Inside the Bunghole...A Journey through Wine - S3E3 Bouschet is full of surprises!

S3E3 Bouschet is full of surprises!

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05/01/23 • 26 min

Inside the Bunghole...A Journey through Wine

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Place your seatbacks up and put your trays in the upright position as we taxi the runway to one of the most unique destinations for wine tasting around, Bouschet wine bar! In a retro strip mall in South Palm Springs, CA there is a little wine bar with big surprises inside! Join us as we chat it up with the owners Dennis Costa and Tom Beatty, each bringing their passion and knowledge to wow their customers!
Dennis has an extensive winemaking background. His family actually had a farm and grew wine grapes. Early in his career Dennis worked for Mondavi wines, personally farming 200 acres from planting to harvesting, before they sold the farm to Sebastian Vineyards.
Tom was an international flight attendant for 33 years, traveling to every continent except for Antartica (which has limited capacity for growing good grapes for wines 😆). During his travels he enjoyed many different cultures, largely through the food and wine!
These 2 together have developed such an amazing venue, you really need to see it to believe it! The wine shop offers beautiful boutique wines from around the world, value priced, and each with a great story. You can also find everything to make a tasty charcuterie board, or lovely, unique hostess gifts. But just you wait til your boarding gate is announced and you walk in to the "other side" to enjoy a glass of wine and something to nibble on from their menu, or enjoy one of their famous wine tasting events...when I say this place will take you worlds away, I mean it! You enter what is an astonishing replica of a commercial airliner fuselage complete with fun and funny iconic airplane themed scenes out each of the windows. Whether you are sitting in first class or coach, you will surely enjoy your trip!
Find out what made these two guys take off on this amazing adventure as we go on a trip Inside the Bunghole with Bouschet's owners Dennis and Tom. And if you are in Palm Springs, make sure to make this one of your destinations!
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S3E2 Grape Expectations-Where schooling you is FUN!

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You can enjoy a nice bottle of wine, but once you know what REALLY goes in to making wine, you can truly appreciate all of its nuances. Well, we couldn't call ourselves true students of wine without exploring what it takes to make our own now, could we? Although we believed that anything we made would likely be barely drinkable, at best, we still felt the need to pursue this noble craft!
How surprised and delighted were we to find Grape Expectations in Henderson, NV, a wine making school with genuine winemakers from Vegas Valley Winery professionally caring for your barrel! Throughout the process Patty Peters and her team make sure that all of the steps are adhered to, to make a great tasting wine!
So the gist is you and 20 of your closest friends get together 4 times over the process and choose the grapes you want to blend. Class 1 is crushing the grapes. Once crushed we add the yeast and some other goodies for fermentation. Exactly one week later, in the 2nd class, we press the grapes and barrel the wine. Now we wait for about 3 months to meet our barrel mates again and for class 3, we rack our wine, which means we pump our wine into a stainless steel vat (all with the help of the Grape Expectations team), rinse the barrel of all the sediment and yeast, so the wine has better contact with the barrel, then pump the wine back in. We taste the wine in each step and can tell that it is coming along nicely and starting to develop a very nice flavor! Then sit back and wait a few more months for our last official class where we bottle and label (with labels that we design) our wine. Each barrel produces about 20 cases of wine, so for the price of our class we take home a case of our very own wine! What an amazing way to learn!
Now after our wine is bottled, Grape Expectations has an amazing "release" party, called the Bacchus Awards, which is also a competition amongst our peers and fellow wine makers who made their own barrels. We are judged on the wines and the labels at an enormous, rowdy party typically held annually at the Orleans hotel.
We give this adventure a huge thumbs up! If you can't come up with a team of 20 (or enough people to buy all of your cases), Patty will get you on a Social barrel team, so there is fun for ALL! So much fun and so much knowledge and appreciation gained! To get a hold of Patty and to learn more visit the website grapeexpectationslasvegas.com or email her at [email protected].
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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...Jon Simmons, the Som at 4 Queens, Hugo's Cellar

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WOW!! What an interview with the incomparable Jon Simmons of Hugo's Cellar restaurant in the 4 Queens, downtown Freemont Street in Las Vegas. Jon shares not only his knowledge and approach to wine, but boy, oh boy, does he have some amazing stories of Las Vegas, the mob, Sinatra...just to name drop a few! This episode is longer than most, but you will be captivated by his amazing career, and his no-nonsense, down to earth approach on wine! I just wish we could keep on going. We definitely left the door open for another visit...plus we LOVE going to Hugo's Cellar, so any excuse is a good excuse, but this is the BEST excuse ever!
From great historical perspective, to sensible advice on ordering the "right" wine, this is a don't miss episode.
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