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Young professionals want to love wine—but the industry keeps getting in its own way. @winewithjon gathers voices from across the business to figure out what needs to change.
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Jacqueline Coleman, @historyandwine (opens the original)
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Jacqueline Coleman is a fourth-generation Miamian who hasbeen covering South Florida wine since 2013 — but the whole thing started in Virginia, where a DC day job and a weekend discovery that there was wine country forty-five minutes away turned into a blog called History & Wine. One of her early subjects was an ex-CIA officer who'd been part of the Bay of Pigs and decided in retirement to make wine. When she came home to Miami in 2013 she was the only young woman she came across in the business
Amanda McCrossin - @SommVivant (opens the original)
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This week: Amanda McCrossin —SommVivant — on why the wine industry doesn’t have a simplification problem, ithas a translation problem. Amanda is a certified sommelier who ran the wine program at PRESS in Napa and has since built an audience of roughly half a million people by making wine feel approachable without dumbing it down. She and Jon talk about her path from a non-drinking household outside Philadelphia to one of America’s great wine lists, why she started filming a winery a day in 2015,
The Bourbon Reflex: Why American Men Won't Order the Wine They Actually Want (opens the original)
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Four guys at a steakhouse order bourbon, an old fashioned, and a beer — and the guy who actually wants the Barolo orders bourbon anyway. This week's essay is about that hesitation. Wine is five thousand years old and was never gendered anywhere — until, in about forty years, American culture quietly stamped it pink. Jon walks through the numbers (only ~16% of American men who drink prefer wine; in France and Italy men out-drink women on it), the three forces that did it — marketing, media, and t
Rajat Parr - Superstar Somm Turned Farmer (opens the original)
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This week: Raj Parr — one of the most influential sommeliers America has produced — on why he left the dining room for the dirt. Raj ran the wine program for the Michael Mina Restaurant Group, co-founded Sandhi and Domaine de la Côte, helpedlead the push toward balance in California wine, and co-wrote the James Beard Award–winning Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste. Now he farms by hand at Phelan Farms in Cambria. He and Jon trace the improbable path — Calcutta to culinary school,65 rejection-adjacent j
A Thing of Beauty: Remembering Sam Neill (opens the original)
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In 1993, a working actor planted five acres of pinot noir at the bottom of the world, in a region most people said was too cold to grow anything serious. His neighbors thought it was ahobby. Sam Neill died last month, and two completely different sets of obituaries ran for the same man — one for the movie star, one in the wine trade press. This week’s essay is about the secondone, and about the strange arithmetic of a grapevine: plant it today, get nothing for years, and the best fruit arrives l
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