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The Escape Pod

The Escape Pod

By: Drew Cuddy and Sean Magruder
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 Co-hosted by Satellite owner Drew Cuddy and wine writer/Satellite alumni Sean Magruder, The Escape Pod provides a star’s-eye view of the natural wine landscape while diving deep into the people and techniques on the ground and the soils beneath them. Join us each month for an exploration into the Satellite galaxy, in which transparent farming and handcrafted beverages inform our wine club selections, winemaker conversations and the contents of your glass. We’ll interview the faces behind the current month’s releases, taste through the wines and go big-picture to map them out in the bright night sky. Pop a bottle and escape with us to the cosmos of natural wine.Stü Podcast Network 2023 Art Cooking Economics Food & Wine Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • Ep.01 - Gretchen Voelcker of Luna Hart Wines

    Ep.01 - Gretchen Voelcker of Luna Hart Wines
    Feb 3 2023

    January’s chill means we’re cozying up to Syrah, a grape local winemaker Gretchen Voelcker knows well from her Luna Hart project as well as Piazza Family Wines in Ballard Canyon. There’s probably no one better to inaugurate this podcast than Gretchen – her Luna Hart bottlings have graced our wine shop’s shelves and by-the-glass list since liftoff in 2017. Within a few short years, though, Gretchen has further honed her drive to make wines of place and the skills and moxie to execute them. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, diving into Gretchen’s winemaking career thus far, what it’s like making Syrah for both Luna Hart and Piazza, the grape’s expressions in Santa Barbara vs. France’s Northern Rhône Valley and so much more.

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    Hosts:

    Drew Cuddy (@satellitesb, satellitesb.com)

    Sean Magruder (@magruscadet)

    Guest:

    Gretchen Voelcker (@luna.hart.wines, lunahartwines.com)

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    Produced by The Stü Podcast Network (@whois.stu, whoisstu.com)
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