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    Posted on April 12th, 2010

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    randall_grahmMy guest this week is Randall Grahm, winemaker extradinaire Rhone Ranger, 2010 Vintners Hall of Fame inductee, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyards.   We’ll be chatting about his journey in wine, the wineries great success and growth, some of his wines, and his new book!  😉

    Been doon so longThis eclectic collection at last brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm.   An iconoclastic send-up of the wine industry and a celebration of unsung grape varieties, the book features, among other things, Grahm’s hilarious literary parodies–Joyce, Kafka, Pynchon, Salinger, and others–together with song lyrics, other snarky satires, poems, lectures, and more. Subtle undertones of gravitas with faint suggestions of earnestness lie beneath the humor, however, as Grahm passionately addresses the state of wine today: Where in wine does “greatness” truly repose? How might true originality in New World wines be found? Do New World winemakers have the integrity and courage to unreservedly embrace terroir? This trove includes a very personal take on Dante’s Inferno (Grahm’s own vision of Wine Hell) and a collection of tunes from the rock opera “Born to Rhône.” Other pieces offer a fascinating glimpse into the history of the Rhône Ranger wine movement and of Bonny Doon itself, told through the story of its adventurous wine labels. Been Doon So Long is a highly entertaining journey to find the “truth of all things that may be found in the unlikely medium of a wineglass.”

    BDV logo colorGood Life Guy’s Wine of the Week…
    The Wines of Bonny Doon!  www.bonnydoonvineyard.com

    Stop by Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road and get your Doon On

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