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Coquelicot Winery is a family owned and operated winery in the Santa Rita Hills specializing in Rhone and Bordeaux varietals. All there wines are small production, hand crafted wines that reflect with great clarity the Santa Barbara/Santa Rita Hills wine country. Owner Bernard Rosenson and his family believe in all natural, Organic farming. The wines are made from all estate grown grapes in very small production and are only available through the tasting room, wine club and restaurants the family owns and supplies. I highly recommend going online and getting some of this wine! You will not be sorry!
About Richard Chassler:
Richard Chassler is not your average talent. Born in New York & raised between there & Los Angeles, Richard grew up around show business; his uncle, Allen Swift, was the voice of Howdy Doody, Popeye & countless others & his cousin, Broadway star Lewis J. Stadlen, is a Drama Desk Award-winner & multi-Tony Award nominee.
Richard began his performing career at the age of 9, playing drums at jazz clubs throughout NYC & Long Island. Naturally gifted & loving to perform, Richard quickly turned to the theatre, where he began honing his acting skills as a student of famed acting teacher Stella Adler. Richard has appeared in several films including The Insider, directed by Michael Mann & most recently, as Martin Balsam in Fox Searchlight’s Hitchcock, which starred Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren.
He has also performs on stage, and has been seen playing Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Count Guido in the world premiere of The Ring and the Book, & most recently as Roy Cohn in Ethel Sings: Espionage in High C, about the execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg at Walker Space (Soho Rep) in New York City in which he received excellent reviews.
In addition to working as an actor, Richard has spent many years headlining & touring as a stand-up comedian & can be heard doing a myriad of voices in numerous cartoons & commercials. Richard studied screen writing at UCLA and along with his arsenal of scripts, Richard made an award winning dramatic short film entitled, STOP (featuring Richard Kind) which he wrote, directed & starred in. Multi-talented & driven, this talent is a force to be reckoned with.
As a wine collector for 20 years, Richard’s collection is in excess of 500 bottles encompassing all parts of world, focusing on “Small production Syrah/Petite Sirah and Bordeaux, France. Richard travels to taste wine, visits wineries and tastings regularly and loves to add his comedic spin to all aspects of the wine world! Thus, “The Funny Wino” was born! Follow and stay tuned for more posts and free, fun and funny, online tasting classes!
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