Exploring The Russian River Valley Wine Region

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This episode takes us down Oregon’s coast to spend some time in San Francisco, California before heading over to one of the countries most esteemed wine regions, the Russian River Valley. In Sonoma, California Colin visits the Hartford Family Winery and takes their head winemaker on a snow biking adventure up in Lake Tahoe.

About the Author

Colin West

WINERAM Productions is a relatively young company with an equally young and energetic entrepreneur behind the name, that guy is Colin West. He first got into the wine industry at the young age of 18, yet being from the USA it was illegal for him to pursue his passion, so he flew to Italy. After deciding the wine industry would be the one and only career path for himself, he enrolled in a wine course in Tuscany where he studied underneath Diletta Frescobaldi of the Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi wine family. Since this experience with the Frescobaldi family in Italy, he knew he had found his calling with an area that he could use his business experience in, yet that also included an industry full of passion, history, and even art and science.

Colin West has been a contributor to Honest Cooking since 2012.