The Barrel Room

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Sitting down with Mark Ramm who is the Regional Export Manager for Angove Family Winemakers in Australia's famous McLaren Vale appellation and the Riverland, was like chatting up an old friend; Familiar, warm, engaging with an ever-present Aussie likability you'd expect from a good mate. Mark has been working with the now 5th generation...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! It was about a dozen years ago when I bumped into Val Tait at a wine event in Vancouver and I was instantly captivated by both her wines and exuberant personality.  We chatted. I tasted those wines and in a frantic very few minutes I immediately recognized this was a person I wanted to have in my life and wine circle. And what a fortuitous meetin...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Richard da Silva is a terroir-driven Vigneron-Winemaker who clearly does things his way.  Sometimes controversial, occasionally unconventional, but always with care and a deep understanding of his many vineyards and terroirs scattered throughout a few established GI's that he commandeers with his wife Twylla and winery team. His family roots...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! I sat down with Filipe Ferreira who is the owner + winemaker at Quinta da Foz in Douro, Portugal in town for the exclusive annual Top Drop event.  Because of very tight scheduling we had limited time together but boy, we sure covered a lot of ground! Originally from the Dão region, he saw huge potential in this winery founded by the Calem family...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! #TopDrop Vancouver is a unique wine festival whose focus is to provide a platform for terroir-influenced, handcrafted wines and the people behind them. One of those people is Nikos Zacharis . He is the Sales & Export Manager for the world of KIR-YIANNI wines in Naoussa + Amyndeon, GREECE. They are crafting some of the very top wines from the...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Harry Hertscheg has helmed the Vancouver International Wine Festival--the largest of its kind on the planet--for over 2 decades.  He's a multi-faceted + talented Director whose history working in radio & the Arts paved a fascinating foundation for his current post. From the early days of VIWF inception, to the deep correlations between m...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Christine Coletta is the post-modern matriarch of wine in BC. The owner + founder of Haywire Winery (formerly Okanagan Crush Pad  in Summerland--renown and colloquially known simply as OCP). It's the foremost concrete fermenting winery in North America. In 1990 she developed BC's first Appellation System which is still ongoing today and...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Hi! I'm WineGuyTy and THIS is the Barrel Room! Hear conversations with notable winemakers, winery owners, vineyard managers, cellar rats and possibly anyone from the world of wine who has an interesting tale to tell and whose contributions are bringing us wine nerds some of the best juice made on the planet. The barrel room is a place of muc...

Hey Winenerd! Thanks for tuning in. Send us a text! Join WineGuyTy in The Barrel Room LIVE at VIWF with renown 4th Generation Winemaker Dr. Laura Catena of Catena Zapata Winery & Luca Wine Brands in Mendoza, Argentina, as we delve into the latest happenings at the Pyramid; in the cellar; with a brand new book, and her recent appointment to WSET, the Wine & Spirits Education Trust. LINKS: V...