Making Wine More Inclusive and Less Pretentious
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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But that has slowly begun to change. From sommeliers to vineyard owners, the industry is gradually opening up to more people of color and women. Vintner's associations and vineyards have rolled out recruitment plans and scholarships to provide opportunities for equity, diversity, and inclusion in wine-producing regions.
Host Michel Martin speaks with sommelier and anti-wine snob André Hueston Mack, host of Bon Appetit's video series World of Wine. He shares some of his ideas for holiday wine and spirits to gift and serve.
And we talk with Chrishon Lampley, owner of the wine company Love Cork Screw, one of the few Black women in the wine industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me show you how this is done. |
| 0:01.6 | Hold the glass up and examine the one against the light. |
| 0:04.4 | You're looking for color and clarity. |
| 0:06.1 | Now, stick your nose in. |
| 0:08.9 | There's a strawberry. |
| 0:11.2 | Oh, there's just a flutter of like a nutty, eat-a-me cheese. |
| 0:16.4 | When are we drinking? |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | Hmm, big, full body. |
| 0:20.0 | Perhaps a bit baked. |
| 0:22.4 | Essence of truffles, long fish, |
| 0:25.2 | shambartan, 76, |
| 0:26.7 | rubble, fresh. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm getting notes of dried robins blood, |
| 0:31.2 | old dirty cashews, and just a hint of a robot's bathwater. |
| 0:35.7 | This sniffing, the swishing, |
| 0:37.5 | the crazy descriptions of taste and smell, |
| 0:40.1 | these are, we are given to understand the rituals |
| 0:42.8 | of the wine connoisseur, made famous, |
| 0:44.9 | or maybe infamous in movies like Sideways and the sitcom Frazier, |
| 0:49.3 | and of course, Dooly Mocht in Parks and Recreation. |
| 0:52.4 | And while it's usually played for laughs, |
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