06/20 Brooke Peterson, Private Chefs of Beverly Hills, Stephanie Honig, Honig Vineyard and Winery, Cobb Hirsch Vineyards, Larry Sharp, William Shatner, Hot in Cleveland

Brooke Peterson - Star of The Food Network’s “Private Chefs of Beverly Hills”

Brooke Peterson is a lifestyles expert like no other and believes FUN to be paramount in every aspect of her multi-faceted life.

Growing up as the daughter of designer and the granddaughter of a chef, you could say she was born into the Ultimate Martha Stewart Training Camp…on steroids.   It was among these women that Brooke’s creative juices starting flowing and set her on her path - a career and life dedicated to making something out of nothing and making everything uniquely fun.

Upon moving to Los Angeles in 2006, Brooke created and starred in Yahoo’s original series Cheap N Easy, a tremendously popular cooking and lifestyles show. Brooke’s quick wit, humor and tremendous attention to budget allowed her to stand strong among the other talent on the site including Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck and Rachael Ray.  Next she went on to star in Food Network’s Private Chefs of Beverly Hills.

Named by various newspapers and media outlets as ‘one to watch,’ Brooke has worked as a correspondent for Showtime, V.I.P. Access, The T.V. Guide Channel, The Style Network, The Rachael Ray Show, CW’s Career Day, Martha Stewart Radio, Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer, TV Guide, Health Magazine, Nickelodeon’s Parents Connect, Los Angeles Magazine, MommyCast.com and Rock What You Got with Brooke Peterson on Style Haul.

In the summer of 2010 Brooke welcomed her daughter Rome Issabella into the world and added All things Mom to her resume as a lifestyles expert.

Brooke owns and operates the creative services firm, Experience Architecture in Los Angeles. Her firm creates one of a kind projects and events for private Hollywood clients, hotels and celebrities.

Brooke Peterson’s brand operates under one simple philosophy…Celebrate Every Moment and she can be found doing exactly throughout this site.


Stephanie Honig - Honig Vineyard & Winery

Rutherford Dust Society Private Tasting  - On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Rutherford Dust Society, I would like to invite you to our annual, private media tasting of the Top 20 Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignons on Wednesday, July 10th at the Beaulieu Vineyard Rutherford House, 1074 Rutherford Road. Join president Regina Weinstein, Andy Beckstoffer, Davie Pina, Jeffrey Stambor and other key members of the Rutherford Dust Society for a guided tasting and panel discussion, which will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m.  Please plan to arrive at 10:00 for a meet and greet. This year, we will focus on the 2010 vintage of Cabernet Sauvignon and cabernet blends from the Rutherford AVA, tasting the wines first in an open format with a panel of growers and vintners from the appellation. Following this exclusive media tasting, we’ll enjoy the same wines and discussion over lunch, also at the Rutherford House.   After lunch, you are welcome to join us for A Day in the Dust, a grand tasting for Bay Area trade representatives, which will offer wines from more than 35 Rutherford AVA wineries. Media will have early entry at 1:30. The tasting will also feature a White Wine Tasting Bar, offering guests the opportunity to taste a selection of Rutherford white wines from the 2012 vintage. We will take the short walk from the Rutherford House to the barrel room at Beaulieu Vineyard.IMPORTANT: the afternoon tasting will take place in a working winery. Due to legal restrictions, please wear closed-toe shoes and no high heels.


Ross Cobb - Winemaker at Hirsch Vineyards 
   

Long time friend of our family, our site, and its fruit. Worked with Hirsch grapes while making wine at Williams Selyem and at Flowers where he was chief wine jefe from 2004-2008. His family planted and farms Coastlands Vineyard down the coast from us: he is a total denizen of this True Sonoma Coast.

Perched on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Fort Ross, Hirsch Vineyards is the birth ground of great pinot noir on the extreme Sonoma Coast. David Hirsch founded the vineyard in 1980 to grow fruit and make site-specific wine. From the start all efforts have been on the growing of fruit that makes wines profoundly characteristic of the site vintage after vintage.

The wines from Hirsch Vineyards give the passionate drinker an experience of the clash of opposites meeting in Nature and Life: the edge of the continent washed by the sea; the eviternal grinding of the North American and Pacific plates along the San Andreas Fault; the wet winters and dry summers caused by the ocean and desert climates; the dripping rainforest and parched pastures; the contact and intermingling of cultures: Native American, Mexican, Russian, European; the change in rural economy from logging and ranching to winegrowing.

In the wines of Hirsch Vineyards you find a natural balance and consistency in the harmonious resolution of these opposites. This complex, unique site produces fruit and wines of unusual acidity and balance with a vintage specific concentration of pinot noir or chardonnay fruit. These are wines to be enjoyed now or laid down for future consumption.


Larry Sharp – KVYN and KVON

Wine Country Broadcasting Company is a small San Francisco, California, United States, based radio broadcasting company that owns radio stations in Napa and Saint Helena, a broadcast translator in Calistoga, and repeater in Cordelia, California.

Wine Country Broadcasting, a California corporation, is owned by the Roger O. Walther SP Trust, and administered by the Tusker Corporation of San Francisco (a Delaware corporation). The trust is administered by Roger O. Walther and Anne Newton Walther, husband and wife. Roger O. Walther is the Chairman and CEO of Tusker.

Wine Country Broadcasting bought the properties in 2003 from Charles B. Moss III, and CBM Napa LLC.


William Shatner

To celebrate its summer premiere, the cast of "Hot in Cleveland" took on a challenge most shows don't even consider. Thought it's been seen from time to time in recent years as a stunt, this was the first time "Hot in Cleveland" went live, That said, series star Betty White is more than familiar with live television, as most of television was broadcast that way when she got her start.

Overall, it was a fairly seamless performance, with nobody breaking character or noticeably messing up. Zap2It was looking for flubs, and attributed the only one they could notice to Betty White herself, ironically enough. But it happened early and didn't disrupt the flow of the scene.
Even the litany of guest stars had no problems with the live format, including Danny Pudi ("Community"), Brian Baumgartner ("The Office"), Shirley Jones and -- strangely -- William Shatner as Jones' son. Strange because Shatner is actually older than Jones.

But while nobody broke character during the episode, it was a whole different ballgame at the end, with the dialogue clearly talking about the live experience. "Right on time, give or take," Joy said.

“I don’t know about you, but my hands are empty. I feel like I need a martini," Victoria countered.

And that's exactly what the ladies did, as evidenced by the pictures they all shared via Twitter of them each enjoying a martini.

The summer season of "Hot in Cleveland" continues -- albeit not live -- every Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on TV Land.