Yesterday afternoon I received an email I had been anticipating since late last Spring: a note from the executive producer of NBC-TV’s award-winning In Wine Country show alerting me about my TV appearance!

As you may recall from my previous posts, the show’s host, Mary Babbitt, discovered me on this very blog early in the year and, as a result, we did a shoot at Picchetti Winery in mid-May. Since that time, the In Wine Country production crew has somehow managed to reduce over 3 hours of film into 3 minutes, and now they’re ready to release it to the air waves.

The show will air this Sunday, December 16th at 9:30pm PST
on local NBC affiliate KNTV-11.*

Elsewhere around the country, I understand that it will be broadcast at certain odd hours; for instance 4:00 a.m. in the Northeast U.S. If you have Tivo, you should be easily able to schedule a recording of the episode.

One exciting piece of news is that prior to September, In Wine Country was broadcast only regionally, in select pockets around the U.S. That all changed when NBC Corporate picked up the show and is now broadcasting it nationally.

For those of you who will be viewing the national syndication, it will be available on NBC stations the weekend of December 22 and 23. Check your local listings for air times, which I’m told will be around 2am-4am. The widget below should be of some assistance to you; just click the US region button to search listings for your zip code.**

The 30-minute episode is titled Wine With A Cause, and it will feature five 3- to 4-minute segments, one of which will profile me as a representative of my tour company, California Wine Hikes. Here’s a synopsis of that episode:

• A winery donating wheelchairs for each case of wine
• How shoes make a good pairing for charity
• Growing bamboo
• Hiking along a wine trail
• Making ice cream with wine

Can you guess which segment I’m appearing in?

The story will also be available on the In Wine Country website. In a few weeks, it will also be available on iTunes.com as a free podcast which I will subsequently post here for you. If you wish to order DVD or VHS copies of this episode, please contact VideoWatch at (415) 897-3983 or see their website at www.videowatch.org.

For additional background about how I wound up on In Wine Country, please see the following posts, which are listed chronologically. Be sure to read Mary Babbitt’s comment on the first one!

The “Five S’s” of wine tasting
It feels like Spring for this Winehiker
You’ll know it’s true when you see it on TV
In winehiking country: the NBC-TV interview
You can be healthwise AND decadent in the California wine country

~winehiker

*Time is approximate due to possible football post-game show activity.
**To find zip codes for your area, see the USPS Zip Code Lookup page.

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