Wine Biz Radio

Tom Wark comes calling to sit with Kaz and Randy to discuss his debate with WSWA director Craig Wolf. They move on to “natural wine” and upcoming summer and fall wine conferences, all mixed with the usual fun and frivolity you’ve come to expect!

Mentioned in this episode:

• California Winery Advisor [link]
• Tom’s post about the Chicago debate [link]
• Wine & Spirits Jobs.Com’s job lead of the week! [link]
• Clark Smith’s take on “natural wine” [link]
• The Wine Spies’ latest wine deal [link]
• Inertia Beverage Group’s Consumer Direct Conference, July 11 [link]
• Wine Industry Technology Symposium, July 14 & 15 [link]
• Wine Blogger Conference, October 24 thru 26 [link]

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Kaz coins (or rather, ‘koins’) a new word for web links, and Wine Biz Radio has it’s craziest and most interactive show ever, and Kaz and Randy get to talk to a lot of cool folks.

1. A very nice lady calls in about the Salamander Festival [link] this August 24th in Santa Rosa.We’ll forgive them their web site skills;
2. A very nice call from Domino Amjet [link] pimping the upcoming Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS) [link] July 14th and 15th in Napa;
3. ChicagoPinot [link] (a wine blogger on the scene in Chicago, just getting started) calls in wondering if she should go to the Wine Bloggers Conference [link] this October 24-26 in Santa Rosa.
4. A friendly call from William of Wine & Spirits Jobs.com [link], with a new feature: Wine Industry Job Listing Of The Week! Here’s the first one: [link]
   
5. A friend of Kaz’s from Newport Beach calls in briefly with a weather report, and is quickly followed by:
6. A nice fellow named John, who works at a repair shop in eastern Sonoma, but makes wine for himself on the side;
7. And finally, Rick Bakas of Culination [link] calls in to see if he won a prize!

It’s a record for a one-hour call-in talk show in Sonoma! And it’s a top ten Wine Biz Radio episode!

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Kaz has Twitter! And if that wasn’t enough for a show by itself, he and Randy welcome in a smoky, hazy Sonoma summer by having Sean Ludford of BevX.com call in and describe his web site, while Randy scratches his head about what exactly is “craic” and why should we care.

More fun that ought to be legal, it’s Wine Biz Radio!

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Randy waits for Kaz to sprint into the studio, and asks the first Wine Biz Radio Question of the Week! (you can leave your responses to the question here as comments, or go to their group on OpenWine Consortium). When Kaz does race in, they start in with a variety of current events, field questions from both Patrick and Genevieve Llerena of Iridesse Wines (on different calls, even), get questions from Twitter, review the schedule for the Wine Blogger Conference and otherwise enjoy themselves more than two radio hosts should be allowed to.

Enjoy the banter, get some info, and participate!

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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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