The Wine Centric Show

Cyril Chappellet: The Napa Valley Winery That Will Not Sell

Offers to buy Chappellet? The family has said no. Cyril Chappellet, CEO and Chairman of Chappellet, explains why the winery is worth more as an asset than as cash flow.

Chêne Bleu: Farming Like It's the Ninth Century

Nicole and Xavier Rolet bought a 900-year-old ruin in the hills above Provence and turned it into one of the Rhône's most talked-about wine estates, a property critics ha

Grüner Veltliner & the Wachau: Rudi Pichler Makes Wine on the Rocks

Rudi Pichler has a rule: act, don't react. It's shown up in every decision he's made since he came home from working a harvest in Napa Valley and took over his family's s

Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly On Getting Laid Off and Accidentally Building a Wine Media Empire

Madeline Puckette didn't set out to build Wine Folly. She lost her graphic design job in the 2008 recession, followed a boyfriend to Reno, and picked up a stack of wine e

Caparzo and Altesino: Inside a Brunello Dynasty, with Elisabetta and Alessandra Angelini

Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini wanted Caparzo. Eleven partners owned it, and getting them all to say yes took four and a half years. She didn't walk away. That patience became

Never Lose a Bottle: InVintory Takes On Wine's Legacy Giants

Wine tech has a problem nobody talked about until Josh Daiter's father pulled a shelf out of his wine fridge in Florida, watched the bottle he was hunting for roll off an

Paul & Emily Michael: How a British Knight Built a California Wine Dynasty

Paul Michael didn't plant his first vines by choice. He was seventeen years old, on a family holiday in California, when his father climbed out of a rented Cadillac in th

Raventós i Blanc: Why Pepe Raventós Left Cava Behind and What He's Building in Its Place

Pepe Raventós is a 21st generation winemaker who walked away from the appellation his grandfather helped build. Cava had become a commodity. The name carried the wrong st

Master Somm Bobby Stuckey: In Defense of Fine Dining & Friuli

 Bobby Stuckey has spent twenty years telling Americans that the most important wine region in Italy isn't Tuscany. It isn't Piedmont either. It's Friuli. As co-founder

The Wine Importer Who Took On Trump and Won | Victor Owen Schwartz | Bonus Episode 45

When the most powerful man in the world imposed tariffs that threatened to put his business under, Victor Owen Schwartz did what almost no one else was willing to do. He

Bruwer Raats | The Man Who Built South Africa’s Most Iconic Wine

Bruwer Raats planted his flag in the Polkadraai Hills when nobody else wanted to be there. The soil was granite, the land was cheap, and the two varieties he chose — Chen

Kevin Zraly | The Man Who Taught America to Drink Wine

Fifty years ago, a 25-year-old with no money, no connections, and a lot of nerve showed up at an office on the 18th floor of the World Trade Center every single day for t

Cathy Corison Built Napa's Most Patient Winery. Now Grace Is Next.

A UC Davis professor once told Cathy Corison she would never be a winemaker in the Napa Valley. As a woman, it simply wasn't done. She didn't argue. She just went and did

Clos du Val, Carmel Greenberg — The Opposite of Extraction

Carmel Greenberg didn't come to Clos du Val to make bigger wines. She came to make better ones. As head winemaker at one of Napa's oldest estates — and the first Israeli

High Hampton’s Head Somm: Building a World-Class Wine Program in the Blue Ridge

Most world-class wine programs live in big city restaurants. This one lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains — and that changes everything. Tyler Wesslund, sommelier at High H

Supreme Court Wine Tariff Ruling: Progress — But Not Over

Bonus Episode — Breaking News Update  Supreme Court has issued a ruling on U.S. wine tariffs — a meaningful development in a long-running legal battle. But despite the h

Sebastián Zuccardi's Altitude is Defining Argentina's Malbec Attitude

Sebastián Zuccardi is one of the defining voices behind the modern revolution of Argentine wine. As the third generation leading Zuccardi Valle de Uco, he helped redefine

Disney’s Wine Master: George Miliotes on Pairing Wine with Rollercoasters

What happens when passion meets purpose in the wine world — and a little Disney magic? George Miliotes, legendary Master Sommelier and the visionary behind Wine Bar Georg

Wynn Las Vegas Somm Cristie Norman: The Question No One Had Ever Asked Her

Cristie Norman brings bold energy, heart, and a wealth of experience to this powerful episode of The Wine Centric Show. As Lead Sommelier at Delilah at the Wynn Las Vegas

Eric Asimov (New York Times) on the Future of Wine, California & Culture

How is wine culture  changing, and what still holds true? Eric Asimov, the long-standing chief wine critic for The New York Times, joins us for a candid conversation to a