Ep 188: Kieran Robinson, Where Sonoma Meets the Rhône

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🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kieran Robinson is a small producer of Rhone style wines in Sonoma --and his stuff rocks. A Philadelphia native, after working in the Northern Rhône he moved to Napa & worked for cult wineries going it alone. A great story from a truly talented winemaker!

Here are the show notes:

Kieran tells us about his early life in Philadelphia, at Ithaca college, and getting his start in wineries in the Finger Lakes.
He takes us on his journey from Northern Rhône to Napa to Sonoma and details what it was like to work with everyone from Michel Rolland, Aaron Potts, and Paul Hobbs before going out on his own.
We address Kieran's real passion: making Viognier and Syrah. We talk about the current situation in Sonoma with grapes and more people looking at Rhône varietals as a viable and awesome option.
Kieran takes us through the differences between his wines, the wines' nod to Philly, and why they are so darn great!

To learn more about Kieran, go to http://www.kieranrobinsonwines.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	Today, we have this little gem that I found.
0:26.1	Kiran Robinson.
0:27.6	By the way, Kiran, when I was looking for your Skype
0:30.0	name, there's like four bazillion
0:32.0	Kiran Robinson's in the UK. Were you aware of that?
0:35.0	You know what, I just, when I was setting this up, I looked it up and I realized that today also
0:40.9	that yes, there are a bunch in the UK and I don't know if there's any here in the
0:45.8	US besides me. I don't know either but you if you move there you could really
0:50.2	blend in so I know when I got my hot mail address about 20 years ago.
0:56.1	I didn't have to put a number behind my name, so I was the first year in Robinson to get
1:00.8	a hot mail account, so.
1:02.2	It must not have been rolled out in the UK because I'm telling you you're everywhere so if you decide to become a winemaker there at some point you're all set to go so
1:10.4	Anyway, Karen is an awesome dude. I found him through a referral. I went to Limerick Lane in
1:17.2	Sonoma, Dry Creek, right aren't they in Dry Creek?
1:19.6	Kind of right on the Dry Creek Russian River border.
1:22.7	And they said, if you like really cool Rhone style stuff,
1:26.8	you got to see Karen.
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