August 22, 2025 • 20 mins
IT'S NEARLY TIME FOR OCTOBERFEST! And The Wine Yogi Kristal Alfonso has created a SPECTACULAR list of local Octoberfest events if you want to slap on the lederhosen and head out to enjoy German beer and food. She's also got a bunch of wine tastings coming up at The Wine Gallery in the Springs that you can join. We're also going to talk about the trip she just took that is the Mandy Connell Adventure next year down the Rhine. It's already almost sold out so if you want to go with us you may want to call now before we do the advertising push to sell the rest out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can call her the Winioga as well. She's there.
She just brought in two spectacular wines and I found
out one of them is actually a gold medal winner
for the Governor's Cup, and we're going to talk about
that in just a moment. But Oktoberfest right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, I can't believe we're already hear.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
And Octoberfest always gets confused because it takes place in September.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, so you know, German translations.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Whatever, It's fine, it's fine. So you just went to Germany, though,
I did.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You did?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
She just did the same trip on a different line
that we're doing for the Mandy Connell Adventure and starting
out in Switzerland, yes, and then going and going up
the Rhine to Amsterdam. Yes. Somebody said in earlier and said,
what is something on that trip that maybe is off
the beaten path or that we should look for or
know about? That you did? And I got to tell you.
(00:50):
For me, it's the vinegar thing. But I'm torn because
I would love to do a vinegar tour. Chuck hates vinegar, and.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I don't know, I don't know if you guys are
going to be stopping in that same place where you
can go to that vinegar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, but that's the Heidelberg stop, isn't it. It is.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We ended up taking a coach to Heidelberg. Yeah, so
I don't know if there's if like they will still
have that because it's out in the middle of nowhere,
in the middle of vineyards and stuff like that, because
it's they're making vinegar so from grape must Oh my gosh. Yeah,
that was absolutely amazing. And then so that would be
along the Heidelberg stop. And while it's not off the
beaten path Cologne if you've never been to Cologne, we
(01:26):
were just mesmerized.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We were fortunate enough to be there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, it was kind of a catch twenty two, so
we were blessed to be there when they it was
a holy day of obligation. I tried with my best
German to say, we're Catholic so we could go in
for the Mass, but we weren't allowed because it was
basically for all of the local right rushes. But they
had everything was taking place outside and they had just
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the most i mean, angelic, beautiful music just kind of
soaring up out into the universe. And as you were
walking around Old town Cologne, just hearing this gorgeous music
and then the bells started ringing and that cologne was
absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To see the dome and cologne.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I would We're definitely going to go back at some
point because we've got to get inside to see it,
and I you know, five stars, we'd do again. In fact,
I'm doing the Dan you've been in April well, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got to tell you, guys, I talked to cruise
into our last week and we're like three quarters sold
if we haven't even done the advertising yet. So if
you want to go with us, we're going in October
of twenty twenty six. We're going on Emerald, which is
a different cruise line. All of the river cruise lines
are spectacular, and Cruise in Tour finds spectacular cruise lines,
so it's a really good one and we're going in
(02:40):
October of next year. You can go to Mandy Connell
trip dot com and find out more. But if you're
thinking about it, I will go ahead and throw a
deposit now, because I mean we may be able to
add some cabins, but we are three quarters with all
former travelers, and I'm just gonna say this, not that
I don't love all of our travelers. We got some
good ones already on this one, some of my favorite
people to travel.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I would have loved to have done it.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But we're going to be doing Naples the month before,
like I would get back and then I write back
around and go back over.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So, and my mom's going on this trip with us.
I was excited about I and the cue It'll be
the cuees last trip with us because she's going to
be in college after that. So let's talk about Octoberfest.
I thought you're little on by the way, every time
Crystal's on the show, she does a really good blog
post that has all the information about everything we talk
about on the show and the wine. So if you're
driving and you want to know about the wines that
we're about to talk about, you can do that as well.
(03:28):
But you have a nice history of Octoberfest.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And so yeah, in eighteen ten, you had a couple
of German monarchs get married, and so they decided that
they would spend the entire month in Munich. So they
were Bavarian nobility, and they spent the entire month of
September partying like it was I don't know, eighteen ten,
and so it just kind of just took hold. It's
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at the end if you think about it, it's at the end.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of harvest YEP.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
People have been out working and to bring in the harvest,
you know, backbreaking work and take a moment to reap
the rewards of everything. And so obviously when you are
talking about beer and that is kind of in Munich again,
that's another life ambition, is to actually hit Octoberfest in Munich.
It's it's a big celebration and it's a great time
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of music. If you like to polka, I love to polka?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Does you good Polka? I mean that how long you
can't hear polka music and just not be Like for.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Me, I'm kind of like like I feel the same
way about mariachi music. It's like you have to be
happy if you hear mariachi music. You have to be
happy if you hear polka music.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And so a lot of the octoberfests that are around Colorado,
and there are plenty of them spread out through the
month of September. I included several all along the Front
Range and up in the mountains, different themes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Different contests.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
They're always a lot of fun and I normally would
be attending a lot of you know, our local Octoberfest,
but it falls into a time where I'm not.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Going to be consuming alcohol. I'm not going to be
eating bread in Gluton.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So you can go get a Schweinehassen.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's all of those things like big crispy pork knuckle
thank you. Yeah, but I love schweine Hawsen that the
temptation would be.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've also got to wine walk on here as well.
September thirteenth. This is down on the Dairy Block, yep,
and super fun. A kind of spearheaded by Blanchard Family
Wines and brings in a bunch of Colorado wines and
wine makers and it's just a really fun day.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And there's sent me a few last I looked at
the winemakers coming in. I believe he will be having
some that were part of the Governor's Cup that won
some accolades this year.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Let's talk about the Governor's Cup for a second, because
I actually love the concept of this. I think this
is a very cool event. They bring in some mallyays
and you know, big wine muckety bucks in to judge
all of these different Colorado wines from all of these
different Colorado wineries, and there is a I'm just saying
that the wine Yogi endorsed wineries had a very very
(05:57):
good year in the Governor's Cup. Which were the ones
that you were the most excited about so well, actually.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
The most excited exciting one that I was thrilled to
see on there is when I've not talked about before,
mainly just because I haven't gotten out there as much
as I would like to.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm in that Stone Cottage cellar. They are absolutely.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Fantastic, beautiful space there and outside of Paonia, just a
lovely vineyard and really excited for them. But my friends
that I'm I am really good friends with over the
folks over at Carboys, so Ti zak Is and Kevin
which we've had Kevin Webber.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And they're super accessible. Some of these winemakers that we're
going to talk about, Yeah, you kind of have to
be on the Western Slope or in their wine club
to get access to their wines. Carboy has a joint
right there on Santa Fe that is outstanding.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And also in downtown Denvers they have another place as well,
but so Carboy's very easily accessible.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yes, their cab Franc.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Was recognized, so I looked to see if I could
pull a cab Fronk and I don't have it. I
haven't picked up my club order from Carboy this month.
But so Carboy one Savage Spectrum, which is out of Palisade.
So Patrick and k Bob are the two wine makers.
They're o and it just escaped me. It's a new
(07:12):
grape for them. Also one of red wine.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And then the.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Storm Cellar, so Steve and Jamie from Paonia, so they're down.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
In West elks Aba. They had two gold medal winners.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So I brought in there Alberino from twenty twenty four
because I saw that that was on the list, and
so that was what I grabbed on my way out
the door.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What did we taste today? The these two wines, you guys,
they're like a chef's kiss, and they are not normally
wines that I would gravitate towards because they're very fruit forward.
And the wine that you know, what is the price
point on that one? That was a little bit lower.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The Alberino from Storm Cellars twenty five Okay in retail
that was delicious and you can get Storm Cellar along
the front range, so like we carry it down at
the Wine Gallery. In fact, next month, I'm going to
be having a wine and food pairing classes in September
and it's going to be all focused on Colorado and
I am doing German wines. Go back to our original
(08:08):
German and Austrian wines this weekend on Sunday, So we
still have some spots available for German wine and foods
if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
But the can I say a moment about German and
Austrian wines for just a second, because my entire childhood
all German wine that I ever had, not childhood but
young adulthood. It was all super sweet. And then imagine
my delight when I go to Switzerland and I found
out they're just holding all the super dry, mineral forward
wines over there. They don't send them here.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
They do, it's just they're just really expensive, so they're
more expensive than what you normally find. And again it
goes back to they were sending them, but wine shops,
especially if you were buying wine at like a liquor
store or a grocery store, you are never going to
see anything other than aush Leisha's spate lesa wriestling.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In a blue bottle.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So yeah, there are some amazing wines. I'm gonna have
a Pinot Blanc. I'm having a sparkling green er velt
Line from Austria that's made in the method Chimp and wise,
and then I'm gonna have some really beautiful Austrian and
German reds that I'm really one of them.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I'm really excited about to try red blend.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So give me a lot of fun with the food
pairings too, just to kind of kick off October fests.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So, and if you're in the Springs, or you are
close to the Springs, or you would be willing to
drive to the Springs for one of these tastings, she
has a couple of spaces left. They do sell out,
I will tell you that. So if you would like
to go to one of her wine pairings and that stuff,
you should probably go today and go to the blog
that's linked on my blog and or just go to
I Am Thewineyogi dot com and go ahead and sign
(09:38):
up for those wine pairing events. They're very there. Yours
are much fancier than the wine pairing stuff that I've
gone to in other places. I'm not gonna lie because
you like make all this food.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I do, yeah that When I do the classes, I'm
really focused on wine and food pairing. So it's more
than just kind of a sample of cheese or sharcotery.
It's more of how would you pair this? And I
even will include recipes. My last class, we made are
French vinaigrette in class and then dressed their own you know,
everybody dressed their own salads to their liking. So they're
really fun and interactive and small, so you can have
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kind of more of a conversation about wine.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So bring your questions.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Well, I have a challenge for you before your next
appearance on the show. Okay, I'm looking at the list
of winners from the Governor's Cup. Oh and by the way,
I also link to an event spy Guilt on the
blog today spy gelt one that Savage one for So
there's an event called Colorado on Court and it's coming
up on Saturday, October eighteenth, and you can go. It's
(10:33):
a at the History Center in downtown Denver, and you
can go and taste all of these wines that we're winning.
So it's a that's very cool. I think that's very
very cool. Let me just say this, though, I'm looking
at a lot of these wines that just won prizes, okay,
and I'm gonna read these out, Okay, blanch Family Wine's
one with a twenty twenty five or twenty twenty four
of vie guilt, which I guilt? Yep, what the hell
(10:55):
is that?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I Okay, I've got Cabernet Sabion, I've got you know,
I've got your basics. Wait wait, I'm not done. I'm
not dead.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'm just gonna say, come to my class this weekend.
You'll find out what vikel iss.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But you got a five velt a Cabadet franc A Cat,
Catelli Cat, We're Cat's itll something Aramela Cabadet franc Petite Verdeaux,
and another's Viegelt petite Sarah. I know that one Pino great,
know that one Shamborsen, Shamberson, Shamberson, no clue you've had,
(11:27):
and Alberino is just a delightful light. Do me a
little list of what all these things are like, where
do they lean? Give me a little give you a clue,
because now I feel like they're just throwing new things
at me because I finally just learned all the old stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, so like it's also what happens can't happen, Like
terms like Limburger is the German version of La Frankish,
which is the Austrian version of this particular grape varietal,
which they're very close to Pino noir, and they're all
cousins and related in some ways in some cases. But yeah,
I can do that, you know. But Alberino is a
Spanish grape. I'm Shambers. Sin is Uh is actually a
(12:02):
varietal that does really well here on the Western Slope,
and so you will often find either just Shambers and
red wine.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You'll find.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
All of these wines are dry. Ok, every single wine.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
That you just listed off, they're dry. They're going to
compete in dessert wine categories. If they're competing, they're not
gonna they're not going to be sweet wines.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They're gonna all they're all going to be dry.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
In that case, they might be a little bit fruitier,
a little fruit more fruits.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Let's talk about the other wine they they brought.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Vignols is from a new winemaker that we met at
sip Into Spring, which is an annual tasting there in
Palisade and Alex torrez Is his vineyard is down in Hotchkiss, Uh,
which is south of Paonia over on the western slope,
and Vignols the grapes are grown by the folks that
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are growing grapes for Sabash spectrum. So he sourced the
Vinyols grapes, which is a white wine out of the
Grand Valley.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And we met him tasted as wine.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
All three of us have been drinking quite a while,
but this white wine just exploded on our pallets.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
We were all shocked by it.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And before I went to the Storm Cellar when they
announced that they had won two gold medals for a
winemaker dinner up on the mesa A a couple of
weeks ago, I stopped in at Fallen Mountain and Alex
tasted me on all of his wines and I was
able to bring a case. We're the only ones that
have it on the front range. This wine I will
be pouring next month in September when I have my
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class on Colorado wine. So yeah, absolutely stunning wine, gorgeous,
bright acidity. It's just got stone fruit and just all
of this mouth feel that if it's difficult to describe.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The mouthfeel is what got me. And the fruit is
very I want to say pronounced, but that's not the
right word. It's because I don't love if something is
super fruity. If I can taste every fruit, I don't
enjoy that. It's just not. This wine just kind of
coats your mouth. It's just delightful.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I feel like when you start getting down to things
like watermelon rind or close to the pit and like
an apricot or a peach. To me, this is what
the fruit reminds me of so much in this particular wine.
It just yeah, and it does that. This cidity is
to me what I really appreciate.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
About both of these wines.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Alberino was known for it's uh acidity and its just
absolutely this this.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Vignyols we had to bring it into our store.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It's slightly more expensive than the Alberino from smorm Cellar.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But what a perfect wine for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's going to be amazing for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, just got this one Mountain Harvest Festival in Paona
in September. You going to that one?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh, you're getting You're on the wagon.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Seventy five hard starts on September thirteenth, if anybody wants
a nice little challenge that'll finish right before thanksgivings.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Mandy did wine? You know you get some coal spears
in Cologne?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Did you some culsh?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And as we were sitting there looking at the twin spires,
which is what if it's going to be called culshit
has to be made within in view of the twin
spires of.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The dose cool.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I didn't know that it's very cool and you'll always
see the umlaut on the o's. And there was a
question earlier about mold with wine.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, I forgot to get that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Noble Rat is what it is.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And if you've ever had blue cheese, for example, it's
the same strain of penicillin. So I just always look
at it as if you drink a soturn or late
harvest reestling, you're getting your dose of penicillin. It pairs
perfectly with blue cheese, you're getting another dose of penicillin.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And I'm boarding off and you're just curing yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So basically, when you're drinking one of these wines that's
created with Noble Rot, you're just like, it's for my health,
for my health, I mean, it really is no. There's
so much cool chemistry to wine making. And when I
went to the winery in Indiana, Turtle Creek Winery, as
this guy was an actual chemist, and he was so
geeked out about the chemistry aspect of wine tasting. But
(15:53):
I'll be perfectly honest, he had never done like a
wine dinner before, and we tasted wait for it, seventeen
wines in one dinner, y'all. I had to be carried
out there at a wheelbarrow. I mean I was not driving,
thank god, because I would have just had to lay
down on the ground and go to sleep for ten hours.
But he was so geeked out about all of that
stuff and how no broad affects this, and I mean,
(16:15):
it was just really really interesting. So if you ever
have a chance to do a wine dinner at a
vineyard with the vinnor, it is so fascinating. It's just
really really cool stuff. All right. Check out the wine
Yogi's blog and I amthwineyogi dot com, or just go
to my blog and find out more about Uncorked in
the Governor's Cup and enjoy your wine, and trust me,
(16:35):
it might be worth a trip to the springs. Just
to get a bottle, a few bottles of this forty
five dollars wine. It's so good, so so good. But
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the
radio of it gone in the world of the day.
All right, Hello, I can't grab my question Sriah yeah,
(16:59):
my bad. Anyway, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm thinking of taking up coin collecting. I believe the
change will do me good.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Ah wow bad yeah, yeah, anyway, what is our word
of the day please?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Adjective adjective flexuous what f l u or l e
x e x o us.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
As sensuous, so you know, scilly bendy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Since she was up, go get me another class of wine.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh oh, that's goods like yeah, flexuous like I'm gonna yeah,
I'm gonna say it's something extremely flexible, flexuous, full of
bends or curves. There we go. That was kind of
an easy way. In the history of the Roman calendar,
the year forty six BCE was the longest year ever,
lasting four hundred and forty five days. Why, I don't know,
(17:53):
no clue detail. Prior to forty six b C, the
Roman calendar was based on lunar cycles and had fallen
out of alignment with the solar year. Julius Caesar stretched
forty six pc to get things back on track, ensuring
that the following year started after the winter solstice.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So there you go, if you can only get rid
of daylight savings and the changes and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You mean, the racket of daylight saving nonsense, crap anyway,
coming to fall back though, I'm not gonna lie. I'm
already looking ahead, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm willing to fall into existence. Look at his weather
that I brought in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I appreciate you wearing a blazer.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And the ten day forecast.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, I already looked at that this morning fall. But
I'm in early seventies next week, folks four like low seven,
three of us. We're ready for han solo season. My
wife tells me shut up all the time. My mom
doesn't know. Now I'm ready. What is our Jeopardy category? Scratchy, scratchy?
(18:48):
Every answer my voice has to do with something scratchy. No, what, okay,
I'm just asking it.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Scratching while playing pool generally mean sinking the cue ball. Sink.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You're luckily I got the last.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I ask a question of a question.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I didn't I can't give myself an answer. Dang it right?
Zero zero? Next average is give myself minus my name,
and I didn't give the right answer. Ted Nugent knows this,
sand Mandy, what is cat scratch fever? Probably back to zero.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The name of this surgical knife comes from the Latin
four to scratch, though it doesn't more than that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What is the scalpel?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's corrap? Dang it thought it's creak?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is someone who exchanges favors or services for mutual advantage?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
What is it backscratcher?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Who there's often a scratchy sound when you play records
made for this many rpm, the standard speed until the
nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Manny, what is seventy seventy rpm? Wrong? Seventy eight? Which
means that was wrong for smoked me to bags on
the phone exactly
You can call her the Winioga as well. She's there.
She just brought in two spectacular wines and I found
out one of them is actually a gold medal winner
for the Governor's Cup, and we're going to talk about
that in just a moment. But Oktoberfest right around the corner.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, I can't believe we're already hear.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
And Octoberfest always gets confused because it takes place in September.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, so you know, German translations.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Whatever, It's fine, it's fine. So you just went to Germany, though,
I did.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You did?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
She just did the same trip on a different line
that we're doing for the Mandy Connell Adventure and starting
out in Switzerland, yes, and then going and going up
the Rhine to Amsterdam. Yes. Somebody said in earlier and said,
what is something on that trip that maybe is off
the beaten path or that we should look for or
know about? That you did? And I got to tell you.
(00:50):
For me, it's the vinegar thing. But I'm torn because
I would love to do a vinegar tour. Chuck hates vinegar, and.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I don't know, I don't know if you guys are
going to be stopping in that same place where you
can go to that vinegar.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, but that's the Heidelberg stop, isn't it. It is.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We ended up taking a coach to Heidelberg. Yeah, so
I don't know if there's if like they will still
have that because it's out in the middle of nowhere,
in the middle of vineyards and stuff like that, because
it's they're making vinegar so from grape must Oh my gosh. Yeah,
that was absolutely amazing. And then so that would be
along the Heidelberg stop. And while it's not off the
beaten path Cologne if you've never been to Cologne, we
(01:26):
were just mesmerized.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We were fortunate enough to be there.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, it was kind of a catch twenty two, so
we were blessed to be there when they it was
a holy day of obligation. I tried with my best
German to say, we're Catholic so we could go in
for the Mass, but we weren't allowed because it was
basically for all of the local right rushes. But they
had everything was taking place outside and they had just
(01:49):
the most i mean, angelic, beautiful music just kind of
soaring up out into the universe. And as you were
walking around Old town Cologne, just hearing this gorgeous music
and then the bells started ringing and that cologne was
absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To see the dome and cologne.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I would We're definitely going to go back at some
point because we've got to get inside to see it,
and I you know, five stars, we'd do again. In fact,
I'm doing the Dan you've been in April well, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got to tell you, guys, I talked to cruise
into our last week and we're like three quarters sold
if we haven't even done the advertising yet. So if
you want to go with us, we're going in October
of twenty twenty six. We're going on Emerald, which is
a different cruise line. All of the river cruise lines
are spectacular, and Cruise in Tour finds spectacular cruise lines,
so it's a really good one and we're going in
(02:40):
October of next year. You can go to Mandy Connell
trip dot com and find out more. But if you're
thinking about it, I will go ahead and throw a
deposit now, because I mean we may be able to
add some cabins, but we are three quarters with all
former travelers, and I'm just gonna say this, not that
I don't love all of our travelers. We got some
good ones already on this one, some of my favorite
people to travel.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I would have loved to have done it.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But we're going to be doing Naples the month before,
like I would get back and then I write back
around and go back over.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So, and my mom's going on this trip with us.
I was excited about I and the cue It'll be
the cuees last trip with us because she's going to
be in college after that. So let's talk about Octoberfest.
I thought you're little on by the way, every time
Crystal's on the show, she does a really good blog
post that has all the information about everything we talk
about on the show and the wine. So if you're
driving and you want to know about the wines that
we're about to talk about, you can do that as well.
(03:28):
But you have a nice history of Octoberfest.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And so yeah, in eighteen ten, you had a couple
of German monarchs get married, and so they decided that
they would spend the entire month in Munich. So they
were Bavarian nobility, and they spent the entire month of
September partying like it was I don't know, eighteen ten,
and so it just kind of just took hold. It's
(03:51):
at the end if you think about it, it's at the end.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of harvest YEP.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
People have been out working and to bring in the harvest,
you know, backbreaking work and take a moment to reap
the rewards of everything. And so obviously when you are
talking about beer and that is kind of in Munich again,
that's another life ambition, is to actually hit Octoberfest in Munich.
It's it's a big celebration and it's a great time
(04:16):
of music. If you like to polka, I love to polka?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Does you good Polka? I mean that how long you
can't hear polka music and just not be Like for.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Me, I'm kind of like like I feel the same
way about mariachi music. It's like you have to be
happy if you hear mariachi music. You have to be
happy if you hear polka music.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And so a lot of the octoberfests that are around Colorado,
and there are plenty of them spread out through the
month of September. I included several all along the Front
Range and up in the mountains, different themes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Different contests.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
They're always a lot of fun and I normally would
be attending a lot of you know, our local Octoberfest,
but it falls into a time where I'm not.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Going to be consuming alcohol. I'm not going to be
eating bread in Gluton.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So you can go get a Schweinehassen.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's all of those things like big crispy pork knuckle
thank you. Yeah, but I love schweine Hawsen that the
temptation would be.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've also got to wine walk on here as well.
September thirteenth. This is down on the Dairy Block, yep,
and super fun. A kind of spearheaded by Blanchard Family
Wines and brings in a bunch of Colorado wines and
wine makers and it's just a really fun day.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And there's sent me a few last I looked at
the winemakers coming in. I believe he will be having
some that were part of the Governor's Cup that won
some accolades this year.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Let's talk about the Governor's Cup for a second, because
I actually love the concept of this. I think this
is a very cool event. They bring in some mallyays
and you know, big wine muckety bucks in to judge
all of these different Colorado wines from all of these
different Colorado wineries, and there is a I'm just saying
that the wine Yogi endorsed wineries had a very very
(05:57):
good year in the Governor's Cup. Which were the ones
that you were the most excited about so well, actually.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
The most excited exciting one that I was thrilled to
see on there is when I've not talked about before,
mainly just because I haven't gotten out there as much
as I would like to.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm in that Stone Cottage cellar. They are absolutely.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Fantastic, beautiful space there and outside of Paonia, just a
lovely vineyard and really excited for them. But my friends
that I'm I am really good friends with over the
folks over at Carboys, so Ti zak Is and Kevin
which we've had Kevin Webber.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And they're super accessible. Some of these winemakers that we're
going to talk about, Yeah, you kind of have to
be on the Western Slope or in their wine club
to get access to their wines. Carboy has a joint
right there on Santa Fe that is outstanding.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And also in downtown Denvers they have another place as well,
but so Carboy's very easily accessible.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yes, their cab Franc.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Was recognized, so I looked to see if I could
pull a cab Fronk and I don't have it. I
haven't picked up my club order from Carboy this month.
But so Carboy one Savage Spectrum, which is out of Palisade.
So Patrick and k Bob are the two wine makers.
They're o and it just escaped me. It's a new
(07:12):
grape for them. Also one of red wine.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And then the.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Storm Cellar, so Steve and Jamie from Paonia, so they're down.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
In West elks Aba. They had two gold medal winners.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So I brought in there Alberino from twenty twenty four
because I saw that that was on the list, and
so that was what I grabbed on my way out
the door.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
What did we taste today? The these two wines, you guys,
they're like a chef's kiss, and they are not normally
wines that I would gravitate towards because they're very fruit forward.
And the wine that you know, what is the price
point on that one? That was a little bit lower.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
The Alberino from Storm Cellars twenty five Okay in retail
that was delicious and you can get Storm Cellar along
the front range, so like we carry it down at
the Wine Gallery. In fact, next month, I'm going to
be having a wine and food pairing classes in September
and it's going to be all focused on Colorado and
I am doing German wines. Go back to our original
(08:08):
German and Austrian wines this weekend on Sunday, So we
still have some spots available for German wine and foods
if you're interested.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
But the can I say a moment about German and
Austrian wines for just a second, because my entire childhood
all German wine that I ever had, not childhood but
young adulthood. It was all super sweet. And then imagine
my delight when I go to Switzerland and I found
out they're just holding all the super dry, mineral forward
wines over there. They don't send them here.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
They do, it's just they're just really expensive, so they're
more expensive than what you normally find. And again it
goes back to they were sending them, but wine shops,
especially if you were buying wine at like a liquor
store or a grocery store, you are never going to
see anything other than aush Leisha's spate lesa wriestling.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In a blue bottle.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
So yeah, there are some amazing wines. I'm gonna have
a Pinot Blanc. I'm having a sparkling green er velt
Line from Austria that's made in the method Chimp and wise,
and then I'm gonna have some really beautiful Austrian and
German reds that I'm really one of them.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I'm really excited about to try red blend.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So give me a lot of fun with the food
pairings too, just to kind of kick off October fests.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So, and if you're in the Springs, or you are
close to the Springs, or you would be willing to
drive to the Springs for one of these tastings, she
has a couple of spaces left. They do sell out,
I will tell you that. So if you would like
to go to one of her wine pairings and that stuff,
you should probably go today and go to the blog
that's linked on my blog and or just go to
I Am Thewineyogi dot com and go ahead and sign
(09:38):
up for those wine pairing events. They're very there. Yours
are much fancier than the wine pairing stuff that I've
gone to in other places. I'm not gonna lie because
you like make all this food.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I do, yeah that When I do the classes, I'm
really focused on wine and food pairing. So it's more
than just kind of a sample of cheese or sharcotery.
It's more of how would you pair this? And I
even will include recipes. My last class, we made are
French vinaigrette in class and then dressed their own you know,
everybody dressed their own salads to their liking. So they're
really fun and interactive and small, so you can have
(10:09):
kind of more of a conversation about wine.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So bring your questions.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Well, I have a challenge for you before your next
appearance on the show. Okay, I'm looking at the list
of winners from the Governor's Cup. Oh and by the way,
I also link to an event spy Guilt on the
blog today spy gelt one that Savage one for So
there's an event called Colorado on Court and it's coming
up on Saturday, October eighteenth, and you can go. It's
(10:33):
a at the History Center in downtown Denver, and you
can go and taste all of these wines that we're winning.
So it's a that's very cool. I think that's very
very cool. Let me just say this, though, I'm looking
at a lot of these wines that just won prizes, okay,
and I'm gonna read these out, Okay, blanch Family Wine's
one with a twenty twenty five or twenty twenty four
of vie guilt, which I guilt? Yep, what the hell
(10:55):
is that?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I Okay, I've got Cabernet Sabion, I've got you know,
I've got your basics. Wait wait, I'm not done. I'm
not dead.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'm just gonna say, come to my class this weekend.
You'll find out what vikel iss.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But you got a five velt a Cabadet franc A Cat,
Catelli Cat, We're Cat's itll something Aramela Cabadet franc Petite Verdeaux,
and another's Viegelt petite Sarah. I know that one Pino great,
know that one Shamborsen, Shamberson, Shamberson, no clue you've had,
(11:27):
and Alberino is just a delightful light. Do me a
little list of what all these things are like, where
do they lean? Give me a little give you a clue,
because now I feel like they're just throwing new things
at me because I finally just learned all the old stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Well, so like it's also what happens can't happen, Like
terms like Limburger is the German version of La Frankish,
which is the Austrian version of this particular grape varietal,
which they're very close to Pino noir, and they're all
cousins and related in some ways in some cases. But yeah,
I can do that, you know. But Alberino is a
Spanish grape. I'm Shambers. Sin is Uh is actually a
(12:02):
varietal that does really well here on the Western Slope,
and so you will often find either just Shambers and
red wine.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You'll find.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
All of these wines are dry. Ok, every single wine.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
That you just listed off, they're dry. They're going to
compete in dessert wine categories. If they're competing, they're not
gonna they're not going to be sweet wines.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
They're gonna all they're all going to be dry.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
In that case, they might be a little bit fruitier,
a little fruit more fruits.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Let's talk about the other wine they they brought.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Vignols is from a new winemaker that we met at
sip Into Spring, which is an annual tasting there in
Palisade and Alex torrez Is his vineyard is down in Hotchkiss, Uh,
which is south of Paonia over on the western slope,
and Vignols the grapes are grown by the folks that
(12:50):
are growing grapes for Sabash spectrum. So he sourced the
Vinyols grapes, which is a white wine out of the
Grand Valley.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And we met him tasted as wine.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
All three of us have been drinking quite a while,
but this white wine just exploded on our pallets.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
We were all shocked by it.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And before I went to the Storm Cellar when they
announced that they had won two gold medals for a
winemaker dinner up on the mesa A a couple of
weeks ago, I stopped in at Fallen Mountain and Alex
tasted me on all of his wines and I was
able to bring a case. We're the only ones that
have it on the front range. This wine I will
be pouring next month in September when I have my
(13:28):
class on Colorado wine. So yeah, absolutely stunning wine, gorgeous,
bright acidity. It's just got stone fruit and just all
of this mouth feel that if it's difficult to describe.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The mouthfeel is what got me. And the fruit is
very I want to say pronounced, but that's not the
right word. It's because I don't love if something is
super fruity. If I can taste every fruit, I don't
enjoy that. It's just not. This wine just kind of
coats your mouth. It's just delightful.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I feel like when you start getting down to things
like watermelon rind or close to the pit and like
an apricot or a peach. To me, this is what
the fruit reminds me of so much in this particular wine.
It just yeah, and it does that. This cidity is
to me what I really appreciate.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
About both of these wines.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Alberino was known for it's uh acidity and its just
absolutely this this.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Vignyols we had to bring it into our store.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It's slightly more expensive than the Alberino from smorm Cellar.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
But what a perfect wine for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's going to be amazing for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, just got this one Mountain Harvest Festival in Paona
in September. You going to that one?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh, you're getting You're on the wagon.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Seventy five hard starts on September thirteenth, if anybody wants
a nice little challenge that'll finish right before thanksgivings.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Mandy did wine? You know you get some coal spears
in Cologne?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Did you some culsh?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And as we were sitting there looking at the twin spires,
which is what if it's going to be called culshit
has to be made within in view of the twin
spires of.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The dose cool.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I didn't know that it's very cool and you'll always
see the umlaut on the o's. And there was a
question earlier about mold with wine.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, I forgot to get that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Noble Rat is what it is.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And if you've ever had blue cheese, for example, it's
the same strain of penicillin. So I just always look
at it as if you drink a soturn or late
harvest reestling, you're getting your dose of penicillin. It pairs
perfectly with blue cheese, you're getting another dose of penicillin.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And I'm boarding off and you're just curing yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
So basically, when you're drinking one of these wines that's
created with Noble Rot, you're just like, it's for my health,
for my health, I mean, it really is no. There's
so much cool chemistry to wine making. And when I
went to the winery in Indiana, Turtle Creek Winery, as
this guy was an actual chemist, and he was so
geeked out about the chemistry aspect of wine tasting. But
(15:53):
I'll be perfectly honest, he had never done like a
wine dinner before, and we tasted wait for it, seventeen
wines in one dinner, y'all. I had to be carried
out there at a wheelbarrow. I mean I was not driving,
thank god, because I would have just had to lay
down on the ground and go to sleep for ten hours.
But he was so geeked out about all of that
stuff and how no broad affects this, and I mean,
(16:15):
it was just really really interesting. So if you ever
have a chance to do a wine dinner at a
vineyard with the vinnor, it is so fascinating. It's just
really really cool stuff. All right. Check out the wine
Yogi's blog and I amthwineyogi dot com, or just go
to my blog and find out more about Uncorked in
the Governor's Cup and enjoy your wine, and trust me,
(16:35):
it might be worth a trip to the springs. Just
to get a bottle, a few bottles of this forty
five dollars wine. It's so good, so so good. But
now it's time for the most exciting segment on the
radio of it gone in the world of the day.
All right, Hello, I can't grab my question Sriah yeah,
(16:59):
my bad. Anyway, what is our dad joke of the day, please, Anthony.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I'm thinking of taking up coin collecting. I believe the
change will do me good.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Ah wow bad yeah, yeah, anyway, what is our word
of the day please?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Adjective adjective flexuous what f l u or l e
x e x o us.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
As sensuous, so you know, scilly bendy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Since she was up, go get me another class of wine.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh oh, that's goods like yeah, flexuous like I'm gonna yeah,
I'm gonna say it's something extremely flexible, flexuous, full of
bends or curves. There we go. That was kind of
an easy way. In the history of the Roman calendar,
the year forty six BCE was the longest year ever,
lasting four hundred and forty five days. Why, I don't know,
(17:53):
no clue detail. Prior to forty six b C, the
Roman calendar was based on lunar cycles and had fallen
out of alignment with the solar year. Julius Caesar stretched
forty six pc to get things back on track, ensuring
that the following year started after the winter solstice.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
So there you go, if you can only get rid
of daylight savings and the changes and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You mean, the racket of daylight saving nonsense, crap anyway,
coming to fall back though, I'm not gonna lie. I'm
already looking ahead, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm willing to fall into existence. Look at his weather
that I brought in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I appreciate you wearing a blazer.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And the ten day forecast.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, I already looked at that this morning fall. But
I'm in early seventies next week, folks four like low seven,
three of us. We're ready for han solo season. My
wife tells me shut up all the time. My mom
doesn't know. Now I'm ready. What is our Jeopardy category? Scratchy, scratchy?
(18:48):
Every answer my voice has to do with something scratchy. No, what, okay,
I'm just asking it.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Scratching while playing pool generally mean sinking the cue ball. Sink.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You're luckily I got the last.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I ask a question of a question.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I didn't I can't give myself an answer. Dang it right?
Zero zero? Next average is give myself minus my name,
and I didn't give the right answer. Ted Nugent knows this,
sand Mandy, what is cat scratch fever? Probably back to zero.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The name of this surgical knife comes from the Latin
four to scratch, though it doesn't more than that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What is the scalpel?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's corrap? Dang it thought it's creak?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is someone who exchanges favors or services for mutual advantage?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
What is it backscratcher?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Who there's often a scratchy sound when you play records
made for this many rpm, the standard speed until the
nineteen forties.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Manny, what is seventy seventy rpm? Wrong? Seventy eight? Which
means that was wrong for smoked me to bags on
the phone exactly
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