Ep 269: From Doctor to One Woman Winery--Kerith Overstreet of Bruliam

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kerith Overstreet is a triple threat: Bruliam Wines co-founder and winemaker, medical doctor, and mom to three teens. After retiring from general surgery to pursue pathology and then medicine to raise a family, she tried her hand at winemaking with one barrel. She quickly found she had the chops for it and her fourth baby, Bruliam Wines was established in 2008.

Since then, Kerith has completed her enology courses at U.C. Davis and she is a one-woman show. She does EVERYTHING herself and the lovely single vineyard Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, and chardonnay benefit from it.

www.undergroundwineevents.com for tickets!

Here are some of the things we cover in the show:

Kerith takes us on her journey from growing up in San Diego, to East Coast college and med school student, to single vineyard, terroir-driven winemaker
Kerith discusses the interplay between wine and medicine and how it affects her today
We talk all about site, growers and why this kind of thing is the obsession of small winemakers
We discuss Pinot Noir and why it's such a fascinating grape
On a personal note, we discuss family, doing it as a one-woman show, and strange things people have said to Kerith in her time in wine

You can get her wines at www.bruliamwines.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	listening to Wine for normal people.
0:10.0	The podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider a certified solnier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	I hope you guys love when we do the Sonoma series on the podcast in preparation for the
0:29.0	Underground Wine Event in Sonoma, which is on April 6, 2019.
0:33.2	If you're listening to this in real time,
0:34.7	you can go to underground wine events.com
0:37.7	and get a ticket.
0:39.2	It is amazing if you know anybody in the Bay Area
0:41.2	who might be interested in attending, let them know about it.
0:44.0	Undergroundwide Events.com and you can get a ticket to come and meet people like Karath
0:49.2	overstreet. She is a fantastic person. I think you'll get that from the conversation that we had.
0:55.0	She is so smart, so on it. She used to be a medical doctor and then she treats now her
1:00.9	wines as if they were her patients with so much tender love and care.
1:04.6	If you are listening to this way later and it's not 2019 or it's way past April
1:09.5	you can still go to underground wine events dot com and check out new wine events that we have with these small
1:16.1	producers. Underground wine events is a production that I co-produce to try to
1:20.4	help feature small wineries and the winemakers who have these wonderful
1:24.4	stories to tell like Karath Overstreet. So here is another strong powerful and
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