Monica Martorano
The job of top flight concierge is an amazing mix of customer service, incredible knowledge of the local region, multi tasting, and fulfilling high expectations. Monica describes this experience in a remarkable way.
:YouTube address https://youtu.be/qb3zXXNwK7Q
Interview with Clare Tooley, Master of Wine
This was an interview we did at the JCB lounge in downtown St Helena. Clare is the Master of Wine supervising education for the Boisset organization and their various wineries. We discuss the mission of the lounge to expand peoples knowledge of Burgundy wines, and how the design of the tasting room was created to enhance that experience. YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/bIo2LHX3dK4
Tour Guide interview with Holden Sapp
Ralph interviews Holden, a very popular wine tour guide who runs Alluvium Wine Tours. This takes place at the Carneros Mercantile Market in Napa. It offers wonderful insights about the wine industry. https://youtu.be/bIo2LHX3dK4
Interview with Kaeli Stephens, researcher and guide
Kaeli leads the Napa Historical Society tours of Napa's Tulocay Cemetery. This place is the history of Napa, especially its waves of immigrants, in stone. Ralph DeAmicis asks the questions and is fascinated by the answers. The first couple of minutes are photos followed video of Kaeli talking about a topic she knows so well. YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/gABtfnwN9Xs
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Ralph discusses Historical tourism
Ralph discusses Historical tourism and its various facets before interviewing the exotic and knowledgeable Kaeli Stevens in the next installments. She leads the fascinating Tulocay cemetery tour with its famous denizens.
Interview with Hannes Wedele, winemaker
Ralph interviews Hannes about his early life in Germany, his family tradition, coming Sonoma as an intern, and how he came to run his own wine project here. https://waldelefamilywines.com/
YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/n5W46eDvgpU
Interview with Spencer Isetta
This family winery, Capo Isetta, has their tasting room in the Northeast corner of the Sonoma Plaza and the story of how they got going, and all the connections they have in the region, and industry is inspiring. On the Plaza they stand out because they stay open late. The interview was conducted by Ralph DeAmicis at the KSVY studios in Sonoma.
YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/jBEr401B7vU
Enchanted Hills Interview with Heidi Ditthoff
The 2017 fire traveled over Mount Veeder and destroyed most of the Enchanted Hills camp and almost a thousand trees. Lighthouse, the non-profit which has been helping the visually impaired for over a hundred years restored the site and made it better than ever. It is now open to outside groups for retreats. Enchanted Hills Website.
YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/wcPGZMA9izI
StreamFest Film Festival
StreamFest: This interview with Fearon DeWeese, the co-founder of the film festival. The story of how they came together to put this on is a great story.
YouTube Address- https://youtu.be/bA5B2gv7Bz8
Napa Hotel History
This is from Don Winter’s presentation for the Napa Valley Historical Society about the many hot spring spas established in Napa in the 1800’s. It forms some of the research material for the documentary we are working on of the same name.
Biodynamics
Here is the TV episode clip with Chris Benziger about Biodynamics that we mention in the 5-6-25 radio show's third segment.
Jess Lander Interview
This interview with Jess, a wine and travel writer with the San Francisco Chronicle covers how she came to the area and went from being a sports writer to one of the main wine writers at a newspaper that is famous for this department. The interview is conducted by Ralph DeAmicis was Recorded at the Wright Corner Mercantile
Downtown Napa Tasting Rooms with Ralph.
For many years there were a handful of winery tasting rooms in the downtown, but some great city planning changed the dynamics and now it the place to be and taste wine at about forty tasting rooms, including cooperative places and single labels.
The Sonoma Plaza
This is one of Ralph's favorite Wine Country locations and he shares some of the aspects that make this such a special place. In many ways it is the most historic spot in California and the northern edge of the great Spanish Empire.
Tour Guide Portrait Artist Kerry Smith
This is a two part portrait. In the first we discuss her rescue of a historic building in the Los Carneros district of Napa, her process, trials and successes, and the politics surrounding doing anything in an area dominated by a powerful agricultural preserve, that does not encourage businesses that are not wineries.
1881 Napa Museum with George Webber
A great interview with the curator of the new Oakville 1881 museum of wine in the region, filled with photos of the explorers and entrepreneurs from the 1800's to set this area on its path to a major wine destination.