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Why a baseball team brought a master sommelier on board
Evan Goldstein holds a unique role with the San Francisco Giants: He’s the very first master sommelier in professional sports, working to make sure the wines for sale at the team’s Oracle Park stadium pair perfectly with the hot dogs and other snacks for sale.
Goldstein, 62, started this role last season. Goldstein grew up in the San Francisco area and is a lifelong fan of the team. He loved wine from an early age, and his first job was running the wine program at his mother’s restaurant, Square One. At 26 years old, Goldstein achieved master sommelier status. At the time, he was the youngest to ever be awarded that standing.
“It’s wine country,” Goldstein said. “Not only does that mean that you sort of had this DNA birthright to it, but it also means that our fan base here comes from those places.”
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The team has been selling wine at the stadium since 1977, and by hiring a master sommelier, they’re raising the bar to bring the best possible flavors to their fans. Goldstein sources all of the wines from the nearby area, since Oracle Park is smack in the middle of wine country, with plenty of options available.
“It was a really fun thing, right?” said the team’s chief executive officer Larry Baer. “The buzz around the park is ‘Sommelier and baseball?’ … We’d rather have good wine than mediocre wine. We’d rather have somebody who has been around a wine country for a whole career to help us select the wines.”
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Goldstein said that it’s been important to source a variety of wines and appeal to a wide range of tastes. He wants the wine he serves to be for everybody. “That to me was mission critical,” he said. ” There are delicious wines at $400 a bottle. There are delicious wines at $10 a bottle. And we want to make sure that people have access to that, because at the end of the day, if you like it and it makes you happy, that’s all that matters.”
His method is working for most of the fans CBS News spoke to.
“(I’m) meeting a friend, he’s not here yet,” said Debra Bogaards, one fan. “If he was here, we would have two beers, but since I got to buy it myself … I can’t resist a good glass of wine.”
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Natasha Singh said she ordered a bottle of Alto Malbec ahead of the game she watched “because why not?”
Some fans are still purists, preferring beers to wine, but Goldstein relishes the chance of reaching the skeptics.
“At the end of the season, if I can get them to stop for a moment and think about it, and maybe next time they’ll try it, or maybe they’ll try it again, we’ve done our job,” he said.
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Kamala Harris will speak with “60 Minutes” tomorrow. Here’s what to know for the interview.
Voters will get the chance to hear from Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday as she presents her case for why she should be president in a “60 Minutes” election special.
For decades, “60 Minutes” has featured both Republican and Democratic nominees for presidents, but this year, former President Donald Trump backed out after previously indicating he would be on the show. Correspondent Scott Pelley, who’d been set to interview Trump, will instead travel to Arizona’s Maricopa County, home to more than 60% of Arizona’s voters and a critical battleground in a key swing state.
One thing is certain about the election; with the U.S. deeply involved in both the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, whoever wins on Nov. 5 will become a wartime president.
What Harris will discuss
Israel’s war started one year ago after Hamas launched a surprise terror attack and correspondent Bill Whitaker will discuss the ongoing war with Harris.
Harris will also discuss the economy, immigration, her record as vice president and the differences between herself and Trump.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz will also appear.
Whitaker joined the Democratic ticket on the campaign trail this week to gain insight into their platform’s priorities and values, and what the candidates believe voters should know.
Why Trump pulled out of the “60 Minutes” interview
Leading up to the candidate hour, Trump, through campaign spokespeople, was the first candidate to accept the “60 Minutes” request to be interviewed for the special, according to CBS News. It had been agreed that both candidates would receive equal time during the broadcast.
Trump last sat down with 60 Minutes in 2020. He walked out during the interview with Lesley Stahl. Trump referenced the incident on Tuesday night at a Milwaukee press conference when asked about his decision not to participate in the Oct. 7 “60 Minutes” election special.
“Well, right now, I went to – they came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology, because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer,” Trump said. “They said the ‘laptop from hell’ was from Russia, and I said it wasn’t from Russia. It was from Hunter, and I never got an apology, so I’m sort of waiting. I’d love to do ’60 Minutes.’ I do everything.”
The Republican nominee for president emphasized that he felt he was owed an apology from “60 Minutes.”
“Let’s see if they do it. I wouldn’t mind doing 60,” Trump continued. “I’ve done ’60 Minutes’ a lot.”
In a statement on Tuesday, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said that Trump’s team had not agreed to an interview.
“Fake News,” Cheung said in a post on X. “60 Minutes begged for an interview, even after they were caught lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop back in 2020. There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in. They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented.”
Previous Trump, Harris appearances on 60 Minutes
Trump previously sat down with “60 Minutes'” Mike Wallace in 1985, Pelley in 2015 and Lesley Stahl twice in 2016, first in July of that year and then again in November of 2016. He also spoke with Stahl again in 2018 and 2020.
Harris previously sat down with Whitaker last year. She also was interviewed by Norah O’Donnell, “CBS Evening News” anchor and “60 Minutes” contributing correspondent, in 2020.
How to watch the “60 Minutes” election special
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