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Treasury Wine Estate purchased Dow Vineyards in Paso Robles for $1 billion. Dow has been one of the fastest growing wine brands in the US market. The acquisition includes the brand, the Mountain Estate, a hospitality site, and 400 acres of vineyards. The president of Treasury Americas believes there is a great opportunity for the brand to continue growing, especially with Paso Robles Cabernet. In other news, if your TSA pre-check doesn't show up on your boarding pass, it could be because the name on your booking doesn't match the name on your known traveler number. To resolve this, contact your airline in advance. Halloween candy can last a long time, and if you have too much, you can donate it to HalloweenCandyBuyBack.com, who sends it to troops overseas. DiGiorno has released a Thanksgiving pizza with turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes, and more. They are available for a limited time online. Ford has released a new generation Mustang with engine options It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast. You know on Saturdays we play fun music and we feature great information at 993thevine.com. With me, Big Rick Stewart and music from my time at Live 105 and at KFOG. We also mix in some stories that I find kind of interesting whether it's local music or food or tech or just kind of some cool things I think you ought to know about. It's always lots of fun. Fun music and great information happens every Saturday at 993thevine.com and the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast features great information like this. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. You might have heard about this story. Treasury Wine Estate, they bought a winery and more in Paso Robles, $1 billion. Wow, is what they spent for Dow which is just an incredible place. Have you ever been there? Wow, the hilltop and the views and the whole thing and you've never been there. Well now you have a reason to go there. Treasury Wine Estates did this a couple weeks ago. It was all announced and they acquired Paso Robles based Dow Vineyards for a billion dollars. Now what did they get for this? They got the brand which has been around for a little while and has a great reputation, the Mountain Estate that I was just telling you about, the hospitality site for boutique luxury wineries and around 400 acres of vineyards in the hills. I believe it is west of Paso Robles. Now according to Impact Data Bank, Dow has been among the fastest growing wine brands in the U.S. market lately, expanding from 305,000 cases in 2019 to just about double that, 590,000 cases last year and maybe you're starting to see this name in restaurants and all around different places. Ben Dollard, President of Treasury Americas said that Dow's impressive recent growth trajectory reflects a growing connection with consumers and we feel there's a tremendous opportunity for the band to continue to grow in the on and off premise. And he added that Paso Robles Cabernet in particular is doing really well and that's a great opportunity for us, us being Treasury Wine Estates. That's the deal and that's what they got and looking forward to seeing how that whole thing plays out. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 The Vine. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Fun music and great information here at The Vine. We do it every Saturday. You're thinking of traveling. You're kind of thinking, oh man, I gotta make this as easy as possible. So you're gonna get a TSA pre-check. What happens if your TSA pre-check doesn't show up on your boarding pass? You have to stand in the long line because it's not on your boarding pass. Well, make sure to check beforehand and this comes to us from thriftytraveler.com. So what happens? How come it's not on your boarding pass? Well, let's say the name on your booking doesn't match the name on the TSA pre-check. So if you're like Debbie and you put Deborah, that's not maybe gonna work so well. The issue is usually that the name you input on your flight booking does not match the name registered to what is called your known traveler number, which is a thing that's part of the TSA pre-check. The quickest way to resolve this issue is you contact your airline. And you know what? This happened to me and I contacted the airline. They reissued my boarding pass because I contacted a few days in advance and I was good to go. All right, so what about this known traveler number? Well, you gotta make sure when you book that you add the known traveler number. I know this all sounds crazy, to your booking when you book. That way, when it knows who you are, it prints a pre-check. If it doesn't, then it's not gonna do that. Also, it could be that your TSA pre-check is expired. They last, I think, about five years, but make sure that it's not expired before the holidays and all this happens. Now, you can also sign in for this thing called CLEAR. You might have seen that at the airport. This is a privately run, trusted traveler program. And they use fingerprint and eye identification technology to confirm your identity. You can sign up for that as well. Now, you won't find that everywhere at all the airports, but I don't know, maybe, you know, like, why not? Anything to make holiday traveling less of a hassle, right? Thanks for hanging out with me. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 The Barn. Another fun Saturday on the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I'm Big Rick Stewart. All right, you maybe have some Halloween candy sitting around. First thing is, does Halloween candy go bad? Not really. Halloween candy and candy in general can last a really long time. You know, it's in the wrappers and everything. You don't really need to refrigerate it. It can sit out and it's okay. But at some point, yeah. But I mean, that some point is like pretty far off. So don't worry about it. You can still have your candy. But what if you don't want your candy? What if you're like, oh my God, there's so much candy around here. What can you do with this? How about HalloweenCandyBuyBack.com? What is this? Well, basically they're based up in Sacramento. They collect Halloween candy from kids and parents and they donate it to troops overseas. They put it into military care packages. Isn't that cool? Now they do more than just candy. They also welcome additional items like toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss, hygienic products. I've always heard like troops could use socks or like a popular thing. So you can either send this to them and you can look them up at HalloweenCandyBuyBack.com. They're just in Sacramento. Or you can also check out some participating dental offices. Dentists are into this. And one that's listed on the website is American Canyon Pediatric Dentistry. And they are in American Canyon on Broadway Street. So you can drop a candy up there, I think. Or you can just send it directly to HalloweenCandyBuyBack. HalloweenCandyBuyBack.com. This is a great idea. I like this. Imagine if you're overseas in the troops and get some little Halloween candies. That would be awesome, right? I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 Divine. Hey, always lots of fun music and great information. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. What if you took Thanksgiving, the whole dinner, and you just had like a big scoop and you had a blank pizza pie. And you just put a scoop of this and a scoop of that and a scoop of this and a scoop of that. And you made a Thanksgiving pizza. Not a turkey pizza, a Thanksgiving pizza. According to a survey conducted by Bloomberg last year, a third of Gen Zers said for their Friendsgiving celebrations, they would serve pizza pie. And they thought that that would be a really good idea. Only 24% of respondents said they'd be passing out plates of the traditional turkey. So if you're giving out pizza at your Friendsgiving, then you're in the mix. I mean, that's good. DiGiorno just announced a Thanksgiving pizza. You know the frozen pizza people. They took a thick Detroit-style crust, they piled it high with, check it out, turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberries, two kinds of cheese, a crispy onion topping. And it is a Thanksgiving Detroit-style pizza. Wow. How do you get one of these? Because I know you really want one. The company says every Wednesday through November 22nd, it will release a limited number online. And when they're sold out, then they're sold out. But then the next Wednesday, they'll sell them again. And they're gonna cost about $11, plus maybe some shipping and more, and $11.23 to be exact, which is, of course, the date of Thanksgiving. Shop digiorno.goodness.com. You can also buy your holiday sweater there as well. I don't know. It sounds like a frozen pizza with Thanksgiving dinner on top. I don't know. I'd give it a try. I'm Big Rick Stewart. You let me know how this tastes. It's the Wine Pitcher Saturday soundtrack at 99.3. The Vine. It's fun music and great information. I'm Big Rick Stewart. This one is for all my car-loving gals and guys. Holy moly. This is pretty amazing. Although it's not the first time that you can get an 800-horsepower Ford Mustang, but there's something pretty special about this one. This is a new generation, the new seventh-generation Ford Mustang. Now, you have a couple of engine options. You can get the new Ford Mustang with a 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that has over 300 horsepower, which, you know, back in the day, 300 horsepower was kind of like, wow, that's a lot. This is from a four-cylinder, right? That's crazy. They have a V8 in the new Mustang with about 480 horsepower, and the Dark Horse, which is, you know, the kind of like the super-fast E1, that's 500 horsepower. But now, check this out. They're offering a new package that will get you 800 horsepower in a street-legal, smog-legal, smog-compliant Ford Mustang. 800 horsepower with a three-liter supercharger. It also has upgrades to the air and fuel systems. I hope maybe the transmission and the brake systems as well. It's compatible, Ford says, with the automatic and manual transmission, and there'll be a special version for the Mustang Dark Horse on the way. Now, you can get this with aftermarket stuff. You could do that in the past. But here's what's really cool. Because this is coming from Ford Performance, you get a three-year, 36,000-mile warranty from Ford for your 800-horsepower Mustang. It does not cover rear tire replacement, which I think there'll be lots of burnouts in your neighborhood. But wow, that sounds like a lot of fun. Could I go for a ride? You know, I'll pay for 10 miles' worth of gas. It'll probably be real expensive. 800-horsepower Mustang. Dear Santa Claus, are you listening? I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 The Block. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information here on The Vine. All right, I have a PlayStation 4. I've had a lot of PlayStations over my life. But I got the 4. And then when 5 came out, PlayStation 5 is the current version, it was really hard to get because it was just kind of right around when COVID hit. And, you know, the manufacturing thing was hard to get, and they would release them, and they'd be gone the same day, and you had to sign up on email lists, and look like a bunch of crazy people. And you had to sign up on email lists, and look on Reddit, and all these crazy things. It's the third year now that PlayStation 5 has been around. So PlayStation 5 says they have more than 40 million players, I'm not one of them, who have joined the PlayStation 5 community. I'm still on PlayStation 4. But now there's gonna be a new PlayStation 5 console this holiday season. It's kind of known on the internet as Slim because it's a little bit smaller. It's actually 30% smaller than what has been available. And it's supposed to be released like right now, like today maybe. I haven't checked in the last 30 minutes, but PlayStation 5 Slim, this new version, is coming out. It's gonna offer one terabyte of storage, and it's also gonna have an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive option. So it's gonna give you a little more bump of stuff, and a little bit smaller size. It's gonna cost about $500. It will be packaged with some games, I think Spider-Man and some other games like that. So look for that, the new PlayStation 5. Now if you wanna keep waiting for things, there's rumors of a PlayStation Pro coming out maybe next year, and PlayStation 6 like in two or three years. It just never ends, does it? I don't know, maybe this will be the PlayStation 5 that I get. We'll have to see. And I think there won't be any problem with availability. All right, I'm Big Rick Stewart. Hey, I love my games. It's the Wine Country Saturday soundtrack at 99.3 Divine. Well, those are some stories that I have featured on the Wine Country Saturday soundtrack. Tune in at 8 a.m. every Saturday at 99.3divine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Hear music from my days at Live 105 in Cape Fog, some current songs, lots of surprises, and more. It's always lots of fun. 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