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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: It's almost famous podcast.

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Speaker 3: We are sitting here right now in I would say

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Speaker 3: this is like the type of place Bob, that when

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Speaker 3: I sit here, all I can think about is I

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Speaker 3: want my wife sitting next to me. It's like a

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Speaker 3: memorable place.

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Speaker 4: I literally just said as we were walking up the steps,

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Speaker 4: my wife is gonna be so pissed off right now,

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Speaker 4: because Canyon would love this place. She went to school

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Speaker 4: in Berkeley, so she loves this entire area. And then

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Speaker 4: as we're walking up the steps and I'm seeing all

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Speaker 4: the concerts that have performed here and just the property

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Speaker 4: and the facilities, I'm like, oh my god, my wife

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Speaker 4: is gonna be very upset at me.

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Speaker 2: The Bachelor is known for romance.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, this place is romantic. And we have Ali Winty here,

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Speaker 3: who's a part of the family for Winty Vineyards. Yes, Ali,

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 5: Fun to be here.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for first of all, and thank you for

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Speaker 4: the shardonay. The winn Te shardonnay is famous, not only

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Speaker 4: you know, worldwide and globally and regionally and domestically and

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Speaker 4: everything else. One of my very best friends who lived

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Speaker 4: in Walnut Creek told me, first of all, he's like,

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Speaker 4: you're going to be horrible on that golf course today.

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Speaker 6: He was right.

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Speaker 4: Secondly, he's like, you are going to love the shardonnay.

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Speaker 4: And he and his wife would come here all the

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Speaker 4: time for all sorts of different events and things that

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Speaker 4: you guys do on the property, and he's like, you're

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Speaker 4: going to fall in love with the place, and I

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Speaker 4: truly have.

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Speaker 5: Oh, well good. You know, we are known most for shardonay.

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Speaker 5: My family's been making and growing wine here in the

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Speaker 5: Livermore Valley. We also farm in Royal Seco, Monterey, so

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Speaker 5: we've about three thousand acres between Livermore and Monterey in total.

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Speaker 5: But we've been doing that since eighteen eighty three, so

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Speaker 5: one hundred and forty one years, and I'm a fifth

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Speaker 5: generation member of the family and in that time, shardenay

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Speaker 5: is really what put us on the map. Way back

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Speaker 5: when we planted our first acres of shardonay in nineteen

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Speaker 5: eight and then nineteen twelve we had about four acres,

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Speaker 5: and you know, since then kind of propagated chardonnay forward,

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Speaker 5: created our own signature style, got a clone made this

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Speaker 5: is all getting really keeky. I love but yeah so

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Speaker 5: today And I know because they made me have a

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Speaker 5: terrible internship one year where I had to call a

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Speaker 5: directory of California wineries to see if they use the

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Speaker 5: weenty clone. So it's a little bit of research and

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Speaker 5: it's been a long time since I was intern age.

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Speaker 5: But hey, but through that we were able to say

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Speaker 5: that we think about seventy five percent of all California

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Speaker 5: chardonay has genetic roots back to my family's property.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, really.

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Speaker 5: Yes, really, we're the godfather of shardonay. I guess you

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Speaker 3: Okay, So this is how I imagine this podcast going. I

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Speaker 3: really want to get into like I want to do

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Speaker 3: a segment getting into wine. What makes wine great? What

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Speaker 3: makes wine special? Why your shortenay stands out? Because I

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Speaker 3: think it's important and I think it's a question a

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Speaker 3: lot of people ask. But I want to start because

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Speaker 3: this is most see an audio media that people are

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Speaker 3: gonna be listening to. We're sitting as Bob and I

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Speaker 3: are mentioning in some in a place that is special.

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Speaker 3: It is you know, it has like a this like

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Speaker 3: energy to it. It's it's a place that's romantic. Someone

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Speaker 3: be called like a sacred like it just feels like

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Speaker 3: a place when when you sit here, you don't want

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Speaker 4: Well to that point, the architecture, like I'm looking at

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Speaker 4: the windows, you have like a honeycomb window behind you.

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Speaker 4: Then we got like all these like cool like old

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Speaker 4: don't even know what the right I want to say,

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Speaker 4: like an Aztec.

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Speaker 6: Like type of finish, but it's not. But the building

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Speaker 6: is like this mission style classic California is such a pull.

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Speaker 5: Trees, palm trees, like you really are in California. Like

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Speaker 5: to me, it's quintessential California.

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Speaker 4: And was that intentional by the family, like like, let's

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Speaker 4: feel like I'm in the Ohigh.

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Speaker 5: Valley Yeah, o High Valley. Yeah it's a beautiful place. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you know, our intention is always to stay true to

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Speaker 5: I totally agree, especially when the light's hitting just as

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Speaker 5: five thirty. It's like Golden Hour. It's just beautiful outside

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Speaker 5: and you could sit on that patio all night long

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Speaker 5: until the sunset.

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Speaker 2: So walk us through if you can.

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Speaker 3: For anybody listening what we're sitting right now in you're

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Speaker 3: event center that does some live music. What else do

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Speaker 3: you have on property? We obviously played the golf course today.

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Speaker 3: That is beautiful. I'd highly recommend it as a golfer.

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Speaker 3: It is a place that I would highly recommend people

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Speaker 3: coming to. Thank you, but kind of give us like

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Speaker 3: a quick overview of this property that we sit on.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a historic property. It was the original

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Speaker 5: Cresta Blanca winery back in eighteen eighty two and my

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Speaker 5: family ended up purchasing it and kind of reviving it

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Speaker 5: and bringing it back to life. It's now our main

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Speaker 5: home for wenty Vineyards. Are tasting Lounge as we call it,

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Speaker 5: so you can come here. You can do taste wine tastings,

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Speaker 5: group tastings. We also have a full catering team so

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Speaker 5: you can have your wedding here. We do big events concerts,

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Speaker 5: as you talked about, had some pretty big names throughout

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Speaker 5: the years. Now, Oh god, I mean I.

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Speaker 4: Saw Kenny g on the wall, Kenny, I saw Kenny G.

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Speaker 4: I saw a lot of people.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you just tell us, quiz you.

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Speaker 6: I want to throw names out there that I thought

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Speaker 6: I saw that I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be wrong, So you tell us. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've had like, you know, the Beach Boys,

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Speaker 5: like some classically big names. I mean there's tons of them,

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Speaker 5: so they're they're escaping my brain right now, but there's

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Speaker 4: She's gonna have band from TV here soon. You Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I have a feeling. I have a feeling.

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Speaker 2: Next on the one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've obviously had incredible talent come through.

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Speaker 2: You have the tasting room.

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Speaker 3: What else when if somebody came and visited, Yes, what

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Speaker 3: else could they experience here on property?

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Speaker 5: You could host a private dinner here, a private party,

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Speaker 5: food and wine pairing experiences. Like you said, we have

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Speaker 5: our championship Greg Norman designed golf course, so that's available

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Speaker 5: to you, and that's just all right here. You can

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Speaker 5: park in the parking lot, attend a wedding, go wine tasting,

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Speaker 6: Well moving, I say, this.

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Speaker 4: So we got to play the golf course today and

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Speaker 4: one of the you know, I hit my ball many

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Speaker 4: times into your lovely vineyards.

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Speaker 2: And you're just gonna stuff.

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Speaker 4: But I hit my ball many times, which I did,

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Speaker 4: and then awesome times they unfortunately escaped into your vineyards.

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Speaker 4: But I would find myself and that's something that most

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Speaker 4: people don't get to experience, frankly, like, yes, I hit

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Speaker 4: a horrible golf shot. It went, you know, into this

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Speaker 4: my ball, but I'm also standing in the vines. Like

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Speaker 4: I and we even took a video of it.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, look how beautiful this is, Like look at

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Speaker 4: And Ben's like, oh my god, you know, because Ben's

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Speaker 4: Ben's a little more sensitive than I am, and he

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Speaker 4: notices things that I might miss. And Ben's like, look

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Speaker 4: at how lovely these gorgeous vines are.

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Speaker 6: And I'm like, holy smokes, he's right.

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Speaker 4: So we took a video of them, but it was

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Speaker 4: like something that most people don't get to experience. And

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Speaker 4: so when you play the golf course, if you do

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Speaker 4: hit a foul shot occasionally, which I did and do,

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Speaker 4: you will get to experience your vines up close and

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Speaker 5: Will say goodbye to your ball.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't find it many times.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean the golf course is really special.

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Speaker 5: It is you know, up and down the hillsides. It's

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Speaker 5: built into the vineyards. We make wine from the vineyards

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Speaker 5: in the course. So he goes into our wet More

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Speaker 5: vineyard cabernet and we you know, it's amongst oak trees,

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Speaker 5: sycamore trees. There's wildlife out there. Careful, don't go search.

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Speaker 4: I thought I was being chased by a fox or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a moment.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever been here, but there

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Speaker 3: I feel like I was like in Israel. There's the

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Speaker 3: olive trees, and there's the hills and there's this like

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Speaker 3: there's this greenery around it. I mean, it's it's a

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Speaker 2: This course.

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Speaker 3: Every time you turned around, there was a view or

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Speaker 3: something new to look at. I've never played a course

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Speaker 3: in the midst of vineyards?

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Speaker 2: Is this one a few that you know?

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Speaker 5: As far as I know, we're the only winery that

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Speaker 5: if there's vineyards on other courses, but I think we're

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Speaker 3: And you said that the reason the golf course exists

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Speaker 3: here is because it's kind of your dad's, like it

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Speaker 3: was your dad's dream, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It was definitely his vision and his dream. You know,

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Speaker 5: we own so many acres of land, and for him,

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Speaker 5: it's always been how can we make the Livermore Valley

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Speaker 5: many reasons to come here. Obviously wine is one of

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Speaker 5: those reasons, but if people are coming here for golf,

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Speaker 5: they're more likely to also drink wine while they're out here.

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Speaker 5: You know, they need multiple activities to do so it

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Speaker 5: was born of that, and of course his love for golf.

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Speaker 5: I mean, my grandma always tells this story about how

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Speaker 5: the principle of my dad's school when he was in

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Speaker 5: high school used to call her all the time because

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Speaker 5: my dad was playing hookey that he was on the

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Speaker 5: golf course and my grandma was like, well, he's going

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Speaker 5: to have a great shot. Like you know, my whole

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Speaker 5: family loves golf, so he's never in trouble for it,

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Speaker 5: and here we are to so great. Well, yeah, he's

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Speaker 5: a pretty easy guy to get.

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Speaker 2: A very nice dude.

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Speaker 6: I like to call him Filipedia Philipedia.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's our historian, our little well loved knowledge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Feels that way right that way. You know, there's so

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Speaker 5: M Yep. And we're farming, you know, the same plots

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Speaker 5: of land that we did all the way back in

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Speaker 5: eighteen eighty three, and Savignon Blanc especially, this is so

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Speaker 5: really loud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to ask.

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Speaker 3: A question, curious about Okay, I don't know if it

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Speaker 3: makes any sense. Somewhere if you can't tell me, you

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Speaker 3: don't tell me.

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Speaker 5: I'm nervous.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere within your homes, underneath the building we're in, do

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Speaker 3: you have, like, what's the oldest wine your family still

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Speaker 3: has that has not been opened?

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Speaker 5: You know, we have some pretty old ones. We have

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Speaker 5: not from the eighteen hundreds. I wish, I mean that

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Speaker 5: would be really cool, but we have some like nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 5: but they're really like I wouldn't open it at this point,

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Speaker 5: Like it's really just memorbile.

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Speaker 2: Right, you wouldn't open them.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean it's going to be vinegar.

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Speaker 6: I always wonder what's the number of the like how old?

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Speaker 2: Like I'm just curious, like how old is it till

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Speaker 2: it's no longer good?

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Speaker 5: It depends? You know, that's a hard question because wine

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Speaker 5: making practices were so different back then, and then how

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Speaker 5: was it stored and a lot of the time it's

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Speaker 5: really interesting. People will call us and say that they

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Speaker 5: were cleaning out their cellar and found this super old bottle,

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Speaker 5: and they'll come drive it back to us. That's how

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Speaker 5: we've collected a lot of our old bottles. You know,

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Speaker 5: I wish that my grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather

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Speaker 5: had thought more about keeping some of these things for history.

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Speaker 5: They didn't so much. But we have a small collection

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Speaker 5: of some pretty fun unique wines. But yeah, thirties, I

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Speaker 5: would say is probably the oldest. And it's more just

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Speaker 5: fun to look at.

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Speaker 6: Their dinner parties of the family have to be so cool.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine, like you got.

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Speaker 6: To meet Filipedia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, like they have a big family like event

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Speaker 3: in life and all of a sudden, like dad's bringing

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Speaker 3: out this like nineteen seventy five.

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Speaker 2: You know, Dad's like.

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Speaker 4: Not, my mom's bringing out a bottle of white sin

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Speaker 4: and your mom's bringing out you know, like this classic

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Speaker 4: you know Shardona.

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 5: Like we bring out old ones sometimes not all the time,

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Speaker 5: but we do. We'll have some fun.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Well to close out here.

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Speaker 6: Adopt it like.

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Speaker 2: You're you're you're invited in.

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Speaker 6: Yes, well, my uber is here.

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Speaker 4: So I do have to go, but I want to

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Speaker 4: say we've had the greatest day here with you, and

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Speaker 4: thank you so much for hosting us, for hosting our

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Speaker 4: iHeart family.

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Speaker 2: Hey, before you leave, I do just to close that.

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Speaker 3: I think it's ali here to really tell us like

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Speaker 3: your wine. You know, people should go out look at

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Speaker 3: this brand. We'll put our names behind it. You should

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Speaker 3: go do it if you're having a party. But to

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Speaker 3: close this, can you sell just like the idea of

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Speaker 3: coming to visit here? I think it's intimidating for most people,

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Speaker 3: the idea to come to this place, to step in,

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Speaker 3: not this place specifically.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 3: Most people are like I don't know wine very well.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to do a tasting. I don't

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Speaker 3: know like even how how to pull up and like

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Speaker 3: what I should wear? Can you just close us with

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Speaker 3: Like if somebody's listening and they're like, this sounds like

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Speaker 3: such a fun idea, I just don't know how to

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Speaker 3: do it, what would you tell them?

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Speaker 5: It's like going to dinner, you guys, Okay, put on

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Speaker 5: a fun outfit, come out here. We'll guide you through

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Speaker 5: the experience. Sit down, we have a menu, we'll talk

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Speaker 5: you through it. You don't have to know how to

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Speaker 5: taste wine to enjoy wine. You know, we have these

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Speaker 5: wine making principles where we want, you know, balance, we

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Speaker 5: want the wines to have a sense of place. We

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Speaker 5: want them to taste like the variety they say they are.

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Speaker 5: So if you have a glass of chardenay, we want

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Speaker 5: you to say it sharday. Sure, but then we have

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Speaker 5: this other quality that we call yummy.

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Speaker 6: So that's what it is.

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Speaker 5: You know, you don't have to know what it flavors.

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Speaker 5: It is. You just have to know if you like

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Speaker 5: it and you want another sip, and if you don't,

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Speaker 5: that's okay. We have plenty others.

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Speaker 4: So you guys are kind of it's still a very classy,

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Speaker 4: but you're simplifying the wine experience for a lot of

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Speaker 4: people too. It's like, yeah, like I will say this,

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Speaker 4: like this was I agree with what Ben said. Like

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Speaker 4: coming here today, I was like, oh my gosh, you know,

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Speaker 4: we're going to this vineyard and it's this golf course.

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Speaker 4: But after being here, it's such a great experience. Everyone

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Speaker 4: has been so nice. Your staff has been so kind

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Speaker 4: to us and really inviting and wonderful, and from everyone

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Speaker 4: from the you know, the guys that like took our

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Speaker 4: golf bags, to everyone who's serving us wine here.

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Speaker 6: We've had such a great day, so thank you.

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Speaker 4: For having us, and thanks for being a part of

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Speaker 4: this with us, and for the Almost Famous family.

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Speaker 6: We've had a great day.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great night too. We have a

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Speaker 3: big night ahead of us. It's gonna be awesome here.

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Speaker 3: So thanks for having USA.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate it and

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Speaker 5: my family will thank you. Cheers of course.

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Speaker 3: Salude, Hey, we're here at Winty Vineyards, went Ty Winery.

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Speaker 2: We're here at win Ty Vineyards.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: We've had a tremendous day and more to come. Some

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Speaker 3: time to go to dinner. So until then, I've been been.

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Speaker 6: I've been Bob.

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Speaker 5: Ali.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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