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Postcards in a Glass

Postcards in a Glass shares an unpretentious world of wine, believing that every good wine "takes you somewhere." This series of audio postcards from great wine regions around the world is hosted by James Beard Award-winning journalist and WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) Certified Educator Lyn Farmer. In conversations with winemakers and many others who love wine, Lyn brings out the passion and joy people have for the beverage, and every now and then manages to include a discussion of spirits,

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00:34:39

A Sparkling Postcard from Weston Eidson of Westborn...

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2025/11/25

Winemaker Weston Eidson of Westborn Wines has created wines that have received extraordinary praise from top wine writers like Jancis Robinson and Jeb Dunnock. They have been struck by the extraordinary quality of Westborn's portfolio of sparkling wines. Made using the traditional method, the same process as used in Champagne and Franciacorta, Westborn's wines are uncommonly refined and elegant. They draw on grapes not from a single vineyard but sourced from many of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino's top v

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00:34:25

Sipping Sancerre with a Rock Star - a conversation...

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2025/11/07

Nearly 500 years before sauvignon blanc was planted in Marlborough, New Zealand, Pierre-Etienne Mellot was tending his vines rooted in the stony soils of Sancerre. These vineyards tended by the Mellot family have been producing generation after generation of exceptional wine. By the end of the 17th century, César Mellot was advising King Louis XIV on wine and now, 513 years after the family began its vinous odyssey in 1513, Armand Mellot continues the journey. With his mother and his brother Adrien

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00:34:59

The Dynamic Douro - Modern Styles for a Classic Region

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2025/10/18

Portugal's Douro Valley is the oldest geographically designated wine region in the world - it's boundaries were formally set in the mid-1700s and for more than two centuries the international image of the region was based on sweet, fortified wine. Classic tawny and ruby ports still play an important part in the Douro's wine production but since the early 1990s dry red and white wines have also played a major part in the region's fame.These dry wines weren't new - they had always made them but mainly

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00:31:18

Bringing Boutique to the Big Time: Viña Carmen's Ana...

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2025/09/25

Chile is an amazing country for wine lovers. It has a vine growing area nearly 1000 kilometers in length with three distinct zones from West to East - a cool Coastal Region on the Pacific, a warm Central Valley and in the east of the country, the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Altitude can give respite from the Central Valley's heat, so there is nearly every climate possible somewhere in this fertile country.Chile has for decades been a major wine exporter and has developed a wine industry aimed

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00:32:32

The Vine Whisperer Speaks - Greg La Follette

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2025/09/02

Widely referred to as "The Vine Whisperer," Greg La Follette is a California legend, a grape grower and wine maker who has worked with dozens of wineries, made hundreds wines and, for nearly six decades, has been an essentail part of the engine driving the maturation of the California and American wine industries. A one-time seminarian, medical researcher and plant biologist, he first made his mark in wine as a lab rat fascinated by the esoterica of what creates our tactile impression, the mouth

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00:36:32

Wine in the shadow of the Sun King - A New Vineyard...

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2025/08/07

In this era of climate change, many wine growers are cultivating vines in areas once thought to cool for grapes. One of these pioneers is Adrien Pélissié, who has resurrected the vineyards originally planted by Louis XIV on the sprawling grounds of his palace at Versailles. On a similar latitude as Champagne, Versailles, in suburban Paris, is an unlikely but stunning venue for growing grapes and this new project highlights the also new Ile de France IGT regional designation. Pélissié also further

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00:33:57

Teleporting Wine - The dream of Coravin Inventor Greg...

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2025/06/26

The Coravin has revolutionized wine for many folks. Greg Lambrecht, a physicist and inventor of medical devices, used his expertise – "I'm very good with needles," he says – to create a device that has revolutionized wine service and wine sampling. Students of wine, sellers of wine and all lovers of wine have been impacted by the Coravin system that allows us to sample multiple bottles without having the wine go bad within a day. "I wanted to teleport wine," Lambrecht says, "I wanted any wine,

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00:29:06

Juggling Wine on Four Continents with Paul Hobbs

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2025/06/05

Winemaker Paul Hobbs has seen, and done, it all in the world of wine. He grew up on a farm in upstate New York, considered a career and medicine and, thanks to a few unplanned detours, ended up making wine in California for Robert Mondavi. He was on the team that created Opus One, the first French-American joint wine project, then became head winemaker at Sonoma’s influential Simi Winery. He went on to play a pivotal role in the ascent of Malbec in Argentina and founded his own winery in Sonoma,

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00:30:41

A Toast to Champagne with Pommery winemaker Clément...

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2025/05/20

Few wines have as strong a sense of place as Champagne, so it's a treat to delve into what makes a great Champagne with the Chef des Caves (chief winemaker) of Champagne Pommery, Clément Pierlot. Clément joins host Lyn Farmer to chat about all things Champagne. We explore Pommery's 190 year history, a wine he is making to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Madame Pommery's introduction of the first Brut Champagne in 1874, what contributes to a Champagne's style, trends in Champagne and why Champagne

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00:25:10

Rosé Every Day - a Postcard from Provence with...

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2025/04/30

The legendary Jean-Guillaume Prats, once owner of Bordeaux's Château Cos d'Estournel, has worked in every facet of the wine industry, from creating Moët-Hennessy's wine portfolio in China (and overseeing LVMH's properties in eight other countries) to managing Château Lafite. Today he is managing partner in a dazzling enterprise in Provence, Château d'Estoublan, producers of Roseblood, a new and broadly appealing rosé that is like sunny Provence in a glass. In this conversation he talks with Lyn

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A Postcard from the Languedoc with Gérard Bertrand

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2025/04/15

In this second episode of Posttcards in a Glass, wine educator and journalist Lyn Farmer shares a postcard of France’s Languedoc region with winemaker and wine philosopher Gérard Bertrand. Owner of 17 chateaux and wine estates in Southwestern France and one of the world’s leading proponents of biodynamic agriculture, Bertrand shares stories of his time as a top level rugby player on the French national team, his first glass of wine at eight years of age, lessons learned from his wine grower father,

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