwasser to design a winery to combat these notions. [EP137] Imagine Alice in Wonderland meets Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Now about the wines... The winery borders the famed Shafer's Hillside Select vineyards in Napa Valley...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 7 min
This week we sit down with Tanner Walle and Lauren Feldman of Valley Bar & Bottle and talk about the new wine bar and restaurant opening up in the former space of Harvest Moon. Both of these hospitality professionals have decades of experience servicing industry staff as well as visiting tourists. This funky space is destined to be a "hot spot" in Sonoma for wine and food lovers. Wine "geeks" like us are craving a place to hang out and drink interesting global wines with cutting-edge foods. ...
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min
This week we sit down with Korbin Ming from Korbin Kameron Winery, the highest elevation vineyard in the Moon Mountain District. His family produces world-class Bordeaux varietals in some extreme mountain conditions. We have waited a long time to get Korbin on the show because we are huge fans of the wines and think they are a rare gem in Sonoma. We also have Danny and Katie Fay from Hill of Tara, they source their grapes from Korbin's vineyard. Listeners may remember them from their inaugural r...
Feb 28, 2020•1 hr 35 min
This week we sit down with legends Philippe Cambie and Phil Coturri and discuss their new collaboration "A Deux Tetes". A project that focuses on New World Grenache with Old World sensibility and depth of knowledge. The Rose has been released and the Grenache Noir from two different sources, Miller Vineyard and Oakville Vineyard in Napa, is still in barrel but soon to be bottled. Isabel Gassier is the wine maker and translator of Philippe's ideas about the wines. She is the daughter of Michel Ga...
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min
This week we sit down with Taylor Berkley Boydstun, owner/winemaker of T. Berkley Wines. He makes wines inspired by the great wines of the Loire Valley. His journey started with a trip to Spain and France, a love affair was formed and he soon found himself making wine in New Zealand, Austria and Australia. Taylor currently makes small batches of Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc Rose. This is a great story and the wines are fantastic. [EP133] tberkleywines.com @tberkleywines
Feb 14, 2020•57 min
Veteran of the California wine industry, Bettina Sichel, purchased this vineyard in 2011 from founder Patrick Campbell. Her first move was to hire legendary vineyard manager Phil Coturri, who had first worked this property when he was 13. She then brought in wine maker Randall Watkins, former General Manager at Moon Mountain Vineyard. The idea was not to change anything but to improve on the farming and raise the bar on the wines from this iconic vineyard. Bettina's father M.F. Sichel was the ma...
Feb 07, 2020•57 min
The guys sit down with Ruben Morancy, Wine Director at Two Star Michelin restaurant Coi, pronounced "kwa", in San Francisco. Ruben is also a renowned artist with a passion for selling domestic and international wines. He started Les-sommeliers to start promoting unique fine wine events to an "under-served" community in the Bay Area and beyond. Ruben's next event is on February 15th at the Alice Collective in Oakland, featuring food by Chef Keith Corbin of Alta W. Adams in LA and jazz musician Ma...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 9 min
This week the guys, and Jasmine, sit down and talk about French wine tariffs, travel, North Carolina, taking the sommelier exam and the state of the wine business for 2020. We cover a lot of topics and get into almost ten wines in this episode, enjoy... [EP130]
Jan 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min
This week on the podcast we sit down with Donald Patz, known for making "world-class" Pinot and Chardonnay at Patz & Hall Winery in Sonoma. He left this iconic winery when it was purchased in 2016 and has since started 3 small projects, Maritana, Terminim and Secret Door. He sparked our interest when he joined forces with Francois Villard, a master in Northern Rhone, to make some top notch Syrah and white blends from Mendocino. Lots of history here, great show. [EP129] donaldpatzwinegroup.co...
Jan 10, 2020•1 hr 32 min
This week on the Wine Makers we sit down with Brenae Royal, vineyard manager at the historic Monte Rosso Vineyards. Brenae grew up in the Central Valley of California and was originally interested in animals, in part due to her exposure to F.F.A., future farmers of America. Weeks into college she decided to pivot, focusing on vines and taking a job with Gallo right out of school. [EP128] She now runs one of the most historic vineyards in California, growing Cabernet, Zinfandel and Semillon since...
Dec 27, 2019•1 hr 25 min
In our continuing effort to de-mystify wine, we introduce you to Leo McCloskey and Douglas McKesson from Enologix, they can predict some things about wine that you may not have thought possible. What if someone told you to forget everything you know about wine in Northern California, like we need to rip out all of the Cabernet Sauvignon. We are going down the "rabbit hole"... From Wikipedia... Enologix is a privately held California corporation that designs predictive analytics for luxury winegr...
Dec 20, 2019•1 hr 20 min
Paul Mabray has been a powerful change agent in the wine industry for over twenty years. He began his career working in traditional three-tier sales and marketing with Napa Ale Works and later innovating direct-to-consumer sales and marketing models with Niebaum Coppola. Since then, he has been at the forefront of all major digital trends for the wine industry, working with WineShopper.com and Wine.com when they entered the wine-digital space. He founded two companies that have significantly cha...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 32 min
This week the guys get together and talk tariffs, bottle size, boxed wine, sourcing barrels, Marin natural wine and a whole lot more. Check it out! [EP125]
Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 24 min
What's it like to have one of your wines selected by Wine Spectator as the "#2 wine in the world ?"... We ask Braiden Albrecht that question on this weeks podcast. Braiden is a childhood friend of Sams and former employee of Enterprise Vineyard who is now the wine maker at Mayacamas and works closely with Andy Erickson to craft some of the most sought after Cab and Chard in California. We talk about the long, rich history of the winery and how they are moving into the next phase of development. ...
Nov 29, 2019•1 hr 21 min
This week we are taking the show on the road to a "hidden gem" in the Dry Creek Valley. Nalle Winery has been making beautiful, low-alcohol Zinfandels that have been compared to some great wines from Burgundy. Doug and Lee have passed the torch to Andrew and April, it is truly a "family affair". We sat outside on the back deck, apologies for the windy background. Enjoy... [EP123] nallewinery.com andrew@nallewinery.com 707-433-1040
Nov 22, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Kieran Robinson joins the pod this week to announce the “almost” opening of his new tasting room in Philly. He has been doing the bi-coastal thing trying to make wine in Cali and complete construction in Pennsylvania. The mystery of those strange tags in the Rossi vineyard is solved, Kieran is doing some consulting. Aron Rosenthal, podcast listener, joins the show and talks food and wine in South Carolina. It’s Sunny in Sonoma! Enjoy
Nov 08, 2019•1 hr 10 min
The guys welcome back into the fold Mr. John Myers. Steve Waymire, grower at Lazy Dog Vineyard sits in, fresh from a night pick of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. We might talk a bit about the fire too.
Nov 01, 2019•49 min
This week we sit down with our friend Todd Jolly, he runs the best wine program in Sonoma out of a small deli at the end of 8th St. East. Todd brings some epic Riesling for us to try. We cover a wide variety of subjects on this show including the future of Ravenswood and To Kalon. Check it out. [EP120] sonomas-best.com
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 10 min
EP119: This is the 3rd year in a row that fire has dominated the conversation in October. Thankfully no major fires have started here in Northern California but our power company, PG&E, has decided that when conditions are favorable for a fire they will just shut off the power grid. We sit down and talk about how this affects the harvest and what's going on out in the vineyards.
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Sixth generation vintner, Katie Bundschu joins the show and talks about her family history, life "on the road", cool-climate Cabernet and her lifestyle brand, Abbots Passage. Also, harvest is in full swing and we talk about what's going on out there. Oh and Bart makes Chenin Blanc...And Brian makes Roussanne... abbotspassage.com gunbun.com Gundlach Bundschu Winery 2000 Denmark Street Sonoma, CA 95476 707.938.5277 info@gunbun.com
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 16 min
The guys sit down with Tony Moll, retired offensive lineman in the N.F.L. and Sonoma native returning home to start his own wine label. Tony and his former team mates Daryn Colledge and Jason Spitz own and operate Three Fat Guys Winery, with a small tasting room off the square in Sonoma. They make Rose, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, and it's good !!! Podcast listener Roger Randall comes to town and sits in on the show, bringing some special wines for us to try... THREE FAT GUYS ...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Bart and Brian go "on the road" to visit with Tom Inners from Clif Family, on Howell Mountain, in the small town of Angwin. If you thought Clif Family wines would be mass-produced and available in every store like the Clif Bars, you would be wrong, very wrong. They make small lots of hand-crafted wine from select, organic vineyard sites. The wines are beautiful and expressive, and the way our guest Tom Inners talks about them, you would think they are still just making them for close friends and...
Sep 20, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Joel Burt from Las Jaras Wines joins the podcast this week. Why would someone leave their job at Domaine Chandon to partner with actor/writer/comedian Eric Wareheim, who you may know from "The Tim and Eric Awesome Show", and make some of the most intriguing "natural" wines from some very unique varietals ?? Listen in and get the whole story.... lasjaraswines.com @lasjaraswines YouTube
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 39 min
We are on the road this week, traveling to western Sonoma County for a visit with Alex and Breauna Kanzler from Kanzler Vineyards. This famed Goldridge soil vineyard in Sebastopol is only 8 miles from the coast, allowing the grapes to slowly ripen, building complexity. As Danny Fay said before our visit, "you will be in Pinot Heaven". You can actually do a "farm stay" among the vineyards in their beautiful house with a pool, visit the website for pics and details... Enjoy the show. kanzlervineya...
Sep 06, 2019•1 hr 17 min
EP113: This week, Elaine Chukan Brown, aka Hawk Wakawakka returns to the podcast on the heels of her Screaming Eagle visit. We also taste some of the “hottest” celebrity Roses of the Summer. Sam pulls out a special bottle of Chardonnay from Mayacamas, the last vintage of this vineyard. Enjoy... wakawakawinereviews.com @hawk_wakawaka
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Scott Kirkpatrick and Allison Watkins started Mountain Tides Wine in 2016 with a single vision, explore Petite Sirah in all of its forms. Unique vineyard sites and an openness to stylistic differences from a lot of other Petite Sirah on "the market" sets them apart and makes them unique. Being artists, they take a thoughtful approach to wine making and life in general, creativity is the journey and quality is the goal. Check out their story... mountaintideswine.com scott@mountaintideswine.com 98...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 33 min
