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Embark on a sensory exploit that'll change how you sip and savor! Wine Wonderboy, joined by the vivacious Jazzy J to escort you through the hidden alleys of blind wine tasting. We strip away the veil of the bottle, teaching you to trust your taste over sight. Whether you're toasting with titans or just wine-curious, our live sip-along will enhance your vino vocabulary and have you swirling like a sommelier in no time.
This episode isn't just about the 'aha' moments; it's a toast to the stories poured from every glass. We share heartwarming sips from Alta Cellars, revealing how they craft wines that dance on the palate, while also spinning tales of memorable wine jaunts and the climatic quirks that make each label unique.
And because no great wine is complete without a companion, we recount the euphoric marriage of Dom Perignon to the briny kiss of oysters, and those sun-soaked Cardiff afternoons that linger on the lips and mind. With candid anecdotes of wine rendezvous and the settings that make them iconic, we raise our glasses to those serendipitous pairings that resonate long after the last drop. So join us, raise your glass, and let's celebrate the symphony of flavors that life, when paired with the perfect wine, can offer. Cheers to unforgettable pairings and the stories they tell!
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Embark on a sensory exploit that'll change how you sip and savor! Wine Wonderboy, joined by the vivacious Jazzy J to escort you through the hidden alleys of blind wine tasting. We strip away the veil of the bottle, teaching you to trust your taste over sight. Whether you're toasting with titans or just wine-curious, our live sip-along will enhance your vino vocabulary and have you swirling like a sommelier in no time.
This episode isn't just about the 'aha' moments; it's a toast to the stories poured from every glass. We share heartwarming sips from Alta Cellars, revealing how they craft wines that dance on the palate, while also spinning tales of memorable wine jaunts and the climatic quirks that make each label unique.
And because no great wine is complete without a companion, we recount the euphoric marriage of Dom Perignon to the briny kiss of oysters, and those sun-soaked Cardiff afternoons that linger on the lips and mind. With candid anecdotes of wine rendezvous and the settings that make them iconic, we raise our glasses to those serendipitous pairings that resonate long after the last drop. So join us, raise your glass, and let's celebrate the symphony of flavors that life, when paired with the perfect wine, can offer. Cheers to unforgettable pairings and the stories they tell!
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Bung pod. Welcome back, wine Wonderboy. And we got Jazzy J, jazzy. What is a bung? The hole of the barrel is called a bung hole. Inside the bung hole is called a host, ian king, aka wine wonder boy. And I got my co-host with me, jazzy jay, and the build-in. Uh, so today we are going to be going over blind tasting. Sure are tasting with your eyes closed, just kidding. Um, so basically, what blind tasting is? If you do not know what it is, we are brown bagging wines.
Speaker 1:You brought a wine that I don't know of and you have it in a brown bag, and I brought one as well in a brown bag that you don't know of and we're going to try and guess it. Yeah, we sure are. So it is a really—.
Speaker 2:Just so you know, he is much better than I am at this. I'm just here for looks.
Speaker 1:So I just want to go over something really quick, because so many people have so much anxiety over blind tasting.
Speaker 2:I already do.
Speaker 1:They want to get it right, which is a noble goal, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:But really all blind tasting is is education. It's just a more. It's a fun game for education. That's how I see it. If I get it wrong most people get it wrong it doesn't matter If I hit it on the nose and I know why I hit it on the nose or I know why I got it wrong. That's when I'm learning and then, and that's when you know that your learning is working when you get it right, and that's when you know that your learning is working when you get it right. So, basically, when you blind taste, you are basically a detective. So you're trying to find all these different clues that lead you to a certain area in the world or a certain great variety. Usually, you want to start with the world and just cut out regions automatically, so if it's old world versus new world and why that's different.
Speaker 1:your success of blind tasting is contingent on your experience level. So the amount of wines that you've tasted not really the amount, but the variety that you've tasted not really the amount but the variety that you've tasted and also your ability to remember things that you've tasted as well, and also knowing no wonder why I'm not good at this. And also knowing basic, uh, having a basic understanding of cool versus warm climates, because you can taste that in a wine as well.
Speaker 2:Um, so yeah, further ado, so we're not going to introduce the wines yet, because that'll be at the very end. Sweet, all right, do you want to start, or do you want me to start?
Speaker 1:um, you can pour me what you brought, okay and I'll, I'll give it a go, give it a a go here, so we'll see.
Speaker 2:We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:I haven't blind tasted in a very long time. Everybody yeah.
Speaker 2:I feel like.
Speaker 1:So all right, so it's a white wine. So we're already cutting things out it's a white wine.
Speaker 2:So we've cut out rosé, and red, yes, and sparkling, I guess.
Speaker 1:So we're, almost there are we though?
Speaker 1:not quite all right. So the way you blind taste, um, it's important that you taste every wine. If you want to be good at blind tasting, that is, um, it's important. You taste every wine the same every that. You taste every wine if you want to be good at blind tasting, that is, it's important. You taste every wine the same every time you taste wine. So therefore, there's less hiccups and stumbles. So the first thing you do is I'm going to look at the color here and we have a nice white background.
Speaker 1:This is a white wine. It kind of has a little green tinge on the edge, but it is mostly golden. I'd say, uh, I give it a straw color. It is straw, has kind of a green hue on the edges and it is a straw color, light intensity. So you can definitely see right through this bad boy and swirl, swirl, swirl, bring up to the nose. Oh, interesting. So this is what we call an aromatic grape variety. So we're already cutting things out. So examples of non-aromatic grape varieties would be Albarino, gruner, veltliner, albarino, gruner, veltliner, pinot, gris.
Speaker 2:There's many others that are not coming to mind right now. It's really nice to know what this is and see where you're going with this.
Speaker 1:So I'm getting a little SO2 on that nose, but is it aromatic now?
Speaker 2:Now I feel like the nose is falling off.
Speaker 1:Now I feel like the nose is falling off, geez, all right, okay. Yeah, at first it was very expressive and now it's just not so much, so I'm gonna backpedal on that. I'm not getting much on the nose actually. That's so crazy how that happens. Your first instinct is like boom, aromatic, and then now I'm like it's not aromatic at all go back to the whole world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go back to the every single great variety.
Speaker 1:it's white, though, so I'm just getting a lot of florals, white florals on the nose. All right, let's see how this guy tastes.
Speaker 2:So if you can't hear it, he kind of slurps it in yeah to get some more air in it, and he does this every single time he tastes I do because when you do that I mean if you do the same thing over and over again it you will have a better understanding of certain wines and you will actually open it up on your palate. When you do that yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:So I'm getting. It's kind of steely, so I think this was stainless steel. So it didn't see oak. Um. There's no hint of malolactic fermentation. It's not. Buttery acid is driving through the palate, has a lot of kind of white peach characteristics. I'm gonna say this is new world um.
Speaker 2:And why would you say that?
Speaker 1:Just how it expresses itself. I mean, this could also easily be old world. One thing about white wines and also the new technology, and not necessarily new technology but the way winemakers are making wine now in the new world, those lines between old and new are becoming very, very blurred. With white wines I feel like it's a little bit more difficult to pinpoint a region on it, because sometimes they're less expressive. A lot of people make white wines in the same way, but let's see. So I don't think this is Chardonnay. It could be a stainless steel Chardonnay. I'm thinking it could be something like a Chablis, but there's not. I'm going to say the M word real quick. There's not enough mineral components in the palette for me to call it like a chablis or a loire valley white wine, so that that could be chardonnay or chenin blanc, um, not saying it's not one of those two I really have my poker face going, if you guys are just listening this is not cold either.
Speaker 1:This is room temperature white yeah, sorry about that no, it's fine. It's actually a little bit easier because you know room temperatures, the and flavors and stuff. Okay, didn't see oak. I'm not really getting any kind of like diesel or petrol, so I don't think it's Riesling. I'm getting a lot of white florals but I can go with a lot of white wines. I don't think this is a Pinot Gris or Pinot Grigio, because with those wines I usually get kind of like a stale beer taste or flavor to it, or aromatics as well.
Speaker 1:So I don't think it's Pinot Grigio or Pinot Gris. This is what you do you knock off what it's not and then you're left with what you have and then you make a guess on what you have. So it's not Riesling, it's not Pinot Gris or Pinot Grigio, it's not Pinot Blanc. I don't think it's Viognier, because Viognier has a very perfumey floral nose to it and if it underwent malolactic fermentation it could be kind of oily that's kind of how I call it and buttery. This is very acid-driven white wine. So we can go a lot of places here.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say this is my guess is a stainless steel Chardonnay or a stainless steel Chenin Blanc? Those two are difficult for me. Shannon blanc those two are difficult for me. Um, sometimes shannon, especially like in the loire valley, it can have like a woolly kind of texture to it, but a lot of shannons in the new world don't necessarily have that woolly characteristic. Um, woolly is a very weird. It took me a long time to actually understand what that is I was gonna say I don't know if I it's more of a texture, less of a taste.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, kind of see that.
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Speaker 2:Okay 2023.
Speaker 1:Shannon Blanc New World.
Speaker 2:Cool climate, warm climate.
Speaker 1:I think this is from a fairly cool climate, warm climate. Um, I think this is from a cool, a fairly cool climate area. Um, so it's, I don't think this fruit is getting baked in the sun that much, okay, um. So I'm gonna say it's probably not going to be like a napa, it's not gonna be like paso robles when we actually just kind of went over cool and warm climates recently with the vineyard talk.
Speaker 2:So you know, I kind of mentioned certain areas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think this is getting baked in the sun really, and let's see. In Washington State those areas would probably be like Red Mountain, yakima For a cool climate. For a warm climate, okay, getting really baked over there like Walla Walla, so cool climates within Washington State. I'm still new to these wine regions so I don't know them all yet, but I'm going to say it's you know, home, home territory, chenin Blanc, lake Chelan.
Speaker 2:Can you specify the winery?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, you suck, all right. Do you want me to reveal and expose?
Speaker 1:her the reveal. Oh the bottle shape is kind of Bordeaux-like, so I probably got this wrong.
Speaker 2:Sure did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2:You actually know this wine. You had it last weekend, that's a Sauvignon Blanc.
Speaker 1:So it is an aromatic wine. Motherfucker, can I get a little bit more of that? All right, and so when you get it wrong, oh the green hue, that's sauvignon blanc all right, this is from alta sellers 2022 sauvignon blanc um.
Speaker 2:It comes from the walupe slope um in rosebud vineyards in the woop soap um, yeah, I mean, I was curious to see how you would that's interesting.
Speaker 1:It's not really. It's more like a sancerre kind of yeah blanc because but I'm not really getting a lot of minerals off of it. So this one was difficult. Like sauvignon blanc is usually an aromatic great variety, but this is very I couldn't pull any aromas out of this one, yeah, so I was curious if you'd be able to taste this, because we just had this recently. Us both.
Speaker 2:Yes, when we all went down to Ulta.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And this is what Nicole actually bought with the Sau Blanc Gotcha.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to get something where I think I bought a bottle of red that day. Actually I didn't have it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, well, this was something that. Well, you have Ulta quite a bit also in general, probably. I used to yeah, but this is one where I was like oh, I thought you had recently had it, but also knowing.
Speaker 1:This is a good one to bring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, keep it close, but also keep it difficult.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm Damn Interesting right, yeah, hold on, I'm going to get a little dump bucket here. Here bye.
Speaker 2:Pussy, pussy. But yeah, I was. I love we haven't mentioned Ulta sellers here on the podcast. Very much Succession. They own Ulta actually, which is here in Lake Chelan and here in the Well, actually in Manson in the Lake Chelan, ava is what I should be saying. Brock Lindsey worked on these, did a great job.
Speaker 1:Got the dump bucket.
Speaker 2:And you know he's done some wonderful things over there. Rip, RIP, Love him to death. Love that man.
Speaker 1:Love that whole things over there.
Speaker 2:Rip, rip.
Speaker 1:Love him to death, love that man Love that whole family to death, yep.
Speaker 2:Lindsay family's amazing yes, they're wonderful people. But yeah, so I wanted to expose Alta. I mean, they're a wonderful winery here in Manson. They're actually in the old firehouse downtown Manson. They have live music all the time, great place to go. If you're here in town, definitely recommend stopping in. I think they have beautiful whites. I got this one and actually they're albarino. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, their whites are always very acid driven and very lean style. So yeah, they do a good job. They're very drinkable whites Go ahead and dump that.
Speaker 2:It also probably doesn't help that I didn't cool it down.
Speaker 1:Um, for blind tasting actually helps, if you don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, opens it up a little bit yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see if you can guess mine Pouring this bad boy.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm really bad at this. Wow, they have like the exact same color.
Speaker 1:I almost introduced this wine. Whew, good thing I didn't.
Speaker 2:I was not paying attention. I was more focused on how they have almost the same color. What if we had brought the same wine?
Speaker 1:Well, my bottle's amber and yours is flint glass. Flint glass in the wine production means clear.
Speaker 2:Do I know this?
Speaker 1:wine Do you? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:All right. So we are getting about the same color Very golden Actually, has a beautiful color, but kind of does have that green tint to it. Again, you can correct me if you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, go ahead. Yeah, it does have a little green tint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, smells like it's been on oak. God, I hate not knowing.
Speaker 1:I like the other way around so what are you getting rid of right now? All stainless steel, all stainless steel what great varieties are you getting rid of so far?
Speaker 2:god see, this is where it gets hard. It almost smells, it almost has that buttery flavor to it, mm-hmm, which just narrows me into Chardonnay. It does have a very like butterscotchy, I guess, maybe.
Speaker 1:A little bit yeah.
Speaker 2:So what grape varieties? God, I haven't done this in so long.
Speaker 1:What grape varieties are you getting rid of? Think of every white grape variety you can think of and start marking them off.
Speaker 2:Well, I get rid of majority of. Like crispy, which you know, any wine could be fermented in stainless steel, but not all wines are really fermented in barrels anymore.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I would go New World.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I think it does seem decently young. I would probably say it's a 21, 22.
Speaker 1:Remember it's in barrel, so if it's in barrel, then, you're going back a little further.
Speaker 2:Yeah, god, I'm so bad at this.
Speaker 1:So for barrel aging it's usually most people do like 24 months, some people do 36, depending.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'd say 2020.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get rid of Shannon. I'm going to get rid of Albrino Sal Blanc. Okay, God, I'm just narrowing into.
Speaker 1:Chardonnay Yep.
Speaker 2:I'm going to narrow into Chardonnay here.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you're vintage, you're calling the vintage 2020, and you're calling the great variety Chardonnay here. Okay, um, so your vintage, you're calling the vintage 2020 and you're calling the great variety chardonnay. Yeah, so what region do you think it's from? Where in the world is carmen san diego?
Speaker 2:huh yeah that, that song where in the world is carmen san diego? Tell me where. Where in the world is carmen san?
Speaker 1:I was like did you just tell me where it was. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Where's this wine from?
Speaker 2:Almost seems warm.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'll say the like Walla, walla area.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to say it's a 2020 Chardonnay from the Walla Walla area, which is New World.
Speaker 1:All right, ready for the reveal.
Speaker 2:No, because I probably just butchered that.
Speaker 1:So you got the grape variety right. Oh, I did. It is a Chardonnay. It's a Chardonnay, but it's not New World, it's Old World.
Speaker 2:That's where I knew you'd get me this is 2019. I was close to the vintage 2019 Domin 2019,. I was close to the vintage 2019, Dominique Lafon, Of course you had some fucking bougie thing From Bourgogne Blanc.
Speaker 1:So this is from Burgundy, this is a village level. Burgundy white. So yeah, chardonnay 2019, burgundy.
Speaker 2:Is that a warm climate? Cool climate that is?
Speaker 1:a cooler, like continental climate. Okay, yeah, it's not super cool, it's like Mid Middle. Yeah, it can get very cold there, though Like it's not too far away from Champagne and Champagne is extremely cold yeah. And they're notorious for having shitty weather in Champagne, Wow Like rainy, overcast a lot okay, interesting.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm so proud of me, boom good job, got the grape ready.
Speaker 1:You're only one year off of the the vintage yeah, actually that wasn't.
Speaker 2:That's probably the best. I'm so glad we have this on camera, probably the best tasting I've ever done. Nice, hey, good job. So yay me, yay you. Does it say how many months in barrel? Did you tell me that?
Speaker 1:I did not tell you that, but Does it even say it? Probably won't say yeah, it doesn't say 13% alcohol. Dominique Lafon, appalachian Bourgogne, controlli 2019. Product of France. But there you go. Huh, you want to guess the price point? Just for funsies.
Speaker 2:On both of them. Yeah, let's do both.
Speaker 1:Be fun.
Speaker 2:Show the difference between Old World and New World, I mean I have the price tag still on this guy. I can probably give you a general idea of what this one's at. I think that the Sauvignon Blanc from Alta is probably like $28. Yeah, so I'm like it might even be more than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd say it's in the $30s. I don't know, oh, you don't know I, I mean, I let me look it up really quick guess, uh, the price one, this guy 17, 40 oh wow 40 bucks well I guess it's been imported in so it's burgundy as well.
Speaker 1:Anything from burgundy is going to be upper.
Speaker 2:Let's see the Saab Blanc 2022.
Speaker 1:Especially if it's in barrel.
Speaker 2:It is 32. 32? Yeah.
Speaker 1:I thought it was going to be 30.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pricey for a white. No comment. People are getting more expensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's crazy, can't fault them. Yeah, do you?
Speaker 2:have a favorite between the two. I really like that charnay, but I need it with food me too.
Speaker 1:I'm the same.
Speaker 2:I need some goat cheese or something with it yeah, yeah, we should have made a charcuterie a charcuterie, a charcuterie board a charcuterie board um charcuterie um I'll go back to that savvy bee real quick or the that one I, that would be really good with that, the morels the morel mushrooms.
Speaker 1:Um, how did you make that again, you sauteed the morels with like garlic onions and garlic and all that good stuff fire.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, it was such on the christines.
Speaker 1:And then what was it?
Speaker 2:goat cheese goat cheese oh yeah, pair of chardonnay with that, especially one that's a little oaky. I hate buttery Chardonnays.
Speaker 1:I'm not like a biggest fan. It depends on where it's from and the quality and everything. Totally, I've had some really amazing ones and I've had some really terrible ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's all about like balancing the acidity with the oak, balancing the acidity with the oak. So if your wine has good acid and it's oaked and buttery, then your whole palate will, it'll envelop your whole palate and it'll excite your palate because the acid's carrying it through. Yeah, and it won't. That butter kind of texture is won't linger as much on your palate. Um, I've had some pretty amazing ones, like some high-end burgundies that luckily I didn't have to pay for. That I got treated to Like La Flav Pellini. Montrachet still is in my brain.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That is orgasmic.
Speaker 2:What was the one that you brought over? Was it that one?
Speaker 1:No, that was Au Bon Clement. They're based in Santa Barbara, like in Santa Maria area. Okay, santa Maria Valley, it's a cooler climate area, but they do amazing oh gosh, I literally had an orgasm over that pairing.
Speaker 2:That was probably one of the best food pairings I've ever had.
Speaker 1:That's called when you get goosebumps.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's called a thing. It's a thing called frission Frission. I've learned yeah, so people who enjoy people that are creative and have a creative intelligence yeah, people that are creative and have a creative intelligence.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When they look at a piece of art or when they hear a certain music cadence or a certain song and they get chills. Or they take a bite of something amazing and they get chills Really. It's called Frisian, it's a creative orgasm. Huh, which is fun.
Speaker 2:I'm always in the search of Frisians, I love Frisian.
Speaker 1:It's a creative orgasm, huh, which is fun. I'm always in the search of Frisians, I love Frisians.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, especially, oh God, I love food in general.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was listening to this other podcast about music and they're going over Frank Ocean and his song Self Control.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it goes into the part where it goes and the way his harmonics are and also the chords, it's just instant frisson, just chills up and down my spine. I'm like, oh my god, this guy's crazy oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 2:I learned something new today yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Or um, adele's, what's her, what's adele's? Uh, for her first, like big hit, do you remember? Because I fucking don't, anyways, it doesn't really matter, but that song also when she hits the high note in that one.
Speaker 2:I feel like I know what song you're talking about. Yeah, it's like on tip of my tongue.
Speaker 1:It's on tip of my tongue, oh, rolling in the Deep.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Someone Like you.
Speaker 2:Oh, never mind, I won't fight. Yeah, someone like you.
Speaker 1:And then when she hits the high note, you're just like holy shit.
Speaker 2:Who is this woman? God, she is such a babe. Instant Frisian.
Speaker 1:And you're like, oh my God, I have to listen to that song over and over and over again because I just want to feel this way all the time.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, there's been multiple songs like that.
Speaker 1:Plenty of wines have given me Frisian. Do you have?
Speaker 2:any wines by memory that gave you a sense of goosebumps? Yes, definitely when I was, like I'm not walking out without it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or you're like oh my God, that was so fucking amazing.
Speaker 2:It's like ingrained in your brain forever, actually even during. I can't recall exactly what they were, but when we were sitting on the deck at Cardiff's we were doing a blind tasting.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And there was one there that I I believe it was might have been a red, and I was just what is this?
Speaker 1:yeah, like it's blown away blown away do you remember the bottle?
Speaker 2:no, I probably have a photo of it, though. Yeah, um, because I can remember that exact day yeah, for me um obon climat, pinot noir.
Speaker 1:They did a a library tasting yeah one time and I had their 1997 pinot noir from their estate, from like biennacido oh my fucking goodness it was. It was amazing like I. I was shocked and I'm like I have to get like three bottles of this well, even there was a couple.
Speaker 2:Well, I've told you about the one from melisoni's that the straw cab blend. Yes, it was a 2015, and I mean also you know, I definitely think that my environment affects my oh, totally, when it's sunny when it's, yeah, snowing, etc, etc.
Speaker 2:Those definitely affect what I want to drink, like as you said last podcast, like I've been in a very white mood, yeah, and for obvious reasons, it's beautiful. It's like 70 this week, yeah, finally. But we were up at Sudden Mountain Lodge sitting by a fire and popped that baby open and time and place was just perfect and I think that also helped. We were pairing it with a steak, which was beautiful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean the whole thing just. And then I think we got like a chocolate cake or something for dessert, and it was just beautiful. Beautiful.
Speaker 1:One of my best memories with food and wine was in Santa Barbara working at Jaffers, and it was the winemaker Stephen's birthday. And it was the winemaker Stephen's birthday, so the owner treated all of us to a lunch to toast to Stephen's birthday. He got to pick out all the wines.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I don't think there was a budget Must be nice.
Speaker 1:It was just amazing. So we got to this place called the Miramar Hotel. It was a brand-new hotel on the beach in Santa Barbara and it's super fucking expensive to stay there. But we went there for lunch cause their restaurants amazing and they had 2009 Dom Perignon on the menu, and so Steven definitely picked that one out. And he also picked out a literary Chardonnay and that literize from Sonoma and it's basically like when I taste Litter-Eye I think of Grand Cru Burgundy really their quality is so fucking amazing and they're expensive.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever their balls are really expensive, but for good reason but we had a bunch of oysters fresh oysters, pacificific oysters um with the 2009 dom perignon. Fuck me up bro I love seafood and especially oysters with sparkling absolutely and there's this, there's this guy that was there, uh, jeremiah, who's a good friend of mine today still, and he was brand new to the tasting room Like just started, like probably a week ago, maybe two, can't even.
Speaker 1:And, just you know, hit the fucking lottery on wineries to work at, especially timing-wise. So he is, he's super green. He was super green, so the wine industry didn't know shit. But like no, not to trade. I was thought, just like you know bottom, you know budget trade shows wine, not knowing what he was doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure. You know, I used to do that too, and of course we groomed him and now his palate is wrecked, so he has to drink the good stuff now. But he was there sitting right next to me and I'm like yo, I remember being in his shoes and drinking something like this and did not appreciate it. And so I looked at him and I was like, look, I'm going to tell you how to do this wine pairing real quick. Because you need to do this wine pairing real quick, because I you need to appreciate this, because this is not an everyday occurrence, this is a rarity.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So cement this moment in your brain, you know, because most people they can't be doing that all the time, like if you have money and you're doing it, then fucking that's awesome. I want to be in your shoes, but you know, for us people that really can't afford to do that. I could probably do that like once a year maybe.
Speaker 2:If that.
Speaker 1:If that. And so I told him how to do the wine and food pairing, and then his mind was just blown. He was like I don't even know. He's like I have no words, I can't process this.
Speaker 2:It's just like when you information overload, literally when you have that perfect pairing and you understand what you're doing. There's a moment where you just sit there and you're like holy shit, is anybody else appreciating this like I am? Yeah like even sam could appreciate it with me. Oh yeah, because, like his, he loved that pairing with the obon clement and the morales yeah and like, but if he was like a little virgin I'd be like oh honey, oh we have you don't know what you're getting yourself into right.
Speaker 2:We have so much work to do um, but seriously, I mean it's when you have that moment and again the goosebumps of like wow, yeah, like my taste buds just like went off in my mouth yeah yeah, it's that's. That's a moment and there's very I mean, I've only probably had a handful of those, like the first time I had pizza was probably one of those moments do you remember the first time you had pizza?
Speaker 1:because I don't know, I probably had one of those moments yeah, yeah oh my god um, I so a little little information about me real quick. I used to be allergic to garlic used to be or you're just like it's not.
Speaker 1:I just don't care anymore it used to be so it would make me itch like on my legs and whatnot. And I was. I loved Italian food, so I like I love pizza so much yeah and like my mom, bless her heart she, when we're at restaurants she's like could you make the sauce without garlic? It's like all the sauces are already made yeah they made them this morning like like no, you can't just make one without without garlic in it yeah, so I'll just like suck it up.
Speaker 1:Um, she used to give me some antihistamine sometimes, but I would just suck it up. I'm like you know what? I fucking love pizza. I love italian food. I'll just don't even care just scratch and then I just ate so much garlic that my body just gave up and was like you're not allergic to it anymore. You're immune now yeah, you're immune, so I'm like sick, you should try that with fish.
Speaker 2:I wish All right, you're going to be immune now. Yeah, you're immune.
Speaker 1:So I'm like sick. You should try that with fish. I wish I could do it with fish. I wish I could do it with fish. But the thing about fish is that it makes my throat close up. That's okay. I can't suck it up.
Speaker 2:I have an empty pen, because then I just can't breathe.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have an EpiPen. I just got signed off on my Epi yesterday, so let's go.
Speaker 1:I don't like fish enough to do that, though I really don't care about fish at all.
Speaker 2:I actually didn't eat fish.
Speaker 1:Except for shellfish. Fucking love shellfish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually didn't eat fish for the longest time as well as chicken nuggets, because there was one time, in middle school probably where there was a bone in one of the chicken nuggets and it got wrapped in my braces and I couldn't get it out and I was like ugh, ugh. And I couldn't handle that thought again.
Speaker 1:In a chicken nugget there was a bone. Yes, what kind of chicken nuggets were you eating Fresh? Apparently Like a million dollar chicken nuggets. Remember, I'm from.
Speaker 2:Bainbridge.
Speaker 1:Never been there.
Speaker 2:But also fish. I hated fish because the bones yeah, and like getting stuck in my braces.
Speaker 1:I just don't like the taste personally stuck in my braces.
Speaker 2:I just don't like the taste. Personally, I think you haven't had a good like.
Speaker 1:I don't think you've had a good fish, I don't know. I've been around people at a dinner table. They're like oh my god, this fish is so good, you have to try some which reminds me I really need to make Sam. And I tried it and I was like mid.
Speaker 2:Sam makes really good fish tacos.
Speaker 1:Is it cod or halibut?
Speaker 2:I think cod.
Speaker 1:I can have halibut, which is random, I think you're just like making up an allergy. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2:It's like when people come in and they're like I'm allergic to Cab Franc. I wouldn't make up an allergy, I just don't like it.
Speaker 1:It's a real allergy, but I don't care enough about that food group to actually do anything about it or try and not be allergic to it. I love shellfish, though I can eat every shellfish. I can eat scallopsops, clams, oysters. I love octopus and eel, so I want to go to sushi restaurants fuck me up.
Speaker 1:Actually, there's one fish that I would try and not be allergic to it's tuna okay it's tuna, because I fucking love tuna like tuna sandwiches I grew up on tuna sandwiches and I was fine, but then I went to a sushi restaurant and had like a white truffle like real tuna like it was bluefin, I think.
Speaker 1:I think that's the one with like kind of like a white flesh yeah, probably. Um, so I had that. And then, instant breakout. My friend, heidi song was with me and we're in santa monica and at the sushi restaurant on the beach and I was like fuck, I need benjo right now or an antihistamine. And I was like I was like you're super sexist, but I was like you're a female, you have a purse, you probably have something in there, right, and she was like, actually no, I'm organized.
Speaker 2:I was like, damn that sucks, here we go.
Speaker 1:So we had to walk like five blocks to find the nearest, like anything that had an antihistamine yeah. I was like that was rough. Yeah, it was a rough one.
Speaker 2:I know I was just thinking about I have like really bad seasonal allergies and I need to start popping those allergy pills to get a. Yeah, that's one thing I don't have is seasonal allergies and I need to start popping those allergy pills to get a.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's one thing. I don't have the seasonal allergies yeah, go uh like yeah, I'm allergic to fish, so I would rather be allergic to fish me too because I see everyone, like in the spring and summertime, like eyes all red, oh my god, nose all puffed out, and I'm like, hey, I won the lottery on allergies.
Speaker 2:To be honest, yeah, there was a couple years ago where it was just so bad like I was scratching my eyes, couldn't wear my contacts. Nose running inhaler like no spray. Eye drops for allergies. Allergy medicine, double triple dose if I need it.
Speaker 2:Because that's what I needed to do and I didn't have any allergy medicine. We're driving down and I look at Sam. I was kind of starting to feel my started wheezing and just like slowly my throat closing up and I was like so we got about 15 minutes. And he's like what do you mean? We have about 15 minutes. I'm like I can't breathe right now. We have about 15 minutes before you hit me with an epi and he's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:I was like, no, seriously, yeah, um, yeah, allergies suck. I feel bad for the people that have more than I do yeah, my brother gets it really bad yeah, yeah. There's points where I was like I'd rather die yeah no, I don't. I don't, but for anybody listening, who is going to take that seriously?
Speaker 1:yeah, just in case alright, great, blind blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, wow, I feel like the fucking Tasmanian devil over here. Okay, thank you for listening to this blind tasting episode of the blind pod.
Speaker 2:We crushed that. Cheers, cheers, bitches, we crushed that.
Speaker 1:Cheers Bitches, thank you, thank you.