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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.

 

 

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Behind Botrytis - Beautiful Wines from Ugly Grapes | S2E2

Sep 27, 2019

A funny thing happened on the way to the dessert wine episode: Val went down a moldy rabbit hole. What emerges is an entire episode devoted to Noble Rot.

How does Botrytis Cinerea affect the grapes, the vineyard practices, the wine making, and the finished wines? We go there in this corkdorkalicious exploration of the...

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Lambrusco Love Fest | S2E1

Sep 13, 2019

Kicking off Season 2 with bubbles. Let’s raise a glass to Lambrusco - the grapes, the regions, the wine styles. There’s always more to the story, and this one ends with a nod to … well .. rap.

Resources from this episode:

Books:

Oxford Companion to Wine, 4th Edition [Kindle Edition], Robinson (2015)

Wine grapes: A...

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