The Arizona Wine Monk Podcast

This is the much-belated New Year's Eve podcast with my friend Cami Barnella, her gentleman caller, Jeremy, and myself, with the Flying Leap Petit Verdot, and the Runquist Petit Verdot. Much fun was had...

In this podcast, which is sort of part two of two, but technically opened the night, the Mississipster himself and I talk Grenache. We drank the Passion Cellars 2013 Grenache (which is a wine club exclusive), and also discuss the 2012 LDV Grenache just a little bit as well.

This is technically part two of this podcast, but I'm posing it first because I can. In this podcast, the Mississipster himself, Alexander Ignativ, and I talk beer, including craft beer distribution and the recent sale of Four Peaks brewery to Anheuser Busch, as well as the craft beer situation in Mississippi. Part one, about wine, will be up later this week.

In this podcast, Gary, (The Beer Captain from the Noise) and I drink the Granite Creek Winery's 2011 Reserve Chardonnay. This podcast is designed to be listened to in conjunction with the review in the February 2016 issue of The Noise, which is the local arts newspaper in Northern Arizona.

Ethan, one of my friends who spent his time as a cellar rat (yes, that is the semi-official term) this summer at Dragoon Vineyards/Cellar 433, and I sit and drink some dolcetto from Cellar 433 and from St. Anthony's Monastery.

In this podcast, I drink over skype with comedienne Vickie Eisenstein of the Eisenstein Effect. When you're done listening here, head over to her page on soundcloud and listen to her interview of me!

The wine we drank was the 2014 Passion Cellars Barbera, which just picked up a silver medal at the San Fransisco Chronicle wine competition.

I promised my bestie Emily that I'd send her a bottle of Malvasia, and we'd podcast it!

I eventually go through with everything I promise... it just takes me a while sometimes:-)

I taught a class on Arizona wine for Students of Wine about a month ago at Hidden Track Bottle Shop, and recorded it! Now you can attend too. If you are in the Phoenix area and want to learn about wine, these guys are pretty awesome. Check out their website at http://www.studentsofwine.com/

Part two of the most epic wine and fandom podcast ever.

Cami Barnella and I sit and drink the 2013 Generations Petit Sirah from DA Ranch while talking about a whole host of things, including my recent trip to Turkey, winemakers, and why it's so hard to find Arizona wine in the supermarket.