Mar 17 – FAME-101 & Nexus Wines “POSH”

My guest this week is Maggie Jessup, co-author with husband Jay, of Fame 101 – Powerful Personal Branding & Publicity for Amazing Success.  Did you ever wonder how the chefs and authors that are featured here on The Good Life get the notoriety and FAME that makes them household names.  Tune in and find out!

Fame is America’s most powerful force and anyone can harness it with compelling personal branding. Fame 101 is the playbook for remarkable professional success. The rewards are wealth, power, access, recognition, and other tools for an extraordinary life.   Every profession has it super successful celebrities and Fame 101 shows the reader exactly how to become one of them. These are lawyers who attract high-value clients, doctors who are high visibility media magnets, winning candidates, startup gurus, high-trajectory actors, best selling authors, and others in newly celebrified fields.

Meet cooks who brand themselves into celebrity chef’dom with television shows and big book deals, political unknowns who explode onto the national stage, authors who brand a path from the kitchen table to best seller lists and movie deals, and other everyday people who join society’s elite.   Personal branding pioneers Jay Jessup and Maggie Jessup take the reader backstage through Fame’s history from the early Hollywood star-making machine through to today’s Internet celebrities.

In the second half, I’ll be talking to the folks at Nexus Wines about the extensive portfolio of great wines and we’ll tell you all about this weeks featured “Wine of the Week” – 2010 Posh Red Wine, an easy drinking great blended red from California’s North Coast.

Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2010 Posh – Handcrafted Red Wine, Mendocino California

Extravagant, Opulent, and Exclusive are all words to describe POSH. Posh Handcrafted Red wine is a robust and sumptuous red wine of carefully selected grapes from some of the best Vineyards in the Northern Coast of California. We have carefully shaped this wine to consist of 39% Mendocino County Zinfandel, 32% Mendocino County Syrah, 26% Mendocino County Petite Sirah, with 3% Other Varietals for Complexity.

The Mendocino Zinfandel adds rich and dark color along with a plethora of delicious blackberry, raisin, and spice flavors. The Petite Sirah adds an inky color for the wine while adding rich flavors and spice. The full body comes from the Mendocino County Syrah. The rich, and round flavors of berries are present in all three blends and deliver a superb, complex, and robust flavor. Posh is a luxurious and full red wine bursting with complex flavors and delivering a juicy finish.

POSH – *90 Points – Best in Class* – 2009 Vintage -California State Fair Wine Competition 2011

 Pick up a bottle at Jacob Liquor Exchange and join us!

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Mar 10 – Trinchero Napa with Mario Monticelli

Join us for an interesting chat and tasting with Trinchero Napa winemaker Mario Monticelli from the magnificent new wine-making facility in the North end of the valley.


“Our goal has always been to find a stand-alone location for our flagship wines,” explained Robert Torres, grandson of Mario Trinchero and Senior Vice President of Facilities and Operations. “This is a jewel of a site. It’s convenient for visitors, has enough elevation change to accommodate a multi-level winery and offers incredible views of the Spring and Howell mountains. The site also possesses a superb 13-acre sustainably farmed Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard which will bring our total to 200 acres of vines in Napa Valley.”

Mario & Goodlife Guy

“I am a minimalist,” Mario says. “It is my goal to put forth the best expression of the fruit and land from which it is grown. I like to keep things as natural as possible and choose not to use a lot of enzymes and chemicals. The estate vineyards that make up the Trinchero Napa Valley program are some of the most exceptional in the Valley and I’m excited to create wines that reflect the terroir of these individual sites.”

Good Life Guy’s Wines of the Week:  Trinchero Napa

Just one of the many wines we’ll be tasting!

 Stop by Jacob Liquor Exchange, pick up some Trinchero Napa wines and join us!

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Mar 3 – This Week’s Show

Only had 30 minutes for this show, and it wasn’t enough!

Liliana Demma, Guy, Hollis, Rick Lange, Brian Schwan

GoodLifeGuy and Hollis on the air

Ms. Hollis Bulleit was in the studio to talk about her families Bourbon and much more.  www.bulleitbourbon.com

Hollis Bulleit

Hollis was born in Fairfax Virgina to a vietnam veteran working at the IRS with Bourbon dreams and a woman who had the looks and vivacity of Janice, the puppet who played the guitar for the Muppet Show Band. The young Ms. Hollis spent many a late night dining with her parents making napkin masterpieces out of a compact watercolor set and matches. Most of her adolescent years were spent in Kentucky collecting swimming trophies and being the only hick to wear legwarmers in the 80’s. After a decade long scholastic career, followed by forming her own business in children’s murals, Hollis put her distillery experience to use and now consults for the Bulleit Distilling Co. for a good part of the year.

Good Life Guy’s Wine Bourbon of the week:   Bulleit Bourbon  

Bulleit Bourbon is made by following the small-batch technique inspired by Augustus Bulleit over 150 years ago. Only the highest quality ingredients are used. Bulleit Bourbon’s subtlety and complexity stem from its unique blend of rye, corn and barley malt, along with special strains of yeast. Because Bulleit Bourbon is especially high in rye content, it has a bold and spicy character with a distinctively smooth, clean finish.  DRINK RESPONSIBLY. IT’S THE MARK OF A GENTLEMAN.

 


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Feb 25 – No show this week; WSU Basketball!

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Feb 18 – No show this week – WSU Basketball :-(

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