Wine, Story & Community: Danny Baker of Mission Grape | The Cook's Station at Home Ep. 6

Wine, Story & Community: A Conversation with Danny Baker of Mission Grape

There's a moment Danny Baker describes from a trip to Napa Valley about 25 years ago - shoes in the dirt of a California vineyard, shaking hands with the person who grew the grapes - when everything clicked. He'd spent years managing wine programs at some of Greenville's best restaurants. He knew wine. But standing in that vineyard, he understood it for the first time: wine isn't a product. It's the story of a place, told in a bottle.

 In Episode 6 of The Cook's Station at Home, Danny joins hosts Emmie Wood, John Colacioppo, and Kelly Colacioppo for a wide-ranging conversation about how Greenville's wine culture grew up, what makes a small family-owned distributor different from the big players, and why the most exciting wine region in America right now might be one you've never been to.

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