Episode 197: How the Wine Industry Can Appeal to Gen Z, According to Future 40 Pros
Release Date: 08/20/2025
Episode 199: In Defense of Grocery Store Wines
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In this week’s podcast episode, we sit down with Wine Enthusiast Writer-at-Large Emily Saladino to talk Trader Joe’s, Costco, Tyler, the Creator, and more. Is there a guest you want us to interview? A topic you want us to cover? We want to hear from you! Email us at . Remember to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Go to for the latest beverage industry coverage and all the tools you need to bring your love of wine to life. And wait, there's more! Get over 70% OFF the original cover price by today! ...
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Episode 198: It’s Time to Retire These Wine Terms
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The way we talk about wine is important. Language is a living, evolving thing that changes to suit shifting whims and needs. That means that some wine terms become less, er, useful over time. In other words, they need to get the axe. There are so many reasons a term could be considered outdated. It might be offensive—for instance, why are some wines described as "masculine" and others "feminine"? But terms may also not be precise enough, or not inclusive enough. Sometimes they just plain evoke weird reactions. So, too, thinks writer-at-Large , our reviewer for a wide range of wines...
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Episode 197: How the Wine Industry Can Appeal to Gen Z, According to Future 40 Pros
Wine Enthusiast Podcast
Wine Enthusiast just released its 2025 Future 40 list, a celebration of emerging talents and tastemakers in the drinks space. On this week's podcast episode, Magazine Director Ryan Grim talks to Future 40 honorees Luke Anderson and Justine Osilla about the state of the wine industry. Is there a guest you want us to interview? A topic you want us to cover? We want to hear from you! Email us at . Remember to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Go to for the latest beverage industry coverage and all the tools you need to bring your love of...
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Episode 196: Regina King's New Orange Wine Tells a Deeply Personal Story
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Academy Award-wining actress Regina King opens up about her new orange wine label, MianU, the bottles that made her fall in love with wine, how winemaking is like directing and all the ways she's continuing to celebrate with her son, Ian. Is there a guest you want us to interview? A topic you want us to cover? We want to hear from you! Email us at . Remember to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Go to for the latest beverage industry coverage and all the tools you need to bring your love of wine to life. And wait, there's...
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Episode 195: How the Fake Somm on ‘The Bear’ Learned Real Skills
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When The Bear first premiered, it was widely-hailed for accurately capturing the high-intensity chaos of restaurant life. With , the show has dived deeper into the emotional complexities that come with working in the industry for characters who have made it their life’s work. But, for certain viewers, it felt like the show was —wine—especially when talking about a restaurant that is aiming for a Michelin star. On The Bear’s fourth season, which premiered on June 25th, wine finally got its time to shine. Though food remains the central focus of the restaurant, wine finally gets its fair...
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Episode 194: Out With Low-Alc? BuzzBallz and XXL Lead a Growing Trend
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The siren call of a BuzzBall is hard to ignore. The neon sphere at your checkout counter is the $5 (or less) cocktail fueling a $500 million empire. In 2024, RTD sales spiked 16.5% while other booze categories stayed flat, and they show no signs of slowing down. In the wine world, XXL, the so-called “Moscato without manners” pushes the same boundary with candy-sweet flavors and 15–20% ABV, flipping the script on the sober-curious trend. In this episode, resident spirits expert Kara Newman breaks down what’s driving the RTD boom, with a curated BuzzBallz tasting. Writer-at-large...
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Episode 193: Will Gen Z Ever Drink Wine?
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The young people, it seems, are usually to blame. In 1998, The New York Times said, “Young people, the 21- to 29-year-olds, are …For the $13-billion-a-year wine industry, the loss of so many potential consumers couldn't come at a worse time.” In 2016, The New York Post ran a headline, “Millennials are ruining the American wine industry.” Fast-forward to the current generational panic in the wine industry—this time, regarding the 13- to 29-year-olds that make up Generation Z. The wine industry is currently facing a mountain of struggles, including shifting consumer preferences,...
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Episode 192: What Does the Pope Drink? Inside the Vatican’s Quietly Influential Wine Scene
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The May announcement of the first-ever American Pope, Leo XIV, still has the whole world buzzing. While Robert Francis Prevost’s hometown of has its own distinct wine and spirits culture (, we’re looking at you), his move to Vatican City has landed him in the center of the biggest wine scene no one’s ever heard of. That’s right: The Vatican has a wine scene—and a secretly influential one, too. Surrounded by , the tiny city-state is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and homebase of the Pope. It’s also the biggest wine importer per capita in the entire world, by...
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Episode 191: The Next Great Nation of Wine Lovers? India, Says the Country's First Master of Wine
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Sonal Holland, India's first-ever master sommelier, had a feeling that wine would be big business on the subcontinent back when she first entered the wine scene nearly 20 years ago. "I could see that it was going to grow, and there were no qualified wine professionals in the country," she tells us. "I don't think anyone was sitting there thinking, 'Oh, let's have an MW from India,'" she admits. "But somehow there was a voice inside of me that said, 'No, this, this can be something real.'" That instinct turned out to be wildly accurate. Between 2023 and 2027, predicts an annual growth...
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Episode 190: In ‘Blood Vines,’ a Tale of Wine Fraud, White Zinfandel and Murder
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While rosy-hued bottles of White Zinfandel were fixtures on dinner tables and at parties in the 1980s, the seemingly buoyant beverage sparked an infamous dark story, one involving fraud and the killing of one of ’s most famous grape brokers. , an investigative journalist based in Denver, Colorado, learned about this story a few years ago and began to unravel the tale. What resulted is , a new nine-episode narrative podcast that dives into the saga. On this episode of the Wine Enthusiast Podcast, Chris joins Wine Enthusiast Writer-at-Large Matt Kettmann to chat about making the show and...
info_outlineWine Enthusiast just released its 2025 Future 40 list, a celebration of emerging talents and tastemakers in the drinks space. On this week's podcast episode, Magazine Director Ryan Grim talks to Future 40 honorees Luke Anderson and Justine Osilla about the state of the wine industry.
Is there a guest you want us to interview? A topic you want us to cover? We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]. Remember to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.