Episodes

  • EP 328 | 2024 The State of BC Wine -With Winemakers, Owners, Wine Growers and Master of Wine Opinions

    EP 328 | 2024 The State of BC Wine -With Winemakers, Owners, Wine Growers and Master of Wine Opinions
    Dec 1 2024
    We're nearing the end of a volatile year in BC Wine. It featured wildfires, floods, COVID, road closures, price, tax and wage increases and two cold snaps over two Winters. Vineyards were damaged or destroyed by the freeze. Wineries and growers were facing a 2025 with little or no wines to cellar and sell. The Wine Industry and Government leadership came up with a plan to allow BC Wineries to harvest next year's fruit this year in Washington, Oregon, California, Ontario and The Cowichan Valley. As long as the label states "Crafted in BC" and the process is transparent. Will BC wine fans buy their favourite labels if the fruit comes from another region? If they like the new juice, will they still embrace their original BC wines? What gets replanted, and what new varietals will we see growing in the new BC? So much to consider. Which is why we've invited four of the most connected leaders from the BC wine industry to share opinions, suggestions and creative ideas over the course of an hour. They are: Cristine Coletta: Co-Owner Okanagan Crush Pad. For 9 years, executive director of the BC Wine Institute! Specialist in marketing and branding wine. www.okanagancrushpad.com DJ Kearney - Wine Director The Terminal City Club. Wine Educator at large. @djwines www.tcclub.com Rhys Pender - Master of Wine. Co-owner of Little Farm Wine. Similkameen Valley www.wineplus.ca Lauren Skinner Buksevics- Director of Sales and Marketing Painted Rock. Okanagan Falls. Member of the Wine Growers of BC Board. @paintedrocklaur @paintedrockwine www.paintedrock.ca www.winebc.com www.totabc.org
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    35 mins
  • EP 327 | Stories of Touring , their solo album ‘As The World Fades Away’ and Launching the Blue rodeo Documentary ‘Lost Together’

    EP 327 | Stories of Touring , their solo album ‘As The World Fades Away’ and Launching the Blue rodeo Documentary ‘Lost Together’
    Nov 24 2024

    Jim Cuddy guests on Mulligan Stew Saturday.

    He’s on stage Saturday with The Jim Cuddy Band at the National Art Center Ottawa and Wednesday next at Massey Hall.
    Then Jim and Blue Rodeo partner Greg Keelor head for The Whistler Film Fest Dec 6-8
    For the premier of their documentary Lost Together.

    2025 will be a celebration of Blue Rodeo's 40th anniversary.
    Lots to talk about.
    Complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast and terrydavidmulligan YouTube channel
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    31 mins
  • EP 326 | Life On The Edge. Lisa Ahier (Top Chef Canada)

    EP 326 | Life On The Edge. Lisa Ahier (Top Chef Canada)
    Nov 17 2024
    Lisa Ahier is known far and wide as the owner and chef at Sobo in Tofino. Sobo is the kind of dining and room you like so much, you send all your best friends there. It's the centre of the town. Locals meet there for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lisa has moved on from Sobo and is now making notes for her third book and has become the darling of this years Top Chef competition. Five shows in and she's still there, the oldest competitor since they started years ago. We have lots to talk about - lean in, it's a hoot. https://www.instagram.com/lisaahier/
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    22 mins
  • EP 325 | The Last Roundup with Barney Bentall

    EP 325 | The Last Roundup with Barney Bentall
    Nov 12 2024

    Barney Bentall is bringing The Last Roundup through the West. Next Friday at Bella Hall in Calgary.
    It’s the final tour of the Caribou Express. Over 20 years of seasonal touring, Barney and various members of Caribou Express raised Millions for charities all across Canada.
    Especially, serious money for food banks late in the year when they really need it.
    Barney gives us an update on the last lineup, the lives of his Express friends over the years and final thoughts on what lies ahead for the rocker and rancher.

    www.barneybentall.com
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    18 mins
  • EP 324 | Author Luke Whittall and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books

    EP 324 | Author Luke Whittall and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books
    Oct 21 2024
    Look who's on a Roll - It's this week's guest, Author Luke Whittall Luke and his Sipster's Pocket Guides Books. In the third volume in the popular Sipster’s Pocket Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from scented candles to middle children to jazz hands. With food and activity pairings that range from Thai noodles and pool noodles to classic rock and hootenannies, and an index of attitudes that lets you choose a wine based on your mood (come hither, dressed to kill, razzle-dazzle), the Sipster’s guides are equal parts freewheeling and focused. Divided into chapters on sparkling, white, rosé, red, and dessert wines, the latest volume of Sipster’s will snap you out of a catatonic funk in the liquor store and stick around for a quiet evening paging through a book—perhaps this book and perhaps there’s even a wine for that. Welcome to Volume 3, where a Viognier can be a lot like a bouncy castle, a red blend that is the icing on top of another layer of icing and also a wine that will upstage Taylor Swift and Kayne and an adventurous evening calls for a certain Trebianno (not the guy from Friends . . . but then again, maybe?). The Sipsters series are written in language anyone can understand. Words we all use and can remember a day later. Make no mistake, Luke knows his wines from the vineyards to the bottle. He just makes the journey much easier than it really is. We also start TRR with a conversation about vineyard damage & recovery, plus the coming discovery of BC Wines made with Washington grapes. So those damaged vineyards, wineries and wine-farming families can survive the next couple of years. And heads UP - The Sipster's Ontario Vol 2 is coming - just in time for Christmas. Then surely, the Luke Whittall film starring Ryan Reynolds. Www.sipsterswinepodcast.ca/books Luke Whittall Online: The Sipster's Wine Podcast - Sipsters Icons on Substack WWW. Books: "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 More Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 3" 2024 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try Ontario Wines, Volume 1" 2023 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 2" 2023 (Touchwood Editions) "The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 1" 2021 (Touchwood Editions) "The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide" 6th Edition (with John Schreiner) 2020 (Touchwood Editions) "Valleys of Wine: A Taste of British Columbia's Wine History" 2019 (Whitecap Books)
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    49 mins
  • EP 323 | Natalie MacLean - Wine Witch on Fire

    EP 323 | Natalie MacLean - Wine Witch on Fire
    Oct 12 2024
    The full title of Natalie Maclean's memoir is Wine Witch on Fire Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation and Drinking Too Much. For all of you who bought and read Natalie's book Red, White and Drunk All Over and listened to her podcast Unreserved Wine Talk, this memoir is a completely different read. She discovers her husband of many years is leaving the relationship and at the same time, her wine rivals decide to tell the wine world that she's not nearly as accomplished as we think. Despite multiple awards for her writing and knowledge, Natalie has to rebuild her career, fight for her son and find an elusive second chance in a business that rarely gives you any. All of this drama is played out in a wine world where many women are taken for granted and rarely given credit for their skills. Yup - Wine Witch is a thriller. And it's funny, just in time for Christmas.

    You can get Natalie MacLean's new memoir Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much in paperback, ebook or audiobook from these retailers.

    She hosts the podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk, and offers popular online wine and food pairing classes at www.nataliemaclean.com.
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    36 mins
  • EP 322 | Kris Kristofferson interview 2006-(New Orleans sessions) Blue Moon Marquee

    EP 322 | Kris Kristofferson interview 2006-(New Orleans sessions) Blue Moon Marquee
    Oct 6 2024

    We meet Blue Moon Marquee - Al Cardinal and Jasmine Colette - on the stage at the Osbourne Bay Pub in Crofton, Vancouver Island.

    That stage was the first place they met and then played together many times as Blue Moon Marquee.

    They've come a long way since that stage. Juno Winners, sweeping the 2023 Maple Blues Awards and still winning awards including this week.

    After a decade of stages and touring comes the 5th album New Orleans Sessions. Recorded in New Orleans in two days - Four hours each day. One track Trickster Coyote was a first take. Recorded with some of the very best New Orleans players.

    Lots of stories and new music. Also news of the next two projects they intend to present.

    They start their next tour October 26th at Festival Place, Sherwood Park. October dates in Lloydminster, Daysland and Athabaska. - and April 5 at the Arden

    (complete interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast)

    We start the Mulligan Stew Podcast Stew remembering and celebrating the life and music of the late Kris Kristofferson.

    From the Mulligan Stew archives we replay the Kris Kristofferson interview we did 2006 backstage at Calgary Folk Festival.

    Answering media questions, including my own:

    Kris talks about Johnny Cash, Willie and his sons, Hank Williams, movies, performing solo, the Nashville Underground, songwriters these days John Prine, Todd Snider, Shooter Jennings, and how nervous he gets singing for 12,000 people.

    Please enjoy…honoured to bring you both artists!!
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Ep 321 | The Fretless - With new album Glass Wing

    Ep 321 | The Fretless - With new album Glass Wing
    Sep 29 2024
    The Fretless guest on The Stew. Karrnnel Sawitsky and Trent Freeman - one-half of The Fretless join us.
    Saturday in the first hour. Their album - Glass Wing is brilliant. With 3 songs cowritten and sung by Madeleine Roger. Classically trained, raised on rock, jazz, blues, folk and heritage roots, they take all those influences and combine them into a sound unlike any other group. They take 100 year old shanty's and reshape the song without losing the original melody so it can last another 100 years. In Glass Wing, they write all their own tunes. Three co-written with Madeleine Roger. There is such joy in hearing violins, violas and cellos driving the beat where normally the drums and bass would be. Impressive my friends. Very impressive. Have a listen to Pipe Dreams! The Queen Nancy - named after a car and a make-believe BC Ferry. Icarus - a Madeleine beauty Or the lead track Lost Lake. This marks a new chapter The Fretless. With Lights, sound and stage design created especially for this album, these songs and this tour. The Fretless Tour
    • Oct 3 Fanny Bay
    • Oct 4 Comox
    • Oct 5 Victoria
    • Oct 6 Van
    • October 10 Calgary
    • October 11 Edmonton
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    38 mins