Bottles & Bites Without Borders

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Matthew Horkey joins the show to talk his YouTube wine channel.  We talk about where wine content is  on YouTube,  why its not bigger than it is, the future of wine on YouTube and how he sees it progressing.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Carter, Luis and Leo are on this episode as we discuss and taste through Tequila.  Luis and Leo are huge fans and connoisseurs of tequila.  They take us through its history, how its made, how to know if what you're buying is quality.  We also touch on Mezcal, but that will be a full episode in the future.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail On this episode I'm joined by Chris Ruhland (WSET Diploma) and Daniela DaSuta (WSET Diploma) and we discuss our Top 5 Wine Regions.  This topic for us is subjective, what each of us is enjoying today.  We also were able to create and apply our own criteria for selecting our five regions.  It will provide some insight to how I'm selecting wine regions to explore and how w...

Send us Fan Mail The Salad Bowl is a new series where we will pull papers with topics for discussion out of  a bowl and discuss.  These could be questions or they could be statements, we will read them then react and discuss.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Carter and I discuss the flooding of the bourbon shelves with craft and NDP bourbons.  We are seeing more and more of these on the shelves.  How do we know which are good?  Which are a good value?  What part does age play in a decision to buy craft or NDP bourbons?  These are some of the topics for this episode.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode I'm joined by Carter and Dave and we taste through some wines blind.  These are California wines, where we all started in wine.  We are had a different approach to this episode but what we were trying to do was each of us provide two bottles of wine.  One should be something from our past, where we started in wine and then one that we currently drink.  And lets s...

Send us Fan Mail Carter, Dave and I discuss our Top 5 Allocated Bourbons.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode Carter and I talk about why you should cook at home.  Why you should host dinner parties.  We talk about not being intimidated by cooking, what are some of the essential cookware you  will need, some great kitchen gadgets and where to get some goods that won't break the bank.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Carter and I have talked wine and had wine pro's on the show. But we've never talked about getting into  wine, the basics.  In this episode we do just that.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Football Season is just around the corner and that means football watch parities and cookouts with friends. Carter and I talk about our love for Saturday's in the fall and the foods we like to enjoy.  There's the classic football foods but we also discuss some other foods that can be a hit when hosting a football watch party.  We then talk about the finger foods, snacks...

Send us Fan Mail Cater and I discuss our Top 5 Candy Bars.  This brought back some memories of some classic candies we enjoyed as kids.  We also touch on how  good chocolate can be with bourbon. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The Hotdog is a delicious and versatile food.  Dave and I talk about the Hotdog and how it is just an after thought, a filler, always a bridesmaid never the bride. A fun conversation about the hotdog and why we should make it the star of backyard cookouts more often. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Chris Ruhland joins the show again for this conversation.  As a person who enjoys wine I am new to Riesling.  I have found that this grape is fantastic but there is a wide range of styles you can get and to be honest, it can be very confusing.  I have Chris on to kind of give me an introduction to this grape and wine and provide some understanding of what is in the bottle and ulti...

Send us Fan Mail Tyler Martin is back on the show and we're talking coffee.  On this episode we discuss some of the myths about coffee as well as some misconceptions.  We also dive in to brews, grinding and the most important item for good coffee....... the BEANS.  If you enjoy coffee or are wanting to explore coffee this is a very good listen. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode we talk about the greatest lunch option there is, the SANDWICH.  Glenn joins Carter and I as we all have ranked our top 5 sandwiches from 5 to 1.   We did exclude the hamburger and chicken sandwiches for this episode.  Those two delicious sammy's will have their own episodes.   The only criteria was that these are traditional sandwiches known all over the USA.  G...

Send us Fan Mail Carter and I are joined by Chris Ruhland and we discuss the TATER bottles from Buffalo Trace Distillery.  We have a list of 5 that we came up with as the most tater.  These are not unicorns, these getable but not on the shelf.  Then we each came up with our replacement bottle and its a fun discussion and conversation.  It's very noticeable that each of our approach to this ex...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Shepherd - James Beard Award winning Chef joins the show to talk food.  We have a fun conversation with Chris, talking his start in food to Underbelly Hospitality that he founded.  Chris takes the foods and cooking techniques from the diverse communities that we have in Houston and blends those with his cooking to create some of the best restaurants in the country.  We also...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Carter, Glenn and I talk about where we are in our bourbon journey.  Six years for each of us in the hobby, where is the tater meter for each of us?  Do we still hunt bourbon? Do we still drink bourbon? How  do we see the bourbon community now and going forward? We also talk about NDP and Craft distillers in bourbon and the impact of WhiskeyTubers. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The Top 5 is back.  On this Top 5 Carter, Dave and myself have created our list of Top 5 breakfasts.  These are complete meals that we enjoy, Carter may add a beverage.  Nothing is off limits but these meals are when we want to indulge with a big breakfast.  A lot of laughs as we go through our list and surprisingly only a couple of meals that were on multiple lists.   Support the...

Send us Fan Mail My son Ian recently turned 21 and I got him a birth year bottle of bourbon.  He joins the show to have a conversation about now being able to drink.  What he enjoys from my cooking .  Just kicking off his journey in whiskey & wine. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The discussion continues!!! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Sean joins this episode, he is a friend of Carters and wants to start drinking wine from the Old World.  Carter and I are by no means experts but we share our limited knowledge of Italy and France with Sean.  Its a fun conversation.  Because of the length of this recording we have made this a two part episode. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We have decided to start a new series, it's our TOP 5.  This is the first episode in this series, here we discuss both Carter and my top 5 lists for overrated food chains and top 5 food & beverage pairings.   Food chains are not limited to fast food, it can be any chain that sells something you eat.  It doesn't have to be national, it can be regional.  Food & Bev...

Send us Fan Mail We are starting a new series on the podcast.  It is lists of our TOP 5 in any category related to food and beverage.  Please listen to this quick episode to hear how you can join the show. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This is episode we are pouring some bourbons for two guys, Ryan & Cameron, who are new to bourbon.  This is a fun conversation as we taste through some bourbons.  Our approach was to have bourbons from the major distilleries that were similar in proof and style.  We had Ryan and Cameron taste them blind with the objective being what distillery profile did they and like and whi...