The Best Trips We've Taken Recently Are to the Wine Shop
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
While we truly love to drink wine, we would hardly call ourselves experts. And after downing quite a few delicious bottles over the last few months without a sommelier or bartender to guide us, we thought we'd check in with two of the least snobby wine snobs we know: Women Who Travel contributor Shanika Hillocks and Helen's Wines' Helen Johannesen. We talk all about how our taste—and willingness to shell out—has changed during lockdown, some places to start when looking to test your wine comfort zone, and what the wine industry looks like today. (And don't worry, we don't say "vino" once.)
If you're headed to your local wine shop after listening or want to browse for some bottles to pick up online, here are all of the wines we mentioned in the episode, with links to where we could find them:
- Strekov 1075 Fred #5 red blend, Južnoslovenská, Slovakia
- Valentina Passalcqua Primitivo, Puglia, Italy
- Calcarius Orange, Puglia, Italy
- Maison Noir Love Drunk Rosé, Oregon
- Domaine De Cherouche Gamay, Ayent, Switzerland
- Zafa Wines and CO Cellars Electric Mayhem cans, Burlington, Vermont
- Aslina Umsasane red blend, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Sieman Mosca Bianca, Veneto, Italy
- Yetti & The Kokonut Savagnin 'Metro', South Australia
- Clos Lentiscus Cric Cric Blanc, Penedès, Spain
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to women who travel, a podcast from Kind As Traveler. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Meredith Carey and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lala Eric Hoaglu. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello! |
| 0:12.7 | As social distancing and self-isolation has dragged on, Lale and I have found ourselves turning |
| 0:17.5 | to the world of wine for comfort. |
| 0:19.8 | This week we wanted to tap two experts to teach us a little more about wine and the travel |
| 0:24.0 | can be inspired by a glass. |
| 0:25.8 | And so we're joined by Shanika Hillocks, influencer marketing manager and women who travel |
| 0:30.0 | contributor. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello. |
| 0:31.9 | And Helen Johansson, owner of LA's coolest wine shop, Helen's wines. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, thanks for having me. |
| 0:37.9 | Before we get started, one disappointing caveat for this week's episode, |
| 0:41.5 | we're recording at 10.30 in the morning for some of us and 7.30 in the morning for others. |
| 0:46.5 | And so not many of us are buzzed, but this chat is surely going to give me ideas for my trip to the wine store later this afternoon. |
| 0:54.9 | I also want to say that there have definitely been moments in the last three months or however long this has been |
| 0:59.6 | where it's been like 11 a.m. and I've had a bottle of wine in the fridge and I'm like, could I just |
| 1:04.8 | pour myself a glass while I'm working? I mean, no judgment. Exactly. The rules are different now. And, you know, when I'm working. I mean, no judgment. |
| 1:11.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:12.8 | The rules are different now. |
| 1:16.1 | And, you know, when I'm thinking of, like, changing of habits, |
| 1:21.2 | I've actually really noticed that my own wine choices have changed during quarantine, |
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