I remember temecula when it was watermelon country, and i was there working. Butbut im bias toward our vintners in northern california. Weve gotfor our event, we have vintners coming from, of course, napa, sonoma, mendocino, santa cruz. Damian and thats pretty amazing. Youre talking about 8 years of partnerships that you have developed over the years. Ray yes, yes, its a great thing, you know, to have all these vintners. This year, well have around 22 to 24 vintners. Most are latino vintners. We have boutique vintners like joseph george, fortino, guglielmos, testa rossa, and even travieso. Damian and heres some great images that we got off your website of last years event, and you pair these with some great food, and how can you go wrong . Ray oh, the food. And then this year, we have, you know, rudy masons falling off the bone ribs. Damian ha ha ha ha. Ray you know, ronnie lott owns tracy toyota, and every time he has an event there, rudy is from tracy and he does his barbecues for him. I said, youve gotta cut those things a little bit smaller, cause theyre huge. And then we have mint and basil, vietnamese vegan and vegetarian food, this year. And we have luna mexican kitchen which is, oh my goodness, my good friends john and joe lopez own that. They just opened it 2 weeks ago and theyrelobster, brother. Damian wow. Ray its a reallyits in the rose garden area, but the food is great. So, well have them, zona rosa, plaza garibaldi. Its just a great event. And several chefs, four or five chefs that well have there. Damian and the upside to everythingi mean, everything is great, but the beneficiaries. Who benefits by ray oh, the beneficiaries. We hadi was telling damian earlier that i was counting up and we gave to about 14. And someone said, wow, ray, thats too many. I said, well, theres just a great need out there. And we give em not a lot, but we give em what we can. And throughout the year, if we have a dinner or something, someone will ask us forlike, the new one is a breath of kylie. Its for terminally ill children out of gilroy. So, that one they mentioned to us, and robert the ghost guerrero is the founder of that one. So, theres a great need. Mexican Heritage Plaza, school of arts of culture, cristo rey, sacred heart, teen challenges women and children center, latinas contra cancer. I can go on and on, but theres a great need and i feel that we all should be a part of this giving back to the community, you know . Damian absolutely, and theyve been doing this for all this time that sabor del valles been in existence. Again, there is the date, there is the time, and there is the place. Well be back and talk more about sabor del valle when we continue here on comunidad del valle. Stay with us. By nancy rosales. Shes with pepitos paletas. Shes back on comunidad del valle because she too is a big supporter and organizer of sabor del valle. Welcome back to the show. Nancy rosales thank you. Damian well, talk, first of all, about pepitos paletas. You brought some samples here. Nancy so, yeah, were really excited. Actually, ray has given us the opportunity to display and give our product at the event, and so this is an opportunity to kind of study what people like, what they dont like, the flavors. And so, its like the research for the past few years. So, finally, here we are, obviously to donate and to help the organizations, but also kinda to explore this vision that we have about sharing and keeping traditions alive with the flavors, the traditional latin flavors. And so, we created this pepito box, which is a 7hour frozen box for barbecues and any event that you like. So, super excited, and well be featuring it at the sabor del valle. Damian well, we were talking about pairings and how you pair food with wine. Talk about pairings with ice cream. Is that once your done with your wine tasting, or can it go in nancy this is perfect either before, because itll buzz up the palate. Were talking about no artificial colors or flavoring. I mean, youre talking about a clean fruit. So, if we have kiwi for example, well do kiwi and poquito de limon for the flavor, and then you can put some chile on top, and itll buzz up the palate so that you can experience all of the restaurants that are gonna be there and then you can really taste the wines. Or you can do it after, right . Ray before or after. Damian people have done both. Ray do em both, whatever works. Damian i asked you this last year, but talk about kind of the nobrainer in partnering with ray, and sabor del valle, and making this a joint effort here. Nancy it makes sense. Its about giving back. Its not about us, its what we can do for everybody else to make this successful. So, just give, give, give, and god will let youhook you up. Damian absolutely. We showed some pictures of some of the vintners, ray, and this is alsohere were looking at some of the pourings and tastings if you will. But you brought a bottle of encanto. Talk about encanto. Ray well, encanto vineyards, theyre from napa. Enrique lopez is the owner. Started it maybe 15 years ago. Hes from michoacan, makes some great wines. By the way, that ones yours. Damian oh, absolutely. Ray thats a cab, an excellent cab. But we havetheres several others. I mean, gustavo brambila, hes known as the godfather of latino vintners. He started making wines in 74. Damian isnt iti mean ray and hes the one thats featured in the movie, bottle shock. Damian now, i mean, a lot of these vintners, they themselvesits whats inspiring me. They themselves used to pick the crop, used to pick the berries when they were recently immigrated or not, but they went from farmworker, to grower, to vintners. Ray yeah, exactly. And majority of em did and its a great story, just like the other immigrants, the italians and others that came here, and their wines and so forth, make their wines. Sobut the latinos, because thats us, you know, just the one out of lodi is vinedos aurora. Gerardo espinosas grandfather came here in the Bracero Program, 1944. Today, they own over 200 acres of vineyards in the lodi region. I mean, what a story, you know . And theres others, many others, and we have some new ones this year. Mario bazan, and he makes a great cab. Miramar from san martin, hes a plumbing contractor. Damian isnt that something . Ray yeah, and beautiful, right here. Right here, makes some great wines. Damian as a businesswoman, how inspiring is it to hear those kinds of stories and how does it empower you . Nancy you almost made me cry, because my parents came here. My grandparents came here in la Bracero Program also, and then my parents obviously took on the picking of the berries, you name it. They worked over la lechuga, you name it. And then im picking up from there what they did for me, so theyve given up and worked so hard so that i could do something with it. So, im taking the strawberries my mom andim gonna start cryingmy mom and everybody, all my uncles, everybody that picks, so that i can create Something Like this. So, its pretty deep for me. Damian when you go to mexico, i mean, they make their ice cream themselves and its all natural, and basically thats what youre doing as well. Nancy yeah, and im taking it a step further by doing agave honey, so sugarfree, because we do need a healthy treat, especially for our kids. And we just need to empower our own community to make sure that we have and we can call not just any paleta, but a healthy, highend paleta, you know . And something that you are proud of, and so im really proud of this and im proud of all of the things our family members, and our grandparents, and our parents did so that we can create things like this. Damian thats awesome. Well, again, sabor del valle is coming back to silicon valley. Its happening on july 22 at the mexican Heritage Plaza, the school of arts and culture. Ray twentyfirst. Damian twentyfirst, there it is. So, the date is wrong on there, but it is on the 21st, on the friday. And well be back to talk more. We talked about the food. We talked about the wine. Well talk about the music and the entertainment when we continue; stay with us. Talking about sabor del valle. We talked, again, about the food, we talked about the wine, what about entertainment, ray . I mean, its gonna be another bash this year. Ray well, ive always believed this, that you go to an event, and if youre gonna pay x amount of dollars, you wanna have a good time. You wanna go back and sayyou wanna leave and say, man, i wanna come back here again next year. And a big part of that is the music, so if youre attending, you are attending, bring your dancing shoes, because were starting out with atrillonot atrillo, but Johnny Saldivia and ligia lopez now, and theyll be singing for the first 45 minutes. Then well have some mariachis, and thenwhich are really good, mariachi tequila. And then well have orchestra latin heat. Its a 12piece band orchestra. Theyre just fantastic. You know, we just havewere trying to do everything. You know, we may change it a little bit next year, but for this year, theres a nice break in between, but the music, its a big part of it, you know . And one of the things, being also from the Indian Culture and also from latino is when we would go to events, we would always bring the children. My son got married in november in cabo and i danced all night with our grandkids. We, my wife and i, danced all night with our grandkids. There is no experience like that when youre there dancing with your grandkids. Damian so, ive been there without my kids and with my kids, and its a lot of fun with the kids. I mean, you are wine tasting, but at the same time, theres face painting. The kids are having fun at the same time. Ray yeah, yeah, theres a lot of food for them, drinks, theres ice cream, theres different things. Like you said, the face painting, theyll have fun with that. But once the music starts, i mean, its a beautiful thing to see grandparents or parents dancing with your kids and grandkids. You know, thats a big part of it. Damian talk about pepitos paletas. I mean, youre kind of nancy wanna try some . Damian well, yes, absolutely. But youre envisioning bigger and Better Things i would imagine. Nancy oh, of course. Damian like you said, youre kind of getting a feel and polling people, if you will, at this event. Nancy of course. This started as a kid project to do birthday parties for kids and it turned out that adults order this product because its a fun product with the frog. We have a mascot also. We might bring him this year, ray, if thats okay with you. We dont know, were still thinking about it. But yeah, coloring books, and we just have a lot. We also donate a lot of this ice cream and a lot of these paletas to middle schools and junior highs. If they attend every single day at school, we go ahead and give em a box for that class. So, theres, like, a lot of things that weve been doing to not only get the product out but also to give back. So, yeah, you want some . Damian yes, absolutely. Nancy okay, you ready . So, we have mexican hot chocolate and we also have mango. The mango is just fruit. Just, literally, we put mangoes in a blender, we blend it, we put some honey and some damian i wanna try that one cause ive tried the chocolate. Ray mango here, man. Nancy and thenoh, youve had the chocolate. This is not ice cream, this is a paleta. Damian oh, i see. cause i had the ice cream. Nancy the last time, yeah, it got a little complicated, so weso this is what it looks like. So, you just come on in, grab one, and heres your chile. Mexican hot chocolate or mango. Ray mango, mango. Damian and ray, youve kind of also, at the same time, youve created a network. Because i mean, the latino vintners, theyre wellorganized and theyre cohesive, but by bringing em together in Something Like this, now youre talking about them mingling napa county, sonoma, south bay. Ray yes, and thats how i always believed it should be, you know . Last year, i remember pedro ceja and ramon rios from tracy. Pedro is from napa. He has his own beer now, besides the wines. They were up until 5 oclock in the morning. Theyre both from michoacan, i believe. But anyhow, its just unity and working together, and just like our event, i really believe that, from day one, its in diversity, and thats why we have a vietnamese restaurant here. I think were gonna have a vietnamese bakery here too, mint and basil. And her food, cindy ho is the owner, and she has fourthree locations, opening up another in saratoga. Her food is unbelievable. Damian i bet. Ill let you open up your nancy you want some chile . Damian no, you know what, actually, you know what, let meill taste some. Now, you have a variety of flavors and theyre all unique, verdad . Nancy correct. Lets put it on the plastic. Damian you can put it on the paper. Talk about the uniqueness of your flavors. Nancy were trying towere trying to make sure its just the fruit, but we focus on the latino flavors. So, we do have caramelized sweet potato or caramelized fried banana. Like, we just go all out when it comes to latino flavors. The mexican abuelita chocolate, it reminds youit takes you back to christmas. And tequila ice cream, thats one of rays favorites. Ray agave. Nancy agave. Damian and you just put tajin on this . Nancy tajin, a little bit of chile, lime, salt, y puro mango. So, its like the traditional vasos with a lot of fruit. Same deal, except that its frozen so thatfor the summer. Damian very good. Well, sabor del valle, again, is back in silicon valley. And there, we fixed the date. Thank you, corrine. July 21 at 6 30 there at the mexican Heritage Plaza in san jose. Latino vintners and some not. Come and enjoy their wine. Any final thoughts from both of you before we let you go . Ray sabor del valle, a taste of the valley. You know, join us. Youll have a great time, for a great cause. Nancy yes. Damian thats the bottom line, great cause. Nancy, any final thoughts . Nancy its gonna be hot. Damian verdad . Nancy wear your summer dress, ladies. Ray thats one thing about, excuse me, the mexican Heritage Plaza. We were there the other day when it was 100. You get this nice, cool breeze through the plaza. Damian and theres a lot of shade there tambien. Ray and a nice, cool breeze. Damian all right, well, thank you so much and good luck. Well see you there. All right, thank you very much. Thank you for the paleta. And up next on comunidad del valle, well have a little bit of the latin legends of latin rock, stay with us. Comunidad on que pasa. Damian and our saludos for those celebrating a special day, felicidades. Damian and here is our contact information. You can follow me on twitter. My handle is newsdamian. Also, pick up a copy of El Observador newspaper and support your bilingual weeklies all across the bay area. Also, watch us on telemundo, canal 48, every sunday at 11 a. M. Thats your comunidad del valle en espanol. Thank you once again for sharing a part of your sunday with us. 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