Meet our super fantastic peeps:
Name: Sandy Hanshaw
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Favorite Wine Experience: Discovering that good wine was not Boone’s Farm, during a college summer studies program in Switzerland drinking and enjoying European wines.
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? I’d like to have a glass of wine with my group of friends from Portland ….we only get together once a year, which is not nearly enough.
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? My Ipod died, but it was full of great 80’s music and DMB.
Name: Sean Murphy
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Favorite Wine Experience: any evening spent with good friends and good food that involves a bottle or bottles of wine;
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? The writer Gore Vidal, at his villa in Ravello, Italy
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? Silver Sun Pickups, Kings of Leon, Wyclef Jean
Name: Chef Malissa Sorsby
Hometown: Albany, NY
Favorite Wine Experience: Every Holiday with my family, Especially Christmas. Sharing a bottle of my mom's favorite German wine and everybody in the kitchen pretending to help but secretly stealing bits of turkey, ham, and fresh cranberries.
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? Would like to have a glass of wine with: Jacques Pepin, in my kitchen. Or Nelson Mandela, wherever.
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? Beck, Third Eye Blind, Ray Lamontagne, the Clash, Paranoid Social Club.
Name: Andy Hanshaw
Hometown: Tucson, AZ
Favorite Wine Experience: I’m a craft beer guy but there will be many new amazing experiences to come at The WP.
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? Would like to have a glass of wine with: Miles and Jack from “Sideways”.
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? Don’t have those things, satellite radio guy. Tuning into radio Margaritaville is always good.
Name: Jen Gibson
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, CA
Favorite Wine Experience: Drinking good wine with great friends (throw in some fantastic food and conversation and it's always a fun experience).
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? My grandparents in their hometown in Italy.
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? Jack Johnson, Adele, Bob Marley, Slightly Stoopid, The Script... anything that fits my current mood.
Name: Patti Betts
Hometown: Vancouver, WA
Favorite Wine Experience: My wine experiences are just beginning but any time spent with friends or family sharing a bottle of wine is always amazing.
If you could have a glass of wine with anyone (dead or alive) who would it be and where? Would like to have a glass of wine with: My best girlfriends back home. Some things will never change.
What’s playing on your Pandora/iTunes? The greatest hits of Dave Matthews and Jack Johnson.