Forrest Kelly

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

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The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast is a weekly podcast by Forrest Kelly exploring wineries around the world. We take 5 minutes and give you wine conversation starters and travel destinations. In addition, you'll hear candid interviews from those shaping the wine field. Join us as we become inspired by their search for extraordinary wine and wineries. Voted One of The Best Travel Podcasts and Top 5 Minute Podcasts.

Author

Forrest Kelly

Category

Arts

Podcast website

www.thebestwinepodcast.com

Latest episode

Mar 25, 2025

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Episodes

Carlos Creek Winery - Alexandria, MN Pt. 1 28.03.2022

Michelle Bredeson is our guest. She is the Marketing Director and Co-Owner of Carlos Creek Winery. Your Host: Forrest Kelly is an experienced Radio/TV broadcaster who has interviewed some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities from Shania Twain to Kevin Costner . A lover of wine who is fascinated by the science behind it. Voted one of the best travel podcasts of 2021

Montezuma Winery - Seneca Falls, NY Pt. 4 14.03.2022

We conclude our conversation with Phil Plummer of Montezuma Winery in Seneca Falls, NY. Your Host: Forrest Kelly is an experienced Radio/TV broadcaster who has interviewed some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities from Shania Twain to Kevin Costner . A lover of wine who is fascinated by the science behind it. Voted one of the best travel podcasts of 2021

Montezuma Winery - Seneca Falls, NY Pt. 3 07.03.2022

Phil Plummer, Head Winemaker at Montezuma Winery . Your Host: Forrest Kelly is an experienced Radio/TV broadcaster who has interviewed some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities from Shania Twain to Kevin Costner . A lover of wine who is fascinated by the science behind it. Voted one of the best travel podcasts of 2021

Montezuma Winery - Seneca Falls, NY Pt. 2 28.02.2022

Welcome, welcome to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly, from the seed to the glass wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike. Let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is we continue our conversation with Phil Plummer of Montezuma Winery in Seneca Falls, N...

Montezuma Winery - Seneca Falls, NY Pt. 1 21.02.2022

Our featured winery is: In this episode, we head to the town that hosted the first women's rights convention in 1848. It's also believed to be the inspiration for Bedford Falls, Mary, my wife Clarence, Merry Christmas everybody. Yes, the movie, It's A Wonderful Life, it's Seneca Falls, New York , home to Montezuma Winery. Hi, this is Phil Plummer. I'm the head winemaker for the Martin Family, Wine...

IG Winery - Cedar City, UT Pt. 4 14.02.2022

Welcome, welcome to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly, from the seed to the glass wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike, let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is we continue our conversation with Doug McCombs of IG Winery now on our last episode,...

IG Winery - Cedar City, UT Pt. 3 07.02.2022

Welcome, welcome to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly, from the seed to the glass wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike. Let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is in our last conversation, Doug. We ran out of time, so you couldn't explain Cocktail...

IG Winery - Cedar City, UT Pt. 2 31.01.2022

Welcome, welcome to The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly. From the seed to the glass, wine has a past. Our aim at The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike. Let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is: We continue our interview with Doug McCombs, founder, and winemaker of IG Winery. Since y...

IG Winery - Cedar City, UT Pt. 1 24.01.2022

Our featured winery is in the state with the first 00:28 Kentucky Fried Chicken . It's the only state where every county contains some part of a national forest. It's the 2nd driest state in the United States. Almost 300 sunshine days a year, and its residents are the most charitable people in the country. They rank 1st in volunteer rates. 00:48 Doug McCombs . Owner and Winemaker of IG Winery in C...

2021 - Year in Review 20.12.2021

Hi, this is Forrest Kelly, and I'd like to take just a moment and look back on 2021, the year in review. First off, I'd like to thank my beautiful wife, Paula for her support of the podcast. And I couldn't have done it without you! Looking at the numbers and the analytics for the 2021 year. The biggest majority of listeners, of course, came from the United States. Second place belonged to, do you...

Michael Juergens - Kingdom of Bhutan Pt. 4 01.11.2021

Breaking news.......Think about this, if you had the first bottle of wine ever commercially produced in America. Like, what would that bottle be worth? That bottle would be in the Smithsonian ? Here it is the very first bottle ever produced in America or in France or in Australia or wherever. That's the first bottle that would be important. We missed the mark by hundreds of years in most countries...

Michael Juergens - Kingdom of Bhutan Pt. 3 25.10.2021

Welcome to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly, from the seed to the glass wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike. Let's start the adventure. We're speaking with a man responsible for bringing vineyards to the country of Bhutan, the Kingdom of Bhutan. How big...

Michael Juergens - Kingdom of Bhutan Pt. 2 18.10.2021

Welcome to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly. From the seed to the glass, wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike, let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is we continue our conversation with Michael Juergens and his wine adventure in the Himalayan hi...

Michael Juergens - Kingdom of Bhutan Pt. 1 11.10.2021

Welcome, to The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast, I'm your host, Forrest Kelly. From the seed to the glass, wine has a past. Our aim at The Best Five Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe. After all, grape minds think alike. Let's start the adventure. Our featured winery is. Hello. This is your captain speaking. Welcome to Juergen's airlines, we hope you enjoy your...

Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards - Clermont, FL Pt. 4 04.10.2021

We close out our conversation with Barry Hus of Lakeridge Winery and Vineyards, Florida's largest winery. I can imagine that staffing can be a bit of a challenge. I went to New York and recruited a vineyard manager that was highly experienced, and he's done wonders for our vineyards. I went to Sarasota. I recruited this top mechanic that had been in the industry for 45 years can fix any kind of bo...

Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards - Clermont, FL Pt. 3 27.09.2021

COO Barry Hus, explains the adventure of a tour at Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards. So in our typical guided tour, when I say that they stay within the building, our main building is fairly large. It has a second floor, they go up into the theater. It's a church pew style. They sit and watch the film. It's about 10 minutes. It goes through the history of wine and winemaking in Florida and how we...

Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards - Clermont, FL Pt. 2 20.09.2021

COO Barry Hus of Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards explains the impressive details of Florida's largest winery. Whether it's food, cars, or houses, we're always looking for that wow factor. I still remember seeing my wife the first time in her wedding dress. So when people come up to your winery, can you tell me your wow factor? It's a big property. I think people are very surprised, first of all,...

Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards - Clermont, FL Pt. 1 20.09.2021

Florida  started in the wine industry back in the early days when the settlers came over here. They discovered that these Muscadine grapes were here in  Florida , so they tried to make wine out of them didn't particularly like the flavor of it. They went ahead and brought over their own varieties from Europe. At one time, there were thousands of acres of grapes here in Florida. But they...

Black Mesa Winery - Velarde, NM Pt. 4 31.08.2021

We take another listener voice mail question. It's time, boys and girls for our listener voicemail. Hi all. This is Rochelle calling from Nashville, Tennessee . My question to you is why? Why wine cost as much as it does. Nashville, Tennessee. I bet you're a big Dolly Parton fan. All right, Rochelle, let's tackle your question, it takes about 12 grapes to make a bottle of wine and table grapes are...

Black Mesa Winery - Velarde, NM Pt. 3 24.08.2021

Well, New Mexico food is sort of a blend between Native American food and Mexican food is the best way I can describe it. Obviously, the red and green chili's are big, here and everyone's got their own recipe for that. So if you went to one restaurant, it's going to have different red and green in the spice level is going to be different than in the restaurant down the street. So our wine is defin...

Black Mesa Winery - Velarde, NM Pt. 2 17.08.2021

Can you describe for me the New Mexico scenery as you drive up to the winery? So it is a gorgeous drive. I drive from Santa Fe and it's when I first moved out here, just like this is like a Clint Eastwood film . It's so rustic. You know, you see the Mesa's as we're driving up. Then you get into the towards the Taos, you know, as you come into the Rio Grande Valley just north of Velarde, you really...

Black Mesa Winery - Velarde, NM Pt. 1 10.08.2021

In this episode, we head to the largest hot air balloon festival in the world. The state has more cows than people. Seventy-five percent of the roads are unpaved. From the top of Capulin Volcano , you can see five different states. The state has more PhDs per capita than any other. And nearly 50 wineries are located in New Mexico. Hi, this is Katherine Lautenbach, marketing director at Black Mesa...

Clearwater Canyon Cellars - Lewiston, ID Pt. 5 03.08.2021

What does it take to win Pacific Northwest Winery of the Year ?  “The reason you become Pacific Northwest Winery is that you can't just have a one-off vintage has to be, you know, a long track record of great wines that have, in this case, crushed the competition, you know, year after year. And we've done that. And it's amazing for us to do that with these wines.” - Coco Umiker - Winemaker &a...

Clearwater Canyon Cellars - Lewiston, ID Pt. 4 27.07.2021

What wineries does Idaho's Winery of the Year look up to? Walla Walla Vintners   Reustle Prayer Rock Vineyards Wine Press Northwest This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/thebestwinepodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Clearwater Canyon Cellars - Lewiston, ID Pt. 3 20.07.2021

Co-owner and winemaker Coco Umiker discusses what it's like not having money yet still running a successful winery.  What are the benefits of living in a trailer park for 250.00 dollars a month?  "We were just like the sandlot kids. We were good at what we did because we understood the science so well. We knew where we could cut corners and where we absolutely could not. And we made wine...

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