Sileni Estates wines with Nigel Avery

Ladies and gentlemen?  Let us introduce you to the glory that is New Zealand wines from Sileni Estates.  When in doubt, buy all their stuff.  Srsly. Nigel Avery, our guest for this show, is from this New Zealand based winery, Sileni Estates, and taught us a bunch of stuff about his family, their wines, and…

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White Wines (wha???) with Natalie Nowytski and Scott Keever

That’s right!  A whole episode dedicated to white wines.  Yup, the body snatchers finally got Lana and Dawn so they decided to focus on wines that go with holiday fare like chicken, turkey and the like. The opening of our newest episode features original music written and performed by Scott on Lana’s Steinway.  Take that…

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Halloween Candy Wine Pairing of Suffering and Misery

This episode of Screw It! began with high hopes for Lana and Dawn.  We’ve all seen the charts and articles about pairing Halloween candy with wines and our fans have been posting them to our Facebooks. We decided, why not? This sounds like fun! IT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF FUN. Jena Young and Christopher Stenzel…

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Wines from the Phoenix Theater with Laura McCullough and Kelly McCullough

(Had another technical issue getting our podcast to post on WordPress. We blame Kelly.)   We are back at the Phoenix Theater to have the wines Mionetto Rose (“It’s not bad!”) and Coastal Ridge Cabernet (“It’s non-offensive!”) with Laura and Kelly McCullough! What is a gender researcher? Why is Kelly always wrong? How long will…

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“Off the Vine” at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival

In Screw It!’s second episode at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, we decided to focus all (well, most) of our wine drinking super powers at “Off the Vine” wine tasting featuring Fearless Comedy Productions. This event costs $20 and is about an hour long. Welcome to Screw It!’s first mini-episode! We got to try, in…

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Wines from the Phoenix Theater with Windy Bowlsby and Chad Dutton

We’re at the Phoenix Theater drinking their wines in this next episode of Screw It! We’ve got the amazingly talented Windy Bowlsby and super fabulous “faux gay” Chad Dutton drinking Prosecco Doc Tosti and Salmon Creek 2012 Pinot Noir. Then Dawn makes Lana drink canned wine product! Flip Flop Fizzy Sangria! Mwa ha ha…

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Frozen Wine Product with Jeff D. Larson and phillip andrew bennet low

(WordPress was being a jerk so here’s how the podcast file needed to be done this time.) (Also, my sd card fried and we lost all the super great pics of this episode. Curse you technology!!!)   Why???? Why???? Why did we do this???? The answer? Duck Washington. Listen to us slowly lose the will…

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My Favorite Restaurant’s House Wine with Mame Pelletier and Derek “Duck” Washington

This episode we’re drinking the house wines served at our favorite restaurants! Lana is representing Cheeky Monkey and their wine, Angeline Pinot Noir 2013. Dawn’s fave is El Loro AKA “El Fatso” and their house wine, House Wine Cabernet Sauvignon. And Duck brought us a real Pinot in Montoya Pinot Noir 2012 from the…

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Wine Doojobs with Kelvin Hatle and Salsa Sterling

We’re told we need to buy millions of wine thingies to make our drinking experiences miraculously better. Well? In this episode we try out a handful of doojobs and give our opinions. And! The word Dachshund can be rhymed! But should scotch incense car fresheners be a thing? We play with an aerator, get…

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The Crap I Learned in Paris with Kaylynn Raschke and Alexis Van Hurkman

With a surprise guest appearance by Port! (The beverage!) Our guests, Kaylynn and Alexis, taste our mighty fine French wines and learn all about the stuff Dawn discovered about wines in her recent trip to Paris. This is probably the most educational episode yet! We’re drinking J-P Moueix Bordeaux 2010 and Le Prince de Courthezon…

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