SoCal Restaurant Show June 21, 2025 Hour 1

Anne Marie Panoringan is Culture OC’s well-informed food columnist. She reports industry news, current events and trends. Anne Marie also contributes regularly to Eater Los Angeles, LAist, TASTE and a host of other well-respected and noteworthy publications. Anne Marie joins us in-studio to discuss her work as Food Columnist for Culture OC and highlight her current columns. Of course, more tasty Orange County morsels will be part of the conversation including a discussion of Darkroom restaurant in Santa Ana. First Anne Marie provides an overview of her trip to Chicago to attend the James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the food world. How did the Orange County nominees fare?“The Sobon family first staked their claim to this historic site (Amador County, CA) in 1989 when Shenandoah Vineyards founders, Leon and Shirley Sobon, acquired the D’Agostini Vineyards for each other as a 30th anniversary present. After having reestablished Shenandoah Vineyards in 1977, the Sobon Family set their sights on reestablishing and renovating this once proud property. After nearly five arduous years of replanting and rehabilitating the over 200 acres of prime hillside vineyards, the family’s dream of producing small batch, estate grown Zinfandel was set to become a reality. Sobon Wine Company is now one of only a handful of independent regional wineries that is completely family- owned, operated and managed, with a portfolio of fine, hand-crafted artisanal wines. Winemaker and Winegrower Paul Sobon (2nd generation) joins us to pull the cork on all that is Sobon Wine Company.”