Before the First Sip
Every winemaker in Meet the Winemakers gets the same last question: one pour, one stranger, what do you say before they taste it? None of them started with the tasting notes.
Sonoma County
The Last Guests of the Season
A founding member walks into a quiet Dry Creek Valley tasting room in November ready to buy a case, and walks out with nothing. Fifty years earlier, the Stanley Hotel’s last guests of the season changed everything for that hotel.
Meet the Winemakers: Joel Peterson
Meet the Winemakers: Joel Peterson Once & Future Wine, Sonoma Valley. Recorded October 20, 2026, more than fifty years after
Meet the Winemakers: Greg La Follette
Meet the Winemakers: Greg La Follette Marchelle Wines, Sebastopol, Sonoma County. Recorded October 19, 2026, just after harvest. Greg La
Meet the Winemakers: Adam Lee
Meet the Winemakers: Adam Lee Clarice Wine Company, Sonoma County. Recorded October 5, 2026, with every grape in and wine
Everything but the Cabernet
A blindfolded tasting on a foggy deck above Windsor, led by a blind chemist, and the one wine I got right.
The Letter to Soup
A wine club member who left over an industry discount, kept buying the wine for two years, and rejoined in