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This week, new age tech moguls and aspiring natural wine enthusiasts Hunty Miles and Mack Horsey guest host for the Blondes. They cover questions that often pop up around the natural wine movement and explore the differences, and the overlapping similarities, between organic and biodynamic wine production. Join Hunty and Mack as they pitch ideas to start their very first NFT winery, decide how many personal shamans they need, and regale the harrowing time they summited Mt. Everest… for the 4th time.

That's right, we just got back from holiday – not in Portugal unfortunately – but from a brief little excursion to Long Beach, Washington, where we recorded this episode just for you! Take a journey through Portugal as we cover some of the country’s main exports to the U.S., including Vinho Verde, red blends from the Dão DOC, plus fortified dessert wines from Port and Madeira. Learn about the famous Douro Valley and listen to some fun facts that you can casually drop into conversation with your friends over a fine glass of Tawny Port while sitting in your immaculate study that smells of rich leather chairs  and old books.

“There is Zinfandel in them thar hills!” Why yes, old-timey prospector man, there is! California is known for its big red wines (like Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa), but they are also known for spicy and fruit-forward Zinfandel! So move over Napa, because this week Hallie and Adrien are taking a steam locomotive to Lodi and Paso Robles to showcase other diverse regions in California’s massive wine country.

From our very green corner of Portland, OR, we take you to another lush and rainy place...known as Green Spain! Or Basque country, to be more precise, where citizens drink the lightly fizzy wine known as Txakoli (CHA-koh-lee), and use way too many consonants in everything. Hallie and Adrien discuss this upper northwest corner of Spain and why it’s a haven of white wine, and even get a visit or two from a famous pop star (please Seal, don’t sue us).

For part two in our series covering the Coastal Region/Western Cape of South Africa, we play an exciting game of South African Jeopardy, look at the Bordeaux blends of Stellenbosch, welcome the comeback of the blind tasting... And of course, play 7 things, in which we are pretty sure Adrien has a new product pitch for Shark Tank for cold single people and Hallie has big carnival plans for some sheep.

In the first part of our series covering the Coastal Region/Western Cape of South Africa, we look into the area’s history, wine origins and discuss some of the strange names they have for climate and soil. We explore the appellation of Swartland, Chenin Blanc, and discuss Pinotage’s strange history from a life at an “experimental farm” to a grape that divides wine critics with fun tasting notes like banana oil and road rage.