$300 Shared or $15 Alone? — A CEO Answers the Wine Questions Pt. 5
Tonight's Episode
Victoria planned the whole Napa and Sonoma trip herself, and she planned it strategically — mostly wineries she and Danny already knew and loved, which she cheerfully admits made the buying decisions easy. It had been fifteen years since her last visit, and it was his first time in wine country at all.
The surprises came from the edges of her palate. She's a Sauvignon Blanc and Sancerre person who leans into bold Cabernet, and yet she found herself trying Viognier for the first time and tasting Chardonnays she'd normally skip entirely. Some of it she loved immediately. Some of it she suspects she'll grow into.
One stop was purely sentimental: the winery whose wine she and Danny served at their wedding. They went back. Their tastes have changed, they don't love it the way they once did, and she says so without any hand-wringing about it.
The tasting room she declined to buy from is the more interesting story. The wine was good. The experience felt stale to her, and that was enough. She's an experience person — the same instinct that governs how she picks restaurants, and the same instinct that put her husband in a mud bath in Calistoga so they'd have a story worth telling later.
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Welcome, welcome to the best five minute wine podcast with Forrest Kelly.
So when you bought all of those bottles in Napa and joined all those things, was it specifically the taste or that they gave you or you went with something in mind? uh so i actually it was my for my husband it was the first time he'd ever been to napper sonoma i last time i went was 15 years ago it's changed a lot i chose wineries i built the itinerary i chose wineries that predominantly we already knew and loved some of their wine so it was very easy to be convinced to buy wine we already drink and then tasted new things even new varietals like viognier i i never really had before i even tried chardonnays which i don't generally like i'm a you know, Sauvignon Blanc, Sancerre, and like bold cabs.
All wineries I knew about for the most part. There were a few new ones, stuff I love. Some new stuff that I tried that I'm sure I'll be loving in the future as well. It a little bit more sentimental but Caymus has been a favorite of mine My husband and I had it at our wedding Our tastes have changed We don love it quite as much but we did We went there Dairy Ush Cade I know these are all like commercials So like, you know, Stag's Leap, Sterling, Silver Oak. We did go to Opus One, but didn't buy there because I was very put off by that very stale kind of taste experience, even though the wine was quite good.
I'm very much about experience. Yes. So, you know, having great experience. I think about that when I go to restaurants. I took my husband to do a mud bath in Calistoga, which he was not excited about. But I was like, babe, look, we're going to have an experience and story we can tell people about. Is there a specific pairing, a wine, a food and wine dish that you would say I earned this moment and reward yourself with? My husband is, I'm going to say a very boring eater, boring slash allergy. So he doesn't like anything really spicy.
He's allergic to MSG. And he's not a big fan of like rice and pasta. He's a meat eater. And so, you know, go anywhere and you can get steak almost moving for him. And so like steak with an amazing cab. I do love that as well. But I am way more exciting in my like food palette I love Asian you know so Thai sushi Indian and with that pairing with a really amazing like crisp white wine And so depends I travel a lot for work So I get to eat the latter meals when I'm on my owner with colleagues. And the first one I'm with my hubby.
Danny, I feel you because I'm the same way. And I've grown up, my parents instilled in me very early that I'm picking. They said, you're picky, you're picky. And it's like, well, when you go to the restaurant, you order a hamburger, you tell them what to put on it. And I just say plain, why am I picky? And you're not, I'm just discerning. Why do you have to say picky? So if you could only drink one wine for the rest of your life, would you pick your safe favorite or go with a bottle that you've never tried but always wanted to?
Safe favorite. Boardroom emergency versus wine emergency. Which one stresses you out more?
Boardroom, I guess. I try not to get too stressed in any facet, but boardroom will have me more stress than wine. Pick one, a $300 bottle you have to share with the whole table or a bottle that you get to drink completely alone with friends If your I Earned This Reward dinner had a theme song that was playing when you sat down Do you know what it be Well I was like I mentioned unstoppable a few times, you know, see us unstoppable. I love it. Um, but, but it's not necessarily my favorite song, but it's representative of me and who I am.
And you're certainly not going to stop me from drinking that amazing bottle of wine. Okay. Last one of these, and then we'll go to the true and false, and then we'll wrap it up with your book and all that. Would you rather have an unlimited wine budget for the rest of your life or an unlimited travel budget, but only house wine, wherever you go? Travel budget. Where would you travel to? Everywhere. I love traveling, experiencing different cultures, seeing different views, watching the people there.
And if I'm doing that with a house wine, that is amazing. I will take travel all day long.
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