Ep 252: Aftermath of Fires, Winery Outpost on the East Coast with Kieran and Kristie Robinson

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kieran Robinson of Kieran Robinson Wine was on the podcast about 18 months ago but much has happened since then. Kieran Robinson and Kristie Sheppard Robinson share the latest -- some sad and some innovative and amazing! They have been through tough times but it sped up an idea that may just be a new model for U.S. winemakers who love both the west and east coast.

Here are the show notes:

After Kieran and Kristie share how they met, wound up in the Rhône and then moved to Sonoma, they discuss the harrowing experience of living through the fires that ravaged Sonoma Valley in 2017. Kieran and Kristie share their personal stories and how they lost their entire vintage of reds to fire.
We discuss smoke taint and what it does to grapes
Kieran and Kristie, Pennsylvania natives, reveal their plans to live a bicoastal wine life, living much of the year back home on the East Coast. The idea is innovative, cool and authentic -- they are designing the life they want with the bonus that it brings the wine to those of us on the east coast, and it could be inspiration for others with roots east who still want to make wine in the west.

You can find Kieran and Kristie at Underground Wine Events, D.C. and at https://www.kieranrobinsonwines.com/our-story

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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	This week on the podcast, we welcome back one of my favorite winemakers,
0:29.0	Karen Robinson, and this time we are so lucky because we finally got the other half here
0:33.7	Christy Shepard who is Karen's wife and the other half of the business.
0:38.1	Karen was on... What were you on Karen like two years ago? Three years ago?
0:42.0	Probably a year and a half to two well
0:45.3	we were talking all about curin's fascinating past his obsession with Surah
0:49.5	his amazing gift with Roan var Idols, Villene, and he's just an amazing winemaker.
0:57.0	A lot of you have gone and seen him.
0:59.4	Some of you have seen him at underground wine events in Sonoma. He's going to be there again in DC. But you've been on a ride. I mean, you've had, you have not had, if you don't mind me saying, so the easiest time over the last two years.
1:12.9	It's been a little rough.
1:14.0	So we'll have you recap your story and I want
1:17.6	Christie also to really get in on this because we missed you last time.
1:20.9	But we need to talk about the fact that grapes that you buy are from Bennett Valley,
1:26.7	and that was a little bit ravaged last year, I would say, by the fighters.
1:32.4	It was. I want an insider perspective on that because one of the
1:36.4	things that I find really sad but definitely true and you know because you've
1:40.0	been there for 12 years you're on the ground there you're a winemaker is just
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