Chuck Furuya Uncorked

Talking story & tasting wine with Master Sommelier David Yoshida--local boy done good! So interesting to hear his insights into his world of wines including working harvest in Spain, France's Loire Valley & Washington State. Plus we get to try his fabulous homemade vermouth!

Welcome to the Richard Betts universe--a highly innovative, very imaginative realm--from his wildly successful "Scratch & Sniff" wine books to his standout, old vine, otherwordly Australian Grenache to his latest project--luxury, Greek Amphora aged Tequila Komos.

This interview with Rick Lilley of Brix and Stones--a very unique, only recently launched wine, spirits & cigar experience in Hawaii. Did we perk your interest? Join us as we talk story with Rick & get the insiders scoop!

For this week's episode of Fine Wines & Local Grinds we eat Helena's award winning Hawaiian food with one of their best guests--Ola Rapozo, Creative DIrector/Co-Founder of fitted. Tune in this week as it is sure to be an awesome episode from a very different perspective.

He does look like actor Gerard Butler, but he is actually Mike Webber, Director of Operations for Roy's Hawaii. A true, long time lover of wine both professionally AND especially personally, he looks to candidly & thoughtfully share very different insights from both perspectives.

Join us for our "Talk Story" session with New Age sommelier phenom, Taro Kurobe. 

Today, he is the wine director for 3 of Waikiki's finest restaurants--Hy's Steakhouse, La Vie & Quiora (both at the Ritz Carlton--Waikiki. Taro therefore has lots of down to earth insights & experiences to share from his journey. In addition, he is a consummate sommelier--charming, gracious, welcoming, sincere & unpretentiously good fun.

This week's episode features Sang Mun, sommelier at The Pacific Club. While super knowledgeable with wines, Sang also has quite an extensive background in cooking AND thankfully a quick, dry wit & very down to earth approach to it all. Knowledgeable 7 unpretentiously humorous--this is a really fun time.

On this episode we talk story with long time, iconic sommelier/wine cellar master of the prestigious, world class Halekulani hotel AND the GromSomm, Ariana Tsuchiya--2 very different genrations of thoughts and insights.

This episode features three pizzas from Brick Fire Tavern in Kaimuki accompanied by four different wines to pair with the food.

Watch as Kale and his special guests Kimo Kennedy and Micah Suderman taste each glass with all three pizzas.

Find out what's their favorite and why!

Tune into our latest episode of Chuck Furuya Uncorked with Mike Winterbottom--sommelier of Senia Restaurant in downtown Honolulu. 

Mike brings such a unique perspective to the podcast because of his worldly understanding of food. He is extensively trained in culinary arts---working back of the house most of his life and even graduating from the Culinary Institute of America. 

Please tune in to this week's episode as he prepares for us a traditional southern French stew and we pair the wines!