What's the community/economic development leadership equivalent of terroir? This week's guest! Tracy Sayegh Gabriel, President & CEO of National Landing BID joins us for a joyful conversation about creating community and a sense of place...kinda like terroir. She's an innovative urbanist and planner focused on helping communities shape and implement plans for neighborhood and downtown vibrancy, inclusive economic development, capital investment, and programming. And she's in our neighborhood! And she likes a good orange/amber wine. We're sipping the 2023 RocketFish from Slater Run, 100% Viognier, a Governor's Cup submission, and one of VinePair's best 25 orange wines of 2025.

Cheers to Slater Run Vineyard. VinePair, National Landing BID. Photo: Washington Business Journal

Guy Talk at with Jimi brings wine into the snowboard world - no rules, no pressure. Joined by fellow snowboard instructors, Henry Gallo & Fisher Boeckmann who are at different stages of their wine journeys, Jimi and Zena talk earned drinks, confidence, dating menus, favorite bottles and how wine connects to memory. From Barboursville Merlot to Willamette Valley Chardonnay to Elijah Craig Bourbon to après-snowboard truths, this episode is about drinking what you like and riding your own line. Do you remember your first snowboard?

There's nothing like sitting in a beautiful tasting room, with a brilliant creative vigneron and vintner, doing a side-by-side tasting of his French and Virginia chardonnays. The delightful Michael Shaps of Michael Shaps Winery and Maison Shaps joins us for an old world/new world discussion that's a lively as his wines!

2022 Michael Shaps Wild Meadow Vineyard Chardonnay and the 2023 Maison Shaps Les Chazots, Bourgone Côte-D'Or Chardonnay.

Cheers to: Lycée Viticole de Beaune, Maison Chartron et Trebuchet,

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