The Team
Matthew Fettig
Creator
A screenwriting hobby led to many nights of wine samplings and discussions, blind tastings, challenges to identify varietal, AVA, vintage, and the question – why do some foods work so well with certain wines? The result is this show. With a diverse background in real estate, finance, telecommunications, and construction, this is the passion project.
Tom Connell
Creator
Tom is a professional civil engineer whose obsession with wine led him to work in the winery development business in Healdsburg. “It keeps me in the vineyards year ’round, and allows me to work with winemakers and growers.” In his spare time, Tom is also a passionate amateur winemaker, cook, jazz musician, and recording engineer.
Karen Hannah
Pairing Specialist
Although I’ve worked in the wine industry for over a decade now, my first career was in education as a poetry professor. I’ve found people have the same fears about wine as they do poetry. They feel they need to come equipped with the right words or they won’t have a voice or palate to speak to their experience.
My approach is to meet people exactly where they are and help them learn to speak about their palate with openness and ongoing curiosity. In addition to building palate-first wine experiences, I’m also a small winemaker and provide wine consultancy services to boutique wineries.