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Winecast 13: Bruce Anderson, Sunset Winery
Bruce and Birgit Anderson of Sunset Winery are typical of the second wave of Texas winemakers, the group that came into the business over the last decade. For many in this group, running a winery was not their first career -- Bruce was a sociology pr...
Winecast 12: Russ Kane, Vintage Texas
The Wine Curmudgeon kicks off DrinkLocalWine.com's Regional Wine Week with a podcast with Russ Kane, who is perhaps the premier blogger about Texas wine. We discuses what's new in Texas, why Texas wines have improved so much, and what still needs to ...
The Wine Curmudgeon on Blog Talk Radio
This is last Sunday’s Art of Living with Olivia Wilder; I’m on for the first 30 or 40 minutes. We talked about local wine, good cheap wine, and the debut of Palate Press and my wine nutrition label story. We......
Winecast 11: Matt Cain of Yellow + Blue
The Yellow + Blue boxed wines – malbec, torrontes and rose -- have been some of the best cheap wines to come on the market in the past 18 months. And Yellow + Blue founder Matt Cain tell us why:......
Screwcaps -- again -- on Internet radio
I made my third appearance on Olivia Wilder’s New Art of Living program Sunday. I’m the third guest, about 70 minutes in. We chatted about wine for warm weather, how to tell if a wine is sweet, and couldn't avoid......
Screw caps and biodynamics on Internet radio
I made my second appearance on Olivia Wilder’s New Art of Living program Sunday. I’m the second guest, about 30 minutes in. We chatted about a variety of subjects, including screw caps, biodynamic wine, terroir, and cheap wine for the......
Winecast 10: Texas wine trends
My pal John Bratcher and Alfonso Cevola, the Italian wine guy, joined me for a discussion about what’s new and interesting in Texas wine. (The podcast was originally recorded for Advocate magazines in Dallas, where I do the wine writing.)......
Winecast 9: Joel Peterson, Ravenswood Winery
Joel Peterson is one of the pioneers of modern zinfandel in California, starting Ravenswood in in 1976 with 327 cases. He did it so well, in fact, that the best zinfandel producers in California were known as the three R’s......
Winecast 8: DrinkLocalWine.com conference podcast
Dave McIntyre and I talk about the first ever DLW conference, set for Aug. 14-15 in Dallas. It’s nicely done – we remembered to mention all the sponsors, Dave is funny, and we talk about why regional wine matters. The......
Winecast 6: Winemaker Mike Martini
Mike Martini is the third generation of one of the founding families of the California wine business. His grandfather, Louis M. Martini, opened one of the first wineries in Napa Valley after Prohibition, and his father, Louis P, ran the......
Winecast 5: Patty Held and regional wine
Patty Held was working in regional wine long before most people noticed that wine existed outside of California and Europe. Her work as a winemaker (she graduated from Cal State-Fresno’s wine program when very few women even enrolled) and as......
