Deborah Culverhouse

Joining me in the studio is Deborah Culverhouse from Hedges Family Estate on Red Mountain in Washington State.  This family run winery is an integral part of Washington winemaking history, and their high quality Red Mountain wines inspired the need to designate this region with its own AVA.

We’ll give you an overview of the wineries distinguished history in the Columbia Valley, talk about the Red Mountain AVA and the many award winning wines produced from the Family Estate.

If you’re lucky, you already have reservations at the Hedges Wine Dinner to be held at the Wichita Country Club March 9th.  Chef Damian Lehman has put together a great menu matched with a selection of Hedges wines.  W’ell tease you with some food and wine pairings too.

Tim Hanni - MW

In the second half I’ll be talking to one of my favorite “Wine Dudes” – Master of Wine Tim Hanni.  Tim’s new book; Why You Like The Wines You Like – Changing the Way the World Thinks About Wine.

This book is a revolutionary, myth-busting approach to wine and food enjoyment based on the latest palatal and consumer research, published by author Tim Hanni, Master of Wine. This book introduces the physiological and psychological factors that shape personal wine preferences. It offers empowerment to wine drinkers at all levels and is a truly game-changing approach to the subject of the enjoyment of wine and wine with food. This is a must-read book for anyone who enjoys wine. His research has uncovered that White Zinfandel drinkers in fact have the greatest taste sensitivity and offers an alternative to wine and food matching, along with a sensible and simple set of flavor Balancing principles, that allows anyone to enjoy the wine they love the most with the foods they most enjoy. He details the spectrum of wine enjoyers from those who favor light, delicate wines all the way to the intense and highly rated red wines – and provides sound rationale why wine and food pairing is based on metaphors and illusions.  Hanni says. “I am on a mission to have everyone pair wines with the diner, not the dinner.”

The new approach detailed in his book segments consumers by Vintoypes® a combination of perceptual sensitivity, from Sweet to Tolerant, and takes into account psychological factors accounting for preference changes over time.

Good Life Guy’s Wines of the Week:
Some great products from Hedges Family Estate

As a Guardian of Red Mountain American Viticultural Area, Hedges Family Estate protectes the terroir in tradition chronicled by principles the Old World’s  great Estates sanctified.”

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