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Episode 27 – It’s Here!

It’s here!

What’s here? The Sipster’s Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 2 is now out!

You can buy it here! You can buy it there!

You can buy it everywhere!

You can also buy it directly from me by sending me an email. Let me know how many you’d like, if you’d like them signed and personalized, and where they are shipping to and we will work something out using e-transfer. Also, if you are in the Okanagan, I can also arrange to personally hand you a copy somewhere. (Now, THAT is customer service!)

Oh, and there is also wine touring information on this podcast too.
The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide by John Schreiner and Luke Whittall
Uncork BC (not a paid partnership or affiliate link – I’m not smart enough for that yet I guess…)

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Episode 26 with DJ Lady of the Mist

DJ Lady of the Mist, aka my friend and occasional musical partner Misty Rose. I’ve known Misty for about 7 or 8 years now and together we form the guitar and flute duet called Pairing Notes. Sadly, it took a long time for us to come up with that name. (For some reason, she didn’t like Flutar, which was one of my suggestions – don’t know why. Weird.) Anyways, Misty and I talk about all kinds of cool things including the disturbing lack of night life in the Okanagan and what wineries can do to help bring it back. She absolutely dazzled the crowd at a winery event last summer and got a lot of people talking because along with spinning tracks, she plays ridiculous flute riffs over top which makes for an amazing performance that you really have to see for yourself.

Catch Misty’s stream on Twitch.

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Episode 25 with Blair Gillingham

Blair Gillingham is the winemaker now at Howling Bluff Estate Winery in Naramata but for has been in the wine business since he was a teenager. There aren’t a lot of people in their early 40s who can say that they’ve experience well more than 20 vintages, which he’s done in many countries around the world, which he’ll be talking about. Blair is super down to earth about wine and winemaking. He was a hard-core listener to my old podcast, Wine Country BC back in the day – even remembering things about them that I’d forgotten about. He brought along a couple of tank samples to try as well, which was really cool. Enjoy my chat with Howling Bluff winemaker Blair Gillingham. Cheers!

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Social Media is Dead

Wine and social media used to be a classic pairing. Wine enthusiasts found an outlet for their passion and generously shared their experiences on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram to share with their friends and learn about others’ experiences at the same time. But something has changed. Is social media still the place for wine lovers to congregate? Is it a constructive and beneficial element in our lives?

This podcast is an exploration of social media as I’ve been observing it in 2023, after 15 years of taking part in it.