{"id":1655,"date":"2013-09-06T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:23:17","slug":"layne-witherell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/layne-witherell\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 77: Author of \u201cWine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz\u201d Layne Witherell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 77
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, August\u00a031
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Layne Witherell
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Layne Witherell,\u00a0\u00a0author of \u201cWine Maniacs:\u00a0 Life in the Wine Biz\u201d, <\/a>was born in Los Angeles, California. \u00a0After high school, Witherell joined the U.S. Navy and served on the last diesel cold war submarine, the USS Cavalla 244. \u00a0Witherell then attended San Francisco State University, on the G.I. Bill, and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in History with a minor in Humanities. Witherell then taught at San Francisco State in the late 1970’s.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, Steve Woods, (left) talks all things wine with author of “Wine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz” Layne Witherell (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Witherell lived in Oregon in the 1970’s through the 1980’s. He also lived in Montana during the mid-1980’s.\u00a0 Witherell then made his way to the east coast in the laste 1980\u2019s and lived in Virginia where he taught at the University of Virginia.\u00a0 Witherell told Stevoe that he has been fortunate in his life to move place to place and try different positions.<\/p>\n

Witherell came to Maine by way of his Mainer wife, Judy, in the 1990\u2019s.\u00a0 From 2007 through April 2011, Witherell was the General Manager of Maine Beverage Company.\u00a0 Witherell described for Stevoe the key elements in choosing a wine are the place where the grape grows, the vintage and the person who dedicated their time to the wine.\u00a0 He also told Stevoe of\u00a0the favorite winery he ever visited in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cWine Maniacs:\u00a0 Life in the Wine Biz\u201d recounts Witherell’s 30 year odyssey through the wine business. \u00a0Over the course of the last three decades, Witherell has been a wholesaler, a retail buyer, an importer, a wine educator, a radio talk show host, a wine journalist, a wine competition judge, and has taught over 15 years of wine classes. \u00a0“Wine Maniacs” is part storytelling, part food-and-wine discussion, part wine education.\u00a0 Wine Maniacs:\u00a0 Life in the Wine Biz has been called “edgy and educational”,” a well-informed romp” and “the Kitchen Confidential of wine”.<\/p>\n

Witherell has written several of America’s greatest wine lists.\u00a0 Witherell received a Wine Spectator Grand Award for the wine list he created for the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Layne Witherell, author of “Wine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz\u201d, stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to discuss all things wine with host Steve Woods. They spoke about how they both came to Maine by way of marrying Maine women. Witherell also told Stevoe the key elements in choosing a wine and to always try the wine at home, never at the winery. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}