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“My strength is talking to people who are already committed to wine, and I want to take them further.”Įven so, one does not need to be a Barolo expert to be inspired by the writer Ian d’Agata’s almost vineyard-by-vineyard deconstruction of Barolo terroir as he walks the audience through the various differences among them and how they affect the wines. “I don’t want to talk about, ‘If you don’t know what rosé is, here’s an explanation,’” Mr. It does not pretend to be a wine primer, and it makes few concessions to newcomers who are not already familiar with the intricacies of wine or its places and people. Another podcast, “Wine for Normal People,” produced by a wife-and-husband team in Atlanta, tries, as the title suggests, to eliminate anything that sounds like wine snobbery. Like “GrapeRadio” it emphasizes West Coast producers. “Inside Winemaking” with its focus on the process of winemaking, is educational.

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Much of the material in its archive is interesting and relaxed, though rarely does it go deeply beneath the surface. “GrapeRadio,” a pioneer of the genre, has been in business for more than a decade. “I’ll Drink to That” is not the only podcast focused on wine. If you know Paul Grieco only as the proprietor of Terroir (a wine bar in TriBeCa), his childhood in a restaurant family in Toronto lends added flavor to his proselytizing for the glories of riesling. If you love New York restaurants, you may savor hearing Ned Benedict, now an importer at Grand Cru Selections, talk about his time at Bouley and elsewhere in the 1990s.

“In Europe, it’s often a family generational story. “In the U.S., some guy decides he wants to make wine, and does it,” he said. Dalton has noticed patterns among winemakers.

Afterward, you might consider aging a few bottles of assyrtiko. Dalton interview Yiannis Paraskevopoulos of Gai’a Wines. And if you have a taste for good assyrtiko from the island of Santorini, listen to Mr. Dalton has conducted fascinating interviews with Thomas Duroux of Château Palmer, Ehren Jordan of Failla, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon of the great Champagne producer Louis Roederer, and Frank Cornelissen, a natural wine producer on Mount Etna in Sicily. You could make an entire playlist of great Burgundy producers, like Guillaume d’Angerville and Michel Lafarge, the alpha and omega of Volnay as well as Jeremy Seysses of Domaine Dujac, Jean-Marie Fourrier of Domaine Fourrier, or Frédéric Mugnier of Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier.īordeaux is not neglected, nor is California, Champagne or Italy. While he also records podcasts on location while visiting wine regions, the interviews are always conducted face to face. Guests, like Christian Moueix, proprietor of Château Trotanoy in Pomerol and Dominus Estate in Napa Valley, among others, may be offered a cup of tea before sitting across a dining table from Mr. Dalton’s unprepossessing studio apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Ayako, a private chef, and their young son, Louie. Otherwise, the podcasts are mostly recorded in Mr. They may include thoughtful essays on issues that wine geeks, at least, debate frequently, like whether to include the grape stems in the fermentation process.

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The podcasts are bare-bones, largely free of sound effects, except for the occasional segments produced by Erin Scala, another former New York sommelier who now owns In Vino Veritas, a wine shop in Keswick, Va. “I’ll Drink to That” provides the sort of background that helps to transform the notion of wine from a simple beverage to a complex culture.

But the more context you add, the more fascinating it becomes. Wine is enjoyable enough if you know no more about what you are drinking than what’s in the glass. I mean people like Elena Pantaleoni, who makes wonderful wines at La Stoppa in Emilia-Romagna, Italy Becky Wasserman, an American who has lived in Burgundy for decades and has played a crucial role in identifying some of the most soulful wine producers in France and Carole Meredith, a former grape genetics professor who discovered that zinfandel was identical to a Croatian variety, tribidrag, and now has a winery, Lagier Meredith, in Napa Valley. Others are unrecognized outside the business, but their stories are so interesting that you want to learn a lot more about them. Some are well known, like the writer Hugh Johnson and the restaurateur Danny Meyer.

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