The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends

In this classic episode, we revisit a memorable 2019 podcast with Tim Mondavi, whose famil... more

This week's episode is a medley, a grab bag, a breakfast scramble of your questions for Do... more

Heidi Barrett has produced extraordinary wines for clients including Screaming Eagle, Para... more

It's harvest here on the West Coast and this week we're letting our winemaking friends foc... more

In the early 1980s, Lee Hudson, still in his 20s, was one of the first to recognize the pr... more

James Hall proved that you actually can go home again when, in 2024, he bought back the wi... more

Jeb Dunnuck's journey to becoming a globally recognized wine critic took an unexpected pat... more

Judd Finkelstein's earliest memories are all about life at a Napa Valley winery. In the 19... more

We first got to know Pat Monahan when he and his Grammy-winning band Train filmed much of ... more

Bobby Stuckey loves creating welcoming, inspired spaces in his restaurants both for custom... more

Suzanne Deal Booth is a fairly recently name to Napa Valley in that her first released vin... more

The story of MacDonald Vineyards begins with a deep, foot-dragging, don't-make-me-do-it re... more

James Molesworth often finds his way into a wine through anthropology, which was his major... more

Chris and Josh Phelps are a father-and-son team who have worked together unofficially for ... more

Whoever said crime doesn't pay, didn't know John Caldwell. When John bought his 54 acres (... more

Doug Shafer and Chef Tom Colicchio first met in the early 1990s on board a nearly empty cr... more

Glenn Salva has been at the heart of Antinori Napa Valley since the mid-1980s when the ren... more

Early in his career Dave Phinney redefined the look and feel of winemaking and marketing i... more

Growing up in one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated winemaking families, Chelsea brings a w... more

Born in Switzerland, Jean Hoefliger worked in vineyards and wineries throughout the world ... more

Her journey in wine took Emma Swain from Francis Ford Coppola’s Neibaum-Coppola Estate to ... more

Third-generation vintner Violet Grgich tells an incredible family wine story that spans a ... more

Hugh Davies lives in the same house he grew up in at Schramsberg Winery here in Napa Valle... more

In 1975 John Williams arrived in Napa Valley with a return bus ticket and $40 in his pocke... more

John Kongsgaard grew up in Napa Valley, where his father was a beloved local judge. John s... more