DWR-204 – Sangiovese from Italy, North Carolina Mead and Amazon hot cocoa

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This is the two hundred fourth episode of the live winestream. I open, taste, and review a Sangiovese from Italy! We also toast national days. Plus, a mead from North Carolina, a hot cocoa from Amazon, and dad jokes.

Need graphics or animation for your podcast, Twitch channel, YouTube videos or website? Tia is accepting commissions! She does all the graphics and animation for Drink With Rick and she can do them for your projects too. Visit tiasavoia.com to check out her gallery of work!

The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook is now available for purchase!

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This podcast is the audio version of the video winestream, edited with consideration for the listener. Did I enjoy the wine? Do I recommend it? Listen to find out. Do you have a favorite wine you would recommend? Is there a wine you are curious about and would like me to try? Tell me what it is and I may give it a review on a future Winestream. Send your suggestions and comments to rick(at)savoiamedia.com or send them through the contact form on my website at drinkwithrick.com! Drink With Rick is a member of the new Savoia Media Network.

Sangiovese from Italy, North Carolina Mead and Amazon hot cocoa


Tonight I open, taste, and review a Sangiovese from Italy! We also toast national days. Plus, a mead from North Carolina, a hot cocoa from Amazon, and dad jokes. Join in the chats at 10 PM ET for The Saturday Night Winestream and Drink With Rick!

New release! Get your copy of The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook now! (this is not an affiliate link)

DWR-203 – Barba from Italy, Michigan Porter and hot chocolate mint

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This is the two hundred third episode of the live winestream. I open, taste, and review a Montepulciano d’Abruzzo from Italy! We also toast national days. Plus, a porter from Michigan, a hot mint chocolate dessert drink, and a dad joke.

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Need graphics or animation for your podcast, Twitch channel, YouTube videos or website? Tia is accepting commissions! She does all the graphics and animation for Drink With Rick and she can do them for your projects too. Visit tiasavoia.com to check out her gallery of work!

The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook is now available for purchase!

Want to support the show? Buy me a coffee!

This podcast is the audio version of the video winestream, edited with consideration for the listener. Did I enjoy the wine? Do I recommend it? Listen to find out. Do you have a favorite wine you would recommend? Is there a wine you are curious about and would like me to try? Tell me what it is and I may give it a review on a future Winestream. Send your suggestions and comments to rick(at)savoiamedia.com or send them through the contact form on my website at drinkwithrick.com! Drink With Rick is a member of the new Savoia Media Network.

Barba from Italy, Michigan Porter and hot chocolate mint


Tonight I open, taste, and review a Montepulciano d’Abruzzo from Italy! We also toast national days. Plus, a porter from Michigan, a hot mint chocolate dessert drink, and dad jokes. Join in the chats at 10 PM ET for The Saturday Night Winestream and Drink With Rick!

New release! Get your copy of The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook now! (this is not an affiliate link)

DWR-202 – Cameleon Cabernet and gluten free ale and Target coffee

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This is the two hundred second episode of the live winestream. I open, taste, and review a Cameleon 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina, a gluten free ale from Ipswich, and a Target brand coffee! We also toast national days. Plus Mother’s Day, dad jokes, and Open Chat.

Need graphics or animation for your podcast, Twitch channel, YouTube videos or website? Tia is accepting commissions! She does all the graphics and animation for Drink With Rick and she can do them for your projects too. Visit tiasavoia.com to check out her gallery of work!

The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook is now available for purchase!

Want to support the show? Buy me a coffee!

This podcast is the audio version of the video winestream, edited with consideration for the listener. Did I enjoy the wine? Do I recommend it? Listen to find out. Do you have a favorite wine you would recommend? Is there a wine you are curious about and would like me to try? Tell me what it is and I may give it a review on a future Winestream. Send your suggestions and comments to rick(at)savoiamedia.com or send them through the contact form on my website at drinkwithrick.com! Drink With Rick is a member of the new Savoia Media Network.

Cameleon Cabernet and gluten free ale and Target coffee


Tonight I open, taste, and review a Cameleon 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina, a gluten free ale from Ipswich, and a Target brand coffee! We also toast national days. Plus Mother’s Day, dad jokes, and Open Chat. Join in the chats at 10 PM ET for The Saturday Night Winestream and Drink With Rick!

New release! Get your copy of The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook now! (this is not an affiliate link)

DWR-201 – Chianti, Sour Beer, Cherry Cider and TJ Coffee Reviews

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This is the two hundred first episode of the live winestream. I open, taste, and review a CSt Giorgia 2021 Chienti, a Rain Fruited Sour, a Noble Cherry Hard Cider, and a coffee from Trader Joe’s! We also toast national days. Plus, a butterfly garden, a tribute to an old friend, and Open Chat.

Need graphics or animation for your podcast, Twitch channel, YouTube videos or website? Tia is accepting commissions! She does all the graphics and animation for Drink With Rick and she can do them for your projects too. Visit tiasavoia.com to check out her gallery of work!

The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook is now available for purchase!

Want to support the show? Buy me a coffee!

This podcast is the audio version of the video winestream, edited with consideration for the listener. Did I enjoy the wine? Do I recommend it? Listen to find out. Do you have a favorite wine you would recommend? Is there a wine you are curious about and would like me to try? Tell me what it is and I may give it a review on a future Winestream. Send your suggestions and comments to rick(at)savoiamedia.com or send them through the contact form on my website at drinkwithrick.com! Drink With Rick is a member of the new Savoia Media Network.

Chianti, Beer, Cider and Coffee Reviews


Tonight I open, taste, and review a St Giorgio 2021 Chianti, a Rain Fruited Sour, a Noble Cherry Hard Cider, and a coffee from Trader Joe’s! We also toast national days. Plus, a butterfly garden,a tribute to an old friend, and Open Chat. Join in the chats at 10 PM ET for The Saturday Night Winestream and Drink With Rick!

New release! Get your copy of The Official Drink With Rick Wine Tasting Notebook now! (this is not an affiliate link)

The winestream will be back for season 5 – but not on Twitter

I have good news and bad news. First the good news. The Saturday Night Winestream is scheduled to be back May 6, 2023 at its regular time from 10-11:30 PM Eastern. In spite of the late start, season 5 is somewhat on track for a Saturday night debut, albeit without some of the films that I had planned to have restored and ready to show. This was entirely due to a little side show called Drink With Rick Rewine, which launched on the new 100TV Network today. Nevertheless, I am getting things ready to go and hopefully the winestream will happen without a hitch.

Now for the bad news. Last week I received news from the Twitterverse that Mr. Musk and company shut down Twitter Media Studio, or at least cut off access to it by regular folks like me. Sure enough, when I tried to access Media Studio, it was no longer available. What makes it bizarre is that when I attempted to do so, it takes me to a whole series of pages promoting Media Studio and talking about how great it is, but with no links to get there and no explanation as to how to find it. This makes the experience rather frustrating, and more than a little weird.

What this means is that I have no way to access Media Studio to set up my stream on Twitter. Now, I’ve been told that using a streaming service such as Restream will allow you to do it, but you still need to acquire a stream key. I use Castr.io to multistream, and I do have a stream key for Twitter, but it seems to either be broken on the Castr platform or blocked. Even so, whenever I set up a Twitter stream in the past, I always had to create a broadcast event and activate it in Twitter Media Studio before it would go live there, even with my permanent stream key. Perhaps Restream users have something I don’t? I don’t know. All I know is that I can no longer stream on Twitter.

Not that it was a really big deal anyway. Yes, I did have viewers, but almost no active engagement. I might as well have just tweeted out a link to YouTube or somewhere else instead, which is probably what I’m going to do from now on.

Unless I find a replacement for Twitter during the next few days, season 5 will only be streaming on four platforms. If you were watching the show on Twitter @drinkwithrick, you can still watch and participate in the live chat on YouTube, Twitch, Odysee, and the Drink With Rick Facebook page*.

Suggestions for alternatives are welcome and will be considered. If you know of any other platforms that are set up for streaming video, please let me know in the comments below.

*until Facebook does something stupid to screw that up again.