Tom Campbell
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My guest this week is Tom Campbell Treasury Wine Estates Area Manager for Missouri and Kansas. Tom was in town for a great Stags Leap Winery wine dinner at YaYa’s and was able to spend some time with me talking about Stags Leap winery and the Treasury Portfolio of fine wines.
On one of California’s earliest wine estates, a unique terroir and ideal microclimate support a classical standard of viticulture, land use, and winemaking that is as relevant today as it was over a century ago. An intimate valley within the greater Napa Valley, Stags’ Leap is a place of natural beauty, storied buildings and gardens, a lively history, and a reputation for elegant wines showing finesse and intensity.
Located 7 miles north of Napa on the valley’s eastern side, a 240-acre estate, 90 acres of vineyards, watershed of the Stags Leap Palisades… wine grapes have grown here continuously since the 1880s. www.stagsleap.com
For the past few years, Lay’s has been giving consumers some interesting and tasty new potato chip flavors courtesy of its Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” contest. This year for the first time ever, you can help shape its potato chip flavor lineup nationwide.
Tina Mahal, Senior Director of Marketing for Frito-Lay, joins us this afternoon to share how all of us can have a hand in what flavors stay and which ones have to go in the next Lay’s flavor program: “Flavor Swap.” One person will walk away with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars! www.flavorswap.com
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2013 STAGS’ LEAP CHARDONNAY NAPA VALLEY
This is a beautifully aromatic wine, with stone fruit flavors of fresh peaches and nectarines mingling with pineapple, a hint of mandarin orange and other citrus fruits. A classic example of cool climate Chardonnay, this is bright and crisp, but also features lightly toasted undertones that give it length and richness on the palate. With a round, floral finish, this is a refreshing wine that is deftly balanced, ready to enjoy now but with the acidic structure to be cellared for several years.