Some More Wine! Catching up with Gavin and Grayce
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I can farm full time now and get the opportunity to work with these great companies that have products that they want to show off.
I don't know why we all just want to throw good money at bad and just go lose money farming. We all, it's a fricking disease.
Have you noticed that everyone is like, how can I make more money to supplement the farm? It's like, why? We shouldn't have to be doing that. You know, what is going on?
There is a podcast in Iowa. Thoughtful profit was named by the Facebook. One day when the recording's done We'll take our mics and go One day when the recording's done We'll take our mics and go
You know, we get to do a lot of fun things, guys. And one of these is drink some wine. This is one of the most fun segments we did.
It is. I mean, we get a drink and we get to drink wine and we don't even know what we're talking about because we've never been big wine drinkers. We didn't have to buy the wine.
Yeah.
And bingo. And the experts just get a laugh at us.
Well, it's exciting to introduce our new wine expert to the podcast, Duff Beville. He is the founder and partner of Beville Vineyard Management. So welcome to the show. Glad to be here. Glad to have the opportunity to talk to you guys. I know it's going to take Corey a while to get these bottles open. So let's first start talking about the wine that Corey has in front so he can mess around. I'm going to do the Lambert Bridge. Okay.
All right. And I got this new wine opener, so everyone can... It came off the TikTok shop, so everyone can... It's like a basketball pump. Have you seen one of these?
Never have.
It, like, puts a needle down. We'll see if it works.
Hold on. If he has it, if the wine guy has not seen a bottle opener like this... It pushes air into the bottle.
And it pushes the cork out.
Yeah, this is not going to work.
What? On TikTok? Oh, no! Whoa. Wow.
It worked well. Duff, you need one.
I guess so. I came to Sonoma County, uh, uh, in 1973. So it'll be a 52 plus years. Well, it'd be 52 years in March of 2025. So, uh, been a long time. I moved here to, to work for a guy who was, there was a great wine, great boom going on in California in the early 1970s. And I was part of that. And, uh, five, five years later, I started my own company. I've had it ever since. So, uh, And the interesting part of this whole circle of life is the guy who I came here to work for, his son, his only son, is a partner of mine now. It's sort of a handoff process now from the guy who got me involved full-time in agriculture. His son has been my partner for quite a few years, and he's taken over the company for us. We farm about 1,500 acres of wine grapes in Sonoma County.
We have 150 employees, something like that. Holy smokes. The reason I sent you those two wines, I always look for some kind of little story that might add a little interest to it. In Sonoma County, and I'll make this brief, there's Sonoma County is a recognized wine grape appellation. And within Sonoma County, I think there's 18 Appalachians. Now I should have checked that. I kind of lost track at 13. And we manage vineyards throughout Sonoma County, but my wife and I also own some vineyards too. And the two wines you're sampling there are from two vineyards that we own. One is in the Russian River Valley, and the other is Dry Creek Valley. Dry Creek Valley, that's this one. Both of them are Sauvignon Blanc, and that Sauvignon Blanc is the same clone
So these two are the same clone of Sauvignon Blanc, and the vineyards are roughly the same age of the Sauvignon Blanc from the Russian River, that Nori. We planted that in 1999. So it's 20, what's that, 25 years old. And then the Keegan property, which is the other one, the Dry Creek Valley, that one's almost 30 years old. And so what's fun about this, I hope, is you get to see same variety Sauvignon Blanc, two different Appalachians. The vineyards are about 15 miles apart. The Russian River Valley is a much cooler region than the Dry Creek Valley and two different winemakers. So the two the winemaking style Sauvignon Blanc, a common denominator of Sauvignon Blanc is citrus flavors, fresh cut grass.
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