We shake up the format of the show from the get-go with a live, impromptu theme-song with musicians George Hage and Mike Rosado of the Pencil Pushers Podcast. (http://pencilpusherspodcast.libsyn.com)

Then the show gets deep into California wine with winemaker Jennifer Reichardt of Raft Wines (https://drink.raft.wine) and, filling in for Matt Weiss, friend of the show, Swarup Bandyopadhyay.

Listen to how the daughter of the a duck farmer becomes an entrepreneur in the wine industry. Her usage of unique varieties of grapes, coupled with a small budget, creates more than just delicious wine.

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Hospitality industry veterans, Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss, get behind the scenes of North Carolina's burgeoning food and beverage culture. Hear from local chefs, sommelier's, distillers, farmers, brewers and the whole lot of them in the NC F&B podcast.

Max is a front-of-house vet/sommelier that moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina in 2013. Since moving to North Carolina, he's run restaurants, designed wine programs and builds craft cocktail menus and now produces multiple podcasts.

Matthew is a certified sommelier from New York. His experience ranges from restaurant/bar to importing some of the finest wines in the world. He moved his family to North Carolina three years ago and works as a wine distributor.

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