Wine 101 Radio

Today we look at wines to cook with

This week we help you understand the meaning of wine points and medals, when choosing your wine.

This week we look at the history behind the pink favorite White Zinfandel

This week we have tips to enjoy your wine will getting back your beach body

Brittany Hodges from the Mauritson winery visits us to talk about Zinfandel from the Sonoma Lake region and Rock pile.

 This week our guest is Tami Moccia from McWilliams wines in Australia and she brought us some of her wines from the Evans and Tate winery.  

This week we have a visitor from the Castillo Monjardin winery in northern Spain.....wine-maker Victor del Villar.

We are visited by Claudio Viberti third generation winemaker and owner at Viberti, located in the village of Barolo in the northern Italy.

This week we are visited by Camille Benitah executive winemaker of Maxville Lake Winery in Napa Valley.

This week we explore wine blends

This Week we take a look at Rosé wines particularly those from the Provence and Tavel regions.

 This week we speak with Andrew Browne, owner of Precept Wines Brands the 2nd largest and fastest growing wine company in the north west. He is also the owner Browne family vineyards.

This week we discuss, conflicting advice that can be found, for the question of drinking wine during pregnancy.   

This week Rachel and Michael debate oaked vs unoaked chardonnay. You decided who you side with.

This week we talk with Jeff Beckmen of Beckmen family vineyards. They are a family of "Rhone Rangers" using biodynamic grapes in the Santa Ynez Valley, CA.

Today we have three guest from Germany....Volker Schaefer Owner/ Winemaker of Schafer, Mettenheim and Ursula Muller Owner of G.A.Schneider, Nierstein, and Derek Vinnicombe who is a German wine expert, and represents German estate wines.

For Valentines Day we take a look at Wine and Love

This week we speak with wine maker Sarah Cabot of Primarius Winery, about making Pinot noir in the Willamette valley of Oregon.

We speak with Ruthie Mignerey of Mercer's Dairy of Boonville N.Y about their incredibly delicious wine ice cream.