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Five Guys and Three Mics

randy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:30:27 +0000

It’s fast! It’s furious! It’s the frenetic pace of passing a scarce resource (aka microphones) between several people who all want to talk!

Kaz and Randy have their good friend (and sommelier) John Burdick visit and do what he does best: taste wine and talk about it. What wine, you ask? It’s supplied by Bryan Avila, instructor and winemaker at Napa Valley College’s Viticulture & Winery Technology department. Our most excellent hosts chat him up about the program over at NVC, the bonded winery they just created, and the first bonded vintage they’re releasing. Did you know they’re planning a tasting room? You will once you listen to this episode! Get crackin’!

Jonesin’ for Bonny Grahms

randy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:30:50 +0000

Perhaps our most obscure episode title to date! Is it more obvious than we think it is? Let us know!

Your favorite wine radio hosts have a conversation with Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard, talking about his history and what makes him tick. They also have Hardy Wallace, recent hire of Murphy-Goode’s “A Really Goode Job” search, who describes the press conference and generally gets to hang and enjoy some wine while our boys flap their gums.

As an added bonus, they summarize WITS from last week in about two minutes: Facebook and Twitter, mud wrestling! Only Wine Biz Radio brings the sexy to your wine industry-loving ears!

While The Boys Are Off At WITS

randy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:30:18 +0000

Using their amazing time-bending powers, Kaz & Randy are simultaneously at the Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS) in Napa while this show is podcast to your ears! Amazing!

The Biodynamic Duo invite Adon Kumar, President of Wine-Searcher.com, a rare survivor of the first “dot-com” bubble and the oldest search engine devoted to helping consumers find the wine they want at the best price. The question, “but how do you make money?” keeps coming up, bonus points for the first comment that says how many times they have to ask Adon!

The Kickback Show

randy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:30:25 +0000

Kaz shows his greedy side! While he’s busy lining his pockets from product mentions, Randy at least maintains journalistic independence and invites old friend (of Kaz’s at least) Ziggy “The Wine Gal” Eschliman to the studios to talk about what it is to be a “Rock ‘n Roll Wine Amabassador”. She even gives her summertime wine recommendations, and we approve!

It’s another absolutely riveting hour of Wine Biz Radio!

Vinquiring Minds Want To Know

randy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:30:34 +0000

And now, for all of you who want to get your wine geek on, Kaz and Randy welcome John Katchmer to sit in with them and discuss the unpredictable lifestyle of a wine lab enologist. We discover John’s radio personality alter ego! His connection to Hollywood! The Vinquiry Lonely Hearts Winemaker Hotline! That, and so much more, you need to listen to believe!

Socialate!

randy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:30:38 +0000

Kaz invents another new word! In the meantime, he and Randy have a nice session with Rick Breslin of Hello Vino, talking about their iPhone application, what Vintank thinks of them, and what’s in their pipeline. Then their ears turn to Eric Arnold, deputy lifestyle editor at Forbes and author of First Big Crush, who riffs about the appalling state of the Australian wine industry and the lesson that is being missed by the rest of the worldwide wine industry.

Freaky good times, and the podcast is a full ten minutes longer than the radio broadcast! You’re welcome!

Covert Without The ‘T’

randy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:30:27 +0000

Kaz and Randy play host to Cruvee CEO Evan Cover and discuss their business, their service, and some interesting new features in their pipeline. Then it all devolves into the shuck-and-jive that Kaz and Randy are (in)famous for!

Academy of Wine Cavemen

randy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:30:35 +0000

What do you do when a caveman comes calling? Sit him in the chair like everyone else and ask him some questions! Mike Wangbickler, PR professional, wine industry blogger, and executive director of the re-imagined Academy of Wine Communications talks about wine PR, and a little get together at the end of June aimed at getting wine writers some paying gigs! All that, and more current events than you can shake a wet cork at!

Logisticus Interruptus

randy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:30:44 +0000

What happens when a vital wine industry service melts down? Well, it certainly makes for interesting radio! Learn as Kaz and Randy talk with Spencer Kinch from Bacchus Fulfillment regarding the New Vine Logistics shutdown. Then our heroes get on with the show they meant to do!

Allan Wright from Zephyr Adventures, one of the co-organizers of the upcoming Wine Bloggers’ Conference talks all about the conference, including key changes from last years agenda. Then our #1 fan Thea tells us about the scholarships that went to deserving “citizen” wine bloggers in order to get them to the conference! Please consider contributing so that even more bloggers can be helped out in these “interesting times.”

As usual, it’s jam packed with good stuff for your podcast pleasure!

Yo Quiero TAPAS

randy — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Kaz y Randy hablan con Jeff “El Jefe” Stai de Twisted Oak Winery en Calaveras. ¡Muy bien! (this pretty much sums up my years of Spanish lessons)

El Jefe talks about his winery, his tasting room, “A Really Twisted Job” and the TAPAS Grand Tasting coming up in June!

Will cliQ For Wine

randy — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:13 +0000

AmericanWinery.com CEO Lloyd Benedict calls in to discuss with Kaz and Randy the public beta of their new service called winecliQ, their business model and then puts in shameless plugs for all kinds of things! Our ethics-o-meters were off the chart! Or perhaps that was just Randy with his finger in the light socket.

Excellent information for the wine bloggers, small wineries and just about everyone else too!

Murphy (Goode)’s Law

randy — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:30:24 +0000

Kaz and Randy have Dave Ready Jr. from Murphy-Goode in studio to talk about their wine as well as this little thing about a wine blogging job for $10,000 a month. Then they turn to the Dirty South to talk to Hardy Wallace about his candidacy for “A Really Goode Job”, which impressed us so much we decided to endorse Hardy for the job (go and vote)! Finally, Randy shows he really can play audio from his laptop. Brett Favre as a Viking? You’ll have to listen to understand!

Report Card For Social Wine

randy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:30:33 +0000

What an awesome week! Kaz and Randy are joined by Michael Muscardini of Muscardini Cellars and over the phone lines by Paul Mabray of Vintank. Paul gives the highlights of Vintank’s recently released social media report and Michael talks about his Italian-styled wines. Lump in some interesting news, and it’s another lip-smacking edition of Wine Biz Radio!

Of Wine And Peanut Butter

randy — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:30:32 +0000

Tom Wark comes to play with Kaz and Randy, talking all the latest lip-smacking peanut-buttery wine industry goodness, not the least of which is the answer to that timeless question: chunky or creamy? Tom even provides his best advice to Robert Parker: get a publicist. Prepare yourself for the best hour of wine radio on the Internet!

Wine Blogging For Dollars

randy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:30:34 +0000

Did you know that Josh Hermsmeyer (aka Pinotblogger) wants to give you a thousand bucks? Kaz and Randy get you the answers you need to cash in! That, and all the latest goings on in the wine world! Don’t miss it!

Sounds Like ‘Ogg’

randy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:00:22 +0000

August Sebastiani is in the hizzy! Kaz and Randy play host to a longtime supporter of the show on the radio, Don Sebastiani & Sons. We catch up with all the latest and greatest and discuss their business model and what 2009 holds in store for them.

Then The Enigmatic James Crawford pays another visit to our intrepid hosts and gives further hints on TheWineDown.com and Texas wines!

Shoulder To Shoulder Winos

randy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:39:44 +0000

Budbreak has come! Warm weather and longer days are here! Randy has a weak moment where he acknowledges his homebrew beer hobby has reawakened. Kaz and Randy have Abdi Humphries from Wine 2.0 in the studio to rap about the Wine 2.0 Expo taking place at the Crushpad urban winery in San Francisco on April 2nd. And all this with only minimal shuck-and-jive!

Hunting For Easter Eggs

randy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:35:24 +0000

Kaz is back! He’s home from Loreto Bay, and he brought the luck of the Irish to his favorite podcast producer. Both Kaz and Randy play host to Lewis Purdue, investigative reporter of the wine industry and author of 20 books, most of them thrillers(!) The conversation ranges, but one thing is for certain: Wine Biz Radio is back and it’s as raw as ever!

The Spy Who Co-Hosted

randy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:31:48 +0000

Randy has Agent Red as his co-pilot this fine week. Together, they have Josie Gay, executive director of the Heart of Sonoma Valley Association come in to talk about the imminent Savor Sonoma event (March 21 & 22). Then our intrepid hosts rap about the economy, then wrap up talking about this weekend’s Twitter Taste Live event!

Wark This Way

randy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:16:37 +0000

Kaz is away and Tom Wark warms his chair as Randy’s co-host. Together, they welcome Kathryn Newell of Panache Partners LLC, a coffee table book publisher who are in the final stages of publishing a book about Sonoma County wineries. Then there is discussion of the American Wine Blog Award nominees (the winners have since been announced!) and recent entries in Tom’s blog, and Paul Mabray of VinTank talks gives more previews of their social media report due out next week.

It’s stuffed full of interesting industry players, get listening already!

Wine Sousaphone?

randy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:01:54 +0000

Chris Oggenfuss comes to visit Kaz and Randy from Benziger Family Winery to talk about his work with Benziger and Imagery Estate Winery. Shortly thereafter he is outed as VinTuba, a long-time wine tweeter on Twitter, with his own wine podcast! Hey, wait a cotton-pickin’ minute!!

You also get another rendition of the story of how Kaz and Randy came to be co-hosts for Wine Biz Radio! It’s the Origin story, just for our awesome listeners!!

Look Outside And See The Weather

randy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:57:01 +0000

Kaz and Randy talk up the 2008 California Crush Report, Randy’s whirlwind visit to Napa to hear about VinTank’s upcoming report on social media and wine bloggers, and they apparently talk at length about the weather!

What? A contest?!??

Listen carefully to the episode for a certain number you are meant to remember, then email that number to Kaz (kaz at winebizradio dot com) for a chance to get one of six free tickets to the upcoming Savor Sonoma barrel tasting event (March 21 and 22 in Sonoma Valley)!

AWBA: AKA the “Whineys”!

randy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:02:19 +0000

Kaz and Randy play host to the inimitable Tom Wark (of Wark Communications and Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog). They talk of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Actually, they talk of the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium of last week, the latest goings on in the Sonoma area, the American Wine Blog Awards and the Wine Bloggers Conference. All with a special secret guest in the studio and Jeff Carroll of Ship Compliant joins in over Talkshoe! It’s JAM-PACKED!

Sophie-Bear To The Rescue!

randy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:49:46 +0000

Kaz and Randy have Gretchen Neuman from the Illinois Wine Consumers Coalition on the line to talk about how badly the Illinois Wine Consumers were screwed by their own legislators (HB 429). And Sophie-Bear the Sommelier brings the thunder with her wine selection. Listen and learn, padawans!

Don’t forget, the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference is scheduled earlier than last year (July 2009)! Register before all 250 seats are taken!

Producer Brain Freeze

randy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:32:54 +0000

Randy forgets to hit “record” on the computer for the first segment of this week’s show, so you get the low-fi Talkshoe edition for about 14 minutes! Lucky you!

Despite that, Kaz and Randy have a great conversation with Garry Tan of Posterous (think “preposterous” without the “pre”). And the peanut gallery soldiers on!

The Mythbusters Of Wine

randy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:33:38 +0000

Kaz and Randy have Paul Mabray (former CEO of Inertia Beverage Group) come into the studio to talk about his new gig, VinTank! Joining via Talkshoe is Joel Vincent (founder of OpenWine Consortium) who has also joined the VinTank crew. Paul reveals the first industry experiment the digital think tank is launching, and some other tidbits as well. Well worth the listen!

Calling All Hangovers! Calling All Hangovers!

randy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:02:31 +0000

It’s 2009, and how better to start it off than with Kaz and Randy! Kaz lends his amazing hurl-tastic sound effects!

Learn about some ways to ease your poor self-induced alcohol withdrawal symptoms with Benjamin Arnold, licensed herbalist (and acupuncturist, dontchaknow), giving real useful advice and opinion as counterpoint to Kaz and Randy’s pseudo-remedies.

Congrats also to Ben for retaking the lead in the “Somewhat Official Wine Biz Radio #1 Fan Contest”!

Benjamin Arnold on Twitter [link]
Ben’s email (Benjamin BenjaminArnold [DOT] org), for those of you needing further “advice”

This Retrospective Needs A Retrospective

randy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:16:35 +0000

Randy is coming down with a head cold, but does that stop him? Nope! He wraps up 2008 with some final segments from October’s Wine Bloggers Conference, including the inspired words of Alice Feiring’s Saturday night speech. Have a listen, and we’ll see you in 2009!

Wine Bloggers Conference [link]
Philip James of Snooth [link] and [link]
Alice Feiring [link]
Judd Wallenbrock [link] and [link]
Dr. Xeno (aka Ward) of Winelog [link]

Welcome To The Flats

Wine Biz Radio — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:43:01 +0000

Without Kaz along, Randy invites Tom Wark into the studio for a live studio show on a Friday afternoon. All topics are on the table, including Tom’s candid opinions of the Wine Blogger’s Conference, Twitter Taste Live, and Humanitas.

Wine Bloggers Conference [link]
Twitter Taste Live [link]
Humanitas Wines [link]

Keeping The Shine On

randy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:10:06 +0000

Kaz and Randy reminisce about the Wine Bloggers Conference and field comments from the wine blogger peanut gallery! Listen up!