Wine Biz Radio

(Thanks to Sonadora of Wannabe Wino for the title!)

Kaz and Randy do musical microphones as they invite Jeff “El Jefe” Stai of Twisted Oak Winery and Jill “Budo Kun’s Keeper” Bernheimer of Domaine547.com into the studio for a fine chat. Agent Red calls in to promote their latest deal, and Brad Cooper tries desperately to phone in via Skype. Listener questions coming in via Twitter are welcome as always, and the answers are free (so you get what you pay for!) Listen up, friends!

Mentions made in this episode:

• The Wine Spies deal of the day (use ‘WINEBIZRADIO’ for an additional 10% off!) [link]
• Twisted Oak Winery [link]
• Domaine 547 [link]
• Wine Industry Technology Symposium [link]
• TAPA Society tasting this early August at COPIA [link]
• Domaine 547’s blogger packs [link]

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Better late than never!

This month’s theme is “Brought to you by the letter ‘S’,” (thanks to Grape Juice for hosting this month’s WBW) and Kaz and Randy don’t disappoint! Follow along as they taste their way through a 2003 St. Francis Sonoma County Syrah. They both give it high marks, and figure they found four S’s in the wine, hence “quadruple word score”! All that, and they only go off on a few tangents!

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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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