Fine Wine Confidential Podcast
The Fine Wine Confidential Podcast tells the story of how the modern-day Virginia wine industry has progressed during the past forty-five years and is now achieving Thomas Jefferson's aspiration to produce world-class wine. Fred Reno interviews many of the Old Dominion's prominent winery owners, winemakers and viticulturists. In their own words, you the listener, will learn why Virginia is the most exciting wine-growing State in the country today.
The Fine Wine Confidential Podcast having chronicled the beginnings of the Virginia modern-day growth is now focused on the wines produced from the Norton grape as Virginia is its ancestral home. Look for All About Virginia Norton.
Fine Wine Confidential Podcast
Latest Episodes
EPISODE #11 CALIFORNIA SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TESTIMONY
Episode #11 details the testimony I gave at a joint hearing of the California State Senate & Assembly on the Direct Shipping of wine to consumers in November of 1997, when I was President & CEO of Henry Wine Group in California.H...
EPISODE # 12 BILL BONETTI RETIREMENT & THE WINE INDUSTRY ALMOST DIDN'T KNOW.
Episode #12 takes you through the event that led up to what became a fitting tribute to Bill Bonetti and his retirement from winemaking, not just at Sonoma-Cutrer, where he was from the beginning back in 1981, but from his illustrious 42 years ...
EPISODE #13 FORMATION OF WINE FAIR TRADE COALITION/WFTC
Episode #13 will take you into the room where Ken Starr was the guest speaker to a group of interested winery owners and personnel to discuss the next steps to take just 90 days after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Granholm v Heald that o...
EPISODE #14 THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING BRAND RELEVANCE
Episode #14 is focused on the principle and importance of maintaining brand relevance. In my case, this episode takes you into a Sonoma-Cutrer board meeting back in 1988, at which I proposed what was thought to be a radical idea at the time: to...
EPISODE #15 LESSONS LEARNED IN MY 46-YEAR WINE CAREER
In my career, I learned many valuable lessons about business and life that I share throughout my book, Fine Wine Confidential.In Episode #15, I recount a small sampling of the lessons that helped shape my successes, which were ...
