Bonus Sponsored Ep: Vanessa Conlin, MW, Head of Wine for Wine Access

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This bonus episode is sponsored by Wine Access.

Founded by wine lovers and searchers in 2007, each day, they write stories about wines they discover, taste, and evaluate in the cellars where they were made. They negotiate prices on their membership's behalf, then arrange to have bottles shipped directly from the source — right to your door.

They stake their reputation on every bottle they select, and it shows! Wine Access offers some wines on their site and their email offers are amazing, so sign up today.

Visit: www.wineaccess.com/normal and for a limited time get $20 off your first order of $50 or more!

This episode is with Vanessa Conlin, Master of Wine, and the Head of Wine for Wine Access. She has had a wonderful and unexpected career: While pursuing a career in opera, she discovered a love of food and wine and pursued wine education while continuing her music studies.

Eventually, she chose wine over music working in wine in New York. She has been the head of sales and marketing for several prestigious Napa wineries including Arietta Wines, Dana Estates, and Realm Cellars.

Vanessa holds the WSET Diploma, and was the recipient of the Niki Singer Memorial Scholarship from the International Wine Center. She is a newly minted Master of Wine!!

Some of the topics we cover:

The career transition Vanessa made from a completely different field into wine
The connection between wine and music
Vanessa's path to becoming a Master of Wine and the difference between the MS and MW programs
The things that make Wine Access so special --
- Meticulous selection and excellent, original notes done by Vanessa and her team
- The guarantee of provenance (where the wine came from -- always directly from the winery)
- A Napa-based service team that can help with shipping and selecting wine, and if any bottle is not to your liking, they'll refund your order.

We wrap up by discussing the changes in the industry and how important direct to consumer channels like Wine Access are!

Check out Vanessa's favorite picks on www.wineaccess.com/normal and for a limited time get $20 off your first order of $50 or more!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is sponsored by Wine Access and I hope you will take a listen.
0:07.0	Vanessa Conlin is a master of wine candidate and she has had a really fascinating run of it.
0:13.7	She is now the head of wine for wine access.
0:16.2	You'll learn more about her, about her path to wine,
0:20.1	and how it really affects the wines that you're going to see out of wine access.
0:24.7	Wine access has been a great sponsor so far and if you haven't checked them out, I highly
0:29.3	recommend going to wine access.com forward slash normal and signing up for their email list.
0:36.0	You'll get a daily email that will tell you about their current selections
0:40.0	and you can also go on their website and see what they've got in their online store.
0:45.2	It is an awesome service, great customer service, great materials that go along with all of the
0:51.0	wines that you get.
0:52.4	You know I only work with people I believe in.
0:54.4	I really believe in wine access,
0:55.9	and I hope that you will support them
0:57.7	as they support the podcast.
0:59.9	So we will get to the podcast,
1:01.5	but don't forget.
1:02.2	If you buy from wine access, you will get to the podcast, but don't forget if you buy from Wine Access you will get $20 off your first purchase of $50 or more if you go to Wine
1:08.3	access ACCES, Wine Access. dot com forward slash normal that's wine today and take a listen to this amazing
1:24.9	podcast Vanessa is a very impressive person her wine career and journey is just
1:30.6	remarkable on the show today we have Vanessa Conlan is just remarkable.
1:32.5	On the show, today we have Vanessa Conlan.
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