GNGNB Ep030: Loxton Winery
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Hey there Guys & Girls, welcome to episode 30 of ‘A Guy, a Girl, and a Bottle’ wine podcast. This is a special episode for us in a number of ways, but first and foremost, we get to go to Austrailia! Woo-hoo! (well, at least for about 35 minutes or so) See in this wine podcast we visit Chris Loxton, Owner & Winemaker at Loxton Winery (www.loxtonwinery.com) in Sonoma, and being Austrailian and all, well, visiting his winery is a little bit like going down under, without the really, really, really long plane flight. More on Chris and his winery in just a moment. The other really cool thing about today’s episode is that we are the first Podcast (aside from Adam Curry of course) to deploy the ‘Golden Ticket’ as part of this Podcast. What is this Golden Ticket? Well, the Golden Ticket allows us to run contests and giveaway prizes to a predetermined number of people, in a random fashion. For example, in today’s episode 3 lucky people will hear a special audio clip alerting them that they have won. See? Simple as that. Pretty neat-o, doncha think? We do. Why? Well, we want to give away lots of things to you dear listener, and we have been struggling with the fairest way to do that, with as little pain as possible on our end. This I think (forgive the upcoming pun) is the ticket that we needed. So if everything works right, hopefully we will be able to give away stuff on a more routine basis and reward you for spending some of your precious time with us. Today’s giveaway is an autographed copy of Scott Sigler’s first print book – Earthcore. Not only is this book one hell of a fine read (and listen if you want to download it), but this book is special to a lot of podcasters as it is the first podiobook that was successful enough to make it to print. Pretty cool, and ’nuff said. Good luck and let us know what you think of this contest and the way we are going about it. We’d really like to hear from you on this! (our info is at the bottom of this post) Loxton Cellars is located in the heart of Sonoma, just off highway 12. (Looks sharp for the signs, being a small winery it is easy to miss if you are daydreaming!) Loxton wines is the epitomy of small wineries in this area. Heaps of talent, great wine, small name and cozy atmosphere. You can almost always find Chris hard at work when you stop by, but he loves showing guests around and explaining everything about wine and the Loxton philosophy. Curious to know the difference between a Shiraz and a Sirah? Chris will steer you in the right direction, and always with a touch of the Austrailian humor. A recommended diversion if you are heading out to Napa, and well worth the trip. Don’t forget to tell the folks over at Loxton that Joe & Pam from "A Guy, a Girl, and a Bottle" wine podcast sent you over, they’ll even give you a small discount! wine term this week – Dry
DRY Dry/Off Dry: Little or no sugar = "dry", slightly sweeter = "off dry". http://www.vino.com
Our Artist this week is Black Lab, and the song is Learn to Crawl. Purchase this track now at iTunes! 
Loxton Winery Tel/Fax 707.935.7221 chris@loxtonwines.com Post Office Box 70 Glen Ellen, California 95442-0070 Google Map The tasting room at Loxton Winery is open by appointment 7 days a week, 11 am to 5 pm. Cheers! -A Guy & a Girl Email guyandgirl ‘AT’ gmail.com Phone mail: 408-627-7796 SKYPE aguyandgirl Subscribe to our Wine Podcast at iTunes or Yahoo!
