Friday, July 26, 2013

07/26 Honore Comfort, Sonoma County Vintners, Miss Robbie Montgomery, Welcome to Sweetie Pies’s, OWN

HONORE COMFORT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS TALKS ABOUT SONOMA WINE COUNTRY WEEKEND – AUG 30-SEPT 1

The Sonoma Wine Country weekend is right around the corner! Reserve your tickets at WWW.SONOMAWINECOUNTRYWEEKEND.COM  or call (855) 939-7666.

Honore Comfort, joined the Sonoma County Vintners as Executive Director in 2006.  Formerly with Foster’s Wine Estates, Ms. Comfort brings an extensive background in wine marketing, consumer marketing, and not-for profit management to the organization.  As Group Brand Manager for Luxury Imports for Fosters, Ms. Comfort was responsible for marketing major wine brands to the North American market including Penfolds and Wynn’s along with other boutique luxury brands.  Prior to the merger with Foster’s, she managed the Rosemount Estate brand for Southcorp Wines and was responsible for a 2 million case business in the US, Canada, and Latin America. She started her wine career as Director of Marketing for a small, family owned winery in Sonoma County’s Dry Creek Valley.

Ms. Comfort gained her marketing and advertising expertise while working as Director of Print Media for Macy’s West in San Francisco.  Her career also includes four years as a successful strategic planner and corporate fundraiser for the Art Institute of Chicago, and other non-profit museums and institutions around the United States. Honore has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts Administration both from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.  Ms. Comfort lives in Healdsburg with her husband, and together they manage their micro-vineyard of 40 year-old Dry Creek Valley Cabernet.

 
MISS ROBBIE MONTGOMERY FROM "WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE'S" GRACES OPRAH'S OWN NETWORK

Miss Robbie Montgomery stars in the 2013 NAACP Award-Winning series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" on Oprah's OWN Network.  For more than 20 years, Miss Robbie had a successful music career, singing back-up for Ike & Tina Turner, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and James Brown.  But when a collapsed lung abruptly ended her singing career, the soul sister turned to soul food, opening up two nationally acclaimed soul food restaurants in St. Louis, which garnered a huge following with both locals and celebrities.  The inspirational docu-series "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" (which returns on Sat., 7/27) follows the loud, loving Montgomery family as they deal with the highs and lows of running their family business.


STEVE EVANS JOINS THE SHOW WITH HIS WEEKLY MOVIE REPORT

GREAT MOVIES OPENING THIS WEEKEND AND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS AND HOPES. FIND OUT WHAT MOVIES ARE WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. GET SET FOR THE WEEKEND.