The Wine Makers – Christopher McGilvray

Christopher McGilvray is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in Santa Cruz, California. Through his company, Nomadic Bear Productions, he has created content for a wide range of clients, including Oracle, EMI Records, and Ridge Vineyards.

We sat down with Christopher to talk about his current documentary, Eden, which follows the Patterson […]

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The Wine Makers – Jennifer Rue, Oakville Ranch Vineyards

Jennifer Rue has been the winemaker for Oakville Ranch Vineyards for more than a decade. Her connection to the site runs much deeper. Her career has effectively orbited Oakville Ranch from the start. Her first winery job sourced fruit from the vineyard. She later worked for an early iteration of […]

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The Wine Makers – Robyn Sebastiani, Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance

This week we welcome Robyn Sebastiani from the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance. Robyn serves as Executive Director of both the alliance and its charitable foundation, and she joins us to talk about what the SVVGA actually does and how it all got started.

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The Wine Makers – Mick Unti, Unti Vineyards

This is one we’ve been wanting to do for a long time. We finally sit down with Mick Unti from Unti Vineyards and get into what makes his wines and his approach so different.

Unti sits right in the middle of what most people think of as Zinfandel country, but that’s […]

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The Wine Makers – Spring Release Show

Spring has arrived in Sonoma, the sun is out, and the new releases are finally coming out of the cellar. This week we sit down and taste through the latest wines from Dane Cellars, Jambe des Bois, and Winery Sixteen 600.

Along the way we talk about where the fruit comes […]

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The Wine Makers – The Rebel School of Wine with Tyler Balliet & Morgan First

For a long time, it was easy for some to dismiss the wine world that Tyler Balliet and Morgan First have spent the last 20 years carving out for themselves as frivolous or unserious.

Second Glass, the zine Tyler started while working one of her first wine jobs, was a far […]

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The Wine Makers – DTC Symposium Part 4: Conversations With Friends

We wrap up our time at the Direct to Consumer Symposium with a relaxed final recording, catching up with friends and talking about what’s been happening lately in Monterey and back home.

We sit down with Jason Haas to catch up […]

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The Wine Makers – DTC Symposium Part 3: The Three Marketeers

Marketing Strategy & Brand Storytelling from Outside the Wine Industry

One thing that sets the DTC Wine Symposium apart from most wine conferences is how many speakers come from outside the wine industry. Our friend Barbara Gorder taps into her Chicago ad-world network and brings in people who’ve spent their careers […]

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The Wine Makers – Episode 400 and DTC Reflections

Four hundred episodes. In classic Wine Makers Pod style, this one sorta snuck up on us. Technically, we breezed past our 400th episode somewhere in the Monterey fog while recording at the DTC Wine Symposium. So we decided to package two of our favorite DTC interviews with two of our […]

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The Wine Makers – SORBET Keeps Growing!

Brian, Bart, Danielle and Sam sit down with the rest of the SORBET (Sonoma Organic Regenerative Biodynamic Educational Tasting) crew, Morgan Twain Peterson, Katie Bundschu and Alli Badar, along with special guest Ryan Woodhouse of K&L Wines, to discuss two new SORBET developments.

If you missed last year’s event at Fort […]

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