Bianca Bosker’s Journey Through the Wild, Wooly World of Wine

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bianca Bosker left a career as a tech writer to explore the world of sommeliers, wine makers, and well-heeled oenophiles. A wine novice at first, Bosker quickly got sucked into the community of bottle-obsessives through working in restaurants and attending tastings and events, including the notorious La Paulée fest, which Bianca describes a big “wine orgy.” After becoming a certified sommelier, Bosker turned the notes from her journey into "Cork Dork," an immensely entertaining book that demystifies the wine industry. In her chat With Helen and Greg, Bianca looks back on some of the most surprising moments she encountered on her quest to becoming a master taster, and she offers some notes on how anyone can approach wine like a bona fide Cork Dork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Greg, we're here in the Eater Uppsel studio with Bianca Bosker, the author of the New York Times best-selling
0:09.0	wine memoir.
0:10.0	Is it a wine memoir?
0:11.0	I don't think it's a fair description.
0:12.5	You can call a lot of things.
0:13.5	Let's call it a wine memoir.
0:14.5	Called Cork dork.
0:16.1	Yes, Cork dork.
0:17.8	And I think that what do you call it, the sub headline, A Wine Fueled Adventure
0:21.6	among the Obsessive Someliers-bottle hunters, and rogue scientists
0:25.3	who taught me to live for taste is a great explanation.
0:29.6	I think when it's a book they call it a title. A subtitle? Yeah, it's title and a subtitle.
0:35.0	Oh yes, that's right. We've learned something we today.
0:38.0	Silly me.
0:39.0	Well, Bianca, welcome to the eater upsell.
0:42.0	Thank you. Thank you guys so much for having me. It's really
0:44.2	awesome to be here. You know, Greg and I have been doing this podcast for almost two years now, maybe
0:48.5	over two years. I honestly have no idea how long we've been doing this. I've been doing it for
0:52.4	30 years, Helen. Yes, we've been doing this but I'm doing it for 30 years Helen yes we've grown old we both have very long long white beards
0:56.9	You are the first wine person we have had on wow. Well, thank you so much for having that's cool. Yeah it is cool. We
1:04.7	I was looking over our archive and I suppose this is the right moment for me to
1:10.2	plug the archive to our listeners if you haven't listened to every
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