Oh, hey, it's the Tic Tac that you dropped on the sidewalk that you're afraid someone might

mistake for drugs and then be disappointed. Allie Ward and welcome to the world of wine.

So, anology. It can be spelled with an O before the E or not. We're not in Britain. We're not

going to pretend we are. So we're dropping the O. That's how you spell it in the country that I'm in.

But either way, it comes from the Greek for wine.

And an analogist, it's fully something you can major in and become degreed in, is schooled in the

science of wines or the study of the nature or qualities or varieties of wine. So we are serving up

two glasses of it this episode with a world-renowned sommelier and winemaker. And then next week,

we're going to talk to a pair of married winemakers and an analogist who cover more of the behind

scenes of what it's like to run a winery. So consider this first one, kind of a how-to on enjoying

and understanding and appreciating wine and reading labels and

faking your way through a wine list or not and had a chill or not chill with your wines. So this

ologist is someone I've been eyeing for so long and their schedule is bonkers, but it was so

worth the wait at the very start of their career as a sommelier or a wine steward,

they were named Best Young Samolier. They began working with the chef Thomas Keller, becoming his head,

Samolier. We'll talk about why that's a huge deal. They founded their own Muton Noir,

wines, meaning black sheep, but later rebranded to meson noir we'll talk about

that too and they're an author of the book 99 bottles a black sheep's guide to life-changing

wines so we will get to that way of life in just a moment but first just a quick thank you to patrons

at patreon.com slash ologies who support the show for as little as a dollar a month and submit

questions for the ologists thank you to everyone spreading the word about our kid-friendly spin-off called Smologis, S-M-O-L-O-G-I-E-S, which are shorter and classroom-friendly G-rated versions of Ologies episodes. We won't be having one for this one, obviously, but thanks to everyone supporting our merch from

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