August 21, 2024 • 25 mins
Ben Higgins and Bob Guiney sit down with Aly Wente of Wente Vineyards for a look into how your favorite wine is made, how to properly taste and enjoy wine, and how to find the right wine for you!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's almost famous podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We are sitting here right now in I would say
this is like the type of place Bob, that when
I sit here, all I can think about is I
want my wife sitting next to me. It's like a
memorable place.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I literally just said as we were walking up the steps,
my wife is gonna be so pissed off right now,
because Canyon would love this place. She went to school
in Berkeley, so she loves this entire area. And then
as we're walking up the steps and I'm seeing all
the concerts that have performed here and just the property
and the facilities, I'm like, oh my god, my wife
is gonna be very upset at me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Bachelor is known for romance.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Absolutely, this place is romantic. And we have Ali Winty here,
who's a part of the family for Winty Vineyards. Yes, Ali,
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Fun to be here.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you for first of all, and thank you for
the shardonay. The winn Te shardonnay is famous, not only
you know, worldwide and globally and regionally and domestically and
everything else. One of my very best friends who lived
in Walnut Creek told me, first of all, he's like,
you're going to be horrible on that golf course today.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
He was right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Secondly, he's like, you are going to love the shardonnay.
And he and his wife would come here all the
time for all sorts of different events and things that
you guys do on the property, and he's like, you're
going to fall in love with the place, and I
truly have.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh, well good. You know, we are known most for shardonay.
My family's been making and growing wine here in the
Livermore Valley. We also farm in Royal Seco, Monterey, so
we've about three thousand acres between Livermore and Monterey in total.
But we've been doing that since eighteen eighty three, so
one hundred and forty one years, and I'm a fifth
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generation member of the family and in that time, shardenay
is really what put us on the map. Way back
when we planted our first acres of shardonay in nineteen
eight and then nineteen twelve we had about four acres,
and you know, since then kind of propagated chardonnay forward,
created our own signature style, got a clone made this
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is all getting really keeky. I love but yeah so
today And I know because they made me have a
terrible internship one year where I had to call a
directory of California wineries to see if they use the
weenty clone. So it's a little bit of research and
it's been a long time since I was intern age.
But hey, but through that we were able to say
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that we think about seventy five percent of all California
chardonay has genetic roots back to my family's property.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No kidding, really.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yes, really, we're the godfather of shardonay. I guess you
could say.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, So this is how I imagine this podcast going. I
really want to get into like I want to do
a segment getting into wine. What makes wine great? What
makes wine special? Why your shortenay stands out? Because I
think it's important and I think it's a question a
lot of people ask. But I want to start because
this is most see an audio media that people are
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gonna be listening to. We're sitting as Bob and I
are mentioning in some in a place that is special.
It is you know, it has like a this like
energy to it. It's it's a place that's romantic. Someone
be called like a sacred like it just feels like
a place when when you sit here, you don't want
to leave, can you.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well to that point, the architecture, like I'm looking at
the windows, you have like a honeycomb window behind you.
Then we got like all these like cool like old
style windows. It's almost like an it's like a I
don't even know what the right I want to say,
like an Aztec.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Like type of finish, but it's not. But the building
is like this mission style classic California is such a pull.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Trees, palm trees, like you really are in California. Like
to me, it's quintessential California.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And was that intentional by the family, like like, let's
make this place be what we know people like I
feel like I'm in the Ohigh.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Valley Yeah, o High Valley. Yeah it's a beautiful place. Yeah,
you know, our intention is always to stay true to
the history and what's authentic to this place and bring
it forward to the future. So this site is magical.
I totally agree, especially when the light's hitting just as
it is right now around I don't even know what
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time it is, I don't know what day it is
five thirty. It's like Golden Hour. It's just beautiful outside
and you could sit on that patio all night long
until the sunset.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So walk us through if you can.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
For anybody listening what we're sitting right now in you're
event center that does some live music. What else do
you have on property? We obviously played the golf course today.
That is beautiful. I'd highly recommend it as a golfer.
It is a place that I would highly recommend people
coming to. Thank you, but kind of give us like
a quick overview of this property that we sit on.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah, so it's a historic property. It was the original
Cresta Blanca winery back in eighteen eighty two and my
family ended up purchasing it and kind of reviving it
and bringing it back to life. It's now our main
home for wenty Vineyards. Are tasting Lounge as we call it,
so you can come here. You can do taste wine tastings,
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group tastings. We also have a full catering team so
you can have your wedding here. We do big events concerts,
as you talked about, had some pretty big names throughout
the years. Now, Oh god, I mean I.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Saw Kenny g on the wall, Kenny, I saw Kenny G.
I saw a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, yeah, you just tell us, quiz you.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I want to throw names out there that I thought
I saw that I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't want to be wrong, So you tell us. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean we've had like, you know, the Beach Boys,
to Ryl Crow, Cheryl Crow, Ye, Kenny Loggins, you know,
like some classically big names. I mean there's tons of them,
so they're they're escaping my brain right now, but there's
some of them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
She's gonna have band from TV here soon. You Yeah, yeah,
I have a feeling. I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Next on the one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Okay, so you've obviously had incredible talent come through.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You have the tasting room.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What else when if somebody came and visited, Yes, what
else could they experience here on property?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You could host a private dinner here, a private party,
food and wine pairing experiences. Like you said, we have
our championship Greg Norman designed golf course, so that's available
to you, and that's just all right here. You can
park in the parking lot, attend a wedding, go wine tasting,
play some golf.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Well moving, I say, this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So we got to play the golf course today and
one of the you know, I hit my ball many
times into your lovely vineyards.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And you're just gonna stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But I hit my ball many times, which I did,
and then awesome times they unfortunately escaped into your vineyards.
But I would find myself and that's something that most
people don't get to experience, frankly, like, yes, I hit
a horrible golf shot. It went, you know, into this
area it's not supposed to go. I'm trying to fetch
my ball, but I'm also standing in the vines. Like
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I'm standing, you know, in the grapes, and it's like
that was kind of a cool moment for me, Like
I was literally like looking for my ball and then
I and we even took a video of it.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I'm like, look how beautiful this is, Like look at
these grapes.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And Ben's like, oh my god, you know, because Ben's
Ben's a little more sensitive than I am, and he
notices things that I might miss. And Ben's like, look
at how lovely these gorgeous vines are.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
And I'm like, holy smokes, he's right.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So we took a video of them, but it was
like something that most people don't get to experience. And
so when you play the golf course, if you do
hit a foul shot occasionally, which I did and do,
you will get to experience your vines up close and
personal and you.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Will say goodbye to your ball.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I couldn't find it many times.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Yeah, no, I mean the golf course is really special.
It is you know, up and down the hillsides. It's
built into the vineyards. We make wine from the vineyards
in the course. So he goes into our wet More
vineyard cabernet and we you know, it's amongst oak trees,
sycamore trees. There's wildlife out there. Careful, don't go search.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I thought I was being chased by a fox or
a coyote and there are olive trees.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, there's a moment.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know if you've ever been here, but there
was a moment where I was on the course and
I feel like I was like in Israel. There's the
olive trees, and there's the hills and there's this like
there's this greenery around it. I mean, it's it's a
really incredibly beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This course.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Every time you turned around, there was a view or
something new to look at. I've never played a course
in the midst of vineyards?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Is this one a few that you know?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Of?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
As far as I know, we're the only winery that
also owns and has its own vineyard. So I can't say, though,
if there's vineyards on other courses, but I think we're
pretty unique in the sense that we have a vineyard
in a golf course.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And you said that the reason the golf course exists
here is because it's kind of your dad's, like it
was your dad's dream, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
It was definitely his vision and his dream. You know,
we own so many acres of land, and for him,
it's always been how can we make the Livermore Valley
a true destination and have people come here and have
many reasons to come here. Obviously wine is one of
those reasons, but if people are coming here for golf,
they're more likely to also drink wine while they're out here.
You know, they need multiple activities to do so it
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was born of that, and of course his love for golf.
I mean, my grandma always tells this story about how
the principle of my dad's school when he was in
high school used to call her all the time because
my dad was playing hookey that he was on the
golf course and my grandma was like, well, he's going
to have a great shot. Like you know, my whole
family loves golf, so he's never in trouble for it,
(09:42):
and here we are to so great. Well, yeah, he's
a pretty easy guy to get.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A very nice dude.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I like to call him Filipedia Philipedia.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, he's our historian, our little well loved knowledge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I think there's you know, there's there's got to be
so much history to this land and what you guys
had done with it. I mean, I mean obviously, you know,
like I mentioned, it's a storied land for the Shardenay.
But man, I gotta be honest. I had a great
Milo tonight as well. I had a really beautiful cop
you know, the the Sauvigny and Blanc was amazing. So
(10:16):
it's like everything I had was so good. But how
did you become known for the Shardnay? Like why was
that the one thing that somehow took you guys over
the top.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah, well, I think it's because of the you know,
our cultivation of a specific style of chardonnay, so and
in the fact that we had these vineyards planted in
nineteen twelve, and it was a whole lot easier to
come to our property and get a cutting and plant
shardenay in your vineyards, then go figure out how to
get cuttings from Burgundy, which is what we did. So
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we had imported Burgen cuttings from Murceau and Montpellier and
created our selection based off of those cuttings, and so
people were then taking our style that we were really
creating in My great grand father, the one who really
started this program, was looking for stone fruit musque and
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a little bit of citrus, and so he had a
select style that he was looking for and he really
would taste the berries each harvest, tape the vines that
were the most flavorful, and for the next harvest he
would graft that into a new plot of land.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
So he was the one who really kind of started
that whole flavor. He did exert.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, And so now it has a really specific style
and I think wymakers have come to appreciate it for shardenay,
and so a lot of them use it, and that's
really what's planted around California. You'll see some brands on
the back of their label, we'll say they use the
weenty clone of chardonnay because it defines a specific style
and it's also a wonderful club. Yeah it's really cool.
Yeah good, it's really special. And there's some really fancy
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brands that use that, and we'll say it on their label.
So it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So teach me right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Like again, if people are listening to this, so you
have to explain it more than what you typically would. Okay,
but if somebody's at home and they're enjoying glass of
wine while listening to this podcast, what is the best
way to have that first sip or taste the wine? Like,
what is the appropriate way to get all those notes
that you were just talking about to actually appreciate, you know,
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your first sip.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, what I would do is, you know, start gently
swirl your glass, put your nose into the glass, see
what you smell. Maybe swirl it again, put it into
your mouth.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Hold on a second. I'm so sorry, oh empty glass
at glass is oddly empty.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
This has happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
This is when he snaps his fingers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Listen, Sam, Hell, you are so kind, Thank you. Yes, no,
you definitely can. Is there a way to a specific
porting methodology or not?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
As long as it gets in the glass, Yeah, that's key.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Okay, you swirl it, swirl it, smell it, and swirl
it again. If you want to be fancy, I do
put I can't. I can't do this actively in talk,
so you guys will have to do it for me.
Put it in your mouth, take a little sip, swish
it around. You can open your mouth a tiny bit,
get a little air in there if you want. If
you want to be really fancy, yeah, there you go
and swallow it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
That's like, uh more professional way to taste it for me.
You know, sometimes I think wine can be a little
intimidating because we tell you what you're supposed to smell
and what you're supposed to taste, Like it's a tobacco.
It's a little complicated sometimes and it doesn't need to be,
you know, So I always say I actually don't love
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telling people what they should taste unless they really want
to learn and they want they want to know. But
I'm like, what do you smell? What do you taste?
Because there's no really wrong answer in this Everyone's.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Which Reese just poured me. I did everything you said.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, it was amazing, Like there is like I don't
really even know what notes I'm supposed to look for,
but there's stuff in there going there's things going on
here that I wouldn't even imagine.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
But I do have this question for you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
So, so you you grow up in this family obviously, Yeah,
you know your lineage. You know, I'm sure you grew
up running around this land, this property, do you know,
like you're in high school whatever, you're going to college.
Are you thinking, Okay, this is I'm going to take
this business over. I'm going to be the person that
runs this industry with my other family members, or are
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you thinking, you know.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Like how does that work? My dad was a Detroit
cops so I was like.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well, I'm gonna hand off flowers on TV someday. That
was my obvious path, Like what is your obvious path?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I wanted nothing to do with it, which is I'm
sort of a unique one of my family. I think
most of my family members wanted to work in the business.
For me growing up, you know, Livermore is a much
bigger feeling town than it used to feel when I
grew up here. It was a farming community, and I
was you know, it felt like it was everywhere the
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family business. And I really wanted to spread my wings,
be my own person, not have anyone tell me what
I should do or who I should be. So I
went to school to be a broadcast news reporter. So
that's what I wanted to do. I was carrying around
a tripod and a video camera local TV. Oh thank you.
So that's what I wanted to do. And then I
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had a kind of crazy internship in Oakland for one
of the local news stations. You know, crazy that what
people do in that business. I mean it's like fifteen
hour days in a van, You're going into a scary
situation and then they're cutting. Yeah, it's very It's actually
completely not glamorous at all. And so I thought, Okay,
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you know, I like storytelling, I love to write, I
like media. What can I do? Got into marketing and
then I sort of fell into wine. And I was
living in San Francisco with my boyfriend now husband at
the time and really enjoyed food, love going wine, tasting,
love food and wine. And I was like, oh, you
know what am I? What am I pushing my family
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business away for and then you get older and you're like, no,
this is actually pretty awesome, And I could go work
in an industry that's my true personal passion love food
and wine and work with my sisters, my dad, my cousins,
my aunts, my uncle, and feel so fulfilled. And I
don't think I ever really realized how fulfilling it would
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be until I actually came back to work for the family,
which wasn't for quite some time later. But yeah, it's
pretty special and I'm so glad I did well.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
I think we all are.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, so listeners out there obviously are hearing about Wincy
wines and curious. They probably are familiar with it, right,
Like they're they're familiar with the brand.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I hope I have definitely seen the brand.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah good.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So you know, for somebody out there listening, where can
they find your wines? Yeah? All across the US really
kind of you know, are you have international distribution?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Where can they find it?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And maybe if they're just like dabbling, right, they're like
your your weekend wine drinker, they don't know that, like
which wine would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
They kind of start with entry level.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. So, our wines are
available globally. We sell wine in seventy five countries around
the world. Most of our wines, not all of them,
are available nationally, So if you're listening, it really depends
on where you're located. We do have a wine finder
on our website, So if you wanted to go to
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that plug in your life's website wenty vineyards dot com
and if you scroll all the way to the bottom,
there'll be a link that helps you find your wine.
And if you put your zip code in, you'll be
able to find the nearest place to you that sells
our wine. That's awesome, but you know, in the most part,
you could go to grocery, your local grocery store. You
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should hopefully be able to find some of our products.
There's a lot more distribution here on the west side
of the country. The east side. It's there. It's just
a little spottier depending on where you're located. But yeah,
so if you're just getting into it and you're looking
for an entry wine, are we have a We're not
drinking it. It's a different shardenay than this, but we
have what I call our what I call what is
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called our morning fog chardonnay, and it's super balanced. It's
like fifty percent stainless steel, fifty percent neutral oak barrel,
so it's not superbottery. It's not totally crisp, but has
a little body, but it's really approachable. I jokingly call
it our gateway shardenay because you know, for all the
people who say, oh, I don't like shardonay, I'm like, well,
try this. You know, shardonay can take on so many
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different forms. It can be super heavy, super light. It's
one of those rare varieties that a winemaker really can
have a huge impact on. And so sometimes I think,
if you don't like Shardenay, you just had the one,
don't give up on it. Try something different. And that
one is kind of our I think approachable chardonnay. And
then we have a Southern Hills Cabernet, which is sort
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of the brother, if you will, to that wine, and
super easy drinking cabernet. The tannins aren't going to totally
dry your mouth out. You don't have to have a
big fat steak to drink it. It's really lovely, and
you know, all of our wines are certified sustainable, so
is our winery, so it's all handled with care. We
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plant the vines, we harvest them, we bottle them, we
package them, we sell them. So everything we do ourselves.
And I think there's also a quality that we uphold
ourselves to when our name is on the label. So
we want people to be able to trust us and
we want to feel good about it. How's our name
on the label?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, and from that perspective too, I mean from a
family owned vineyard. Yeah, aren't you one of the few
last remaining family own vineyards that doesn't have you know,
some type of.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Feels that way right that way. You know, there's so
many family vineyards now big and small, but we are
the longest continuously family owned winery vineyard in the country.
So we're now run by the fifth generation. Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That's an incredible accomplishment.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I want to make sure we talked about that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Let's go, So you are the longest family owned winery
in the country.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yes, that has not skipped a vantage. So we've made
a vintage since our first in eighteen eighty three, even
through prohibition, we made wine for the church. We were
rearing to go and yeah, there you go. That was it.
M Yep. And we're farming, you know, the same plots
of land that we did all the way back in
eighteen eighty three, and Savignon Blanc especially, this is so
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really loud.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I got to ask.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
A question, curious about Okay, I don't know if it
makes any sense. Somewhere if you can't tell me, you
don't tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Somewhere within your homes, underneath the building we're in, do
you have, like, what's the oldest wine your family still
has that has not been opened?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You know, we have some pretty old ones. We have
not from the eighteen hundreds. I wish, I mean that
would be really cool, but we have some like nineteen thirties,
but they're really like I wouldn't open it at this point,
Like it's really just memorbile.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Right, you wouldn't open them.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
No, I mean it's going to be vinegar.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I always wonder what's the number of the like how old?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Like I'm just curious, like how old is it till
it's no longer good?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
It depends? You know, that's a hard question because wine
making practices were so different back then, and then how
was it stored and a lot of the time it's
really interesting. People will call us and say that they
were cleaning out their cellar and found this super old bottle,
and they'll come drive it back to us. That's how
we've collected a lot of our old bottles. You know,
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I wish that my grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather
had thought more about keeping some of these things for history.
They didn't so much. But we have a small collection
of some pretty fun unique wines. But yeah, thirties, I
would say is probably the oldest. And it's more just
fun to look at.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Their dinner parties of the family have to be so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can you imagine, like you got.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
To meet Filipedia.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, well, like they have a big family like event
in life and all of a sudden, like dad's bringing
out this like nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You know, Dad's like.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Not, my mom's bringing out a bottle of white sin
and your mom's bringing out you know, like this classic
you know Shardona.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Like we bring out old ones sometimes not all the time,
but we do. We'll have some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's awesome. Well to close out here.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Adopt it like.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You're you're you're invited in.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yes, well, my uber is here.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
So I do have to go, but I want to
say we've had the greatest day here with you, and
thank you so much for hosting us, for hosting our
iHeart family.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Hey, before you leave, I do just to close that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I think it's ali here to really tell us like
your wine. You know, people should go out look at
this brand. We'll put our names behind it. You should
go do it if you're having a party. But to
close this, can you sell just like the idea of
coming to visit here? I think it's intimidating for most people,
the idea to come to this place, to step in,
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not this place specifically.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Most people are like I don't know wine very well.
I don't know how to do a tasting. I don't
know like even how how to pull up and like
what I should wear? Can you just close us with
Like if somebody's listening and they're like, this sounds like
such a fun idea, I just don't know how to
do it, what would you tell them?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It's like going to dinner, you guys, Okay, put on
a fun outfit, come out here. We'll guide you through
the experience. Sit down, we have a menu, we'll talk
you through it. You don't have to know how to
taste wine to enjoy wine. You know, we have these
wine making principles where we want, you know, balance, we
want the wines to have a sense of place. We
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want them to taste like the variety they say they are.
So if you have a glass of chardenay, we want
you to say it sharday. Sure, but then we have
this other quality that we call yummy.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know, you don't have to know what it flavors.
It is. You just have to know if you like
it and you want another sip, and if you don't,
that's okay. We have plenty others.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
So you guys are kind of it's still a very classy,
but you're simplifying the wine experience for a lot of
people too. It's like, yeah, like I will say this,
like this was I agree with what Ben said. Like
coming here today, I was like, oh my gosh, you know,
we're going to this vineyard and it's this golf course.
But after being here, it's such a great experience. Everyone
has been so nice. Your staff has been so kind
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to us and really inviting and wonderful, and from everyone
from the you know, the guys that like took our
golf bags, to everyone who's serving us wine here.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
We've had such a great day, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
For having us, and thanks for being a part of
this with us, and for the Almost Famous family.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
We've had a great day.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It's gonna be a great night too. We have a
big night ahead of us. It's gonna be awesome here.
So thanks for having USA.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate it and
my family will thank you. Cheers of course.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Salude, Hey, we're here at Winty Vineyards, went Ty Winery.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
We're here at win Ty Vineyards.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've had a tremendous day and more to come. Some
time to go to dinner. So until then, I've been been.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I've been Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Ali.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's almost famous podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We are sitting here right now in I would say
this is like the type of place Bob, that when
I sit here, all I can think about is I
want my wife sitting next to me. It's like a
memorable place.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I literally just said as we were walking up the steps,
my wife is gonna be so pissed off right now,
because Canyon would love this place. She went to school
in Berkeley, so she loves this entire area. And then
as we're walking up the steps and I'm seeing all
the concerts that have performed here and just the property
and the facilities, I'm like, oh my god, my wife
is gonna be very upset at me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The Bachelor is known for romance.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Absolutely, this place is romantic. And we have Ali Winty here,
who's a part of the family for Winty Vineyards. Yes, Ali,
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Fun to be here.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you for first of all, and thank you for
the shardonay. The winn Te shardonnay is famous, not only
you know, worldwide and globally and regionally and domestically and
everything else. One of my very best friends who lived
in Walnut Creek told me, first of all, he's like,
you're going to be horrible on that golf course today.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
He was right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Secondly, he's like, you are going to love the shardonnay.
And he and his wife would come here all the
time for all sorts of different events and things that
you guys do on the property, and he's like, you're
going to fall in love with the place, and I
truly have.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh, well good. You know, we are known most for shardonay.
My family's been making and growing wine here in the
Livermore Valley. We also farm in Royal Seco, Monterey, so
we've about three thousand acres between Livermore and Monterey in total.
But we've been doing that since eighteen eighty three, so
one hundred and forty one years, and I'm a fifth
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generation member of the family and in that time, shardenay
is really what put us on the map. Way back
when we planted our first acres of shardonay in nineteen
eight and then nineteen twelve we had about four acres,
and you know, since then kind of propagated chardonnay forward,
created our own signature style, got a clone made this
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is all getting really keeky. I love but yeah so
today And I know because they made me have a
terrible internship one year where I had to call a
directory of California wineries to see if they use the
weenty clone. So it's a little bit of research and
it's been a long time since I was intern age.
But hey, but through that we were able to say
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that we think about seventy five percent of all California
chardonay has genetic roots back to my family's property.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No kidding, really.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yes, really, we're the godfather of shardonay. I guess you
could say.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, So this is how I imagine this podcast going. I
really want to get into like I want to do
a segment getting into wine. What makes wine great? What
makes wine special? Why your shortenay stands out? Because I
think it's important and I think it's a question a
lot of people ask. But I want to start because
this is most see an audio media that people are
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gonna be listening to. We're sitting as Bob and I
are mentioning in some in a place that is special.
It is you know, it has like a this like
energy to it. It's it's a place that's romantic. Someone
be called like a sacred like it just feels like
a place when when you sit here, you don't want
to leave, can you.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well to that point, the architecture, like I'm looking at
the windows, you have like a honeycomb window behind you.
Then we got like all these like cool like old
style windows. It's almost like an it's like a I
don't even know what the right I want to say,
like an Aztec.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Like type of finish, but it's not. But the building
is like this mission style classic California is such a pull.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Trees, palm trees, like you really are in California. Like
to me, it's quintessential California.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And was that intentional by the family, like like, let's
make this place be what we know people like I
feel like I'm in the Ohigh.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Valley Yeah, o High Valley. Yeah it's a beautiful place. Yeah,
you know, our intention is always to stay true to
the history and what's authentic to this place and bring
it forward to the future. So this site is magical.
I totally agree, especially when the light's hitting just as
it is right now around I don't even know what
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time it is, I don't know what day it is
five thirty. It's like Golden Hour. It's just beautiful outside
and you could sit on that patio all night long
until the sunset.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So walk us through if you can.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
For anybody listening what we're sitting right now in you're
event center that does some live music. What else do
you have on property? We obviously played the golf course today.
That is beautiful. I'd highly recommend it as a golfer.
It is a place that I would highly recommend people
coming to. Thank you, but kind of give us like
a quick overview of this property that we sit on.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah, so it's a historic property. It was the original
Cresta Blanca winery back in eighteen eighty two and my
family ended up purchasing it and kind of reviving it
and bringing it back to life. It's now our main
home for wenty Vineyards. Are tasting Lounge as we call it,
so you can come here. You can do taste wine tastings,
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group tastings. We also have a full catering team so
you can have your wedding here. We do big events concerts,
as you talked about, had some pretty big names throughout
the years. Now, Oh god, I mean I.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Saw Kenny g on the wall, Kenny, I saw Kenny G.
I saw a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, yeah, you just tell us, quiz you.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I want to throw names out there that I thought
I saw that I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't want to be wrong, So you tell us. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean we've had like, you know, the Beach Boys,
to Ryl Crow, Cheryl Crow, Ye, Kenny Loggins, you know,
like some classically big names. I mean there's tons of them,
so they're they're escaping my brain right now, but there's
some of them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
She's gonna have band from TV here soon. You Yeah, yeah,
I have a feeling. I have a feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Next on the one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Okay, so you've obviously had incredible talent come through.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You have the tasting room.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What else when if somebody came and visited, Yes, what
else could they experience here on property?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You could host a private dinner here, a private party,
food and wine pairing experiences. Like you said, we have
our championship Greg Norman designed golf course, so that's available
to you, and that's just all right here. You can
park in the parking lot, attend a wedding, go wine tasting,
play some golf.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Well moving, I say, this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So we got to play the golf course today and
one of the you know, I hit my ball many
times into your lovely vineyards.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And you're just gonna stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But I hit my ball many times, which I did,
and then awesome times they unfortunately escaped into your vineyards.
But I would find myself and that's something that most
people don't get to experience, frankly, like, yes, I hit
a horrible golf shot. It went, you know, into this
area it's not supposed to go. I'm trying to fetch
my ball, but I'm also standing in the vines. Like
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I'm standing, you know, in the grapes, and it's like
that was kind of a cool moment for me, Like
I was literally like looking for my ball and then
I and we even took a video of it.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I'm like, look how beautiful this is, Like look at
these grapes.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And Ben's like, oh my god, you know, because Ben's
Ben's a little more sensitive than I am, and he
notices things that I might miss. And Ben's like, look
at how lovely these gorgeous vines are.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
And I'm like, holy smokes, he's right.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So we took a video of them, but it was
like something that most people don't get to experience. And
so when you play the golf course, if you do
hit a foul shot occasionally, which I did and do,
you will get to experience your vines up close and
personal and you.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Will say goodbye to your ball.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I couldn't find it many times.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Yeah, no, I mean the golf course is really special.
It is you know, up and down the hillsides. It's
built into the vineyards. We make wine from the vineyards
in the course. So he goes into our wet More
vineyard cabernet and we you know, it's amongst oak trees,
sycamore trees. There's wildlife out there. Careful, don't go search.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I thought I was being chased by a fox or
a coyote and there are olive trees.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, there's a moment.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know if you've ever been here, but there
was a moment where I was on the course and
I feel like I was like in Israel. There's the
olive trees, and there's the hills and there's this like
there's this greenery around it. I mean, it's it's a
really incredibly beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This course.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Every time you turned around, there was a view or
something new to look at. I've never played a course
in the midst of vineyards?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Is this one a few that you know?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Of?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
As far as I know, we're the only winery that
also owns and has its own vineyard. So I can't say, though,
if there's vineyards on other courses, but I think we're
pretty unique in the sense that we have a vineyard
in a golf course.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And you said that the reason the golf course exists
here is because it's kind of your dad's, like it
was your dad's dream, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
It was definitely his vision and his dream. You know,
we own so many acres of land, and for him,
it's always been how can we make the Livermore Valley
a true destination and have people come here and have
many reasons to come here. Obviously wine is one of
those reasons, but if people are coming here for golf,
they're more likely to also drink wine while they're out here.
You know, they need multiple activities to do so it
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was born of that, and of course his love for golf.
I mean, my grandma always tells this story about how
the principle of my dad's school when he was in
high school used to call her all the time because
my dad was playing hookey that he was on the
golf course and my grandma was like, well, he's going
to have a great shot. Like you know, my whole
family loves golf, so he's never in trouble for it,
(09:42):
and here we are to so great. Well, yeah, he's
a pretty easy guy to get.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A very nice dude.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I like to call him Filipedia Philipedia.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, he's our historian, our little well loved knowledge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I think there's you know, there's there's got to be
so much history to this land and what you guys
had done with it. I mean, I mean obviously, you know,
like I mentioned, it's a storied land for the Shardenay.
But man, I gotta be honest. I had a great
Milo tonight as well. I had a really beautiful cop
you know, the the Sauvigny and Blanc was amazing. So
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it's like everything I had was so good. But how
did you become known for the Shardnay? Like why was
that the one thing that somehow took you guys over
the top.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah, well, I think it's because of the you know,
our cultivation of a specific style of chardonnay, so and
in the fact that we had these vineyards planted in
nineteen twelve, and it was a whole lot easier to
come to our property and get a cutting and plant
shardenay in your vineyards, then go figure out how to
get cuttings from Burgundy, which is what we did. So
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we had imported Burgen cuttings from Murceau and Montpellier and
created our selection based off of those cuttings, and so
people were then taking our style that we were really
creating in My great grand father, the one who really
started this program, was looking for stone fruit musque and
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a little bit of citrus, and so he had a
select style that he was looking for and he really
would taste the berries each harvest, tape the vines that
were the most flavorful, and for the next harvest he
would graft that into a new plot of land.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
So he was the one who really kind of started
that whole flavor. He did exert.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, And so now it has a really specific style
and I think wymakers have come to appreciate it for shardenay,
and so a lot of them use it, and that's
really what's planted around California. You'll see some brands on
the back of their label, we'll say they use the
weenty clone of chardonnay because it defines a specific style
and it's also a wonderful club. Yeah it's really cool.
Yeah good, it's really special. And there's some really fancy
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brands that use that, and we'll say it on their label.
So it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So teach me right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Like again, if people are listening to this, so you
have to explain it more than what you typically would. Okay,
but if somebody's at home and they're enjoying glass of
wine while listening to this podcast, what is the best
way to have that first sip or taste the wine? Like,
what is the appropriate way to get all those notes
that you were just talking about to actually appreciate, you know,
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your first sip.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, what I would do is, you know, start gently
swirl your glass, put your nose into the glass, see
what you smell. Maybe swirl it again, put it into
your mouth.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Hold on a second. I'm so sorry, oh empty glass
at glass is oddly empty.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I don't know why.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
This has happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
This is when he snaps his fingers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Listen, Sam, Hell, you are so kind, Thank you. Yes, no,
you definitely can. Is there a way to a specific
porting methodology or not?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
As long as it gets in the glass, Yeah, that's key.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Okay, you swirl it, swirl it, smell it, and swirl
it again. If you want to be fancy, I do
put I can't. I can't do this actively in talk,
so you guys will have to do it for me.
Put it in your mouth, take a little sip, swish
it around. You can open your mouth a tiny bit,
get a little air in there if you want. If
you want to be really fancy, yeah, there you go
and swallow it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
That's like, uh more professional way to taste it for me.
You know, sometimes I think wine can be a little
intimidating because we tell you what you're supposed to smell
and what you're supposed to taste, Like it's a tobacco.
It's a little complicated sometimes and it doesn't need to be,
you know, So I always say I actually don't love
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telling people what they should taste unless they really want
to learn and they want they want to know. But
I'm like, what do you smell? What do you taste?
Because there's no really wrong answer in this Everyone's.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Which Reese just poured me. I did everything you said.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, it was amazing, Like there is like I don't
really even know what notes I'm supposed to look for,
but there's stuff in there going there's things going on
here that I wouldn't even imagine.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
But I do have this question for you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
So, so you you grow up in this family obviously, Yeah,
you know your lineage. You know, I'm sure you grew
up running around this land, this property, do you know,
like you're in high school whatever, you're going to college.
Are you thinking, Okay, this is I'm going to take
this business over. I'm going to be the person that
runs this industry with my other family members, or are
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you thinking, you know.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Like how does that work? My dad was a Detroit
cops so I was like.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well, I'm gonna hand off flowers on TV someday. That
was my obvious path, Like what is your obvious path?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I wanted nothing to do with it, which is I'm
sort of a unique one of my family. I think
most of my family members wanted to work in the business.
For me growing up, you know, Livermore is a much
bigger feeling town than it used to feel when I
grew up here. It was a farming community, and I
was you know, it felt like it was everywhere the
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family business. And I really wanted to spread my wings,
be my own person, not have anyone tell me what
I should do or who I should be. So I
went to school to be a broadcast news reporter. So
that's what I wanted to do. I was carrying around
a tripod and a video camera local TV. Oh thank you.
So that's what I wanted to do. And then I
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had a kind of crazy internship in Oakland for one
of the local news stations. You know, crazy that what
people do in that business. I mean it's like fifteen
hour days in a van, You're going into a scary
situation and then they're cutting. Yeah, it's very It's actually
completely not glamorous at all. And so I thought, Okay,
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you know, I like storytelling, I love to write, I
like media. What can I do? Got into marketing and
then I sort of fell into wine. And I was
living in San Francisco with my boyfriend now husband at
the time and really enjoyed food, love going wine, tasting,
love food and wine. And I was like, oh, you
know what am I? What am I pushing my family
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business away for and then you get older and you're like, no,
this is actually pretty awesome, And I could go work
in an industry that's my true personal passion love food
and wine and work with my sisters, my dad, my cousins,
my aunts, my uncle, and feel so fulfilled. And I
don't think I ever really realized how fulfilling it would
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be until I actually came back to work for the family,
which wasn't for quite some time later. But yeah, it's
pretty special and I'm so glad I did well.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
I think we all are.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, so listeners out there obviously are hearing about Wincy
wines and curious. They probably are familiar with it, right,
Like they're they're familiar with the brand.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I hope I have definitely seen the brand.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah good.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So you know, for somebody out there listening, where can
they find your wines? Yeah? All across the US really
kind of you know, are you have international distribution?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Where can they find it?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And maybe if they're just like dabbling, right, they're like
your your weekend wine drinker, they don't know that, like
which wine would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
They kind of start with entry level.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. So, our wines are
available globally. We sell wine in seventy five countries around
the world. Most of our wines, not all of them,
are available nationally, So if you're listening, it really depends
on where you're located. We do have a wine finder
on our website, So if you wanted to go to
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that plug in your life's website wenty vineyards dot com
and if you scroll all the way to the bottom,
there'll be a link that helps you find your wine.
And if you put your zip code in, you'll be
able to find the nearest place to you that sells
our wine. That's awesome, but you know, in the most part,
you could go to grocery, your local grocery store. You
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should hopefully be able to find some of our products.
There's a lot more distribution here on the west side
of the country. The east side. It's there. It's just
a little spottier depending on where you're located. But yeah,
so if you're just getting into it and you're looking
for an entry wine, are we have a We're not
drinking it. It's a different shardenay than this, but we
have what I call our what I call what is
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called our morning fog chardonnay, and it's super balanced. It's
like fifty percent stainless steel, fifty percent neutral oak barrel,
so it's not superbottery. It's not totally crisp, but has
a little body, but it's really approachable. I jokingly call
it our gateway shardenay because you know, for all the
people who say, oh, I don't like shardonay, I'm like, well,
try this. You know, shardonay can take on so many
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different forms. It can be super heavy, super light. It's
one of those rare varieties that a winemaker really can
have a huge impact on. And so sometimes I think,
if you don't like Shardenay, you just had the one,
don't give up on it. Try something different. And that
one is kind of our I think approachable chardonnay. And
then we have a Southern Hills Cabernet, which is sort
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of the brother, if you will, to that wine, and
super easy drinking cabernet. The tannins aren't going to totally
dry your mouth out. You don't have to have a
big fat steak to drink it. It's really lovely, and
you know, all of our wines are certified sustainable, so
is our winery, so it's all handled with care. We
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plant the vines, we harvest them, we bottle them, we
package them, we sell them. So everything we do ourselves.
And I think there's also a quality that we uphold
ourselves to when our name is on the label. So
we want people to be able to trust us and
we want to feel good about it. How's our name
on the label?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, and from that perspective too, I mean from a
family owned vineyard. Yeah, aren't you one of the few
last remaining family own vineyards that doesn't have you know,
some type of.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Feels that way right that way. You know, there's so
many family vineyards now big and small, but we are
the longest continuously family owned winery vineyard in the country.
So we're now run by the fifth generation. Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That's an incredible accomplishment.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I want to make sure we talked about that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Let's go, So you are the longest family owned winery
in the country.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yes, that has not skipped a vantage. So we've made
a vintage since our first in eighteen eighty three, even
through prohibition, we made wine for the church. We were
rearing to go and yeah, there you go. That was it.
M Yep. And we're farming, you know, the same plots
of land that we did all the way back in
eighteen eighty three, and Savignon Blanc especially, this is so
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really loud.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I got to ask.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
A question, curious about Okay, I don't know if it
makes any sense. Somewhere if you can't tell me, you
don't tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Somewhere within your homes, underneath the building we're in, do
you have, like, what's the oldest wine your family still
has that has not been opened?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
You know, we have some pretty old ones. We have
not from the eighteen hundreds. I wish, I mean that
would be really cool, but we have some like nineteen thirties,
but they're really like I wouldn't open it at this point,
Like it's really just memorbile.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Right, you wouldn't open them.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
No, I mean it's going to be vinegar.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I always wonder what's the number of the like how old?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Like I'm just curious, like how old is it till
it's no longer good?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
It depends? You know, that's a hard question because wine
making practices were so different back then, and then how
was it stored and a lot of the time it's
really interesting. People will call us and say that they
were cleaning out their cellar and found this super old bottle,
and they'll come drive it back to us. That's how
we've collected a lot of our old bottles. You know,
(21:57):
I wish that my grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather
had thought more about keeping some of these things for history.
They didn't so much. But we have a small collection
of some pretty fun unique wines. But yeah, thirties, I
would say is probably the oldest. And it's more just
fun to look at.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Their dinner parties of the family have to be so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can you imagine, like you got.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
To meet Filipedia.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, well, like they have a big family like event
in life and all of a sudden, like dad's bringing
out this like nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You know, Dad's like.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Not, my mom's bringing out a bottle of white sin
and your mom's bringing out you know, like this classic
you know Shardona.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Like we bring out old ones sometimes not all the time,
but we do. We'll have some fun.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's awesome. Well to close out here.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Adopt it like.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You're you're you're invited in.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yes, well, my uber is here.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
So I do have to go, but I want to
say we've had the greatest day here with you, and
thank you so much for hosting us, for hosting our
iHeart family.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Hey, before you leave, I do just to close that.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I think it's ali here to really tell us like
your wine. You know, people should go out look at
this brand. We'll put our names behind it. You should
go do it if you're having a party. But to
close this, can you sell just like the idea of
coming to visit here? I think it's intimidating for most people,
the idea to come to this place, to step in,
(23:29):
not this place specifically.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Most people are like I don't know wine very well.
I don't know how to do a tasting. I don't
know like even how how to pull up and like
what I should wear? Can you just close us with
Like if somebody's listening and they're like, this sounds like
such a fun idea, I just don't know how to
do it, what would you tell them?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It's like going to dinner, you guys, Okay, put on
a fun outfit, come out here. We'll guide you through
the experience. Sit down, we have a menu, we'll talk
you through it. You don't have to know how to
taste wine to enjoy wine. You know, we have these
wine making principles where we want, you know, balance, we
want the wines to have a sense of place. We
(24:09):
want them to taste like the variety they say they are.
So if you have a glass of chardenay, we want
you to say it sharday. Sure, but then we have
this other quality that we call yummy.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know, you don't have to know what it flavors.
It is. You just have to know if you like
it and you want another sip, and if you don't,
that's okay. We have plenty others.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
So you guys are kind of it's still a very classy,
but you're simplifying the wine experience for a lot of
people too. It's like, yeah, like I will say this,
like this was I agree with what Ben said. Like
coming here today, I was like, oh my gosh, you know,
we're going to this vineyard and it's this golf course.
But after being here, it's such a great experience. Everyone
has been so nice. Your staff has been so kind
(24:48):
to us and really inviting and wonderful, and from everyone
from the you know, the guys that like took our
golf bags, to everyone who's serving us wine here.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
We've had such a great day, so thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
For having us, and thanks for being a part of
this with us, and for the Almost Famous family.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
We've had a great day.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It's gonna be a great night too. We have a
big night ahead of us. It's gonna be awesome here.
So thanks for having USA.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate it and
my family will thank you. Cheers of course.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Salude, Hey, we're here at Winty Vineyards, went Ty Winery.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
We're here at win Ty Vineyards.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We've had a tremendous day and more to come. Some
time to go to dinner. So until then, I've been been.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I've been Bob.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Ali.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
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