Steven Spurrier

Living or dead, which person or celebrity would you want to share a bottle of California wine with? Add seven stars.

Who would that be and which California wine? Steven Spurrier and Ridge Montebello.

Steven Spurrier.

And Ridge.

Yeah.

And it really is much more in the genre of TV that I've always done, which is fun, playful, joyful, but also really connected to the people and their story.

But I started it because back in 2020, before the COVID lockdown, I was going to host a as an MC, an event with Steven Spurrier, who, as you know, and many people in the wine world know, was one of the architects of the Judgment of Paris tasting.

And instead of being called Judgment of Paris, it was called, and it eventually did take place, Judgment of Napa.

And that was to take the wines of California to versus the world rather than merely, which isn't to say merely, but California versus France, which was the original mindset.

So I think the instigators of that tasting, structuring it the way they did, taking the approach that they did to come and really find some of the best of the best, made a huge difference alongside those extremely charismatic, collaborative personalities like Telechip and Mondavi.

It's interesting that those are the four on your Mount Crushmore.

I think in much of the literature, and granted everyone talks about Patricia Gallagher, it's in there as a fact, but I don't feel like she gets as much attention as Steven Spurrier.

I was just curious why you think that is.