Your Weekly Connection to the People, Places and Products That Make Wine So Much Fun!
There was a time, not long ago, when wine tasting was regarded as something done by people with specially trained palates and sophisticated sensibilities. Today, wine is being consumed by hundreds of millions of people who drink it simply because it is what they like. Grape Encounters is about the colorful people, the places, the ambiance and the passion that makes wine drinking one of the world's most popular pastimes. Grape Encounters is lighthearted, interactive and a very good time-- taking listeners out of the studio and into places you won't see on a winery tour.
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Ep. 57 - Wine Drinking "What Ifs" and Winemaking "Why Nots!"

- Tune in for a very colorful show! Drinking straight from the bottle? Secretly blending your own wine? Refusing to serve White Zin? David and Keith Saarloos have all kinds of fun with these intriguing questions and more. Then, wine scholar Wes Hagen rants a bit about being too hung up on following the French and asks, "Why not blaze our own trail?" Then, a lesson in fermentation with Tristan Johnson of MoreWinemaking.com.
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