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Show de Vie Podcast
Life, limbs, booze, and personalities. SDV explores the liquor industry from both sides of the bar by interviewing the greatest personalities in the game. Although sometimes diverging into film, music, and non-booze topics, SDV is just about people with great stories. Sip, sit back, and enjoy.
Episodes
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Ep 328 - Cameron Holck: A Life Well Traveled
Although Cameron Holck might be new to Fidencio Spirits, he isn't new to agave. When a quest to find the source for his favorite Raicilla opened up new doors…
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Ep 327 - Ansley Coale: The Long and Winding Road
The massive career of Ansley Coale can't adequately be captured in a mere 60 minutes, but we try. Ansley created Hanger One vodka, Germain Robin Brandy, and…
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Ep 236 - Collin De Laval: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Codigo 1530 Tequila's master mixologist Collin De Laval is as pure hospitality as it comes. He has worked as a bartender in Houston, San Francisco, Chicago…
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Ep 325 - Hector Amaya: Sotol is Growing and Moving
Hacienda de Chihuahua is the biggest Sotol producer in the world. They embrace cognac style elements of production and fermentation to deliver a very elegant…
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Ep 324 - Jacob Jacquez: The World of Sotol is Changing
Jacob Jacquez is a 6th generation Sotolero in Janos Chihuahua. His family has been making Sotol for centuries and were the first to bring the delicious spirit…
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Ep 323 - William Isler: Baijiu 101
Even though Baijiu is the most popular spirit, by volume consumed, in the world, Americans don't really understand the category. Bill Isler, founder of Ming…
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Ep 322 - Read Spear & Mike G: Spirits, Music, and Projects
The wonderful Read Spear of Cuentacuentos Mezcal offered to interview me over a chat with some coffee in Oaxaca. A month or so later, I'm hosting him and his…
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Ep 321 - Asis Cortes: If You Draw It, They Will Come
Asis Cortes has created some of the most influential brands in Mezcal including: Origen Raiz, El Jolgorio, Agave de Cortes, and most recently DIxeebe. His…
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Ep 320 - Jack Murray: Once Was Found, But Now Is Lost
Jack Murray has imbued Texas with his big Irish energy. With an energetic personality, partially fueled by Red Bull sales in Ireland, Jack has helped shed…
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Ep 319 - Ben Williams: Always Be Creating
Ben Williams is not new to creating products, companies, or excitement in his community. His family has a rich history of entrepreneurialism in Houston, but…
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Ep 318 - Alexandra Dorda: Getting Back to Your Roots
Alexandra Dorda has spent her entire life in the hospitality and spirits industry. Her family created and produces the much lauded Chopin Vodka. After a…
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Ep 317 - Tomas Estes: Remembering His Life
The world suffered a massive loss in April when the titan of life, Tomas Estes, passed. For those of you that had the opportunity to meet this larger than life…
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Ep 316 - Ben Scott: The Good, The Bad, and The Crazy
Ben Scott has had an illustrious career in the hospitality industry. And as many of us have those "dark nights in a Mexican bar drinking Mezcal" stories, Ben…
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Ep 315 - Alejandro Rossbach: Always Thinking Different
Alejandro Rossbach, CEO of Maguey Spirits, loves language, challenges, and paving the way for new roads. With a love for hospitality and the inclination to…
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Ep 314 - Tyler Jay Wang: Treasures in Plain Sight
Tyler Jay Wang is a personable, likable, and massive personality in the Agave industry. His years behind the bar transitioned into one of the best roles in…
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Ep 313 - Robert Björn Taylor: Finding Inspiration in Everything
As our previous lives trickle into the new reality post shut-down, what have we learned? Robert Björn Taylor is taking his learnings in stride. As one of the…
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Ep 312 - James Saxon: A Tale of Two Blends
I always applaud transparency and creativity in spirits. And in the world of Scotch, sometimes a different approach is the breath of fresh air we all need…
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Ep 311 - Juan Coronado: Moving and Shaking All the Way to Jalisco
Juan Coronado has an exceptional resume of pursuits from behind and beyond the bar. With travels all the over world imparting creative cocktail expertise, and…
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Ep 310 - Roberto Contreras Jr: The Story of Rancho Tepúa
Roberto Contreras Jr is a 5th generation distiller in Sonora, MX. His family's legacy is capture in every beautiful bottle of Rancho Tepúa. With his new…
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Ep 309 - Read Spear: Storytelling With Each Sip
Read Spear is a determined, ambitious, and insightful business person. His thirst for ideas and bringing his projects to fruition are imbibed with great…
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Ep 308 - Amelia Lettieri: Ready to Work, Ready to Drink
Ranch20 founder Amerlia Lettieri learned entrepreneurialism from a hard working, and accounting-minded mother. When Amelia added her drive, a degree, and a…
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Ep 307 - Jared Himstedt: Do, Make, Say, Think
The evolution and growth of Texas Whiskey has been catapulted by Balcones Distilling. And although the whiskey can at times be polarizing, understanding why it…
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Ep 306 - Salvador Chavez: Bringing it Back to Michoacán
Sal Chavez has adapted beautifully to shut down. Despite all of the challenges in launching a brand during COVID, he finds a way to bring his Michoacán Mezcal…
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Ep 305 - Jesse Hubbard: Around the Block with Punk Rock
Jesse Hubbard has been a cocktail slinging, ex-moshing, creator for his entire life, but like many, has really dove into his passions during shutdown. With a…
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Ep 304 - Ryan Perry: Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Ryan Perry is the master blender for Heaven's Door whiskey. The collaborative project with Bob Dylan is one of many in Ryan's career. With his sights set on…
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Ep 303 - Ismael Gomez: Love at First Taste
Ismael Gomez, founder of Laika Spirits, has brought some of the rarest and delicious spirits into the States. From a love of Sotol with Flor Del Desierto, Cruz…
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Ep 302 - Cesar Sandoval: A Whole Elote Love
Casa Lumbre's Cesar Sandoval has achieved a lot in a little time because of one key personality characteristic: transparency. Ask him whatever, he's an open…
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Ep 301 - Khrys Maxwell: It's Always Tequila Time
Khrys Maxwell is well known in the agave world. His dedication to production transparency, science, and digging into the details is bar none. But many people…
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Ep 300 - Jorge Gaviria: From the Land to the Lips
Jorge Gaviria has devoted years to understanding the culture, the people, and the logistics around corn production. The resulting project, Masienda, is now the…
Show de Vie PodcastEp 298 - Red Parker: Caring for Each Other
Red Parker is one of the founders of El Buho Mezcal, a truly accessible spirit and the result of an intimate relationship with the Jimenez Mendez family in…
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Ep 299 - Gabriel Velázquez Zazueta: Cascading Creativity
Gabriel Gilberto Velazquez Zazueta is a Renaissance man of design. Whether it's designing the beautiful items for Tuyo or co-hosting the agave-centric podcast…
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Ep 297 - Silvia Philion: A Quiet Place
Back on September 19th 2019, when things were a little different, I had the opportunity to sit down with the amazing Silvia Philion, founder of Mezcaloteca…
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Ep 296 - Kerrin Egalka: Fireside Chat #3
The world of whiskey has been forever changed by Compass Box, but the brand is knocked into the stratosphere by folks like Kerrin Egalka. Good with numbers…
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Ep 295 - Adam Harris: Fireside Chat #2
The world of whiskey wages on even despite the world seemingly being at a halt. In this week's chat, I sit down with one of the world's favorite whiskey men…
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Ep 294 - Antonio Matta: Fireside Chat #1
The Covid19 world is new and different. So I'm taking the time out, in reverence to Social Distancing, to do some remote chats on Instagram Live. This is the…
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Ep 293 - Leslie Cobos: A Rebel With a Cause
It has been a very serpentine road for Cinco Sentido's Leslie Cobos. Spending much of her youth in Ciudad de Juarez and El Paso, her Mexican heritage paired…
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Ep 292 – Charlie Moore: It All Works Out in the End
Dalla's Charlie Moore has worked in many different areas of the hospitality industry, but like many others, whiskey became his true calling. With early days in…
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Ep 291 - Graciela Angeles Carreño - The Real Thing
Graciela Angeles Carreño is one of the leading mezcaleras in the Mezcal world. As a subject of the new film Agave: Spirit of a Nation, her motherhood is…
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Ep 290 - Kristopher Hart: Houston's Bourbon Socialite
The job of an interviewer, at least a good one, is to offer up some vulnerability for your guest to hopefully encourage the same for them. It's not an easy…
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Ep 289 - Benedicte Hardy: Five Generations of Cognac
Benedicte Hardy has been representing the delicious flavors of Cognac for 30+ years. Her family has a legacy of making some of the finest Cognac's in the…
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Ep 288 - Tom Johnson: One Step at a Time
For Noble Oak's Tom Johnson, a serendipitous moment drove him to the hospitality industry and another to bike across the country to end up in Seattle. Each…
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Ep 287 - John Glaser: Guided by Myths and Legends
Without the efforts of Compass Box creator John Glaser, the world of Whisky wouldn't be quite the same. A lover of literature and wine, John Glaser has…
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Ep 285 - Jose Cortes: From the Fields to the Board Rooms
Jose Cortes of Tequila Herradura has deep roots in the agave fields. As a 3rd generation Jimador, he learned the lifestyle and pride garnered by harvesting…
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Ep 286 - Marco and Rodrigo Cedano: The Story of Tequila Tromba
As the first master distiller for Don Julio, Marco Cedano was just a man doing his job. As the element of celebrity has been attributed to master distillers…
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Ep 284 - Amando Alvarez: The Unique Taste of a Remote Place
Amando Alvarez is a young Mezcalero hailing from the small town of Santa Maria Ixcatlán, Oaxaca. He is a 6th generation producer using very ancestral…
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Ep 283 - Alan Ruesga-Pelayo: When There's A Will, There's A Way
Guadalajara native Alan Ruesga-Pelayo has hospitality in his blood. As a helper with his parents social events, and a lover of conversation, the perfect stage…
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Ep 282 - John Campbell: A Different Kind of Island Life
John Campbell has lived on the wee island of Islay his entire life. Ensconced in the culture of Scotch production, fishing, and shepherding, Mr. Campbell…
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Ep 281 - Simon Brooking: The Host with the Most Toasts
The deeply unique and rich flavors of Laphroaig can only be represented by the most exceptional of hosts; enter stage right, Mr Simon Brooking. Simon has a…
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Ep 280 - Ryan Ehrlichman: Doing Things By the Book
Ryan Ehrlichman takes deep interest in the world around him. Whether it's traveling, art, or music, he envelopes himself in information to keep his mind…
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Ep 279 - Eric Job: A Guy Walks Into a Bar
From Ice Cream to Tequila to New York Bitters pedaler, Eric has lived a very interesting life. His friendly demeanor and disarming laugh can make anyone a…
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Ep 278 - Sother Teague: A Bittersweet Symphony
Sother Teague's journey has been an epic one. But despite where the voyage has taken him, it's always been within the realm of hospitality. A teacher, a…
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Ep 277 - Danny Mena: From the Kitchen to the Palenque
Starting as a finicky eater and a boy of routine, Danny Mena's mathematical mind transformed in his college years. The once deeply analytical mind evolved into…
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Ep 276 - Andres Portela: Agave Finds You Eventually
Sombra Mezcal's Andres Portela was steeped in hospitality as part of a generous Argentinian family. Early studies in English and getting mix tape suggestions…
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Ep 275 - Ron Cooper: Finding Mezcal
Few individuals have lived such a colorful life as the artist and agave shamen, Ron Cooper. As a creative kid interested in cars, travel, and love, Ron started…
Show de Vie PodcastEp 274 - Shad Kvetko: The Secret Got Out
Dallas has recently seen a nice influx of agave centric bars, but none have the heart and history like Las Almas Rotas. Shad Kvetko is a writer, a collector…
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Ep 273 - The Story of Kichi
I had a beautiful partner for over 10 years. Kichi, a pensive and dedicated Shiba Inu, changed my life forever. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on our…
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Ep 272 - Jason Paul Cox: Using All of Your Senses
The world of agave is constantly changing and without the efforts of Jason Paul Cox, this narrative wouldn't be moving forward as boldly. After years of…
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Ep 271 - Arik Torren: If You Build It, They Will Come
When you decide that your journey as an entrepreneur has begun, that trek will never end. Arik Torren had family inspiration, and a lust for life when he set…
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Ep 270 - Aaron Kolitz: Mi Casa es Su Casa
Aaron Kolitz has traveled around the world, sometimes cooking, sometimes sipping, but always learning. The San Antonio native has always been interested in…
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Ep 269 - Nicole Austin: Dickel, the Next Frontier
Nicole Austin brings a new breath into the world of whiskey. Former King's County blender and project engineer, Nicole has a blend of science and art in her…