Join us as we review the 2021 Carmen Gran Reserva Merlot from Maipo in Chile. This week, the guys discuss the issue of having old crackly bones and small sleeping children, they peel back the layers on the criteria each of them uses to assess and rate a wine, and the research department uncovers the truth about a potentially misleading sticker placed on the bottle.

Join us this week as we review the Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne from France. Joel drops some awesome knowledge on us as we dive into the history of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne house in a fun game of “Fact or Fiction” and there is some significant disagreement as to where the guys end up putting this bottle of bubbly.

Will this popular Champagne live up to the Yellow Label hype

Join us this week as we review the Catena 2020 Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina. This week Colin helps the guys search for a replacement for the much-maligned Layer Cake Malbec, Joel helps Colin with the learning segment, kind of, and Aaron finally gets to do the social media sign off at the end.

Join us this week as we review the Black Box Sauvignon Blanc from Chile. We’re venturing into uncharted territory today with our first-ever review of a wine in a box/tetra pack. Let’s just say the guys have some mixed feelings about it. We also learn a bit about the Sauvignon Blanc grape!

Join us this week as we review our first Bordeaux Blanc from Château Rauzan Despagne from the Bordeaux region of France! Aaron smells tennis balls for the first time, we wrap up our trivia game and Aaron throws down the boxed wine gauntlet. This one is a fun one!

Join us this week as we review a dry Riesling from Domdechant Werner located in the Rheingau region of Germany! We jump back into our trivia game and learn about how grape juice is turned into wine.

Join us as we review Rosé Bubbles from House Wine in Walla Walla, Washington. We’ll take a brief pause from our winemaking trivia game to welcome our second guest, Warren, a good friend of the show. We’ll also explore wine packaging as we delve into our first-ever canned wine experience.
Warren has his own podcast “Because I Got Highlights” which provides “highly” opinionated chatter about basketball and trees. You can check him and his co-host Terrence out on ⁠Spotify!

Join us this as we review the 2018 Gordon Estate Syrah from the Columbia Valley in Washington State! This week, we start learning about the wine making process and Joel and Aaron answer some trivia questions.

Join us as we review the 2022 Neethlingshof Pinotage from Stellenbosch, South Africa. We’ll explore the polarizing nature of the Pinotage grape and share our own polarized opinions. Find out who loved it, who hated it, and why in this week’s episode!

Join us as we review the 2018 Beronia, Rioja Reserva! This is our first time reviewing a wine made from tempranillo grapes, and we’re excited to share our thoughts. We also dive into the Rioja classification system and learn Aaron is great at picking up context clues.