He calls Paso Robles a, "drinking town with a farming problem", and when you chat with Patrick Brooks from Wine Shine, you get the vibe he's talking about and why coining that phrase was so clutch. Wine Shine is one of the O.G. members of Tin City, which is a popular industrial area of artisan producers of wine, beer, sprits, and more in central Paso. Tin CIty has gained a lot of momentum in the last few years, and houses not only some great drank, but home to some great personalities as...

There's a saying I was told my first day in radio, and I've watched over the last 20 years in this business be proven time and time again, "it's not what you know, it's who you know". Now, of course WHAT you know is important, but being at the right place, at the right time, and meeting and connecting with the right people, has been a proven part of the best success stories. So when Josh Klapper met winemaking legend Bob Lindquist while working as a somm at an LA restaurant, little did Josh...

Episode number two, we will Quarantaste wines from The Grenachista. Casey runs a grenache house in Sonoma, California where he is hand crafting under 700 cases a year. Casey has a unique and definitive love for single vineyard grenache, and we will taste everything from his single vineyard grenache, to two of his Pet Nats (blanc & noir), a rose, even a carbonic grenache. We talk everything from the 100 point wine system, our brush with celebrity wines, how his drinking has changed since...

In the first episode of 'Quarantaste - A Wine and Tastemakers Podcast', host Adam Montiel interviews Epoch Estate Wines Winemaker Jordan Fiorentini. Epoch is located in Paso Robles, California. The winery is on the site of the historic York Mountain Winery, which was the first bonded winery on California's Central Coast. They have several estate vineyards on the west side of Paso in the Willow reek sub-AVA. Adam and Jordan chat on how the brand is pivoting in the light of Coronavirus...