If you are interested in wine and want to learn about what it’s like to become a Sommelier you need this book…
My guest is Bianca Bosker with her new book “Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste”
Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine—until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork.”
With boundless curiousity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: What’s the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine–and, perhaps, the way you live–forever. Get a book NOW!
Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist who has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The New Republic. The former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (University of Hawaii Press, 2013). She lives in New York City. Learn more about Bianca: www.biancabosker.com Follow on Facebook and Twitter
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2014 Secret Squirrel Red Blend, Columbia Valley Washington
This wine is a blend of 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 13% Cab Franc, 11% Petite Verdot, and 7% Malbec. The oak treatment was 65% new French Oak for 28 months. A wildly expansive nose shows off wonderful herbaceous notes of tea leaf, mint, eucalyptus, pomegranate, olive brine, rubbed sage, fennel, dried red currant, Christmas spice, vanilla bean and cocoa powder. On the palate, this wine is deeply complex, well-structured and delicious with flavors of dried plum, rustic red fruits, blackberry, dusty tannins, cedar and a lingering finish. www.secretsquirrel.com
Pickup a bottle at Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road, Wichita and join us!
“VINEYARD Sonoma County,” a stunning, large-format collector’s edition coffee-table book featuring over 188 pages of color images by noted photojournalist and wine photographer George Rose. 
Over 40 years ago, George Rose began his long career as a photographer. Throughout the years, he has traveled a long and winding road through the elite world of popular music, film, news, politics, and sports, eventually leading him to California’s Wine Country. During his prolific years as a Los Angeles-based photojournalist, Rose developed a remarkable and historic body of photographic work focused on popular culture. 
2014 Benziger Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
2014 Benziger Sonoma County Chardonnay
My first guest this week is Kate Welsh from the very informative and fun “Extra Crispy!” Extra what? This is a great site with a weekly news letter published about Food, Drink and Culture and even has a video section. EC offers cutting edge information often in a humerus fashion and is great fun. Kate is part of the editorial team at Extra Crispy, an avid writer, photographer and more. She had two articles recently that caught my attention. Both were taste tests, one about grocery store wheat bread and the other about peanut butter, we’ll tell you about both and more. Click on the pictures below to read both posts at Extra Crispy 🙂
Winemaker Mike Sullivan says: “Maybe the most Burgundian Chardonnay in our portfolio, this seductive Chardonnay displays explosive aromas of lime blossom and William Pear with underlying mineral notes. On the pallet the wine displays tension between bright acidity and cool-climate structure framed with flavors of nectarine and lemon custard. This wine is delightfully elegant upon release but will continue to gain complexity with bottle age for 3 to 5 years.” Robert Parker WA92
The 2017 Wichita Wagonmasters Downtown Chili Cookoff is yet again upon us! Saturday, September 30th one Douglas and St. Francis. $5 all the chili you can handle!! Kids Play Zone, Flyovers, Beer, Live music, CHILI, and so much more! Proceeds go to the Good Life Grant which benefits local charities. Come party with the Wichita Wagonmasters and Good Life Guy. Your sure to have a great time!
All three of these Sparkling wines are made in the traditional method with secondary fermentation taking place in the bottle. The primary grapes are different than French Champagne, in Spain it’s Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada in the blend. While I like them all, especially at a great price of only $8.99, I think the Extra Dry is perfect to accompany most any chili.
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