Latest Fred reno Podcast Episodes
EPISODE #26 KIRK WILES/CO-FOUNDER & CEO PARADISE SPRINGS WINERY
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - October 01, 2021 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsParadise Springs Winery was founded in 2007. However, the Fairfax County Board challenged the Wiles family's right to open a winery and start a vineyard. There was over two years of litigation which Kirk and his mother eventually prevailed and won. During that two year period Kirk was so conf...
EPISODE # 25 JOY TING/WINEMAKERS RESEARCH EXCHANGE COORDINATOR
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - September 13, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJoy Ting fell for the wine bug after a trip visiting here boyfriend, now her husband, while he was stationed in Northern California during his stint in the Air Force. They took a trip to Napa Valley and that experience intrigued the both of them. When they settled in Charlottesville, Virginia ...
EPISODE # 24 JAKE BUSCHING/JAKE BUSCHING WINE & HARK VINEYARDS
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - August 31, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJake Busching got his start in Virginia winegrowing after he moved to Richmond Virginia and was a struggling musician working in the restaurant business to make a living. Eventually he would move to Charlottesville and take a position at Jefferson Vineyards working for the Woodward family. Whe...
EPISODE # 23 NATE WALSH: WALSH FAMILY WINE FOUNDER & WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - August 07, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWalsh Family Wine was birthed when Nate and Sarah Walsh had the opportunity to lease Bethany Ridge Vineyard and produced their first wine, a Sauvignon Blanc in 2014. Several years later they entered an agreement with the owners of North Gate vineyard and winemaking facility where they had been...
EPISODE # 22 GLEN MANOR VINEYARDS:JEFF WHITE/FOUNDER &WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - August 02, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Glen Manor property has been in Jeff White's family since 1901. However, it was Jeff who saw the potential that the family property had as an ideal site for a vineyard. He planted his first vines at Glen Manor Vineyards in 1995. A mere 1.2 acres of Sauvignon Blanc. At the time Jeff was wor...
EPISODE # 21 PROFESSOR TONY WOLF
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - July 19, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTony Wolf by all measures has contributed a significant amount of research and experience that has advanced winegrowing in Virginia during the past 35 years. He has been the Director of the Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and...
EPISODE # 20 KESWICK VINEYARDS: STEPHEN BARNARD WINEMAKER & VINEYARD MANAGER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - July 02, 2021 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKeswick Vineyards was established by Al and Cindy Schornberg in 2000 on a property that has Virginian historical roots dating back to 1727. Stephen Barnard joined them in 2002 which was their first vintage and jumped right into making the wine. He left in 2004 and rejoined Keswick in 2006 and ...
EPISODE #19 KING FAMILY VINEYARDS:MATTHIEU FINOT/WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - June 16, 2021 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMatthieu Finot was born into a winegrowing family in Crozes-Hermitage, France. In 1995 after graduating with his degree in enology from the university in Beaune he proceeded to work in multiple wine regions in France including, Rhone Valley, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Provence, and Jura. He did stint...
EPISODE # 18 EARLY MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS:BEN JORDAN/WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - June 02, 2021 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBen Jordan began his winemaker career in California and would move back to his native state of Virginia in 2012 where he took the position as winemaker at Michael Shaps Wineworks. He was then recruited by Early Mountain Vineyards and became their winemaker in 2015. He is recognized as one of ...
EPISODE #17 EARLY MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS, AILEEN SEVIER VP STRATEGY & MARKETING
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - May 22, 2021 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEarly Mountain Vineyards was established in 2012 after Jean and Steve Case, the founders of AOL, purchased a vineyard in Madison County, at that time called Sweely vineyards, when it went on sale in 2011. Jean Case took the lead on the project with the goal to not just produce world class wine...
EPISODE #16 TRUE HERITAGE: GEORGE HODSON/CEO & EMILY PELTON/WINEMAKER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - May 09, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTrue Heritage is the new wine project of the brother/sister team, George Hodson/ CEO & Emily Pelton/Winemaker at Veritas Vineyards. They created this new Brand with the expressed intent to showcase Virginia wine on a more National and Regional scale. There is no tasting room, hospitality cente...
EPISODE #15 BLENHEIM VINEYARDS/KIRSTY HARMON WINEMAKER & GENERAL MANAGER
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - May 03, 2021 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKirsty's story of how she fell into winemaking begins as almost a fairly tale. At the young age of 24 early in her career working as a microbiologist she decided to leave the lab and devote her time to a side project she had as a calligrapher and wedding planner. In the course of that busines...
EPISODE #14 LUCIE MORTON
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - April 14, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLucie Morton is recognized today world wide as one of the foremost Viticulturist and Ampelographer in the Wine Industry. She started in winegrowing back in 1971 when her Dad asked her to take a gap year as she was finishing up grad school to be his farm manager and look into planting vines at M...
Episode # 13 Claude Thibaut/ Thibaut-Janisson
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 28, 2021 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsClaude Thibaut was born in a Gran Cru village in the Champagne region. His grandfather once worked as a vineyard manager for Moet-Chandon and his father was among the first of the grower champagne producers as they have become to be known in the country today. Claude received his winemaking deg...
EPISODE #12 DuCard Vineyards, Scott Elliff Founder & Owner.
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 23, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDuCard vineyards was established in 2001 after Scott and Karen Elliff purchased property on the eastern slope of the Shenandoah National Park west of the historic town of Madison, Virginia. The property, at an elevation of 1,000 feet was once the site of a thriving Apple Orchard at a time when...
EPISODE #11 ANKIDA RIDGE, CHRISTINE, DENNIS, & NATHAN VROOMAN
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - March 08, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnkida Ridge was established by Christine & Dennis Vrooman with the planting of their first vines in 2008. Lucie Morton was their vineyard consultant and she brilliantly, in my opinion, advised them to plant Pinot Noir. She believed that the southeastern facing slope at 1800 feet nestled int...
Episode #10 Andrew Hodson/Founder & Owner of Veritas Vineyards and Winery
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 26, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsVeritas Winery was established in 1999 by Andrew Hodson and his wife Patricia. They both had successful careers in the Medical field but asked themselves is this all there is? So, during a folk tour after meeting a couple who had moved to Virginia and described how they had never been happier ...
Episode 9 RDV Vineyards/Rutger de Vink
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 10, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRutger de Vink the founder of RDV established is Vineyard in 204 after having working as an intern with Jim Law and Linden in the early 2000s. He credits Jim for a fortuitous trip he took at Jim's invitation with a group of winemakers to travel to Bordeaux in 2002. It was during that trip that...
Episode #8 Shep Rouse /Rockbridge Winery
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 02, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsShepherd (Shep) Rouse is Virginia through and through. His ancestors roots trace back to the 17th century in Virginia. Shep was a Fulbright Scholar and after spending time in Germany he fell in love with their wines and Riesling specifically. When he returned to the U.S. he decided to take up ...
Episode #8 Shep Rouse /Winery
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - February 02, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsShepherd (Shep) Rouse is Virginia through and through. His ancestors roots trace back to the 17th century in Virginia. Shep was a Fulbright Scholar and after spending time in Germany he fell in love with their wines and Riesling specifically. When he returned to the U.S. he decided to take up ...
Episode 7 featuring Jim Law owner and winemaker at Linden Vineyards
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 19, 2021 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJim Law began his quest to produce wine in Virginia when he and his family bought a long-abandoned apple orchard in the Northern part of Virginia in 1983 after several years of searching for a parcel of land that had high elevation and had eastern facing slopes. His first vineyard experience wa...
Episode 6 Jay Youmans, Master of Wine
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - January 10, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn September of 2020 I had the opportunity to interview Jay Youmans MW. Jay owns the Capital Wine School in Washington, DC. and is responsible for overseeing and conducting the Virginia Governor's Cup wine Competition. He shares how he originally got involved in the competition and describes t...
Episode 5 Chris Hill Virginia Viticulturist
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 30, 2020 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Hill is one of the most accomplished and noted Viticulturalist in Virginia. Many of the clients he has worked with in advising and planting vineyards are amongst the who's, who of the successful modern day Virginia winegrowers. That list includes Michael Shaps, Pollack, Barren Ridge, Ve...
Episode 4 with Michael Shaps Founder and Owner of Michael Shaps Wineworks
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 16, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMichael Shaps started making wine in Virginia when he succeeded Gabriele Rausse at Jefferson Vineyards in 1995. Michael became enamored early on with the wines of Burgundy, so it seemed the logical step for him to go to France and learn how to make wine. With no prior connections he left his jo...
Episode 3 Luca Paschina General Manager and Winemaker Barboursville Vineyards
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - December 06, 2020 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis Episode with Luca Paschina from Barboursville Vineyards starts with him describing his youth in Italy where he began making wine at the young age of 14 years old with his Father. Later, he would go on to work for another wine company. He was there for 8 years and gained experience in all...
Garbriele Rausse Episode 2 part 2
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 29, 2020 18:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this second and final segment of my interview with Gabriele we dig deeper into the reasons why he left Jefferson Vineyard in 1995 and took the position of Director of the Grounds and Gardens at Monticello. Gabriele shares a number of insights about Thomas Jefferson throughout this segment. ...
Gabriele Rausse Episode 2/part 1 Fine Wine Confidential Podcast
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 24, 2020 19:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis is Part 1 of Episode 2 where I have the pleasure to interview Gabriele Rausse, who the NY Times called the Father of modern-day Virginia winegrowing. ( Part 2 of this Episode will be published as a continuation of this Episode at a later date). Gabriele came to Virginia in April of 1976 wh...
Fine Wine Confidential Introduction Episode
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast - November 03, 2020 19:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this first episode I introduce myself, (Fred Reno) and what motivated me to create this Podcast. I have included brief audio excerpts from interviews in my next in my next 3 episodes. First, with Gabriele Rausse, who the NY Times called the Father of the modern-day Virginia wine industry f...
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