The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends

Doug Shafer

A Napa Valley podcast serving up stories of wine, food, and friends.

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The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends

Episodes (96)

May 19th How Greg Cole Changed Napa Food History with Celadon and Cole's Chop House
May 5th Juggling Wine, Beer, and Coffee with Nile Zacherle of Mad Fritz and David Arthur
Apr 21st How Eric LeVine, Founder of CellarTracker, Created the World's Biggest Wine Community

The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends

May 19, 2026
1¼ hours
191 MB

The city of Napa was once better known for its car dealerships and dive bars than for top-tier dining. That changed in the late 1990s when a young chef named Greg Cole, against the advice of others, rolled the dice on launching a small restaurant called Celadon. When Celadon became a sensation, he followed it up by opening the now-legendary Cole’s Chop House. Chef Cole’s path to helping reinvent Napa’s food scene started in a Southern California diner and included stops at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, the restaurant at Chandon, a brewery, a stint...

The Taste with Doug Shafer – a Podcast About Wine, Food, and Friends

How Greg Cole Changed Napa Food History with Celadon and Cole's Chop House

Doug Shafer

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