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I, “the everyman’s wine snob”, had the very unique opportunity this last Saturday to visit Smith-Madrone Winery, located atop Spring Mountain in Napa Valley, California. It was an amazing experience and an absolute pleasure meeting both Stu and Charles Smith (owners), who share the responsibility for producing some of the most unique and exciting Rieslings and Cabernet Sauvignons that I have tasted, to date, from Napa Valley.

JonM the “wine snob’s everyman” and I hope you enjoy the podcast we put together about my experience at Smith-Madrone Winery.

Well we have made through our first year of drinking, talking and blogging.  And like any 22 year old (legal in all 50 states plus one) facing their future, we looked back at what we had accomplished, attempted, and abandoned and decided the website needed a bit of work.  So got to work and created, [...]

In this Episode of Vintuba TV we explore the world of Pinot Noir and Epic of Gilgamesh. Now inevitably 99% of you (of course I am not talking to you because you belong to the 1% who know everything) are asking yourselves either who the hell is Gilgamesh (hint check out the link I provided [...]

In our first episode of Vintuba TV JonM “the wine snob’s everyman” comes to Napa to visit ChrisO “the everyman’s wine snob” and to show off wines from Missouri! How does it go? You are just going to have to watch and see…

More info:
Stone Hill Winery
Alexis Bailly Vineyards
Vignoles hybrid grape
For the podcast version click here

Our lowest wine review to date, complete with hats.

Don’t count France out when it comes to Value!

ChrisO, “Everyman’s Wine Snob” and JonM, the self professed “Beer drinking idiot from St. Louis” discuss value wines from South Africa as well as ChrisO’s recent appearance on WineBizRadio.

In episode #11 JonM “Wine Snob’s Everyman” joins ChrisO “Everyman’s Wine Snob”  on his daily commute through beautiful Los Carneros to get another drive time wine recommendation.
This week it’s all about the 2006 Fogdog Chardonnay, from Freestone Winery, located on the Sonoma Coast, and the 2005 Masi Campofiorin, from Masi Agricola, located in Veneto region [...]

In episode #10 ChrisO in Napa, JonM in Snowmass, and Windy City Wine Guy in Chicago discus almost everything sparkling.
We wish you a very happy beginning to 2009.
Cheers,
ChrisO, JonM and the Windy City Wine Guy!
Show #10 m4a format
(42:00min 17.6MB)
Some of the wines we discussed in this episode:
1999 Champagner  Dom Pérignon
NV Champagner Bollinger Spevial [...]

In episode #9 JonM,  the “Wine Snob’s Everyman”, joins ChrisO, the “Everyman’s Wine Snob”,  on his daily commute through beautiful Los Carneros to get another drive time wine recommendation.  This week it’s all about desert island wines.
Show #9 m4a format
(7:01min 3.1MB)

Here are the wines we talked about in this episode: