Wine Biz Radio

Kaz and Randy convene at Randy’s hillside ranch to taste their latest entry for this Wine Blogging Wednesday. They taste a 2006 Red Car Boxcar White (sorry, the Red Car website is all Flash-bound and doesn’t include notes on this specific wine), which is a blend of mostly Viognier, with the rest split between Roussanne and Marsanne. They both enjoy it, from the plastic cork to the frizzante to the melons and honeysuckle, despite that neither of them give a score. Dr. Debs would be even thrilled that this White Rhone costs less than $20! (Is that extra credit?)

Then Kaz and Randy go off on a myriad of tangents. It’s what they do.

It’s a ten minute jaunt through their taste buds, have a listen!

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Another fine Monday in Sonoma, with Kaz and Randy piloting the ship of fools on a sea of fancy. Or at least it’s two guys in a room talking into microphones. Anyhow, Philip James calls into the show from Snooth headquarters in New York to talk about the business, the name of the company, it’s recent birthday, and how the site works. Kaz works his nervous meter mojo on him, and Kaz and Randy field questions from Twitter, all without Kaz having an account there! Amazing!

Also, Joel Vincent of OpenWine Consortium phones us to fill everyone in with the pre-release announcement of the details for the upcoming Wine Bloggers Conference this October in Santa Rosa.

Add in some odds and ends, and you’ve got yourselves a show!

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Kaz and Randy once again host a full studio, with James Crawford of TheWineDown.com and Tom Wark (of Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog). James is evasive on his venture, to the point of invoking snipers and other talk of guns; otherwise, he is a capable salesman for Everett Ridge and Esterlina wineries, as well as the upcoming Association of African-American Vintners seminar at COPIA.

Tom mentions the Illinois wine shipping legislation that went into effect on June 1, with a tip to the wise that the Illinois government are likely already conducting sting operations to entrap wineries into shipping to Illinois without a permit. So, go get your Illinois permits, kids!

All that and more this week on Wine Biz Radio!

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Paul Mabray, the newly minted Chief Strategy Officer of Inertia Beverage Group in Napa, comes back to the studio after a long time away from us, and missing all his wisdom teeth to boot. Along with Kaz and Randy, he talks about IBG’s new CEO Ted Jansen, as well as the (long-delayed-but-still-free-of-charge) ReThink Compliance tool, and the upcoming Direct Sales Symposium at COPIA this July.

Kaz and Randy also take a call from Spain(!) as Ryan Opaz of Catavino gives the love to his wine blogging brethren and OpenWine Consortium cohorts. The upcoming Wine Bloggers Conference this October gets another mention, and Twitter provides the questions from the audience!

One of the most interactive Wine Biz Radio episodes you’ll ever hear, good listening!

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Kaz and Randy take a more sober (and technically challenging) tone, as they pay homage to Robert Mondavi’s passing. Kaz is basically serious throughout(!) and Randy overcomes the somewhat onerous hurdles of making Talkshoe work.

At about 5:48 into the show, listen for the sudden quality improvement (that is to say, the first few minutes are hard to listen to — you have Randy’s abject apologies).

An  inspiring Wine Biz Radio episode, we hope you enjoy it.

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Kaz and Randy, with regrets from Paul Mabray and his wisdom teeth, invent a show from thin air. Where else can you see two people describe on the radio how the semi-finalist logo designs look for Wine Blogging Wednesday? How about a Zeppelin being flown from Sunnyvale to Napa for jet-setting wine lovers? Wanna hear Kaz’s take on global warming?

It’s a tidbits show, the guys haven’t had one of those in a long time. Listen up and enjoy!

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