Wine 101 - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Wine 101 is in my top three favorite podcasts on wine. Keith Beaver’s is an educational genius and makes learning about wine fun and approachable and oh by the way, super informative! All my road trips where reception gets spotty includes multiple downloaded episodes of Wine 101. I tell all my friends wine, curious, novices, or industry experts to take a listen.

I stumbled upon this podcast while looking for ways to learn about wine. I started from episode 1 and have been loving the journey! I’ve already learned so much. The show is a little bit corny but I like corny and it keeps you engaged and helps you remember all of information. The host has a wealth of knowledge and gives just the right balance of science, history, jokes, and recommendations. HIGHLY SUGGEST!!

This is such a fabulous and well-informed dive into the world of wine. Keith is quite engaging and fun — I love his approach to sharing such technical information!

Stumbled upon this podcast and cannot stop listening. Very informative, fun, up-to date and stimulating!

There is nothing wrong with learning wine through experience or through certified education. Keith saying that WSET is an expedited education to get in and out is far from the truth and depending on who you ask WSET has a harder blind testing requirements to become a Master of Wine as opposed to a Master Sommelier. WSET 4 diploma also takes many years of studying to pass and is no easy feat. At worst this comes across as dumping on the WSET program and at best it comes across as an uninformed opinion. Another wine podcast similarly has a host who has decades of bar experience, but has a chip on their shoulder when asked if they’re certified. You don’t need a special school or piece of paper to tell you that you know things, but it can be helpful to have people in the industry on a similar conversational level.

I had a wine rep who knows a lot about wine show me wines one day and out of curiosity I asked if the wine was made through carbonic maceration. I wasn’t trying to show off, but the wine had a lot of these characteristics and it is not common for this style of Italian wine to be made carbonically. He looked at me with confusion then gave an answer that made no sense. He knows farrrrr more than me about Italian wines. It was not supposed to be a trick question, but it made the interaction awkward because two of my coworkers were there and I thought it would be even more rude to explain. I just let it go and moved on.

Perhaps I’m being over critical for a podcast called 101.