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A Restaurant Star in the City of Stars

On February 18, 2017   /   Eat, RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW  
A Restaurant Star in the City of Stars
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City of stars Just one thing everybody wants There in the bars And through the smokescreen of the crowded restaurants It’s love – Lyrics from “La La Land” My last big trip to La La Land involved supplying George Duboeuf Poully-Fuisse to P Diddy’s Fourth of July White Party in Beverly Hills in 2009. White wine for a white party hosted by a hip hop/rap music mogul. It was hotter than Hades, and there was no shade for the wine bars or gift bags.  P Diddy may be a music impressario, but his stiletto-shod, mini-dress clad event production team didn’t […]

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Love, Italian Style

On February 8, 2017   /   David Ransom, Drink, Eat, Melanie Young, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW  
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When it comes to passion, the Italians are brimming with it. Oh, the French are incredibly romantic, and the Greeks will tell you they created passion (as well as comedy, tragedy and democracy). But Italian passione just seems to overflow with abbondanza. So, it’s been a pleasure to indulge our passion for Italian wine which has been flowing steadily since January starting with Benvenuto Brunello and continuing this week with VINO2017 and Gambero Rosso’s Tre Bicchieri. David heads to Tuscany for the annual Anteprima while I spend Valentine’s Day solo with perhaps a plate of pasta with parmigiano, a little red wine […]

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Kenwood Winemaker Pat Henderson on the Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon

On February 8, 2017   /   David Ransom, Drink, Melanie Young, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW  
Kenwood Winemaker Pat Henderson on the Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon
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Recently we met with Pat Henderson, Chief Winemaker at  Kenwood Vineyards in Sonoma to taste through some vintages of the Artist Series, the winery’s portfolio of carefully blended Cabernet Sauvignon produced from the very best vineyards in Sonoma County. Every picture tells a story as does the vintage in the bottle. Pat shared anecdotes and aging information with equal finesse as we sipped.   A veteran of more than 30 vintages, Pat worked at five wineries including a summer with Kenwood Vineyards as enologist in 1983. After earning his degree in viticulture and enology, he worked in both the Napa and Sonoma valleys […]

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Wine Wonders from Down Under: Moollydooker and Bird in Hand

On February 4, 2017   /   David Ransom, Drink, Melanie Young, THE CONNECTED TABLE RADIO SHOW  
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In 1989 I left my corporate agency job and went on a solo “walkabout” of sorts to Australia. It took 30,000 frequent flyer miles and 30 hours to land in Sydney where I stayed at a friend of a friend’s apartment near Bondi Beach. I spent the next six weeks hopscotching Australia on a cheap “kangaroo fare.” I learned how to play a didgeridoo in Alice Springs, hitched a ride on a prop plane with the Outback mailman to deliver parcels, climbed Ayers Rock in the wrong footwear, took my first hot air balloon ride over some dusty dunes sprinkled […]

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