Topic: Wine Cellar

Adam Curry shares an anecdote about meeting the daughter of James McLemore, the founder of Burger King and inventor of the Whopper. During a visit to a local winery and residence in Fredericksburg, Curry viewed a specialized walk-in safe used for a guitar collection and sampled a 2013 Pastor Nick Syrah. The story highlights the unique personalities and high-end wine culture in the Texas Hill Country.

Sir Vincenzo submitted a series of audio clips featuring his three-year-old daughter, Ileana, performing "Sleepy Joe" and vaccine-themed jingles. Vincenzo also promoted his work with Scout & Cellar, a company specializing in "clean-crafted" wines produced without synthetic pesticides or added sugars.

The technical negotiations of the Iran nuclear deal are revealed to have taken place in the wine cellar of the Coburg Palace Hotel. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and his Iranian counterpart, both MIT-trained, used "science" to depoliticize the agreement. The hosts argue the deal is essentially a massive arms sales opportunity for the U.S. defense industry.

The hosts discuss the plummeting prices of 50-inch plasma TVs and the abundance of wine bargains resulting from the economic downturn. Dvorak describes his natural wine cellar in Port Angeles, Washington, and the challenges of maintaining constant temperatures and preventing seepage in the sandy soil of the Pacific Northwest.