The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends
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The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends
A Napa Valley podcast serving up stories of wine, food, and friends.
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Kyle MacLachlan - A Classic 'Taste' Episode With Our Favorite Actor/Vintner
It's harvest here on the West Coast and this week we're letting our winemaking friends focus on picking their grapes.
We thought this wou...
Lee Hudson, Legendary Grapegrower and Vintner, Hudson Vineyards
In the early 1980s, Lee Hudson, still in his 20s, was one of the first to recognize the promise of Los Carneros, Napa Valley's gorgeous southernmost g...
James Hall, Vintner, Patz & Hall
James Hall proved that you actually can go home again when, in 2024, he bought back the winery he'd sold nearly 10 years earlier. We had a great time...
Jebb Dunnuck - Wine Critic
Jeb Dunnuck's journey to becoming a globally recognized wine critic took an unexpected path, starting in Indiana farmland, where he grew up, then thro...
Judd Finkelstein -- 2nd Generation Vintner and Cocktail Impresario
Judd Finkelstein's earliest memories are all about life at a Napa Valley winery. In the 1970s his parents started Whitehall Lane Winery, later selling...
Pat Monahan - Rock Star/Vintner
We first got to know Pat Monahan when he and his Grammy-winning band Train filmed much of the 2012 music video for their hit song "Drive By" at Shafer...
Bobby Stuckey on continuing to redefine hospitality
Bobby Stuckey loves creating welcoming, inspired spaces in his restaurants both for customers and employees, seeing hospitality as a mission as much a...
Suzanne Deal Booth -- Bella Oaks and Wheeler Farms in Napa Valley
Suzanne Deal Booth is a fairly recently name to Napa Valley in that her first released vintage was 2018 from Bella Oaks winery, a property with a rich...
Alex and Graeme MacDonald - MacDonald Vineyards
The story of MacDonald Vineyards begins with a deep, foot-dragging, don't-make-me-do-it reluctance to get into the business of grape-growing four gene...
James Molesworth - Wine Spectator's Bordeaux and California (Cabernet and Pinor Noir) Senior Editor
James Molesworth often finds his way into a wine through anthropology, which was his major in college. As Wine Spectator's lead taster for California...
Chris and Josh Phelps - A Father-and-Son Napa Valley Duo
Chris and Josh Phelps are a father-and-son team who have worked together unofficially for a long time. While Josh was a kid growing up in Napa Valley,...
John Caldwell - Caldwell Vineyard
Whoever said crime doesn't pay, didn't know John Caldwell. When John bought his 54 acres (and three houses) in the Coombsville area of Napa Valley in...
Tom Colicchio – Chef, Restaurateur, and Food Advocate
Doug Shafer and Chef Tom Colicchio first met in the early 1990s on board a nearly empty cruise in the Baltic Sea in what turned out to be an unforgett...
Glenn Salva - Antinori Napa Valley
Glenn Salva has been at the heart of Antinori Napa Valley since the mid-1980s when the renown wine family, the Antinoris, who'd been making wine in Tu...
Dave Phinney
Early in his career Dave Phinney redefined the look and feel of winemaking and marketing in Napa Valley when he created a red blend called The Prisone...
Chelsea Barrett
Growing up in one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated winemaking families, Chelsea brings a wealth of personal knowledge to her professional success. Aft...
Jean Hoefliger
Born in Switzerland, Jean Hoefliger worked in vineyards and wineries throughout the world before landing in Napa Valley in 2001 and his first job here...
Emma Swain
Her journey in wine took Emma Swain from Francis Ford Coppola’s Neibaum-Coppola Estate to wineries owned by Sonoma’s Sebastiani family before taking t...
Violet Grgich
Third-generation vintner Violet Grgich tells an incredible family wine story that spans a century that includes a world war, daring escapes, and a yea...
Hugh Davies
Hugh Davies lives in the same house he grew up in at Schramsberg Winery here in Napa Valley and, in a case of history repeating itself, it’s where he...
John and Rory Williams
In 1975 John Williams arrived in Napa Valley with a return bus ticket and $40 in his pocket. He fell in love with wine and never used that return tick...
John Kongsgaard
John Kongsgaard grew up in Napa Valley, where his father was a beloved local judge. John says their father-son relationship was tested during the stre...
Alan and Delia Viader
Delia Viader came to the wine business in Napa Valley in the 1980s after living in Argentina, Switzerland, Lebanon, and France and earning degrees fro...
Adam Lee
Adam Lee comes from a family of devout Texas teetotalers. In college, however, Adam not only tasted his first wine, he became passionate about it. He...
Donald Patz
Early on Donald Patz thought he’d pursue a medical career. After college, however, he landed a wine sales job and one thing led to another. By the 198...
Elizabeth Vianna
As a kid Elizabeth Vianna lived in Brazil, Los Angeles, and Illinois, then moved back to Brazil. She entered college intent on becoming a concert pian...
Michael Silacci
While Michael Silacci grew up near the vineyards of Gilroy, California, it took years of travel through Hawaii, Japan, Switzerland, and eventually Fra...
Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney burst onto the literary scene in 1984 with Bright Lights, Big City, his novel based on an era both in his life and the life of New York...
Listener Questions with Spencer Christian
In this episode the guest is you! We invited listeners to send in questions about wine collecting, winemaking, or all things Shafer – and you came thr...
Charles Woodson
Later in 2021, Charles Woodson will accept a Pro Football Hall of Fame award in Canton, Ohio, just 100 miles from where he grew up in the small town o...
Tor Kenward
Early in college Tor Kenward was drafted and sent to Vietnam. Coming home he realized that life is short and he only wanted to do things that brought...
Naoko and Maya Dalla Valle
Dalla Valle, long known for elegant and outstanding wines, is opening an exciting new chapter. Originally founded by Gustav and Naoko Dalla Valle in 1...
Cyril Chappellet
In 1967 the Chappellet family built the second post-Prohibition winery in Napa Valley. Cyril was in elementary school then and mostly what he recalls...
Tom Matthews
By the age of 35 Thomas Matthews had lived in several U.S. states and abroad in Belgium, France, and Spain. He didn’t see himself staying anywhere for...
Jaime Araujo
By the time her parents started Araujo Estate in 1990, Jaime Araujo was in college. She went on to earn four degrees, was a theater actress in London,...
Oscar Renteria
Oscar Renteria grew up in Napa and wanted to escape the wine industry so he went to college and earned a business degree. After graduation his father...
Tom Rinaldi
Tom Rinaldi grew up in San Francisco, enjoyed the Summer of Love, and tasted wine in Napa Valley on his motorcycle. Later he signed up for the Navy be...
Andy Erickson
In his 20s Andy Erickson thought he’d work in the diplomatic corps but an extended trek through South America’s wine country and a chance encounter wi...
Robert Kamen
Robert Kamen has written the screenplays for blockbusters including Taps, the original Karate Kid films, Fifth Element, Gladiator, Lethal Weapon 3, th...
Kim McPherson
Though Kim McPherson of McPherson Cellars grew up surrounded by wine history-in-the-making, it wasn’t obvious that vineyards and cellars were in his f...