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Have Another Drink with Jimmy the Wine Guy for April 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Have another drink with Jimmy the wine Guy, brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by our crafty cocktail partners in good old Utah
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  Speaker 1: County clear Water Distilling. New bottle designs continue to roll
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  Speaker 1: out right now. They're flavorful vodka. Check it out at
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  Speaker 1: your nearest state liquor store or the clear Water Distillery
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  Speaker 1: store in Pleasant Grove.
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  Speaker 2: Drains of the feel all right Field Town under the weather.
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  Speaker 3: Feel well here.
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  Speaker 4: He is the barbarian of the Wine Academy of Utah,
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Santangelo Wine Academy of Utah dot com. Jimmy is
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  Speaker 4: wearing a tracksuit today that you should go to X
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  Speaker 4: ninety six dot com slash live and see. And so
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  Speaker 4: he and Nick like two little schoolboys who little coordinated
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  Speaker 4: their outfits.
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  Speaker 2: Yellow. Yeah you doing Nick?
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  Speaker 1: Look, I know, I know I'm coming hot right back
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  Speaker 1: at with the tracksuit. But when a man with the
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  Speaker 1: last name Santangelo says he wants to wear a tracksuit
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  Speaker 1: with you, That's all I've been thinking about. Here's that
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  Speaker 1: tracksuit And what.
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  Speaker 5: Better way to celebrate are is with svaka this morning
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  Speaker 5: by Clearwater clear Water Distilling out in Utah County. What
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  Speaker 5: this vodka distilled spirit you can use a variety of grains.
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  Speaker 5: You can use corn, rye, barley, wheat. These guys are
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  Speaker 5: you potatoes? You can use grapes, pretty much any formidable base.
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  Speaker 5: And this is ninety corn. And you might be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: what's a big deal there. Well, corn is a bit
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  Speaker 5: more viscous, it's a bit weightier, cleaner, and it does
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  Speaker 5: got a little snapier of a slight sweet finish on
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  Speaker 5: the end. What they do that differentiates they being clearwater,
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  Speaker 5: differentiates themselves from others is they do a filtration. They
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  Speaker 5: filter this stuff out four times, three times, and so
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  Speaker 5: it's a triple filtration, making it even smoother. And then
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  Speaker 5: they're bringing it down to proof, uh, with the beautiful
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  Speaker 5: water out there in Utah from it's.
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  Speaker 3: A lovely vodkas.
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  Speaker 4: I don't usually like straight vodka at all, but we're
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  Speaker 4: just sampling it a little bit without any mix.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have the exact same sentiment. Vodka is
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  Speaker 1: my least favorite thing to drink on its own, and
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  Speaker 1: this is fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice and smooth, isn't it. Yeah, it's smooth than
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  Speaker 5: you might expect with vodka. It's going to make a
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  Speaker 5: great martini. We're featuring it today with a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of fever tree blood orange ginger beer.
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  Speaker 2: Want me to wet that up a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit for you, the empting dehydrated on you double remember
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  Speaker 5: the Yeah, that ginger beer really has a bit of
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  Speaker 5: a kick. Frankly, ye and it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's right, thank you. Sorry.
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  Speaker 5: But the new package design, I think I showed it
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  Speaker 5: up on my camera. They got this beautiful back label
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  Speaker 5: that reverberates just the beautiful colors of the mountains, the
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  Speaker 5: color you know this if you're gonna have anything from Utah, man,
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  Speaker 5: this really represents in its packaging.
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  Speaker 2: They've been doing a really great job with that for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And again available at the Stage store.
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  Speaker 5: They all at the State Store or at their location
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  Speaker 5: over there in Pleasant Grove. They are open seven days
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  Speaker 5: a week. So if you're like, oh no, I don't
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  Speaker 5: have anything, it's a Sunday and that people are coming over,
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  Speaker 5: you do have a package store that's available for you
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  Speaker 5: to purchase products that they make.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a twenty buck bottle of vodka. I think
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  Speaker 4: the bottle itself is worth twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sharp package. I mean it's really nice, No,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Texture saying I'm going to my first whiskey tasting at
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  Speaker 6: clear Water tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they do a good job. They have a beautiful
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  Speaker 5: tasting room there. It's all in set in like the
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  Speaker 5: twenties thirties, you know, and they do a really good
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  Speaker 5: job with the design.
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  Speaker 2: The tasting's fantastic. You get a chance.
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  Speaker 5: And you get it to walk through the distillery with
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  Speaker 5: a brief tour, and you can have a tour there anytime.
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  Speaker 5: You can schedule one. You can pop in for a tasting.
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  Speaker 5: And then of course they have not only the package
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  Speaker 5: room for their alcohol, but they got mixers, They've got
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  Speaker 5: I'm here on holiday and I don't have a cocktail
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  Speaker 5: shaker or something like that, bidders, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: So they're really full the full deal.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's that tour, by the way, that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: boy Scout Troops, Girl Scout sho.
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  Speaker 3: Church groups. This vodka one an award right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: In twenty twenty four last year in San Francisco, the
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  Speaker 5: golden medal winner at the San Francisco International Spirits Award,
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  Speaker 5: which is in particular it's kind of difficult you win that.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot of competition. So these guys placed quite well.
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  Speaker 4: And what now, why have you written here? Unless I
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  Speaker 4: missed it? Soda water and expression of lemon.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I initially wanted to do.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought with the ginger beer coming up, and
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  Speaker 5: people always like a moscow mule or something like that,
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  Speaker 5: and I was thinking, so I went in just to
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  Speaker 5: get ginger beer. But then I saw the blood orange
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  Speaker 5: ginger beer, so it kind of got amped up from there.
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  Speaker 5: But we've had this, I've had this vodka with soda water,
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  Speaker 5: simple expression of lemon. And you always want to just
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  Speaker 5: use a Collins glass for that, not like a small
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  Speaker 5: Rocks glass, but a tall, narrow glass. Whenever you use
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  Speaker 5: carbonated beverages, you want it to be tall and narrow.
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  Speaker 2: Think of a champagne flute. You know, they used to
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  Speaker 2: be in the champagne.
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  Speaker 5: Coops like the bird bath looking cocktail glass, but all
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  Speaker 5: the bubbles would dissipate up, So that's why it's tall
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  Speaker 5: and narrow.
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  Speaker 2: Same principle with cocktails.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you know the story about the champagne coop. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: tell the open glass there's supposedly was direct Marie Antoinette's
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  Speaker 4: breast size.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, the coop, not the tulip, not the flute.
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  Speaker 4: That would be kind of that would be like that
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  Speaker 4: would be sort of not that cold in that would
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  Speaker 4: be a deformity.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So so this is clear Water Distilling. Lucky to have them.
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  Speaker 4: You have a really a wide array of products now.
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  Speaker 5: Now absolutely they're doing a great job, new packaging, design.
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  Speaker 3: Of the feel all right, feel the weather.
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  Speaker 4: In the feel well. Listen, nobody's calling with questions for Jimmy.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, Jimmy Santangelo. He knows all about wine and
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  Speaker 4: spirits and restaurants and uh what kind of wine to
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  Speaker 4: drink for Easter and all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We got to don't yet, we got a we got
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  Speaker 3: a few questions.
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  Speaker 2: Be a text here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right Tasha from Plain City.
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  Speaker 6: Please, Jimmy, if I wanted to start collecting wine, how
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  Speaker 6: do you know which wines are equitable?
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  Speaker 2: Ah?
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  Speaker 5: So maybe return on your investment or that will increase
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  Speaker 5: with value as they age. There are a couple of
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  Speaker 5: sources that you can refer to online of you know,
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  Speaker 5: take a look at your points. Anything that a high point.
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  Speaker 5: But what this is what you need and this is
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  Speaker 5: what I want to get out is if you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: purchase wine and you want to lay them down to age,
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  Speaker 5: put the wine bottle on its side. Make sure the
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  Speaker 5: wine bottle it's gonna need to have a cork. You
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  Speaker 5: want to corked wine, and you want to keep that
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  Speaker 5: wine in contact with the cork so that cork swells
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  Speaker 5: and keeps that wine agent for a very long time.
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  Speaker 5: If you have bottles out there that you're aging, that
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  Speaker 5: you keep straight up. Well, now you have a head gap.
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  Speaker 5: The cork's going to dry and more air is going
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  Speaker 5: to float in there. It's not gonna be like it's breezy,
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  Speaker 5: but enough that that wine will age much sooner, degrade
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  Speaker 5: and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: And when you have it so it's pointing down on
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  Speaker 4: its side, or even pointing down a bit, Yeah, then
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  Speaker 4: aren't you supposed to rotate the bottle?
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: So everytime you do the you know, to change the
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  Speaker 5: clock or you know the different seasons daylight saving time
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  Speaker 5: or whatever, or just put on a calendar about quarterly
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  Speaker 5: or twice a year. And we do see a lot
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  Speaker 5: of wine trays that are becoming less vertical, and that's easy.
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  Speaker 2: When you pull.
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  Speaker 5: The tray out, this is like in a Eurocavo refrigerator
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  Speaker 5: or something. What I like to do is just angle
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  Speaker 5: it up just a little bit because gravity's strong. Gravity
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  Speaker 5: will pull on that wine through the cork. But in
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  Speaker 5: terms of equitable look at Bordeaux futures, you can do Bordeaux,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of California high end wines, things like that.
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  Speaker 5: But it sounds like a great hobby that you have.
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  Speaker 4: Do people get into that as kind of a hobby
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  Speaker 4: and maybe make a little money that they want to.
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  Speaker 5: They do, and we have and forgive me, I don't
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  Speaker 5: remember the gentleman's name I just reached out to.
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  Speaker 2: We have an appointment next week.
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  Speaker 5: There's a brand new facility up in Park City for
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  Speaker 5: wine storage.
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  Speaker 2: It's really yeah. I want to go up.
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  Speaker 5: There and do a little interview with them and do
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  Speaker 5: a little walk through with them and check out the space.
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  Speaker 2: But we do have a lot of people that live here.
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  Speaker 5: From you know, draper Lehigh all the way up of
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  Speaker 5: course the Deer Valley, Park City and everywhere in between
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  Speaker 5: that they may be moving here to our community. They
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  Speaker 5: have a huge or large cellar and maybe it's just
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  Speaker 5: for a temporary period of time. Maybe they have their
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  Speaker 5: wine here in Deer Valley. But they're only in the
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  Speaker 5: house for three months out of the year and they
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  Speaker 5: don't want to keep everything. I knocking key, they can
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  Speaker 5: throw it over to this facility.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 6: Here's another text question. Now this is this is an
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  Speaker 6: odd one. I've never heard this before. I use vodka
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  Speaker 6: in place of starch for ironing my quilting projects. What
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  Speaker 6: is the starchiest vodka on a budget?
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  Speaker 2: So, I would think potato, a potato based.
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  Speaker 4: Like Idaho brand Nature.
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  Speaker 3: I think there is one.
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  Speaker 5: No, yeah, you would that'll have you know all the
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  Speaker 5: there's not going to be any more carbohydrate left in
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  Speaker 5: the product. But so playfully, I think it would be
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  Speaker 5: a potato I would start there. But yeah, I've heard
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  Speaker 5: that before. You know you uh you do? A little missed.
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  Speaker 3: Is the thing. I have heard of this as well.
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  Speaker 3: I've not heard of it.
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  Speaker 4: When you're doing your ironing instead of water use but Bill,
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  Speaker 4: you're supposed to not sprayed in your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Iron my clothes.
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  Speaker 3: Are a spray for the shirt collar and a spray
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  Speaker 3: for my mouth.
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  Speaker 6: One for me, I'm making lamb on Sunday. Wanted to
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  Speaker 6: ask Jimmy what red wine I should use to make
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  Speaker 6: a red wine sauce.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the same wine that you'll drink with the dish
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  Speaker 5: coke Drone red is excellent. It's a blend of Siah grenache,
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  Speaker 5: things like that. If you want to get we also
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  Speaker 5: call those gsms. If you were to get a GSM
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  Speaker 5: Grana seramavedor out of Australia, nah, you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 5: little new oak in there and you really want the
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  Speaker 5: lamb to come out. So I was like recommending Southern Rhone.
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  Speaker 5: Really great balance the wine. It is a little higher
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  Speaker 5: in alcohol about fourteen two fourteen five. Wine's on average
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  Speaker 5: at thirteen point five. So that's my go to red
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  Speaker 5: with lamb for sure.
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  Speaker 6: I bought a bottle of non alcoholic grape drink made
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  Speaker 6: in Italy and sold at Costco, and they still id'd me.
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  Speaker 6: Why do they card non alcoholic beer and wine?
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  Speaker 3: I've seen this.
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they even here at Harmon's or Smith's or something
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  Speaker 5: like that. It's just one more layer of control they
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  Speaker 5: you don't. And the interesting thing is I asked when
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  Speaker 5: I purchase some athletic brewing beer, and it was with
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  Speaker 5: my son. I showed my idea it was non alcoholic beer,
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  Speaker 5: and I said, do I have to be over twenty
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  Speaker 5: one to buy this, And this was like in a
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  Speaker 5: self checkout and the gal didn't know. She's like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, we just required ID. I think you
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  Speaker 5: do have to be over twenty so maybe yeah, and
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  Speaker 5: I should know. So I'm gonna find out.
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  Speaker 3: Well, do they get.
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  Speaker 1: Complete rid of the alcohol content or just does it
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  Speaker 1: get to such low love.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a point oh five of a percent, so
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  Speaker 5: perhaps that's but you can buy Bitterers without being id
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  Speaker 5: and it's got trace amounts of alcohol.
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  Speaker 4: Some places put the listine. They won't put the listerine
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  Speaker 4: out out on the shelves because people come in and
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  Speaker 4: steal it and drink it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because there is alcohol in it, you know. Let's
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  Speaker 3: see here we go. Jimmy, I've gotten into bourbons the
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  Speaker 3: last few years. Well, who hasn't.
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  Speaker 6: I want I want to try infusing it with something
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  Speaker 6: any recommendation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, because I do that with vodka right right?
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  Speaker 5: And when you infuse Carrie, do you put it right
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  Speaker 5: in the bottle like in the in the bottle.
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  Speaker 3: Is like with vodka.
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  Speaker 6: I'll cut up fruit usually pineapple, nice and put it
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  Speaker 6: in a jar.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and then you transfer it into the So I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you do that.
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  Speaker 5: So you get a mason jar with that self closed lid,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the rubber gasket, so it's a really nice
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  Speaker 5: tight fit.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can I guess you can get the screw top.
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  Speaker 2: I just like those big hinges, because.
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  Speaker 5: They're using a lot the answer mint, do a little mint,
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  Speaker 5: and do a little mint in there.
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  Speaker 2: You can also do maybe a citrus.
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  Speaker 5: So with bourbon, it's already rich, it's already vanilla, it's
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  Speaker 5: already CARAMELI So by adding an extract or acid such
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  Speaker 5: as peels of grapefruit or grapefruit segments, or tangerine. You
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  Speaker 5: got some tangerine, so that orange angle. So but I
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  Speaker 5: would love to do a little mint in there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh.
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  Speaker 5: And it really just gives it this heightened, this higher tone.
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  Speaker 2: Note.
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  Speaker 4: Now I read a really interesting little article yesterday, Jim
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  Speaker 4: and I think we've talked about this before. Says my
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  Speaker 4: grandmother ate seven or nine golden raisins soaked in gin
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  Speaker 4: every day before she went to bed, and she said
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  Speaker 4: that's kept the arthritis away. And the way the way
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  Speaker 4: they the way they said they did, so it's got
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  Speaker 4: to be golden raisins, the sultanas, and you put them
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  Speaker 4: in a your jar. You cover them with gin and
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  Speaker 4: put a piece of cheese cloth over it and let
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  Speaker 4: the gin kind of evaporate out so that so that
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  Speaker 4: they just it soaks into the.
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  Speaker 3: Raisins and then you eat seven marinate them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, my nana did that. She did that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well she had a little medicine old medicine container.
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  Speaker 2: Filled it with uh, filled it with.
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  Speaker 5: The golden raisins, the California white raisins, golden raisins.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so you got event coming up tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got an eventmorrow. I'll make it quick.
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  Speaker 3: Wine Academy of Utah dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks everybody here.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get out of here. I'm going to get a
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  Speaker 3: picture with my tracksuit. You got it.