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1WineDude TV Episode 39: Backstage With Rocker Les Claypool Talking Claypool Cellars Wine1 min read

Posted on September 29, 2011October 11, 2011 by 1WineDude

in 1WineDude TV, best of, California wine, interviews

In the latest installment of 1WD TV, I go backstage in D.C. to talk to rocker Les Claypool about his Claypool Cellars wines, eat the butterscotch cookies in his Green Room, and generally geek out about great Sonoma Pinot Noir.  Les has just kicked off a tour with Primus in support of their new (excellent, dark & funky) album Green Naugahyde, a jaunt that will take them across a wide swath of the U.S., with stops in South America later this year and a stint at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall next April.

This is my second interview with Les (you can check out the first one here), and he’s still clearly very into the CC endeavor, and is quite the CA-boy homer when it comes to Pinot Noir.  Words can not accurately describe the coolness of this interview for me, so just watch the friggin’ video already because it’s Pudding Time, children!!!

Mentioned in this episode:

  • Claypool Cellars wine
  • Purple Pachyderm Pinot Noir
  • Awesome, face-meltingly-good Pinot from the West Sonoma Coast

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10 thoughts on “1WineDude TV Episode 39: Backstage With Rocker Les Claypool Talking Claypool Cellars Wine1 min read”

  1. @anthonybest says:
    September 29, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Nice stuff. I will have to get out and try some of this stuff. Looking at the website it doesn't look like you can visit the winery or have a tasting room. Any idea if that is in the works?

    1. 1WineDude says:
      September 29, 2011 at 12:28 pm

      Hey Anthony – I think they do have a tasting room actually (need to follow up on that one…)

      1. firstsmatty says:
        September 29, 2011 at 12:59 pm

        They have a great small tasting room in Sebastopol, in an old caboose. Great wine. The 'rhone' we tried was really good and their Rose is a great southern France rose. The kind you can sit on the back steps on a hot day and enjoy with friends.
        http://www.yelp.com/biz/claypool-cellars-sebastop…

        1. 1WineDude says:
          September 29, 2011 at 1:10 pm

          Thanks, smatty!

  2. Jeff says:
    September 29, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Fun interview. Good dude. My question: did you drink wine or beer during the show?

    1. 1WineDude says:
      September 29, 2011 at 3:40 pm

      Thanks, Jeff – attempted to drink wine in the green room but someone absconded with it! So we drank beers during the show instead…

  3. @fatcork says:
    September 29, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    You must have loved the experience!! Best bass guitar in my generation for sure. So cool that he is down with classic wines and sounds like he knows his stuff. Have you heard his Oysterhead project from about a decade ago? Pretty cool funk in that collaboration project of his as well. Cheers, Bryan

    1. 1WineDude says:
      September 30, 2011 at 2:26 am

      Thanks Bryan. Yeah, the 'head is good music!

  4. Ian Smith says:
    October 3, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Hi, good interview, only the camera is movig too much.. all the time

    1. 1WineDude says:
      October 5, 2011 at 10:06 am

      Thanks Ian – maybe my camera guy was drunk…

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