January 13th, 2024- Wine, Whisky & Winter!
Wine, Whisky and Winter THE SHOW First Guest is Harry Hertscheg – Executive Director 45th Annual Vancouver Wine Festival Acknowledged as the largest combined consumer and trade wine show in North America. Also one of the biggest and oldest in the World. Not Harry…the festival. The 45th festival will take place February 24 to March...
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Mulligan Stew Jan 13th 2024- Special Guest is Russ KUNKEL (The Immediate Family)
Let the names tell the story – With Waddy Wachtel, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar and drummer, producer, and writer Russ Kunkel created and played music history. Historic albums by Carole King, Jackson Brown, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Steven Stills, Neil Young, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Jimmy Buffet,...
EP 288 | Remembering Winemaker Mike Grgich – The man who changed the World of Wine
Mike Grgich – His 1976 Napa Chardonnay in USA/France blind tasting in Paris was The Shot Heard Round the World. Winemaker Mike Grgich died Dec 13th 2023. He was 100 years old. This is his story, as told to yours truly into a nasty microphone in the lobby of the Hotel Vancouver 2016. He had just released...
January 6th, 2024- Mike Grgich – His 1976 Napa Chardonnay in USA/France blind tasting in Paris was The Shot Heard Round the World.
Mike Grgich – His 1976 Napa Chardonnay in USA/France blind tasting in Paris was The Shot Heard Round the World. THE SHOW Winemaker Mike Grgich died Dec 13th 2023. He was 100 years old. This is his story, as told to yours truly into a nasty microphone in the lobby of...
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Mulligan Stew Jan 6th 2024-Looking back and forward Plus Celebrating THE FLYING V
We hope you all had a memorable and warm Christmas/New Years season. The first show of 2024 will celebrate several careers & salute a true rock guitar. Gibson’s Flying V First is Les McCann who passed Dec 29. Les kicked down the walls of jazz and opened it up to a whole new audience He started...
December 30th, 2023-Daenna van Mulligen – The Wine Diva brings the Best of Bubble 2023
THE SHOW It is a year-end tradition on Tasting Room Radio Daenna van Mulligen – The Wine Diva – joins me for a rundown of her primary year lists. After tasting well over 1000 wines a year, Daenna compiles all of her notes and posts her “best of” categories. Three weeks ago it was...
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EP 282 | The Trans Canada Highwaymen
It’s like having The Beatles on Saturday’s Mulligan Stew. But you can only have two. Do you want Ringo and Paul or George and John? Saturday our guests are Steven Page (BNL & Steven Page Trio) and Chris Murphy (Sloan). The other members of TCH are Moe Berg (Pursuit of Happiness) and Craig Northey (odds and SP...
Mulligan Stew Dec 30th 2023-The End of The Year Interviews
The last Mulligan Stew of 2023 is a look back at some outstanding interview guests who crossed our path in 2023. We can’t feature them all, as it was a very busy buzzy year. We had guests on our weekly show PLUS a Summer of music festivals. Here’s the engaged lineup for the interviews of...
EP 287 | Christmas in the Round 2020 Revisited!
This Christmas Stew features the last Christmas in the Round recording we did. The year was 2020 – full Covid lockdown. Many good people lost to this virus. Far too many. We gathered online at Dan Mangan’s Sidedoor Access. Shari Ulrich and Barney Bentall. Both are on Bowen Island. Opposite Horseshoe Bay! Bill Henderson It’s...
December 23rd, 2023 The Wine Diva: Top 100 Wines – Under $25 – 88pts or better
The Wine Diva: Top 100 Wines ($25 or under – 88 points or better) THE SHOW The end of any year always brings “best of” lists: Films, Music, Books, Food and many artistic events! This year end list from Daenna van Mulligen/The Wine Diva brings the very best budget wines of 2023. All $25.00...
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Mulligan Stew Dec 23rd 2023- Christmas in the Round 2020 Revisited!
This Christmas Stew features the last Christmas in the Round recording we did. The year was 2020 – full Covid lockdown. Many good people lost to this virus. Far too many. We gathered online at Dan Mangan’s Sidedoor Access. Shari Ulrich and Barney Bentall. Both on Bowen Island. Opposite Horseshoe Bay! Bill Henderson Not too...
EP 286 | Christmas in the Round 2018 Revisited
It all started as a Christmas Tradition many years ago at the CBC. Christmas songs and stories were exchanged in a studio with artists who knew and respected each other. Roy Forbes and Shari Ulrich were in that studio years ago and over the years we’ve always talked about keeping that tradition alive. (As...