So much fun, it should be illegal.
Ready to go I don’t know let me check and see if I have my microphone on oh my God Anna would you let us know if we’re live or not Hello everybody just in case we’re not we’re just going to hang out here for a second well you know there’s
Always a delay sometimes there’s a delay it takes a second to kick up got to hit the button button’s been hit button’s been hit let’s see so sa we’re on oh my God oh my God holy crap it’s like you’re in a whole this is a whole new space and
We’re doing all sorts of crazy stuff we’re already do lots of crazy stuff no we’re not how do we start this no we’re going to do it really casual and just like we always do because I’m going to say hello my name is Brad beard owner of
Myne makeer for burky wine coming to you live from downtown Geyserville again where we weren’t in downtown Geyserville for many many moons but we’re back but we are back and where are we at Grady uh we’re in the fata coffee shop which is literally Five Steps From The Old
Mercury Tasting Room just south if you know your directions South yeah it is South yeah if you walk that way from the stop sign you walk this direction from the building you will find us but welcome to happy hour live my name is Brad this is my brother greedy where we
Uh talk about some wine and most of all we try to have some fun we do some great food pairings we give all of you that are uh watching some great information and uh really cool stuff happening today uh we’re going to be giving away $500 in
Wine how cool is that from the uh wine and win raffle oh what a clever name who came up with that I think that was you I think that was actually Anna oh byne Anna’s oh bu wine wi wine or wine like Anna and win wine it’s all about that
Kind of stuff it was wiy lots of lots people bought wine over the holidays they did and now somebody is going to win even more wine yes uh 500 uh the equivalent of $500 worth not 500 actual dollars $500 $500 in wine yes so much wine and of course we’re going
To charge all the taxes and the state of California will run fantastic in case the ABC is watching all taxes will be paid the new CRV on the B will be yep everybody’s going to pay their 5 cents for that bottle everybody’s is gonna happen yep that’s going to be great and
I’m feeling so giddy tonight this is exciting well it is fun to finally have a home again you know we we had a home we we had our we had these at our home we were at your home it is nice to have mercury wines home I am super excited
For Danny because Danny won’t have to see Grady showing up at nine o’clock every morning so we’ve been running Mercury of course out of the house uh technically technically in the dining room but yes it was your dining room but you know gr gr’s basically a hoarder so
It became most of the house was Mercury wine was stuff that was a lot um a lot of stuff and then we even tried to squeeze Christmas in we tried to squeeze Christmas on top of the office and it was still a lot it was awesome it’ be so
Much more fun to put Christmas here and have office here and uh on Danny’s day off you’re not there oh what’s that brand new wine fridges wine fridges yours if the price is right we have two uh we have two brand new wine fridges we’ve got uh for
Those of you that uh are local wine in there oh what there’s wine in there what I don’t think that’s legal but we just did it anyway no this is a private that’s right we’re allowed to do everything is fine and um but uh so we
Have our big harvest table that we had out in the back of mercury uh for the last year and a half that we were there and now that has become our main bar which is uh super sexy and fun I always wanted to finish it and so now we’ve got
This thing finished and it looks great uh match there’s some brick action going over here for those of you that haven’t been in formada but it’s uh absolutely fantastic the other really cool thing is that uh we’re going to be able to between the bar and our seating that’s
Behind us here um what we’re going to do is uh next happy hour we’re going to have a mobile camera so you for those of you that haven’t been here in a few years or don’t know from a of coffee we’ll be able to show you around and
We’re going to get some more uh Mercury uh swaggy uh things uh in uh but besides this great thing we’re going to have over um I think it’s dang near 20 people are going to be able to hang out inside this space and then we’ve got a huge
Patio where we’re going to be able to be tasting people on wine or with the wine outside as well so we’re even though the space is technically a smidgen smaller it’s uh we’re utilizing yeah it’s way it’s l out way better and so we’re going
To be able to see uh a whole lot more people and the other really cool thing our best friend Ellen who runs from a of coffee she has the food license so we’re going to be able to do food and wine pairings platters Brader platters cultured cheese action we’re going to do
Cultured cheese oh yeah it’s going to be good cheese it’s not be your Downstream that sounds it’ll be very little Vita which which which culture were you talking about were we were we using Biologicals to make cheese or are we talking about we’re talk we’re holding our glasses like this and we’re cultured
Because we’re going to the Opera tonight which culture were you talking I was talking penicillin culture okay so we were talking about here’s the deal we’re going to inoculate some stuff I am I am not making any cheese but we’ll buy it we will buy cheese bit inoculated and as
Cheese and safe we are not cheese friendly we’re cheese friendly not happening I’ve got way too are you sure you only have 10,000 things on your plate right now I did where greed is going is I made creme fresh uh yesterday just because we’ have nothing better to
Do with our lives but to make her own sour cream and so yes I use my buttermilk that has culture in it to make our own uh sour cream uh because we’ve been cooking uh like fiends because uh we have a new Left Bank uh event coming up uh pretty pretty soon
That’s going to be uh April 20th April 20th and uh so we’re going to be working with our great friends Jim rard we’re going be doing uh Kelling and young and we’ve got Bob do if you if you want to risk your life going to the mountains uh
But you can’t go to the mountain cool thing is that you know every time we do an event that means that Brad’s cooking and tonight we’re going to actually get to try some of the cooking that we’re doing that’s exciting because uh Anna do you want to help me out with the
Pronunciation or do you think I can handle it um if if you if you stick your finger on that one button and then then if you hold that to that auditory box that you own Anna what are we serving tonight A jambon Bear O A shamban Bear I
Have been on shamb many many times in my life many times and I love the B so we have the who doesn’t love the we have the Quint essential ham and cheese which um when I did a video earlier today I deci decided that was basically a Shakur
Platter in a sandwich uh action and we’re going to be pairing that up with a french onion soup so uh what’s really cool is that we actually because we are not doing it at my house we have more room we have a stud live studio live studio you guys so much for coming
Yay who knew that they were going to be enjoying my live culture this evening uh but they are going to be our our guinea pig they are they be they be a guinea pig how do you say guinea pig how do you anyway we’ got we’ve got the piggy de G
Uh coming in uh tonight but uh so we are because of um you know I love food and I love wine I love the pairings but you know classic French chion soup maybe I want to add a little twist to it um the the classic U
Jamama might want to add a little twist to it so we are going to be tasting those things this evening and um for those of you that you know okay a ham and she ham and sandwich what what’s wrong with you Brad why are you doing so something it so unbelievably rich and
Elegant has so much flavor and uh so what we did is we um no expense spared despite the fact that we’ve been closed for eight or nine months uh we uh flew uh French ham in uh specifically for this and some french butter uh the bread wouldn’t have made it so it didn’t
Matter so from our Frenchie friends over in Hillsburg we got some custos bread to go on it and we have these beautiful little sandwiches made and they’re going to go so perfectly with the uh French onion uh soup and then the twist that I did on that today typically you would
Have cherry in there maybe you would have some white wine maybe you would have some red wine but why wouldn’t you want both so it has cherry and white wine uh in there as well and that’s absolutely fantastic so we’re going to be uh get to try that if you if you want
To uh try what the heck I’ve uh come up with for that uh the Left Bank is going to be April 20th this year and um I think that’s pretty much all they know I think tickets will go on sale the first the tickets will go on sale on the first
So um all of that’s uh kind of fun but the other really cool thing that’s going on is that um everybody got an email I think yesterday yep it’s wine club time kids it is I’m just gonna I gu just the shakery I’m hungry I’m drinking um the
So we’ve got a we’re going to be tasting through a bunch of the wines uh for the uh that are going to be going in the wine club and the reason for that is that uh for the main selection for the three and six bottle Club we’ve got two
Of the three wines are going to be brand Spanky new brand Spanky new and exciting brand Spanky new not just Downstream what new do I ever not no your stuff’s always Upstream I was going to say they swim pretty quick they do they do but oh
My God I’m so excited for both these crew and we have the brand new element A lot of my club members might say element what is that I have no idea what it is most of my most of my club members probably don’t have never even gotten
That in a club shipment we typically make 50 cases every couple of years and so most time it doesn’t go into the club but this year it what is the element uh that is our mdra based blend GRE oh once again we’re back on the Run the ran I
Would say that would be the r yes not the r we’re going to be on the Ry we will be on the if you want to mention that that’s fine too okay fine yes the Cru is coming it’s this year the cruise is coming the cruise is coming everybody
Takes shelter exciting holy cow we like sneaking up on us five months away I know from being uh we’re going to be in Europe we’re going to have to hold our glasses like this we’re going to have to put our fingers in the air nice three
What was that oh that finger which one were you showing me what finger sir finger that was rude well oh you’re from France I got it we got a couple Frenchies in the audience they flipped me off and I thought it was they did not
That was his that was his pinky oh he’s got a big pinky he has a very big pink big pinky we’ve heard that a lot but uh so gosh darn it you know there’s a whole bunch of us that are to be going to the cruise actually there’s a whole bunch of
Us that are here tonight that are be going to The Cruise July 4th is when it July 4th we’re kicking off in amster and so most of us are going to be there by the second or so I would imagine and today we are at the end of January
Basically we are five months away oh my God and excited we’re g to try and for those of you that can’t go we’re really sorry um and uh will we have somebody so you can drink Mercury wine while we’re gone we’ll figure that we’ll figure that out too we might have
Somebody we have we have our great friends you know I can poach uh uh Marie raditi who all of you guys know uh she’ll come over here and run the tast not because she wants to but because she’s our really good friend and then we got suie and so hopefully we’ll have the
Tasting room because this is going to be brand new and then we’re going to abandon it and then we’re leaving everybody’s going over to Europe but it’ll be uh so much fun am and so much excitement so ready yeah so ready and a lot of people have been asking you know
When am I going to send the wine my wine is already on the way to Europe even though five months away um so uh we have given them uh 3 eight cases of wine sparing Dark Side God just name a wine we cannot we cannot send sparkling wine around the world we
Don’t have enough uhoh yes we are sending sparkling wine unfortunately we’ve already sent it so okay just to get people excited we the wines have been set because they are gone uh we have the sparkling going makes no sense we did it because we love you it’s going
To be so much fun so much fun Reserve tempero why are we sending Reserve tempero because it’s exciting that’s exactly right how much how much B do we have none none but is there VI going to Europe yes sir most of it went to Europe is is there Sean Blanc going to Europe
Is there Ros going to Europe uh so we sent enough sparkling for Sip and S so when we all get together which we’re probably all going to be I hope we all get on the boat in Amsterdam hopefully things don’t crazy it could get C but uh
Once we do get on the boat we’re going to be doing SI and sale and Sip and sale is if we’re going to be on a cruise and we’re going to be having fun together and we all love Mercury sparkling we’re going to be starting with the Mercury
Sparkling so that’s how we’re going to the way we’re going to leave launch and then anybody that’s not a Mercury wine club member what you want to do so that they don’t get their glass of champagne is what you want to do is elbow them and
Send them to the lower decks while we all enjoy the sparkling because we only sent three cases of sparkling uh but it’s going to be if someone wanted to come on this cruise is could we squeeze somebody in if actually I was just talking with Janine and AMA uh just recently and we’ve
Squeezed a bunch we we’ve oversold what they thought we could sell there’s way more people coming we have so many cool club members but uh come yeah tell them that you want to go and you won’t go on any other their cruises y so let us know if you want to
Come and we’ll figure out how we can get you SOS we’ll give you a good word and then you know and then if there’s and then if there’s not enough you can always sleep on the deck it’s like when I was in Mexico in 83 just slept on the
Beach very similar to that very similar to that very similar to that the wine was not as fine sort of like when we were in Amsterdam I vaguely remember that I know I lost you for 16 or 18 hours while we were there what a great town that is so
Many little tiny houses going to be so much fun so much art so much art so much art my God we went from the reich’s museum to the van go Museum unbelievable just like that they’re literally across the street they’re across the canal from each other the
Only thing I would say is uh watch out for the guy in the 1972 golden elor uh there is one American car over there and uh hug um there’s no room for a European car room for a Smart car but uh somehow he navigates this 1972 El Dorado Convertible down these
Roads I don’t know how he does everybody runs of course every just moves it’s not running well hopefully it’s still there though because if it’s still there 16 or 18 how many years ago do we go we so I it’s 15 year anniversary this year so so
16 years ago so we were there 16 years ago can’t wait to get back and umed uh it wasn’t Elis it was a he uh it was a blond headed obviously obviously an American uh driving his gigantic boat through all the streets of Amsterdam where there’s no room for two bicycles
Two bicycles a person it was it was quite amazing uh with all that so I’m excited to go back for that and oh and Danny I see oh oh guess what we’re guess what we’re getting ready for oh I know we’re doing good I just saw you over
There Danny’s working the soup kitchen looking good so we are drinking the Freddy Rose Freddy Ros in the 21 Freddy Ros so what’s up with that uh this your cabern Fran predominantly is it really Zen fendel oh little a splash of our friend Mal and you even had doletto in 21 doletto
Was just a tiniest little splash I put doletto in the Ros that year too the the class in class yeah yes the one time had a little smidge went great in both um it’s this our Fuller bodied Ros for those of you there’s a whole bunch of folks that because we typically don’t
Put this into the club but I thought that’d be kind of fun to uh for our folks that maybe have never had the Freddy Ros and so um the thought process on this you can see it’s hopefully you can see it’s much darker so this is a
Southern Spanish style Ros or a southern um a southern Italian St Rosé so it’s closer to a red wine it is Rich full bodied but still light enough to put in the refrigerator good acid and structure and I can’t remember what it tastes like let’s see let’s see you know what I love
About this is it’s great barbecue wine because when it’s hot outside you don’t want to have a cab while you’re sitting there flipping your ribs you don’t well you can I frpp my li one time and I wanted a c you did but this is the one this guy this is the
One it still has the UMP to stand up to those richer it does outdoor flavors however this could handle the fattiness of a rib I think it could I’ve I’ve done that Pepsi challenge before I’ve seeing I’m seeing nodding from the studio audience yes it definitely hangs out with that yes
Absolutely see I think you’re right I think you’re right it’s a spectacular Ros and I’m excited for the people who haven’t tried this to get to try the oh it evaporated it is that’s weird this new space must have a lot of a lot of evaporation going on here maybe we
Should put a dehumidifier no because if there’s a lot of evaporation you need to have the other a rehumidify that’s the one we want I will get on Amazon right now rehumidify I think what you want to do is just put a pot of water out and Hope
Hope for the best hope that it gets into the into the atmosphere well it is pouring rain out tonight it is you wouldn’t think it would be thank you all for braving uh the wild weather to come out and have fun tonight I know it’s almost like what’s happening back
East they’re not watching they have no internet they have no power they’re not Jenny watching wait s Jen oh my God hey I hope you guys are staying nice and warm and you guys are like maybe you warmed up your Cabernet and like are drinking that try to stay alive cuz if
If things go south I think if you hike out of your house with a couple of bottles of mercury wine you might make it to the next Refugee Center absolutely oh my gosh I really didn’t think cuz uh our friends in Oregon um they don’t have
Any power yet so unless they decided to turn their generators on for a few hot minutes to see Brad and Grady which I’m sure they don’t care about they did because after being propane is so cheap these days or the fact they can’t get anymore uh is becoming seriously uh in
The I didn’t think any of our well I’m glad that you guys had power tonight and I hope that you’re staying thanks for watching uh nice and toasty warm you know not bad to have shins to watch our show probably bumping up our viewership well it’s like kofit they had nothing better to
Do maybe we should maybe we should do these shows during more uh Intergalactic uh snow storms that we’re having totally yes that be great holy smokes but what okay so here’s a fantastic Ros so if you’ve never had it don’t be scared if you love my wine you’re going to love it
But of course if you know my wine club if you’re scared of this wine and you’ve never had it before you don’t want it call us up let us know you can always change out all of our wines are swappable we sell out of everything we
Don’t need to force you to have swap a dark side in there if you’re feeling crazy whatever you would like you can have uh whatever wine so but hopefully you guys will try this because this is really fantastic and we made it last in 2021 uh we’ve got a few cases left
Enough to run through the wine club and maybe a smidge and more but the one reason why I wanted to put it in especially since we had that weirdness of not being open for six months where we can’t show it to people but we’ve had
A lot of club members join us since then so of course they never had a chance a chance to but we made another Freddy Ros this year but uh most Ros would be out immediately but because this is a bigger wine it’s going to be sitting in the
Barrel for a minimum of a year so this isn’t going to come out for a while but I thought it’d be nice to for all of our new club members to try something so when you do try it call me up and order more for the summer because you’re going
To want it for the summer yeah we’re not gonna once because it’s going in the club we’re not going to have all Club there’s only going to be like a case or two left so please give greedy a call and I will I think that it’s uh you know
Now that it’s relaxed and it’s had some bottle aging it’s really at its peak and then we’ve got another really fun wine and a lot of you folks that are watching uh we at the blending party because that’s our hardcore uh all the cool people the thing but um this wine have
Been bottled for a month when you guys tasted it y it was edgy it was it was not quite there but it’s there hey simmer down don’t put the cap on that back yet sorry because this wine is pretty crazy this is Doug and Patty’s blend lot 13
Doug and Patty they like to affectionally call it Patty o wine Doug and Patio Doug and Patio wine is what they like to call it y we love it it is uh 50% of SRA from somebody I know near and dear to my heart that happens to be
3 and 1/2 ft from me in the studio T from the poni poni ranch s um and then we have some uh you don’t have malback if you did I would have it uh some malb back not from the pone Ranch but just a smid farther stre up
The road and uh this wine has turned into something quite nice Danny wants to wiggle his fingers at something everybody’s G to have some it is surprisingly elegant on The Upfront Anna um your comments when you first tasted this I loved and I don’t recall them
Because it was two weeks ago when I was deciding what I was going to put in the club and I had you taste this and your uh words of wisdom were really quite amazing I don’t remember what I said it’s probably my fault I do ply her with wine at work let
Me think about it for a minute all right do you want to sniff it and Tastee it real quick and then come back to you all right Danny let her Sniff and taste real quick and we’ll come back to Anna’s amazing opinion that was gave me
The piffany it did give you an she motivated me to put it in the club right now because it was great no it’s the dug the Pao one okay here’s the deal no C’s been busy chatting with all the people online Anna doesn’t actually pay attention to the
Show um she pretty much checks out at 502 too because that’s when her paycheck stops and she’s like I’m here off I’m not getting paid for this anyway I’ll go ahead and describe the patio wine real quick please do it please I’m going to do a little swirl do a little swirl
Sniff I love this this new tasting part is great for swirling I think that we um uh decided that we didn’t you know if you just think if it’s a 50/50 blend you might think oh that’s exciting it’s not exciting is it going to be complex is it
Not going to be complex um this wine has a jovial and fun young expression up front yep and so you’re like oh okay I get what’s going on here it’s just going to be something non just something easy fun unbelievably two to three seconds later this wine turns into this this wonderful
Fun fruit comes up front and then from the mid it’s got complexity it’s serious it’s fantastic this wine is really fantastic and we’ve never really had one any I’ve never made anything like this nothing like this before this is why we love doing it yep I love this wine I
Love this wine it is such a surprise because again you know this year’s winter 34.5 66666 of one and then a little bit of this and a touch of that and it’s super fun too I would say suckers uh this is the way it goes you just go 5050
On these great wines and it’s ready to go good but it’s such a pleasant surprise because it is unex we’re 13 14 years into this every one of these wines has been fantastic of course it is because the people who love these wines create these wines this is just another
Example of something interesting and fun and the flavor profile this wine is just developing like a mad man like a mad man it is so different from September so you have the fru of the malback up front but the sophistication and elegance of the s
Coming in the back this is just a great wine I absolutely love it um all of us said wow when we we literally said the word wow because we all we all had it in September it had just been bottled it was going through whatever Bottle Shock
Is if some scientist wants to explain that you know in some equation whatever uh but the wines just jointed it hasn’t come back together this wine fantastic unbeliev I absolutely love it and Danny’s looking at his watch and wondering if he’s going to get any screen time tonight so I’m going to say
That let’s bring ladies and gentlemen Danny fo D fo we didn’t know if you were were going to get any I was to say this has been far too long for any screen time time finally time to see you but he’s been feeding our thousand people we T absolutely to get making sure
Everybody’s got some stuff thirsty out there you know I’ve been very busy well we got to make well you know we have a very thirsty audience that’s that’s the other Common Thread that’s why we sent 38 cases uh for all of us yes because we don’t want
People to go because uh it’s only it’s only a 7-Day Cruise 38 cases 38 people that’s barely a bottle of seems like we can partly I don’t know I’m worried I’m scared scared I think that we’re going to be possibly having to all bring an extra case of water you know it doesn’t
Hurt to tuck an extra bubbles in in your suitcase yeah if you don’t tuck two extra bubbles in your suitcase uh I don’t know what you’re doing all right would allow me to bring I first want to say Happy New Year to everybody and welcome uh to our new Mercury space
It’s very exciting and yes I am excited to get Anna and Grady out of my dining room uh so we had so much we had a lot of fun a lot of fun you know Danny just this morning Anna was in your kitchen Anna’s Anna to be in my kitchen that’s
Okay but it’d be better if she was in this kitchen anyway uh so yes happy New Year everybody uh this space is beautiful we’re really excited about it fun new things are happening for mercury and uh a thank you to everybody for supporting us through all of this uh as well as the
Audience and our friends and family thank you and uh thank you Grady thank you Anna thank and we’ll be out of your hair very soon yes and thank you honey yes absolutely so what you got let’s carry on here I have some uh french onion soup that Brad and I made this
Morning I cut eight PBS of onions uh it was amazing Brad had to leave the kitchen because he couldn’t handle the cry crying and I I really can’t handle the truth he could truth bombs it was it was terrible so much cry but yes we made this beautiful soup and the J
Jamon be jambon bab uh little little sandwiches that we made as well uh and it pairs with oh my gosh here’s the deal we’re going to see what it pairs I I paired I pa this morning uh because this is the same exact food guinea pigs thank you very
Much this is what we’re going to be doing for the uh Left Bank so this morning I paired it with the uh Ros and the PIR it was absolutely fantastic but I also thought it was rich enough that we could go something heavier so we’re going to try some other wines with it
Rocket or something C could be the rocket I would like to try the rocket with let’s try the rocket dude let me know so I can pour everybody and so everybody can taste with so we’re going to start with what uh let’s start with
The Pino what grd has Pino I have pean I have rocket here and then you can send the p and Rocket away all right word yay all right here we go thanks Dan all right you’re the best hey thanks for all your hard work today Danny good job you’re amazing so hardworking so
Fantastic um but here’s a Dio so all right uh you guys soup I’m going to send out this I’m going to send out they’re not you’re not going to be able to really get it uh we got some fantastic croutons but because I’m going to be doing this for large amount of people
During Left Bank um you know uh broiling the cheese on the top didn’t make sense to me so what we did is we made um a little cheese sauce uh with the Grier and the Fontina and we swizzled that on the top uh so that we didn’t have to
Worry about uh you know burning people’s lips by uh uh torching the cheese in there and then um another thing that we did is uh typically you were going to be using cherry um but I ended up using for this blend we used a little bit of
The skins and Cherry and then I don’t know what the Frenchies are up to and forgetting to throw meat in there I went ahead and did a little Pudo crumble if you know me and you know my soups I don’t have a soup if I don’t put Pudo
Bacon on the top so I baked off a little bit of Pudo and that’s on top and that’s why I think that we can pair this with a little bit full bed wine you know up from the panina Noir into um something like the rocket and then we got some custos little
Croutons in there so of course everybody wants a little soaked bread of course you got to dip it into the sauce into the sauce here’s the deal into the sauce man fresh onion soup I know big POA Brad and the whole what the hell is going on
In there that is tasting fantastic I don’t even miss the charred cheese no on the top because you don’t need it I got the cheese action with the um and then what do we call that that’s a bamel basically a cheese sauce or a bashel and
Then we added the grer cheese to it so you’ve got the grayer cheese flavor y but it’s just not caramelized over the top which I think is working it plays beautifully and with that Pino I’ve got to say it’s pretty so I’m excited to see what you think about the rocket cuz the
Rocket a little more elegant a little more delightful m h i did the penino this morning for um uh the video and the the it brought out the Earth of the penino right and it was really striking but I didn’t have the ham because I totally forgot put the P one there
Um the rocket the Rocket’s doing just fine the penino is delightful they place that rich it’s not bringing earthiness out but it’s really a nice pairing uh the rocket is just fine let me see if I can get some of those uh croutons crout oh my
God wow wow dude um so good that expensive butter is really amazing oh God dang yeah this isn’t all right this is like a all right I hope everybody’s really enjoying this because you basically thank you Stephen yes because you basically pass valet May maybe um over to the other fancier restaurants
Maybe not single thread but that sandwich we uh imported a French ham and then we imported french butter and then we used custo um which is a French bakery here in in Hillsburg just south of us here um to put this together and it just so reminds me of being in France
And when I had a little bite of uh this sandwich uh today when I was uh doing it on the for the for the video for the bank it’s like a little shakuri platter that you can hold in your hand right uh so you’ve got the bread you’ve got the
Ham and then you’ve got this beautiful butter the butter is exceptional sir and I know it sounds simple but it’s not and then we were we were having that French Ham on its own and it and it has this wonderful um it’s not the it’s not the normal baking spices it’s
The it’s got some clove action to it but then the clove is tempered by that amazing butter mhm and then of course a soft and fluffy piece of bread the bread is perfect the bread is perfect thank you amazing if if you can bypass the clove
And the ham flavor you just that bread and butter that’s all French so good uh so delicious and for all of our friends that are going on the trip this is what we’re going to be eating all the day time out there I cannot wait umen but I
Think french butter the butter fat is like three or 4% higher than a than American butter uh to do it and so it just has this wonderful richness that clove and warming spice goes great and then here’s what everybody else was freaking out about when um all my
Friends on the Left Bank were going oh Brad what are you doing but now um You can dip this thing you dip it into that delicious and then just a little bit of that onion soup a little bit that beef broth oh yeah it’s stunning this
Is this is all I need I mean I can I can live I can truly I can live off of this fine with this this is so fantastic I could have these I know my heart and cholesterol are going to live with it but deal we’re going to all
We’re all going to figure the wine oh that’s right the wine is going to open your arteries so you can live to have a sandwich another day so so so my my heart surgeon is going to open my arteries too just a little different way you know don’t tear that goes your leg
Cuz here’s the deal up your heart little balloon action the the the happiness that I get out of this is just so amazing I would rather die happy than not have this this is amazing and the rocket was absolutely fantastic with the two but I just want to taste dude oh
Yeah element the new element is coming out the 19 element in your Club shipment hang on to your hats kids or your arteries whichever one you want to hang on to there are so many words to describe this word but I won’t say any of them do it describe it you tell me
You describe it you tell me nothing explosive here nothing explosive very different than the 16 all subtle all Nuance but yet there’s a richness to the 19 all across the board all the 19s have been tasting so spectacular right now the 19 Freddy out
Of control this new 19 new for us new 19 element I would almost use the ew no don’t do it because it’s not it don’t do it doesn’t I mean doesn’t your palette Just Dance don’t you want to like there’s so many flavors blow up over the world with this thing
No it’s not like an EMP at all there’s nothing about that I’m going for the richness of the soup with this you know what the richness with the soup please beautifully holy cow oh and here’s the deal wow kids if you I don’t care what soup it is I haven’t found one
That didn’t work with but um just baking a little bit of Pudo in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes yep and then crackling that on top and sprinkling that over the top wow it just adds such a depthness uh a depth and and and interestingness interesting flavors you just don’t
Expect but also really makes the the Wine and Food come together right mhm wow oh gra um actually here’s the deal the element in the soup Anna you should probably try the element in soup you should try the element with the soup with the soup because uh the element
Goes quite nice peanut was excellent the element has much more structure and some rigidity stuff but very nice with the soup as well so you should you should probably uh try that as well all right and and you know um gr if you would stop eating for a second and start talking so
I can have anite because this is so freaking good holy cow I’m sorry but you know when we get these pairings that are so perfect they’re so much fun I forget that we’re on camera and I’m just like pigging out cuz damn skippy you guys did a great job this is
Exceptional um man I can’t wait until April well here’s the deal it’s just you know these are all the flavors that go great together I’m sitting down for a while uh these flavors all just go great together um there’s a reason why these uh flavors went good with the French
Wines my wines have a French style about them of course it’s American fruit but uh the French style really lends itself to these rich complex flavors because I think that my wine has a layer of flavors that a lot of other peoples don’t because they don’t think about it
So when I’m thinking about the depth and complexity of of a french onion soup this is 8 lbs of onions right with a smid of beef broth and a little bit of cherry and some wine so the in but but but but somehow it brings out this this
Flavor and this depth and this character and then these wines just go fantastic with it this is this is what it’s about this is why I make wine because it goes great with the food this is this is what it’s um what is what it’s about and
That’s why we get to have way too much fun out here and I cannot wait until every day you could just wander in and see Grady and drink wine cuz you know I’ve missed that a lot um he sits there and talks about if I leave the if I leave my
Dining room for a few minutes he’ll be like oh you you can you taste a subtlety and Nuance of this wine so he’s been practicing I have I have because I’m out of practice I haven’t poured wine I was like pouring full glasses of wine for people
You know I’ve lost my touch Anna you have a question we have a what Andre B that’s a great question um so I thought that we were really safe for tonight with uh with uh 8 lbs of onions and we’re handling 12 to 14 people I’m
Guessing it’s going to end up being 24 D Danny says 24 okay I I’ll defer my professional chef SL husband SLC screen time says 24 pounds for sure oh we’re going to have 50 to 60 people so yeah it is and um and normally with four pounds of onions it takes
About an hour to sweat down the onions to caramelize them and do all that it took a little over two and a half half hours for me to get that so we need to be thinking about that so we need to be starting this tomorrow
Uh yes uh just might be in time for April perfect oh man oh my gosh soft French bread there’s just really nothing butter no wine is so good this is exactly why we do these fun things absolutely absolutely hey um you know one thing we haven’t mentioned what haven’t we
Mentioned is that um we’re going to give away $500 in wine did we not mention that we were giving away $500 of your spectacular I think we did maybe we did but it was early when people hadn’t tuned in yet they were still warming up their computers so we said anything uh
Should we should we be thinking about that right now we should think about it at the end I think we want to entice the people to we’re getting close keep watching so they don’t just go do things like play Pictionary or something I’m fine with people playing Pictionary if they need
Well maybe they’re just hang we’re just a few minutes we’re only a few minutes away from the end should we think about that we could think about that you know I think we should uh totally pour ourselves another glass of wine and pick what else is coming in the club uh we’ve
Tried it all we’ve tried the element no we haven’t tried at all because the case club members get a couple other well case club members they’re special they get extra they get 18 elements they’re not special they just have more room they do have more room in the cas they
Just have more room in the case they also have this delicious 20 bastard what is that about what is that it’s just a delicious bastard and now that it’s had some time it has become an old dirty bastard has we three years in I think it’s still a little young before it goes
To Old you know they come they go they’re young they’re old you just never know what these especially when it’s malbeck you know malbeck is so changeable it’s Mercurial one might say is it I thought the messenger was one may say all right so so what do you think about that
Because I’ve still got a smid left and I’m not going to chug this because this this uh element is just Fant the element is on fire and we’re all excited while you’re while you’re while you’re sniffing and swirling I just want to talk about the element of BL you know
It’s a dark blue flavor it starts out with the blues it is a blueberry but there’s wonderful cherries and some plums running around in there as well uh but it is a dense wine it is a full bodied wine um and they can’t get in France they can’t get it that
Ripe so they’re never going to get this so that’s why it’s a background blender typically but when we can get it this ripe we do it and this wine I just think it’s fantastic I love the blue flavors of wine with mixes of cherries and Plum
You see and so it’s rare and different and it went so fantastic I’m yes so if you if you didn’t bring me Blues hey start talking I oh not oh Anna’s strings good Lord uh I’m gonna have another little bite of this I just want to say I did remember
Some of my thoughts about the dug and Patty Doug and patties blend was so beautiful because it had complexity as young as it was it had complexity great fruit characteristics it was just a lovely wine and as I just gulped down the last of my element with that french onion
Soup it was a beautiful pairing I would not normally choose a wine like the element like you’re saying all that BL blue fruit with onions right somehow it was very complimentary and and it was lovely straight out of so good job thank you Anna so always again that’s a hot take
From Anna don’t just take the hot take from bre go with your p and typically in his hot pull that wine out see what happens I know yeah your hotek it’s amazing we fine with that Brad don’t screw it up oh by the way oh
Yeah how is one more time Anna one more time go ahead and turn your mic back on I know she hates this and you know she hates it hot take Anna got a 375 of the new La classy she did where was mine you tasted it too I don’t remember that
I are we okay I’m gonna say I always get a little stressed when we get very close to selling out of a vintage that I really enjoy but thank you Brad for the last two vintages calming my nerves because the new like class is lovely it’s going to
Be wonderful and I’m not worried yay oh that is a hug dude because here’s the deal could we continue as a brand if Anna working with an every day is stressful enough but then if she hates my wine much worse so the fact that she truly loves the rose uh the new look
Classique Ros it’s it’s great um that makes me very happy so the reason why I asked for that question is um even though we didn’t have a taster group doesn’t mean that we lost the winery and the winery is still producing absolutely fantastic wine more than we probably should be producing
Because I don’t care that we’re closed because I know that we’re going to be open and we will be here shortly because we’ve got this great space we’ve it is it is fantastic fantastic I was supposed to make less wine this year I didn’t I made more wine
I know it I can’t I can’t stop doing it and uh do I not do this Ros again this year uh I can’t so the neat part is we’re going to be opening up we’re going to be having even more wines than we normally have this is great um uh just
Let everybody know our friends in Florida that have been absolutely fantastic fantastic we are going to be uh actually Distributing wine in Florida here coming uh in the new year we’ve got some absolutely uh fantastic uh wine maker dinners that we’re going to be doing in Florida we’ve got wine maker
Dinners in Arizona again if you think you’ve got 35 of your favorite friends and you want invite me out we’re going to be doing that as well there’s so many great things that are happening with Mercury uh I can’t even uh express it but the most important thing for me and it probably
Hurt this company was to be back in Geyserville California I could have been in Hillsburg four days after we lost the space I could have been in Cloverdale four days after we got the space and I love my friends in Hillsburg and I love my friends in Cloverdale you guys have an Cloverdale
Is awesome it’s up and coming it’s going to get there but guys kaille and Mercury wine um to me are synonymous and um I thought we were going to have a space in two to three months uh we lost the space in April and here we if somebody wants to do the math
Whatever we’re we’re in January and it’s still going to be two or three months before the government gives me a license to open up here but um Geyserville is important to me and I think it’s important to you guys as well uh whether you visit here from Florida or you’re
Visiting here from Pennsylvania or Washington DC or my fantastic French friends that come here and uh there’s nothing more that I love when a when a when a person from France loves my wine that makes me so happy but uh I can’t tell you how excited I am that I am
Literally eight feet South from my previous building here in Geyserville it is so important for me to be here it’s important for my my wine to be here U because Geyserville is is who Mercury it’s it’s it’s it’s the it’s the embodiment of of mercury uh this little
Fantastic town just a little North from whatever Hillsburg is slightly North from Santa Rosa whatever whatever San Francisco is but it’s its own special place it’s funky and fun Grady’s term 60 yards of awesome 60 yards of because it is uh and Ann and I were just talking about
The Bosworth the Bosworth have had have been living here for generations and the Bosworth even though it’s not a mertile shop anymore it’s a Western Wear shop and they are still here well over a hundred years um I was just opening up with Dino at diao Pizzeria some of the
Best damn pizza you’re ever going to have internationally or not it’s fantastic uh Dominica uh with catellis when I came here here it was Santi uh there was a little struggle uh with having the family run the space that started in 1920 something I can’t remember the exact date and then um
Santi left and Domin came Dominica came back and uh this is just a really special place and I want to let you guys know that are that were worried about me why I don’t have a space right away the thing that you need to understand is
That guv is so important to me I was willing to risk the financial stability of the business to stay in Geyserville it was that important to me and so we ended up being eight nine months without having a tasting room and we’re going to go another two
Months maybe the government won’t let me open up for even a few more months it might be a whole year but my dedication to this town and what my whne is is about geyser bill so um thank you guys all for sticking with me I super
Appreciate it I want you to come and enjoy this space again my my my new best friend Ellen who runs the coffee shop that we’re going to be in to so it’s going be uh formada coffee and Mercury wine she’s going to be creating new menus to pair with my wine so we’re
Going to be able to get coffee and great little sammies and all sorts of fantastic things like this uh it’s just really great and uh I can’t tell you how happy I am I’ve got wine refrigerators yay I’ve got a new I’ve got a new taste
Ing bar I I can’t tell you how happy I am it’s been such a long journey and I love the fact that you all stayed with me so I just wanted to say thank you so much for supporting Mercury the brand you’re supporting my brother you’re supporting my husband Danny you’re
Supporting Anna you’re supporting the town of mercury or not the town of mercury it should be you day we’re going to call this Mercury bill now was that a was that a was that a Fran slip was that a Frant slip but uh thank you for for supporting such an amazing little
Community uh and trust me so many people in Geyserville are happy that mercury Wine’s going to be reopening ramadi RNE is going to be reopening here pretty soon and I know a lot of you love them just as much so uh I just want to say thank you guys very much for supporting
And staying with us and gosh dang it 24 no bore this is going to be good stuff so I just want to say thank you guys and do you have anything uh on top of that let’s let’s find out uh who won $500 oh the one last went 500
Bucks okay let’s do oh oh we have a special 500 yum yum so thirsty so thirsty so many tickets so little time what are we going to do gr here if if he didn’t get picked wine over the holiday gr’s Grady’s fingers are sticky so I have nothing to do with this [Laughter]
Who could it be Claudine [Applause] Simpson thank you clud I was thinking we should have picked somebody that was here tonight but was hold on a second let me put my glasses on no Claudine uh hopefully Claudine is online tonight she’s super fantastic she’s actually uh she is a local she’s just down here yeah she’s just
Just Oakmont okay is that is that fancy Oakmont Sant oh that’s in Santa Rosa it’s fine it’s fine we still like them too still but you know but we have plenty of people from all over the country buying uh great wine but one of our one of our
Local people uh ended up doing it but I just wanted to she’s delightful we love you Claudine absolutely yay Claudine thank you uh we see you all the time so I can’t wait to see you again and and um well next couple times she comes she’s
Going to get some she could just pick out all the wine she wants and I will have a hard time bring she can bring wine to all of her friends and she could could she has lots of she always brings fun friends that is a fact but uh anyway
I think that that’s what I’ve got to say I I’m feeling really good the wine club is going to be coming shortly we’ve had a whole bunch of people already uh uh make some changes because they wanted to add some stuff a lot of people were just
Adding St stuff adding fun things more stuff Dr it the holidays which is wonderful the holidays are over your uh the bastard’s really good you should buy some it’s fantastic is it pretty tasty oh Anna Anna says oh is it good I haven’t had any well maybe we
Could spread it around and everybody could try a little faster if you paid attention to our live feed maybe you could have had some maybe you could have instead of all that clicky click and typy type that you’ve got going over there all right I didn’t get any bastard
Oh I’m sorry is it could you describe it because I can’t Rich elegant I needed oh wait I needed some screen time anyway before we left hi match the label the whole that beautiful copper level oh my God sexy total T is what we call D TP oh
I’ve I’ve been I’ve been C work so as we’re as we’re heading out I can describe there you go now you can describe all right and Anna let a little hoot out she might she made all right four four seconds four minutes okay I’m getting a little I’m getting a little um
It’s it’s a darker it’s not like a bright Cherry dark cherry could be a plum could be is malbach yes mostly malbach a touch of cab and a touch of merot this year would you call that a Dusty Cherry up top there brother I’ll I’ll give you a Dusty
Cherry um but what are you GNA raise with I was gonna I was going to raise you on a on a rich Plum on a rich Plum oh my God four Rich plums totally big Dusty Cherry I know I’ve been sold down the river um wow uh the 2019 uh Mal back
Super Rich very elegant right this is slightly brighter but there is some rich there is some rich and again once you let it sit on the pet after you’ve swallowed that richness comes back and just sits there I wouldn’t even call it retro nasal I think it’s just there no I
Wouldn’t do that either and then I I’m thinking it might be quite nice because it’s a little brighter than the other wines we tried with it’s got some brightness to it I’m thinking it might be nice with well let’s try it m oh oh that soup Anna that’s amazing
Great J if it takes 40 hours to boil down your onions it’s got to be worth it it is cu it is freaking delicious I take it back yeah seems a little bigger than this one okay uh cuz there’s there’s not a lot of oak or acid
In this one it’s a little bit richer and Flor bodied um and um I’m going to say that you need something with a little more tannin or acid uh to work with the soup however if that’s all you had in your seller I wouldn’t kick it out of B
Oh I I think I’d be excited about I’m always very um critical you are because you’re the wine maker you you want to make the perfect just fine and delicious hell yes it is but I if I was going to have my brother this this ele and the nice thing
ISell he can have his DS no I can’t have my DS I get the dpes and drags and that’s why I need to see you because I always get the little ends from the end of the day so I need you to come in and drink wine and leave me just a little
Bit to take home to Brandy all right that sounds good anyhow I didn’t mean it like that I was just thinking that uh because I was getting nostalgic I’m I’m already just loving this space obviously we just have uh a couple of things in here right now we have flag
We have some we have some [ __ ] willows we’re having fun we’re rubbing them gently on our face when the camera’s not on because they’re soft some things never change so so get in here holy cow um well with that I lost all my train thought uh but I was has
Your Train derailed somewhere think that I’m just I’m just really loving the space and I’m really getting into it and I’m loving the fact that we’re going to be able to have food all the time uh to pair with these wines or if you just want to have a tasting great without
Food that’s fine too we’ve got um it’s GNA Elevate the experience that you had before we’re going to be able to get plenty of people in here plus we have some outdoor space and then plus obviously we still have the outdoor space where we do the large uh events
And stuff like that uh it’s just very nice and then of course our good buddy Jim Ricard um thank you Siri yeah I know Siri says sir says it’s 6m Siri says it’s 6: p.m. and you need to be done stop talking stop clapping your lips I’m
Like Anna Danny stop it um but uh you know our good friend uh we’re going to be still doing a everybody loved it when uh we did an event of at Jim rard space when they were closed on Sunday and we’re going to be doing some more of
Those as well but uh in a perfect world uh in the next two months we’ll have our license and be ready to go obviously everybody that’s watching is going to be well informed and we’ll let you know what’s yes yes yes but uh this has been
Great so good to see everybody I hope nice to see every if you’re in the winter vortex SL tornado ice storm whatever that it happens to be I’m so glad your power is still on you can watch us yes thank you uh hope you’re enjoying some great Mercury wine and
That’s keeping you warm and we’ll see everybody very soon thank you kids all right yay thanks everybody