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Glass in Session® is a wine education podcast hosted by Val Caruso, DWS, CWE, FWS. She's a certified wine educator, lifelong learner, & shameless corkdork.

Every 2nd and 4th Friday there will be a new Glass in Session® focusing on a new topic. Val's mission is to educate, entertain, and empower the wine learner, wine lover, or wine curious by seeking out the fun - and sometimes funny - side of wine education.

 

 

Mar 25, 2022

Vodka: What it is, where it's from, its role in the rise and fall of empires and … barbarians? Again?

This episode is especially relevant to current events, and hopes to elucidate otherwise confusing issues around boycotting Russian Vodka: it has history, scandal, and irresistible international intrigue, especially...


Mar 11, 2022

A quick trip around Swiss wine regions, grapes, and styles, ending with fascinating bits involving a world class counterfeiter, and … the Dalai Lama?

Resources from this episode:

Books:

The Oxford Companion to Wine [Kindle Edition], Robinson, J. & Harding J. (2015)

Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine...