hello and welcome. today, wine country visits the silicone valley. we return here on your comunidad del ps valle. >> we're back here. this is my kind of show. we're loaded up here because this is the annual event where the napa valley, sonoma valley and silicone valley which is rich in producing wine comes together in one location. with me here are the organizers of the event. ray and maria. welcome to the show.

>> thank you. >> and ray, you've brought some great whines over the past few years here to comunidad del valle. >> overdid it. and look at the names. el ray. tonto. great whines. >> we have some pictures from previous years that we grabbed from your website. but tell us about thisser use's event and what makes this special. >> this year we're going to do the food and wine paring, which should be interesting. we're going to pair the food with the whines and you're going to walk around and start with the white whines and end up with the reds. and that makes it special when you do that because a lot of people response and food and wine paring, we like that. that's a good experience. >> i know many of the people would attend the event at the end say i want to be a part of this. talk about your situation and how involved you are. >> i'm part of the board and

he's my cousin. it's a wonderful event. i mean, if you are like me, giving back to the community, it seems like having fun, this is the event to attend. for me, it's the summer event. it's a must attend, great music, wine, food, we have desserts. this year we have ice cream and tortilla soup. the band will be playing. that should be a lot of fun, so bring your dancing shoes. and we also have artura coranado, who is a singer, fabulous. he has a velvet voice. so you have to come. >> oh, this is the event of the year, if you will, ray. you've made it that way because of the high caliber. how many vendors are coming inspect. >> 16. we have three that have been with us from day one -- or two.

stefania and el veseo. people forget that it's not just napa sa known ma, but now it's sane ta clara county, livermore, that's what we want to make people aware of. not only latino vendors, but vendors from santa clara county. >> is this for those of us who maybe can't get away as often as we like to get to wine country? >> we just hit it right on the nail. we're bringing them here with some great restaurants. you know, we have eight restaurants and the super market, so -- and these aren't appetizers. again, you've been there.

each restaurant brings enough for 100 people. >> a full plate of food. >> a full plate. of course, we have the desserts and a bit of a 1950 high screen. >> so it offers a lot. >> the arts, of course, we'll have our jewelry, we'll have a silent auction, a live auction, if you want to get to a live auction for three days, we've got a live auction for you. >> and this is all fun and games and it's great to taste all these whines. it's all great to talk about that. coming up on august 1st, great venue for a great opportunity. we'll be back more.

maria, this is a -- again, it's a great place to enjoy some great rich whines. eat some fabulous food and enjoy some great music.

an all-out great night in silicone valley. >> exactly. it's really fun. i said if you are looking for an event that you can say -- you can look back and remember i'm happy i went to this event and i want to go next year, this is the event. it's a beautiful, family friendly event. this year we're going to have safety for the children and arts and craft table. it's family friendly. it's also okay to bring your business cards, for people to bring your business cards. there's a lot of networking going on. >> i've seen that. you're absolutely right. there's a lot of people you might want to meet there. ray, the bottom line is there's some great organizations who help some great people are going to be benefiting from this. >> definitely. we have rodacare and it was started from 25 years ago. from doctors in the pay area. now there's 12 clinics, but what it is, it's a free clinic for the uninsured. no questions asked, and ours is

over at the washington clinic in san jose. washington elementary. so that is a great one. women and children's center with their centers over on the eastside. and valdez math. valdez math, again, they've celebrated their 25th anniversary. they have a proven track record. summer boot camp for kids. you have to qualify for this program scorewise. let's say the family doesn't have the funds and that's where we come in, you know, for several of these. >> you know, it would be easy for you to make a big profit out of this. and create a for-profit organization, but that's not the premise. the premise is to give back. >> yeah. and it's 100% volunteer. we also, what we're doing this year, too, is we're asking all our attendees to bring travel sized toiletries, jim socks, and razors. and that's to support home

first, which was ehc life builders. we're going to collect it for them and i think they're going to pick them up. >> how big of a no-brainer is this to attend the event. >> they go together. for me, it's that if you are like me, as i mentioned before, it's like getting to give back to the community and you want to enjoy your time with friends, great food, this is the event to come. it's a no-brainer. it's a must. if you miss it, you will regret it. >> and it's our time, it goes from what time to what time? >> 6:00 to 10:00. get there early. get there early. >> and you get your glass. you've got your glass right here. >> you'll get your glass and walk away with all of this and take some of the great vines scattered throughout the history part.

>> starting at 6:00 on august 1st, there is more information. sabordelvalle.org. log on and find out which organizations, those that help the needy will be benefiting from your assittending this gre event. thank you all so much for what you're doing for our community. >> thank you. and up next, whines. stay with us.

one of the featured vendors at this annual sabordel valle event, ray is the owner and wine maker for one of the brands. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> first of all, i think we have to ask you the obvious question. this is the name and the label. it's a name that i can relate to. i've been called that since i was probably 3 or 4 years old. why the name? >> well, we figured we were

getting in trouble doing this crazy operation starting a winery. we wanted to pay tribute to the heritage of california. looking through texts and looking up names, we thought why don't we directly translate mischevious. we found travieso. it translate toes this crazy adventure we're get intoog. >> everybody knows what it means, basically. >> and it's a term of endearment, as well, too. >> absolutely. now, talk about your venture. let's talk about your whines first and the high quality of wine that you produce. >> well, we source -- we don't have our own vineyards, but we source vineyards from all over california. premium vineyards by the acres so we can go in and manage the vineyard with the farmer and harvest the grapes at the most premium time and crop thin.

crop thinning is very important for us so that we have a great, tight control on over quality. is and so we harvest our main vineyard is lebeau vineyard in dry creek. we also do the -- from the highlands. and we do a rome blend from santa barbara county. >> how do you convince a grower to say give me an acre here and an acre there and i want to do my own thing. >> we basically say we're going to pay a set fee for the full acre. no matter how much we crop, then that farmer will receive the same am. so we're basically paying for the grapes that we drop on the ground which don't make it to harvest. and it's very important for us to work with the farmer year after year so that we're on the same page all the time. >> and do you -- can you get these at the market or do you have to go to -- >> we are in few markets locally. very sporadically. we're featured at e grill on the alley in downtown san jose.

we also have a small tasting room at campbell at our winery, but it's only open on saturdays. >> what makes you guys unique, do you think, aside from labels? >> well, we tried to present our passion. we tried to be proud of, first of all, we make the wine for ourselves. and we believe that will reflect in the quality and that will define us. and we're not trying to be anybody but ourselves. >> now what was it about saborda del valle five years ago that made you say i'm in? >> we were very excited about being part of the community. we want to show our love for the san jose area and the people and we thought it was a great fit. and, you know, we're just so happy to be participating. >> examine that's great. you've been doing this for ten years. what were you doing before?

again, what made you say -- let's try this. >> my buddy showed up at my house with a pickup full of grapes and a barrel and he said, ray, we're making wine. so he's a big picture guy and i'm the detail guy. so it really worked out. and we just don't developed a love for wine making. >> and it's science. >> i think it did. all of my reading and my mistakes with homemaking in the living room. >> on how to make your own line. >> maybe i could, yes. >> anything unique that you've gotten over the last five years of participating? we mentioned the flare of the event, the folks who show up. anything that pops into the top of your head? >> it's mostly the comments on your name and how it hit home with people, how they call each other travieso back home and how

they like the -- meeting the winemakers and being, you know -- shaking hands and tasting wine with them and how that's so special to them. so our guests are people that come to our table, all really appreciate that we're there and being part of the whole event. >> now, i am hearing just at an event over in napa the last weekend and i'm hearing that because of the drought and the heat that it's an early harvest season this year. >> yeah. it will be i heard maybe three weeks early. so i'm expect a call from all of our farmers to say get ready, let's go. >> what does it mean for the quality of your wine? >> i think year to clear the climate changes. represents a unique challenge every year and it makes for a different tasting wine. sometimes the acidity is lower, sometimes it's higher. sometimes these sugar levels are higher resulting in a higher

alcohol level. there's always the unique challenge for every vintage. i couldn't say this would be a bad or a good one, but i believe it's going to be very nice. >> give us your website, if you will, as we put up the website. what's your website? >> traviesowinery.com. >> all right. and google that and also log on for some great information. thank you so much for sharing your fine wine with us here on the show. >> thank you, damian. >> all right. up next, stefania wine. stay with us.

he's one of the owners of stefania whines, also participating at this year's event. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> so did you not have a choice of naming your brand of stefanio whines? >> it was a tribute to my wife.

when we came up with the idea, we tried a few different names. some of them we liked, some were okay, but ultimately it was her permission to spend our 401(k)s on the winery, so it seemed like a good tribute to her. >> when was that and how hard -- or was it a hard decision? >> it was a really big decision, a really difficult thing for us to do. we're at the ten-year mark now. we started out taking care of vineyards, so we started out with the farming side of the business. and then to go into the wine making side and do the winery side of the business, it was a big leap. all of them were big leaps to do for us, but it was really exciting and something that was a big deal. >> your advice is to enjoy and traveling over to wine country and sipping on the whines there. your advice, when we have the caliber, the brand that we have here in silicon valley? >> it's it's something to overlook what great wine we have

locally and here in the santa cruz mountains. and much smaller scale, too. when you get to visit a winery here in a local area, you have a high chance that you're going to talk with the winemaker and somebody that's intimately involved in producing the wine. so a smaller scale, much more intimate. and one of the things i think people don't realize is this is a fantastic wine making area. napa took off in the 60s and expanded then. but it was really just a matter of the real estate here not being available for growing grapes. we were building houses and high tech companies. >> right. >> but for the hundred years before that, the santa clara valley was considered the premium wine growing area in california. >> that's why -- were here. talk about what you brought in and the caliber and quality of wine that you produce. >> sure. i brought in one of our bottles today from the santa cruz mountains. >> go ahead and hold it up for us. >> we actually produce caber nays, chardonnay and do some

rone blends, as well. this is grenosh, sherah and more pedra. in france, that blend comes from, what in france is new castle of the popes. we had fathers and -- so we did a play on the words to reflect our heritage in the area. >> and, again, the same question, was it back to school for you to learn the trade or was it something that you googled? >> i did go back to school, enrolled in davis for some classes in wine making and did some remote learning from uk davis which is a premier wine making school in the world. we did enough probably to be dangerous with school. and then a lot of internshipes and on-the-job training, too. i volunteered to work at local wineries as much as i could, which is a lot of times cleaning things and picking up things.

it's all great experience the hard work that you need to do to learn how to make great wine. >> and when ray approached you and said we're having this event, we would like you to participate? >> we were really excited to do it. we don't do a lot of events through the year. we're a small winery, just myself and my wife, two part-time employees. we're very picky. this was not just the wine event, but the combination of food and art and celebrating something we were supportive of. it's been something we look forward to doing every year. >> what is it about that, do you understand people going from booth to booth, tasting these great whines, that we're novices to the questions we're asking about the wine? >> i think people, you know, really go the full gamut. there are definitely experts who know a lot about wine and there's people who are learning. maybe the first time you've been

doing a wine tasting event. the thing i liked about this evening is it's such a great community event. and with everything else going on with the music and the art there, people aren't intimidated by the wine. if they don't know a lot, they feel more comfortable to ask questions and, of course, the winemakers are there which is a great group of people to learn from. and then if you are an skert, there's great whines to try and ray does a great job bringing in wineries from all over the state and great local wineries. so a gralt great opportunity for people. if you're a beginning, you're going to learn a lot and if you're an expert, you're probably going to make some great discoveries, too, because ray has done a great job with the wineries. >> do you find yourself asking questions and saying how do you do this or how do you do that? >> absolutely. winemakers, it's a great industry because we share a lot. and i don't say really that we compete. it's about sharing information

and knowledge and how things are going out in the vineyard for the year, what you're seeing, a very supportive group of people. and really, a community of winemakers. so that's been a great thing about that part of the business to be in. >> and when people approach you this year, what are you -- what do they have in store for that visit at your table? >> we're going to bring out our full group of whines. it will be myself and stefania. we might have one or two friends that come and help us. i think people will get a chance to ask about each bottle of wine and what went into producing it and really get the details on it. a lot of wineries say their whines are handmade, but something that stefania and i take a lot of pride in, we've touched every single clust over grapes that ends up in the bottle of wine. we go through and do the picking. we have friends and family that come out and help with that. and then all the processing ourselves. so you get that really perspective of what it's like from beginning to end from growing the grapes, growing the fruit, all the way through bottling the wine and finishing

it up. and what was involved with each bottle. each bottle and each vintage has a different story. >> what does it say about those who attend the event as patrons or vendors due to the fact that the proceeds go to these worthy organizes and these worthy causes? >> that's another great thing about this event. a lot of these wine tasting events are for profit and this is great that it supports the community. so many organizations benefit from it. as ray said earlier, the addition of bring some small toiletries for, you know, to assist with the homeless initiative that they're doing. so you can feel good about the community, as well. you know, what you're paying to get in is really going back into the community organizations that need that support and certainly makes me feel great to do that. >> sure. >> and know that we're supporting the community we live in. >> i'd have to go to your tasting room on saturdays?

>> we don't have a tasting room. our winery is located in woodside. people can contact us if they would like to come up and see the winery. people like to sign up in advance and know when they're coming out, so they're prepared for that. >> and coming again to san jose, wine country comes to silicone valley. in fact, we have our own wine country here. give us your website. >> www.stefaniawine.com. >> any final thoughts before i let you go? >> i just encourage everybody to come out. this is a fantastic event. we don't do a lot of wine events, but this one we enjoy so much. the art, the music and the wine and food is a great thing for everybody to come out and see. >> i don't know which -- great vendors and great music with tortilla soup and then the food

and everybody else. the camaraderie and the networking. thank you so much for coming on the show ask sharing the stefania wine label on the show. >> thank you. >> we'll see you there. now here is what is happening in your community. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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