First up to bat: Tondi Bolkan, Winemaker at Coppola Winery
Winemaker’s On Deck
- What is your favorite ballpark food (non-specific to Giants) +what Coppola wine would you pair it with? Gotta have a BRAT, not a dawg.
- Most fun tailgate activity is Everything about the tailgate is fun except for the bathroom situation.
- If you could sneak any bottle of Coppola wine into the ball park which one would it be? Brut Rose…but good thing it comes in a can!
- Would you rather go through harvest or sit through 30 innings of a baseball game? I’d rather work back to back harvests.
- In winemaking what has been your biggest grand slam moment? Anytime we get props from the Coppola’s is always a grand slam.
- What is your favorite ballpark memory? I was 16 and just got my license. I drove with my friends from the suburbs to the city to see the Cubs at Wrigley Field. That was my first MLB game.
- Who is your favorite baseball player and why? Growing up in Chicago in the 80s, WGN was always on in my house, even if it was just for white noise. I have the best memories of hearing Harry Caray calling the plays of second baseman, Ryne Sandberg.
- If you had to pick one dip to eat forever, what would it be? I don’t care what people say. Ranch all the way.
- Baseball hat, beret, fedora hat, beanie or cowboy hat? Lazy hair day = baseball hat.
- If you were a baseball player, what would your walk out song be? LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out.
- If you could have any baseball player (dead or alive) sign a jersey or ball, who would it be? Ryne Sandberg
- What position would you play if you were recruited to play for a weekend? GM 😉
