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The Wine Makers
A laid-back journey into the heart of wine culture Every week, hosts Sam Coturri, Bart Hansen, and Brian Casey pull the cork on real conversations with winemakers, growers, sommeliers, and industry trailblazers from Sonoma and beyond. The Wine Makers blends deep knowledge with a relaxed, no-snobbery approach to everything from biodynamic farming to rebellious cider makers and sake artisans. These are not dry lectures or polished promos—just passionate people talking shop over a glass (or three). The hosts’ decades of hands-on experience in vineyards, cellars, and tasting rooms fuel lively discussions about sustainability, storytelling, and the changing world of wine. Whether you’re just starting to explore wine or already know your skin-contact from your carbonic maceration, this show delivers honest insight, practical advice, and plenty of personality. Pour a glass and press play.
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Aug 13, 2021 • 51min
The Wine Makers – Looking back over 200 shows on The Wine Makers podcast
Sam, Bart and John do a bit of reminiscing about the podcast, all of our friends and listeners who made it possible and all of our incredible guests. And of course Ed Silha plays the best role as The Podfather himself, Despite drought, fires and pandemics we’re still at it bringing you the very best of Sonoma winemaking. Cheers and Enjoy!!! [EP201]
Aug 7, 2021 • 1h 10min
The Wine Makers – Prema Behan & Nicole Garzin
This week we welcome Prema Behan from Three Sticks Wines and Nicole Garzino from the Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers. Prema is the Director of Operations at Three Sticks and the current President of the board of the Vintners & Growers. Nicole is the new executive director of the Vintners & Growers. Three Sticks is a favorite past guest of the podcast, so we wanted to check in about what new with them. If you haven’t check out our episode with winemaker Bob Cabral it’s not to be missed. We also wanted to welcome Nicole to hear how she came to her new job and what’s new and exciting with the SVVGA. [EP200]
@sonomavalleywine
www.sonomavalleywine.com
@threestickswines
www.threestickswines.com
Jul 24, 2021 • 1h 33min
The Wine Makers – Tidings & Desire Lines
This week on the Wine Makers Pod-Two professors from Bedrock University, AKA Cody Rasmussen of Desire Lines Wines and Reid Griggs of Tidings Wines, visit to Bart, Brian and Sam for a conversation ranging from the microbiome of vineyards to the wine selection in Iowa college towns. Cody is the Associate Winemaker at Bedrock Wine Co. where Reid worked in 2016, one of his many internships at high profile wineries. Both are among the best and the brightest of California’s young winemakers. We dig into Reid’s research at UC Davis, Cody gets into the intricacies of fermenting Riesling, Brian discovers his new favorite California Cabernet and Sam dings wine glass until his finger turns black and blue. [EP199]
Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 50min
TWM – Little Trouble Wine Co. – Jennifer Reichardt & Sara Morgenstern
Jen & Sara were going to make wine together, and they knew that it started with organic grapes and that the wine would be a reflection of the vineyard. What they didn’t know was what the winery would be called. Now inspiration comes in many forms and “Trouble” comes in many forms and after getting to know these two we think you will know exactly where the name comes from. [EP198]
www.littletroublewines.com
@littletroublewineco
Jul 9, 2021 • 47min
The Wine Makers – Listener Mail & More
Sam, Bart and John cover Weather, Wind and Water after the holiday and answer listener questions. The heat spell is starting to fade a bit, Sonoma is beautiful and we’re still in the mega drought. Enjoy a light-hearted conversation that’s a lot of fun. Cheers! [EP197]
Jul 2, 2021 • 1h 37min
The Wine Makers – Morgan Twain-Peterson, MW
This week we sit down with Morgan Twain-Peterson, MW, founder and winemaker of Bedrock Wine Co. in Sonoma. If you listen to the show, you know Morgan is a bit of a phenom, making his first wine at 5, saving historic vineyards, starting a California “grower” sparkling wine program Under the Wire, M.W., the list goes on. If you want to know anything about wine, ask Morgan. We get into a lot of subjects on this pod, including drought, DOC instability, climate change, and the amazing investment being made by Morgan and his partner Chris Cottrell to release some of the best sparkling wine in California. Enjoy this one. [EP196]
-Cheers
Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 28min
The Wine Makers – Drive Wines
How nice was it for the whole team to gather outback of the Sixteen600 Tasting House for a chat with John Musto and Tom Young from Drive Wines. These guys make some really nice wines and we actually got to taste some of their original garage-made that aren’t for sale. But don’t worry as they have plenty of great wines on their list and these are Micro-production, single-vineyard wines too. This is another great Sonoma area success story that started out in an old race car garage that ended up well. A beautiful day in Sonoma and an awesome show. Enjoy [EP195]
www.drivewines.com
Email -> john@ tom@ drivewines.com
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook -> @drivewines
Jun 4, 2021 • 1h 39min
The Wine Makers – Mike Cox, La Prenda
La Prenda Vineyard Management is a full service vineyard management company. That means that not only do they have a skilled crew working in the vineyards and in this case orchards but they also have a winemaker on staff. Mike Cox is a Sonoma native who first started working at Hacienda Winery when attending UC Davis in the late 80’s. Mike spent the majority of the last 30 years working at Schug Winery and he brought along a bunch of wines and a couple of ciders he made to share with us. We only scratched the surface of stories and experiences with Mike, so we hope you enjoy this episode and I’m sure there will be a follow up show so we can dive in to the wines we didn’t get a chance to open. [EP194]
www.laprendavineyards.com
www.sonomacollectionwine.com
@laprendasonoma
May 28, 2021 • 1h 44min
The Wine Makers – Groove Wines
Groove Wines isn’t a canned wine company, it’s a winery that puts some of it’s wines in cans. We sat down this week with Nate Miles and Matt Nagy to talk about their new brand. Yes the same Matt from Benevolent Neglect, Nate and Matt met each other working for Steve Matthiasson in Napa valley, it was a great conversation check out the show. Nate says that Groove is a new wine company interested in making wines that you want to drink, bring you pleasure, and make you happy. We want to make your wine experience more flexible and convenient, a better fit for your modern lifestyle. We’re going to do this by putting your wine in cans. [EP193]
www.groovewines.com
@groovewines
May 21, 2021 • 1h 16min
The Wine Makers – Ramey Wine Cellars
When we first sat down with David Ramey in October of 2018 we spent time talking about his start in the wine business and the winemaking techniques that he pioneered of which many winemakers use today. This time we are joined by his children Claire and Alan as David takes a step into the future helping guide his children toward running this family business. We also get some insight into the standards that this winery has build it’s reputation on. [EP192]
rameywine.com/
@davidramey
@rameywinecellars
