Wine Connoissaurus Rex
A fun, engaging, super unpretentious podcast to help make wine more approachable. It's just fermented juice! Each episode takes a wine topic and breaks it down to be much more manageable, consumable, and approachable. Let's put the days of the overly pretentious snobbery so often associated with wine behind us. Some episodes will have a featured interview where the guest and I talk about wine, what it means in their personal and/or professional life and show the audience that we are all just humans trying to figure it out. Guests will range from chefs and sommeliers to restaurant owners and content developers. Some will even be completely removed from the culinary world to be more representative of the audience of the show. Additionally, each episode will feature at least one wine and a brief pairing or random wine concept lesson at the end. This podcast is for ANYONE interested in wine and does not require ANY major wine knowledge. Let's have some fun with wine, enjoy it together, and figure out how we can sustain and grow the wine world.
Wine Connoissaurus Rex
We're All Storytellers feat. Chef Eric Gephart
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The interviews have begun! Thanks to Chef Eric Gephart for joining me for this awesome episode and thanks to the Andy and the wonderful team at Elephants Corner Wines in Winston-Salem, NC for hosting us and sharing some lovely wines.
Chef Eric Gephart is the Director of Culinary Inspiration for Kamado Joe where he travels the world redefining what it means to cook over live fire. And while he travels and eats, he loves pairing it up with some great wines - especially if he can get his hands on something local. He has launched a culinary school, opened restaurants, partnered with some of the greatest culinary minds in the world, and does it all with a contagiously positive and fun approach to it all. Eric and I spent the episode talking about how wine plays such a critical role in the culinary world with a whole culture around it and yet it is very much an "art" in the culinary arts. Some of his favorite moments are learning from blunders reminding us that "you don't learn anything if you hit home runs all the time."
He also would love to know the purpose behind those bottle trees in yards around the South that have empty wine bottles on them. What does it mean?? Is it like an upside down flamingo in Norway? You'll need to listen to understand that last reference.
During this episode, we enjoyed THREE different South African wines including:
De Kleine Wijn Koöp Steen (Chenin Blanc)
De Kleine Wijn Koöp Pinotage
Clarington Unwooded Chardonnay
These wines were enjoyed using Riedel Vinum Viogner/Chardonnay and Bordeaux glasses.
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