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- At the 1993 Sonoma County Harvest Fair
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- Short Interview with Jeff Madura, chef of John Ash & Co. filmed on location at the Vintners Inn, Santa Rosa. Interview with Bill Traverso, Professional Wine Judge, and Sheila Quince, Fair Exhibit Coordinator, starts at 00:10:33.
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At the 1993 Sonoma County Harvest Fair
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Sonoma County, a diverse county of over one million acres, is famed for its agriculture, industry and recreation, boasting a booming economy and unique lifestyle for its citizens. Described by the same Luther Burbank as the chosen spot of all the Earth, Sonoma County is the place to
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live, work and play as we move into the 21st century. Led by the forward looking philosophy of its governing bodies, Cinema Counties, 340,000 residents are, Ah, harmonious, successful blend of ethnic and economic backgrounds. We invite you to take a closer look at Sonoma County in the
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nineties with your host Rich McGlinchy. Hello again, everyone. Welcome to this edition of Sonoma County in the nineties. On location, we're in the terrorist area of John Nash and Company Restaurant at the vendors in just north of Santa Rosa. As a matter of fact, we talked
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to John Duffy recently. You come north from San Francisco anywhere south, and you come up to the eternal from the river road. I believe it is over right past the Luther Burbank Center. You turn right when you come over the freeway, just come over the freeway
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and then you turn left on Barnes Road and you're here and you're in one of the most beautiful spots in northern California and certainly in your in a place where you can sit down and enjoy some of the grand of spoon in Northern California. The gentleman
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sitting with me now is Jeff Madeira, and Jeff is a chef for John Nash and Company Restaurant. We're learning more about John as he is still very much a part of all this. But right now we're gonna talk to the gentleman who's responsible for away excellent
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cuisine that comes out of here right now. First of all, I want to ask a couple of questions, Jeff about when did John open his first restaurant in Montgomery Village about 13 years ago? So it doesn't seem that long, but definitely it's going that much. Uh,
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you know frequently when I was working with So what kind of government and the food was delicious. When did you come out here? The restaurant moved to this location in August of 87 and you came with him shortly after that. I did my extra ship from
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the California Culinary Academy in August of 88 for a month. I work for free. I was required to work 35 hours a week. I ended up working about 80 hours a week for John, and I just love the area. The people were just very generally nice
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to me in the kitchen, and I went back and had two more semesters at school. When I finished school, John just kept calling me up, asked me if I'd come join the team. Um, and the rest has just been pretty much a really great experience for
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me. The rest is history. I don't know. It's still long, you know, He just said this many times before he had his eye on you as a as a man. He wanted to involving his food operation for a long time. And I'm glad you two of
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you finally, Well, I had always had a lot of respect for John with the type of cuisine that he does and use him as a person himself. He's just incredible. Manto work for and you just learned every day from him the cuisine. What is the cuisine
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like John Nash coming around? The cuisine is what we call it, which is cuisine is it just a real technical term nowadays, but its regional Sonoma County wine country cuisine and what we try to do is really incorporate a lot of the local farms, the goat
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cheese producers, local oyster farms, really pretty much all the local products air coming out of snowmen county area into our menu. We change menu five times a year. And in that time, what we do is research all the new products. They're coming out of the county
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and really go over over a lot of the signature dishes that were drink. But we really try to support the local farmers and things that are going on in this county to keep that alive. One of John Ashes ideas no, is to use local produce, lose
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use, everything local on, almost in creation of the the food delights that you create here, right? Ah, lot of times you can't find saying maybe certain products, but we wherever we can, we try to use local products in the preparation of any of the dishes here
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at the restaurant, John Ash and Company Restaurant is open when we're open to stay through Saturday for lunch from 11. 30 to 2 o'clock open for dinner time Tuesday through Sunday from 5 30 till, say, nine o'clock and we're open for Sunday brunch from 10 30
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till two. Then we also will be doing a Monday dinner, which will be coming up in October, which will be special events for the Santa Rosa Symphony in conjunction with Luther Burbank's. And it would be once a month on Mondays. And that would be really just
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to see what it's like to be opened up by Monday's Right. Now, based on what we do is just basic prep and getting all the things ready for the menu on Tuesday. And also we clean the whole restaurant on Monday. Everything gets cleaned, the kitchen in
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a friend's house, everything gets trip down, which is really good for a restaurant to have that one day to rest and to get everything back up to ship shape. And it really keeps equipment in the top shape that it should be, which makes things that much
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safer environment for everybody. It's such a hard business as it iss Well, I know the no, the ambiance of the circumstance we're sitting in right now today, but the ambulance in this restaurant is spoken of everywhere. And another thing you mentioned the Burbank Center. That's just,
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Ah, the crows throw. If a crow would throw from here to there, isn't it just a short way? Believe it's probably not more than a mile, if that has a profile, I said that close to that center, You John, was impressed very much by the foods
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in Europe, I guess in France, right? And is that the basis for much of your cuisine? Um, some of it is French style cuisine, even though we don't tend to do a lot of the heavy sauces that you would normally find in school fee. A type
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of cooking. John has also been always intrigued by the Orient and has done numerous trips to the Orient, where he is really gatting, gotten a lot of ideas and really loves the style, the lightness of oriental cuisine. So we do really a mixture of maybe four
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or five different cuisines at any one time, and sometimes maybe two different cuisines on one plate itself, and that's more of an interaction of really trying to get dishes from these other regional areas. Being at France, Italy, the Southwest or the Orient, really incorporating them into
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something that is mawr, the wine country, using local products and using the preparations and the lighter style that that really Californians asked for nowadays and pretty much the whole country seems to be asking for everything seems to be lightening up its force, food and the direction
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of food itself. John travels quite a lot. You you mentioned recently that he was in Chicago and we commiserated for poor John being in Chicago. But you'll be back here soon, and you get together with him. How often, Uh, we talked on the phone, probably once
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or twice a week, if not more. And then I probably seem about 3 to 4 times a month, if not more, at a you know, two hours at a shot, three hours at a shot. We sit down and go over new menu ideas. Any special parties
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that may be coming up that he wants to have a say in, but he lets me have a lot of free reign is for us the direction of the menu. Because I've been with him for such a long period of time. I really understand what direction
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John was to go in. But I always want him to have a say in what we're doing here because he is the one who started the restaurant, all right, I know he has has taken an important part, will continue to with you. I know you've won
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quite a lot of awards. You want to mention a few of those in 1991 we want Cardenas Travel magazine Award for one of the best 50 restaurants in United States, which is, I think, is just a fantastic award to win if it says something about, there
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are two restaurants that are in the United States, and we wanted to 50 baths chosen that year. We've also won the Focus magazine People Award for the best restaurant in Cinema County. That, to me, is also a fantastic war, because that is voted by the people
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once a year. Focus magazine does a whole polling of their readers that subscribe to the magazine itself, and what you get is an influx of people who actually come here and eat more so than the say the critics who come here and and you know, no
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restaurant is ever gonna be perfect on anyone given night. There's always gonna be false to you. You never want that. But sometimes that happens. But to get voted by the people really says a lot for what you're trying to do here at the restaurant itself. Well,
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my congratulations to Rio doing a splendid job. Which your John National cut me a restaurant here. I know. I've been here. I've sampled cuisine. I know the food is wonderful, ladies, and hopefully we can get you out here sooner. I would be out of game soon.
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My wife are gonna come out to dinner. Ladies and gentlemen, we're at the terrorist area of John Nash and Company Restaurant. Been talking to Jeff Maduro, the chef here. And I would say this that if you want to spend an evening or for lunch or dinner
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and you want to spend it in magnificent setting, come out to Jonah. Company Restaurant will be back in just a moment. We'll be talking to members of the Harvest Fair team. But first this important message there are countries where bread is scarce, but this is America.
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what you could do. Why? Because this is America. Welcome back to this edition of Sonoma County. The nineties on location, the terrorists area of the Joe Nash and Company Restaurant Adventures in. We're gonna be talking to two people who are very much involved in one of
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Sonoma counties finest festivals. It's our harvest fair been taking place for a number years. I'm gonna let them tell you more about the history of it. But I want to say one thing. Have you ever been to the harvest fair to the awards night or to
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the fair itself? You have missed one of the finest activities in Sonoma County, and I know because I've been to everyone and the person in the middle of the screen is Sheila quenches guest that we see every once in a while it affair. Now she's here
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in the new capacity as Harvest fair and Milk River. So and Bill is nice to have you here. I don't think Bill's ever been before, practically a steady on the show. Ah, she will. Let's start out with you if you don't mind. How long has the
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harvest very been in existence? And how has it grown? Well, the harvest fair was established in 1975 and at that time I think there were about 1700 people that attended its grown at this point to an annual attendance of over 30,000 people. In the three days
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that we run 15 from 1,500,000 what are the hours of the fair and especially the hours of the wine tasting? Yeah, sure, While the fair this year will run October 1st 2nd and third, which is a Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the fare gates open at
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10 and on Friday it closes at eight, and on the weekend it closes at seven. However, the wine tasting hours are a little bit different. On Friday, wine tasting is from 2 to 7 30 on Saturday and Sunday. It's from 12 30 to 5. Repeat those
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Friday What's the Friday again? The gates open at 10 and wine tasting is from 2 to 7 30 then the gates closed at eight, whereas on the weekend the gates open at 10. Wine tasting is from 12 30 to 5, and then the fair closes at
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seven. All right, that's for the wine. And that's for all of us adults. There's a lot of things for all of us adults, but there are a lot of things, uh, for other members and family. What does the harvest there have to offer for families? Actually,
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the Harvester has an awful lot to offer for families. It's one of those old fashioned, down home country kind of fares. We have hayrides. We've got animals on exhibit on Friday, we have a large school tour program or over 3500 school Children come to the fair.
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What's wonderful? And there's all kinds of opportunities to learn about agriculture. At that point, we've got milk giveaways and apple giveaways and grape stomping for the kids and such. So we've got a lot going on and then again through the weekend we've got kitty rights now
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that we offer and a huge area for all kinds of digging for eggs and going on farmyard barn tours and such. So it's a wonderful, wonderful opportunity for people to come out with their families as well. Great. You know that That really and truly is. I'm
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sorry to say that I'm ignorant of that. Uh, but the Children's activity is new to me. And you do this for, for 3500 kids are involved in What was that again on the first Friday of the fair? We open up the gates to schoolchildren, and the
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schools actually participate in that. Great. And a lot of the activities are focused toward educating the schools on cinema. County agriculture. Yeah, that's a great idea. It's a wonderful opportunity. A lot more f f A and four h two batters. The idea? Yeah. So she has
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more. I know. Um, one entertainment is scheduled for the fair this year. Well, again to target the families that we have in this community. We're starting something new when we're gonna actually feature a show on Saturday of the Fair with Linda Arnold and Craig and Company,
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which are a couple of entertainers that are on the Disney Channel that are gonna come to Cinema County. And we're gonna have to shows one at 12. 30 and another two, and it will be a little $5 admission, and parents can bring their kids for a
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wonderful day of entertainment. All right, I know what the fair you're. You're the premium supervisor. Can people display exhibits at the harvest there? Yes, they can. Similar to what we do with the county fair. We've got the same types of displays available where people come in
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with their jams and jellies and their cakes and their pastries. But in addition to that, we've got a couple things that are different. At the harvest fair, we have crafts boutique. So all of those people that have different craft items can offer them for sale in
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a little area in the garret building and similar over in Finley Hall, where during the county fair, we have our art show. We actually have an art show and sale so people can come in. And all the artwork is price. Stop again. Those two buildings where
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the things for sale crafts the crafts are available in the garret building, which is where all of the arts and crafts air displayed in the painting and the paintings air over in Finley Hall, which is where you go in and purchase local artwork. And not only
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is it from amateur exhibitors, but we have a professional categorias well, so there's a wonderful selection of local artwork for sale. You know, ladies, and generally if you haven't going out to the fair and this is somewhat new to me but that they had these different
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sale factors, but crafts and that sort of thing in the garret building and paintings in the if any building you may seem, find some exquisite works out. That's something you'd like to have in your collection. I think that's really interesting to know. Oh, now you're work
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a great deal with lives. What kind of lives doctor are available? Well, I guess you that Well, as you know, the county fair has a full variety of livestock with 16 day run at the harvest fair at the harvest, where we're starting to expand it as
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well. And we want people to know that they can go on down into the barn area. But what we have is a kind of a different group of livestock. We've got pygmy goat show. We have a pot bellied pig shows or we have llamas on display.
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And that will be showing that we've got sheepdog trials. We have a miniature horse show that we bring there, too. So in addition of that, we've got a wonderful water fell show and we really want people to know to go on down, venturing down into the
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barn area, bring your family and just really take in a little piece of agriculture. You know, during the fair share of the recent Sonoma County Fair, Dana Do Rico was my co hostess and the programs were jumped. And she has a set of those with a
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pot bellied pigs. Have you ever seen cuter animals and know that I don't know what they are. I hope she enters him because she could come out with a blue ribbon. I hope. Really, that information if she doesn't know what special events were offered, Sheila, while
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the one building that I didn't mention yet was the EEC craft, And I don't want to go away from this interview without at least mentioning that as well. What we have in there is a wonderful apple display, and it just showcases all of the wonderful surpassed
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apple apples. In addition, we've got a special event in there that we've been doing for a number of years, which is a tasting of Sonoma County products in conjunction with Scam, which is the AG marketing group in Sonoma County. And so people can go in there
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and we've got we called tasting gazebos and they can taste in, sample different local products and by them as well right in the store. Um, one of the things that's going a lot of attention here over the years, you know, we had Richard Hart, January hero.
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One year is the championship great stop. Tell us a little about that. I can't go without telling so much with the harvest fair that it's hard to get it all in, but the grapes stomped. It's something that's just really grown in popularity. In a course, it
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takes two to stomp grapes. You've got a swamp stomper in a Swabey, and you guys can flip the coin to determine who does what. But we've got different heats, which we call him a groups of competition all three days of the fair where stompers get together
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and are competing for that grand price. Our World Championship Grape Stomp finals are at Sunday at five oclock, and the winner will win a trip for two to anywhere in the Continental U. S. Really? Yes, that's good. What about the professional food competition and you and
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also the awards night? Well, one of the things that we do is we, in addition to having our standard focus on amateur talent in Sonoma County. One thing that the Harvest Fair does is offer professional food, cheese breads as well as wine competitions. And all of
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this will be taking place prior to the harvest. Their opening in October and accumulates at Awards night, which is this year, is gonna be held on September 25th. So it's a large competition. It involves all local restaurants and caterers and bakers and cheese makers in Sonoma
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County, and it's growing also in popularity. And we're finding more and more people taking advantage of our competition in an effort to win that gold medal in the prestige that goes along with it. So looking forward to more things here, step on your line. You said
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people can't purchase different items at the fair, but what kind of foods are offered at the well? We've got a variety of fair foods that are offered once you get there. In addition to that, though, we as I had mentioned earlier, you can purchase wine in
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the retail store and we've got cheeses and breads, and we've got a nice variety of food vendors and arts and crafters in the main pavilion. It's just a wonderful, full, well rounded fair. And there's lots to do when you come. All right now that the days
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are cover 1st 2nd and third, which is Friday? Saturday Sunday. What's the admission? Admission is $4 for adults and $1 for Children and six and under a free and the military in uniform used to be. But we don't say that in workers haven't seem to be
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many. That's not fair because I don't wanna Teoh diminish the importance of the military by any means. By the way, if you're in uniform of it, they wouldn't let us. Yeah, we actually have a a Friday discount day for or half price people coming on Friday
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that purchased tickets in advance can come in for $2 instead of four. OK, all right, we're gonna pause right here and let's station bring the audience of public service announcement that will come after which will come back and talk to Bill Traverse So more about the
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harvest. First, this message she'll be all right. Windows were rolled down and will only be gone a few minutes. They'll be fine in the wild. Cats know how to fend for themselves. Every day in Sonoma County, precious life becomes the target of neglect, abuse or accident.
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Fortunately, there are people working to stop the silent suffering of animals. But they can't do it alone. They need your help. Find out what you can dio call the Humane Society of Sonoma County. Welcome back. Do this edition of Sonoma County in the nineties on location
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the John Nash and Company restaurant Vintners in. We're talking with two members of the clan Or call them that produced our harvest fair. The gentleman gonna talk to right now is built over. So he was I know, a member of the Harvest Fair board for many,
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many years. I understand you're a judge this year, right? You've moved up right after organizing it for many years. I get a chance to be on the other side now and getting to see what you tell us about the war in competition. How many? One reason.
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How are they judged? Well, approximately. We have about 100 and 20 wineries that enter the competition with a total of close to 700 wines. And it, uh, it's about a three day event. Um, we get judges from all over the United States on to come in
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and judge these wines from Sonoma County. What kind of awards do you give out? We give gold, silver and bronze medals to the wineries. Olympics applying. Right? Exactly. Okay. Uh, how many judges? Uh, well, first of all, how did they select the judges your one this
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year? How did they select them? How many and from where do you get the way tried to get a geographically throughout the United States to get a good balanced representation? We do that also, to try to expose the lines of Sonoma County to other wine writers
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from around the country. We bring in about 20 judges because with that amount of wines, we want to spread it out amongst the Panelists. None of words. Not all 20 judges air going to be judging the 600 or 700 wines Each panel will take a few
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100 to do over that three day period. Three a period. Okay. How are the winners? Announced? Winners are announced on the awards night, which is September 25th. And, um, it's done with great fanfare and great ceremony, and, uh, and it's kept a secretive as we can.
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It's almost like the Academy Awards of the Wind. And the winner is, um how long have you been a professional wine judge? Feel? I've been doing this since 1975. Have you really? Have you been in stand? Yes. I've been involved in the retail aspect of it
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for gosh a t East that many years and and before that and grew up in it with noted for free. Justin. Agent, Agent, Um, said 75. But have you ever been a judge of these normal county harvest Fair before? Yes, That the 1st 1 in 1975.
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Really? Right where you are on the board For how many years, Bill? For nine years. Nine years. And, uh, you know, we talked earlier with the John Duffy who owns vintners in now. They have great signaling. Actually, there are actually the winery they don't bottle them.
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They have others bottle for them. But they're drapes. They're they're warning. Started speaking, won several awards, several very prestigious one. What does it mean to a winery or someone like this toe win a gold medal of the harvest. There means quite a bit to them. Translates
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out into a lot of money and sales, of course, but it will put some line resigned the map. And I think one of the rial prime examples. Where is the Benzinger, the Glen Ellen Winery, which they attribute a lot of their success? Or they're being recognized
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by the wine industry to winning the gold medal at the harvest Fair? This is one of the first, uh, advantage today entered and and they won the gold medal Ah, sweepstakes award. And from there it was just straight uphill with them. Tap Street is another winery
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that attributes a lot of their success to winning that gold medal. They're kind of, you know, unknown at the time, and all of a sudden they get into the limelight with this winning this gold medal or sweepstakes. The word we do give a sweepstakes award to
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the best white best read, uh, the only down side to winning the sweepstakes award. My wife and I go out to dinner a couple times a week and we go around and we taste the gold medal. Warren's unfortunately, from the day before they put the gold
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medal. Today. Afterwards, there seems to be a slight rise in the price of the white. But, I mean, I think that's perfectly justified. The war has been recognized. Is that good? I'll be bears a little greater state. Well, I think the wineries don't go out and
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do that consciously. It maybe through market forces in the marketplace that those things happen. But in general, we try to keep the retail price that is submitted by the same token, made that remark and I don't mean to, you know, put anybody down for that because
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many of the cases are going out. They had a gold medal or something in the wind remains exactly just the same. Fine wine. Before One other things I mentioned or did not mention that wanted to. You were a board member for nine years, but you didn't
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mention much about the board of directors. What do they dio? Oh gosh, then they do a lot of work. This is sort of a board that does a lot of hands on work. Asai observed it over the past nine years. This is a board that gets
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their hands dirty, so to speak. They get out there, um, participate on various committees. They will. Actually, you'll see them out there taking tickets or making sure everything is running well. It comprises members of the community who have expertise in certain fields, and they really take
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a lot of pride in what they're putting on. And I think it's reflected in the type of event that's put on for Sonoma County. Well, that's Sonoma County Harvest Fair is, I said earlier in the program. Is is one of the finest activities that takes place
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in Sonoma County every year. You pointed out 1700 the first time, 30,000 last year. The growth of it has been phenomenal, and it's deserved that because more and more people the nice do you say Oh yeah, I'll be sure to go to the harvest fair this
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year. This becomes a must for people that, like see, local activities were just about out of time So I want to thank you, Sheila, for taking the time to come out again. You okay? Visiting with this? Ladies and gentlemen, we've been talking to Bill Traverse. Oh,
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and she eloquence. We've been talking about the snowmen County Harvest Fair models. Activity takes place October 2nd, 1st 2nd and third. And if you haven't been to one, by all means go. You really have a ball. My name is Rich. McGlinchey. The program Cinema County in
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the nineties. I'll be back with you next week with another member of the county government, family or related agency to live. So long. Good luck. Goodbye for now. All right, all right.