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What‘s My Wine
The conversation about wine began around the table over dinners where friends had gathered for a meal and to explore interesting wines. As the evenings went on and we found ourselves lingering over the last sips of wine in the glass, the conversation would inevitably return to the merits of the wine we were tasting — how it paired with the meal, how it may have changed in the glass over the course of the evening, how it compared to other similarly-styled wines.
Every so often someone would mention the idea of creating a broadcast of some kind, focusing on wines – how to taste wines, how to discover new regions, varietals, producers – and most often we would find ourselves emphasizing those that are reasonably priced and perhaps not as well known.
With the technical help of WOOL Black Sheep Radio 91.5 FM in Bellows Falls, Vermont, I learned how to do a live broadcast and then how to record and edit an audio session. Soon, our small group of wine explorers found themselves convening once again around the dining table, but with a very focused mission: to discuss the merits of a flight of wines based on region, varietal, producer, style of winemaking. Each session takes us to a different part of the world – regions throughout Europe, Australia, the US, South America – each unique due to its geologic formation, soil composition, and wine-making history.
To our surprise, the history of wine is a marvelous way of exploring the history of each of these regions, in some instances going back thousands of years; and, similarly, it is a way of exploring the geological history of each area. We come to find that each bottle of wine is a direct link to its terroir, its culture and history – literally an alive encapsulation of a sense of place.
Cynthia Reeves
Keith Zimmermann
Early in his career, Keith Zimmermann was an assistant to the winemaker at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. At the winery, he learned the nuances of winemaking, and in the vineyard wine growing, knowledge that he has carried with him throughout his professional life. His business pursuits have taken him to many parts of the globe, and at every destination he was tasting interesting regional cuisines and wonderful wines – especially during the happy circumstances that put him in the diverse wine growing regions of Europe and California. A wonderful cook, he turns out meals at his house that are usually based on a region, and he somehow manages to pull out excellent and unusual wines from his cellar – wines that are unexplored, new discoveries.
Joe Coneeny
Joe Coneeny traded life on Wall Street for a more pastoral one in Vermont, owning and managing the Windham Hill Inn in West Townsend, Vermont. It was a natural step for him and his wife, Marina, who are both generous hosts with a broad knowledge of food and wine. He is a wonderful chef, and she is an excellent pastry chef – a killer combo. During their time as owners of the Inn, Joe developed a deep cellar featuring over 5,000 bottles of wines – from inexpensive, little-known wines to the top-level wines from Europe and the West Coast. The wine tastings at the Inn were a synthesis of the vast knowledge gathered during his tenure living abroad when working in the financial world, culminating in the granular detail offered by the wine distributors he got to know through the Inn.
Larry Burdick
Larry Burdick is a culinary entrepreneur and founder of Burdick Chocolates—a company that now has shops in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, and Seoul, as well as in Larry’s home village of Walpole, NH. Although he sold the company in 2016, Larry remains active in the world of chocolate, both as an advisor to a farmer-owned chocolate factory in Grenada and as a consultant to the Cocoa Farming Future Initiative, a Grenada-based nonprofit founded by his wife, Paula. An accomplished chef and wine connoisseur, Larry is also an unabashed Francophile and travels frequently to France to renew his connection to French food, wine, and culture.
Cynthia Reeves
Cynthia Reeves has been involved in the contemporary art world for a few decades, having had gallery spaces in New York, at MASS MoCA and in Walpole, New Hampshire. With the many events hosted at those galleries, the selection of wine was always a consideration – how to serve wine that was cost-effective and also interesting? The search for new and unusual wines became a side project, one that led to many discoveries, especially regarding wines from Italy, Spain and lesser-known regions of France. What’s My Wine is a continuation of that extended conversation, and a forum for learning even more about this beautiful gift of the earth.
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Winemaking practice across all three of our brands is intentional, minimalist and focused on small lots with little intervention
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