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SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series Continues with Rachel Driver Speckan
Join us as we continue our wine tasting series with Rachel Driver Speckan of City Winery Chicago. Today, we sip on a dry Riesling from Oregon , one Speckan admires and still has a bottle awaiting her, tucked in her home cellar. While she admits that dry Riesling can be difficult to explain to customers and isn’t exactly “hotcakes” jumping off the list, this is one she gets excited to talk about. The producer, Big Table Farm, is a small producer, making most wines in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Next, we take a virtual journey to South Africa on Speckan’s life-altering trip. She met with winemaker Hannes Storm in the South Cape of South Africa (@StormWinesSA). We tasted his classic Pinot Noir, which comes from land with close proximity to the ocean. Speckan firmly believes it has an old world soul and it’s one of her current obsessions.
Wines we tasted included:
2011 Big Table Farm Riesling, Willamette Valley, Oregon
2013 Storm Pinot Noir, Hemel-en-Aarde, Southern Cape of South Africa
Remember to tune in regularly for great interviews with Sommeliers, Wine Makers, Wine Directors and Top Chefs. Also, virtually taste wines with top wine experts then go taste them yourselves. SommTalks is your weekly podcast for the inside scoop on the restaurant and wine scene. Please SUBSCRIBE here, on iTunes , on TuneIn Radio or on Stitcher. Send us your thoughts, ideas, and names of peeps you’d like us to interview.
You can check out the past few episodes but if you SUBSCRIBE , you’ll receive each new episode right to your device, whichever one you listen to your podcasts on. Share episodes across social media channels, as well, to let others discover our wine conversations. A few of the most recent include:
Wine Tasting Series:
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series : Liz Mendez of Purple Pig
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series: Michael Muser of Grace Restaurant Chicago tasting Wines of Loire Valley
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series: Charles Ford, The Bristol Chicago Tastes Pouilly-Fumé , Lake County Sauvignon Blanc and Canadian Pinot Noir
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series with Erica Wosky of Petit Crenn San Francisco
More Intriguing Interviews:
Quentin Paillard of Pierre Paillard in Bouzy Champagne on Family, Grower Champagne
Matthew Bills of David Burke’s Primehouse on Wine with Aged Beef
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Join us as we continue our wine tasting series with Rachel Driver Speckan of City Winery Chicago. Today, we sip on a dry Riesling from Oregon , one Speckan admires and still has a bottle awaiting her, tucked in her home cellar. While she admits that dry Riesling can be difficult to explain to customers and isn’t exactly “hotcakes” jumping off the list, this is one she gets excited to talk about. The producer, Big Table Farm, is a small producer, making most wines in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Next, we take a virtual journey to South Africa on Speckan’s life-altering trip. She met with winemaker Hannes Storm in the South Cape of South Africa (@StormWinesSA). We tasted his classic Pinot Noir, which comes from land with close proximity to the ocean. Speckan firmly believes it has an old world soul and it’s one of her current obsessions.
Wines we tasted included:
2011 Big Table Farm Riesling, Willamette Valley, Oregon
2013 Storm Pinot Noir, Hemel-en-Aarde, Southern Cape of South Africa
Remember to tune in regularly for great interviews with Sommeliers, Wine Makers, Wine Directors and Top Chefs. Also, virtually taste wines with top wine experts then go taste them yourselves. SommTalks is your weekly podcast for the inside scoop on the restaurant and wine scene. Please SUBSCRIBE here, on iTunes , on TuneIn Radio or on Stitcher. Send us your thoughts, ideas, and names of peeps you’d like us to interview.
You can check out the past few episodes but if you SUBSCRIBE , you’ll receive each new episode right to your device, whichever one you listen to your podcasts on. Share episodes across social media channels, as well, to let others discover our wine conversations. A few of the most recent include:
Wine Tasting Series:
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series : Liz Mendez of Purple Pig
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series: Michael Muser of Grace Restaurant Chicago tasting Wines of Loire Valley
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series: Charles Ford, The Bristol Chicago Tastes Pouilly-Fumé , Lake County Sauvignon Blanc and Canadian Pinot Noir
SOMMTALKS Wine Tasting Series with Erica Wosky of Petit Crenn San Francisco
More Intriguing Interviews:
Quentin Paillard of Pierre Paillard in Bouzy Champagne on Family, Grower Champagne
Matthew Bills of David Burke’s Primehouse on Wine with Aged Beef
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