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Hi-Time Wine Shop Brothers Reflect on Cuba, Champagne, and Early SoCal Life
April 4, 2024 · 23 min
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Two brothers built a legendary wine shop and once lived in a Cuban hippie commune — here is how both happened.
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In this episode
- The origin story of Costa Mesa's Hi-Time Wine and Spirits
- What life in a Cuban commune actually looked like for two Californians
- How Chuck and Harold developed one of SoCal's most eclectic wine collections
- A ground-level view of early Southern California life through one family's experience
About this episode
This time, on Locales Only, we pick up the owners of a Costa Mesa institution, Hi-Time Wine and Spirits, Chuck and Harold Hanson. If you’ve never been to Hi-Time, it is a maze of a store filled with every wine you could imagine and some you've never heard of. If you want a rare bottle of Pinot Noir from the depths of the Andes mountain range, Chuck and Harold are your guys. To celebrate their fantastic store and the thousands of people that come into the shop every year, we’re going to take a trip down memory lane to learn their life story, how they founded Hi-Times, and how they found themselves in a hippie commune in Cuba for years!
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About Locales Only
There’s so much that makes Southern California one of the best places in the world. That’s why, for almost a decade, the founder of Locale magazine, Erik Hale, has been showcasing the people, places, restaurants, and events that give SoCal its reputation.
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