Napa Valley Wine Radio®

Colleen Topper, our Proprietor and Director of Public Relations also acts as our in-house chef. She has developed a remarkably extensive database of her own recipes for you to enjoy at goosecross.com. Today Nancy Hawks Miller, our Director of Education talks to Colleen about where she gets her ideas and how she goes about creating new recipes for our visitors to enjoy. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210. See Colleen's Kitchen.

Here are some good, basic tips on how to get the most out of your wine when you're entertaining at home from Erin McKee, Jose Garcia, and Mark Jardarian, our tasting room staff. They offer practical suggestions for selecting the glasses, deciding on the serving temperature, knowing when and why to decant and more. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Colleen Topper, our Proprietor and in-house chef, has prepared some wonderful menus for Easter and Passover. Nancy Hawks Miller, our Director of Education presents the traditions and symbols behind the foods we enjoy when we celebrate these holidays. Please go to goosecross.com, click on Colleen's Kitchen and enjoy Colleen's recipes for Passover and Easter such as Caramelized Onion Beef Brisket and Grilled Marinated Lamb Roast with Pinot Noir and Pomegranate. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

If you've wondered if you really have to smell the cork or what to do if you think you have a bad bottle this is the episode for you. Our Director of Education, Nancy Hawks Miller offers suggestions on the best way to order a wine you'll really enjoy and what to expect when it comes to your table. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Pairing wine and food is easier than you think because they have a natural affinity. Nancy Hawks Miller, our Director of Education takes a common sense approach to creating wine and food synergy with some time honored techniques and some less conventional approaches too. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

You know we can't add cherries or butter to the wine so you might wonder where all of these descriptors come from. Please join our Director of Education, Nancy Hawks Miller for a look at the influences of nature and man on wine character and style. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Now that you have a growing wine collection, let Nancy Hawks Miller, our Director of Education, provide you with some practical advice on how to best age and store your wines... Which ones should you drink and which ones should you age? How long should you age them? What kind of storage conditions do you need? All this and more... For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Cork history and current trends in wine closures. Information about each type of closure, including plastic corks, screw caps and crown caps, with the advantages and disadvantages of each. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Tasting Tips featuring vintage 2004 Goosecross Chardonnay as the wine selected for this episode. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

2005 is being called one of our best vintages here in the Napa Valley in years. Please join Nancy Hawks Miller, our Director of Education as she reviews the 2005 growing season, the harvest and the outlook for wine quality for the vintage. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.

Welcome to Napa Valley Wine Radio, a Podcast proudly presented by Goosecross Cellars, a Napa Valley family winery. Napa Valley Wine Radio has been designed to deliver home wine education, entertainment, and wine appreciation information from an "insiders" perspective. We plan to present a broad range of topics to expand your knowledge of how fine wine is produced while listening to Napa Valley Wine Radio's down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for enhancing your enjoyment of food and wine everyday. For more information, please contact wine@goosecross.com or call us toll-free at (800) 276-9210.