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.
in-depth exploration of one of Mexico’s most historic and popular foods. Illustrated with 50 sumptuous photographs, the book features more than 60 traditional and modern recipes for enchiladas, as well as 40 recipes for the salsas, sauces, salads, and sides that accompany them. This beautiful cookbook was recently named Best Latin American Cuisine Book, Published outside Latin America by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Syrah, 3% Malbec, 3% Select Red Varieties. Rich and full-bodied, our Cabernet Sauvignon is well-structured with firm tannins and ripe dark fruit flavors of blackberry and black currant layered with notes of toasty oak and cocoa. Try Columbia Cabernet alongside hearty stews, roasts or wild game meats.
In this second edition of Seasons Among the Vines, Moulton details the adventures that ensue when she leaves her home in Sonoma to face the unknown in France. In Paris, she has not only the struggles of living in a foreign country to cope with but also the rigors of the French academic system—complete with a one-month stint in Bergerac as a cellar rat and a six-week internship as a sommelier in a prestigious restaurant off Le Champs Elysees. Interspersed throughout her narrative is advice for weekend gardeners and wine-loving suburbanites on how to make wine at home, as well as everything a reader could ever need to know about successful food and wine pairing, how to make intelligent decisions when choosing wine, and how to smell, swirl, and taste wine like a pro.
This Chardonnay is bursting with aromas of citrus blossoms, nectarine and spice baked pears. The multifaceted aromas and dense mouth feel are knit together by centered acidity and a long-complex candied apricot finish. Barrel fermentation and oak aging for 12 months have added hints of candied ginger, and baking spice to a subtle minerality on the finish.
In the first half I’ll be telling you all about some nifty Super Bowl party ideas. So many ways to go about entertaining and watching the game. Whether you are a BIG crowd enthusiast and go to a local sports bar to watch and party (emphasis on party) or you sequester yourself in your private man cave so y0u don’t miss a play or commercial. How you watch, entertain, and enjoy this sports spectacle is a personal issue.
One of my guests is Katrina Jorgensen who has authored several books on tailgating, Food, Football and FUN! She will join us to share who story and some of her favorite dishes for Super Sunday. “Football season is here! Get your football party started off right with an exciting mix of appetizers, main dishes, drinks, and desserts. From peachy-BBQ meatballs to ham-and-cheese pinwheels, these tasty party treats will send party guests rushing for a second helping.”
–Lemon-Blueberry Stuffed French Toast
