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My first guest from “The Mr. Food Test Kitchen” is Chief Operating officer and on-air talent Howard Rosenthal. Mr. Food Test Kitchen is all about Quick & Easy, triple tested recipes brought to you not only with their entertaining TV segments but on most all social media platforms and through their nearly 60 outstanding cookbooks. The newest book from the test kitchen is the Wheel of Fortune Collectible Cookbook. www.mrfood.com
That’s right, the Mr. Food Test Kitchen and Wheel of Fortune® have teamed up to bring you the officialMr. Food Test Kitchen – Wheel of Fortune® Collectible Cookbook, featuring more than 160 quick and easy recipes inspired by the show.
As a Wheel Watcher you already know that many of the puzzles are focused on food. With categories like “Food and Drink” and “In the Kitchen” it’s not hard to see that food is an important component of the game. And for most of America, watching Wheel of Fortune while eating dinner, and relaxing after a hard day, is one of life’s simple pleasures.
This cookbook will add an extra helping of excitement to your dinner table! It’s jam-packed with recipes from the Wheel of Fortune team, including Pat and Vanna. (The Vanna Banana Pudding is amazing!) Plus, it includes recipes inspired by past contestants, and some from winners of our recent Mr. Food Test Kitchen – Wheel of Fortune Cookbook Recipe Contest. Get a copy NOW!
In the second half we’ll be talking WINE with LUTUM winemaker Gavin Chanin.
LUTUM was born from a shared vision between Bill Price, entrepreneur and owner of Classic Wines and Price Family Vineyards, and winemaker Gavin Chanin. Their wine focuses on small-production, single-vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from prime vineyard sites in California. The name LUTUM is Latin for dirt or soil, referencing their mission to make wines that express these great sites, with little to mask the vineyards’ natural character. Together, they are the Bards of LUTUM.
BILL PRICE
Bill Price is proprietor of Classic Wines and Price Family Vineyards—including ownership of Durell Vineyard, Trip Vineyard, DuPont Vineyard, One Sky Vineyard, Walala Vineyard and Gap’s Crown Vineyard. The Classic Wines portfolio includes Buccella, Head High, LUTUM, Kistler and Three Sticks. Price is chairman of Gary Farrell Winery.
GAVIN CHANIN
Gavin Chanin
Gavin Chanin is winemaker for LUTUM. He was named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” in 2011, a “winemaker to watch” by San Francisco Chronicle in 2012, one of Food & Wine’s “winemakers of the year” in 2012, and was featured in Wine Enthusiast magazine’s “40 under 40” tastemakers in the wine industry for 2013. A recent article in Wine & Spirits prominently featured Chanin as a leader in “the shape of Chardonnays to come.”
We’ll be talking about the vineyards, winemaking and products produced with Gavin and I’ll be tasting the 2013 Lutum Gap’s Crown Vineyard Chardonnay and the 2013 Lutum Pinot from the Bien Nacido Vineyard. These small production wines are not available locally but you can order and learn more at: www.lutumwines.com
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2013 Lutum Gap’s Crown Vineyard Chardonnay
A bright straw color, this Chardonnay is bursting with stone fruit, pineapple and green apple peel on the nose. The palate is a refreshing blend of tart citrus flavors with complex texture. One of our favorites, this wine is an elegant blend of richness and acidity. WA94
2013 Lutum Bien Nacido Vineyard Pinot Noir
A brilliant ruby color, the nose on this wine explodes with a combination of bright red fruit, wild moss, white pepper, mushrooms and dried herbs. The palate is velvety smooth, with hints of raspberry tea and savory spice. Soft tannins create a seamless, long finish. WA92
While you can’t get the above wines locally, here are to good value wines that you can get a Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road!
Park Lane Russian river Valley Pinot and Chardonnay
Historically, cocktail bitters, drinking vinegars, and even infused syrups were originally used for curing sickness with high concentrations of beneficial (healing) herbs and flowers. The slight alcohol base of bitters kept the often-fragile ingredients from rotting in the age before refrigeration. Bitters in the modern cocktail bar are embraced as concentrated and sophisticated flavor agents, although they are still used in holistic healing by herbalists. Shrubs add both tart and sweet notes to a craft cocktail or mocktail. They sate your hunger and quench your thirst, while stimulating digestion and good health of the gut.
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A complex assemblage of primarily Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Brut Prestige opens with gorgeous layered white blossom aromas, followed by creamy vanilla, citrus, stone fruit and melon. With elegant acidity and crisp structure, this medium-bodied sparkling wine displays an excellent mousse and a rich, lingering finish. Refreshing acidity and fruit character makes Brut Prestige an excellent food wine. #54 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2014, WS91
Through his work as a food writer, cookbook author and ghostwriter, cooking teacher, and media guest chef, Rick Rodgers reaches countless cooks every day. He is the author of over forty cookbooks on a wide range of subjects including the bestsellersThanksgiving 101 andFondue, 
The predominance of Pinot Noir provides the structure that is so typically Clicquot, while a touch of Pinot Meunier rounds out the blend. Chardonnay adds the elegance and finesse essential in a perfectly balanced wine. Well-knit and balanced, with vibrant acidity framing hints of blackberry, white cherry, biscuit, honey and candied lemon zest. Offers a lightly smoky finish. Wine Enthusiast & Wine Spectator both – 90 points!
At Handley Cellars, we offer a wide variety of wines that complement today’s diverse cuisines. Winemaker Milla Handley seeks to make balanced wines that possess distinctive varietal characteristics, wines that reflect the soil and climate in which they were grown.
Established in 2012, Glen Ellen Star is the culmination of a decade-long dream by Chef Ari Weiswasser and his wife Erinn Benziger-Weiswasser. Resembling a quaint farmhouse while invoking a rural and rustic feeling of California wine country, Glen Ellen Star is a taste of both local and international flavors. It is the Weiswassers’ mission to create an inviting, neighborhood-friendly restaurant that consistently exceeds expectations. Ari has worked at New York’s Restaurant Daniel, Picholine, and Paul Liebrandt’s Corton, where he served as Chef de Cuisine. He also had a long stint at The French Laundry in Yountville, CA. 
I’ll be talking to Kathleen Inman of Inman family winery. “Established in 2000 with the planting of our organically farmed Olivet Grange Vineyard, Inman Family Wines is the result of Kathleen Inman’s love of Pinot Noir and the soil that produces it.
The vineyard project began in 1991 with Lester ordering two dozen dormant rootstocks. When these initial plantings proved successful, Linda enrolled in the Viticulture Program at Santa Rosa Junior College in Sonoma County and attended classes at U.C. Davis. Linda discovered she had a green thumb and an affinity for heavy machinery. She bought an old backhoe, a bulldozer and other heavy equipment and, with Lester as the operator, they decided to plant a test vineyard with 16 different varieties, three different trellis systems, assorted clones and different rootstocks. After four years, they concluded that the area was ideal for growing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and in 1994 began installing the first seven vineyard blocks. Fort Ross Vineyard strives to produce wine of purity and elegance that reflects the cool maritime climate and challenging terroir of the steep Sonoma Coast Ridges. 
The coastal wines of Fort Ross Winery! 🙂