Episodios

  • Introduction to our Stories
    Jul 18 2025

    Ralph reads the introduction to our series of stories about wine country. It is a celebration of that particular style of story telling that is unique to tasting rooms.

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    16 m
  • Interview with tour guide Melissa McLaughlin
    Jul 11 2025

    Melissa and her husband run a top flight wine tour company base in Napa California. This insightful and charming interview explores the world of wine tourism up close and personal. It was recorded at the Wright Corner Mercantile in Los Carneros Napa.

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    16 m
  • Interview with Capo Isetta
    Jul 4 2025

    Ralph interviews Spencer Isetta, part of the team at his family winery, Capo Isetta, which has its tasting room on the Sonoma Plaza. This family has so many connections in the area make their venture work, and really keep a family affair.

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    32 m
  • Comfort
    Jul 1 2025

    Some of Ralph's observations about the affect of tasting room design on the winery experience and ultimately wine sales. It's interesting what you notice over twenty years and thousands of visits to tasting rooms in Napa, Sonoma and the rest of California.

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    16 m
  • The Healing Waters of Wine Country
    Jun 28 2025

    For a couple of years we've been working on a documentary which is turning into a book about the healing spas of the North Bay. This was my commentary for a recent episode on Wine Country at Work on KSVY Sonoma.

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    16 m
  • Interview at Enchanted Hills Napa
    Jun 26 2025

    Ralph went up onto Mount Veeder to visit the Enchanted Hills camp, and interviewed Heidi Dittloff, the meeting planner for this project for the Lighthouse, a San Francisco non-profit that has been helping visually impaired people since the late 1800's. The site was almost destroyed in the 2017 fire, but they made it better than ever.

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    28 m
  • Interview with Steve Reynolds, Winemaker about alternatives to Sulfites in wine.
    Jun 18 2025

    Ralph interviewed the winemaker Steve Reynolds, owner of Reynolds Family Winery, the mad scientist of Napa. They explore an alternate to using sulfites in wine.

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    16 m
  • Interview with Barry Smith, Wine Tour Guide Extraordinaire
    Jun 11 2025

    No one knows the Napa and Sonoma wine tour business like the top tour guides. This is a great interview with Ralph interviewing his colleague and friend Barry Smith, whose famous license plate 'Why Spit' is seen all over Napa and Sonoma. These two high experienced guides cover a wide variety of topics in three segments. This is number one.

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    16 m