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EPISODE 40: Ray Isle on Sustainability & The Human Element in Wine“Wine itself has no opinions about your background or where you came from or anything; it's open to everyone”- Ray Isle
EPISODE 39: Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone through Travel“Humans have always been drawn to travel. It's a growth mindset and you become more open, more able to deal with change” - Liz Caskey
EPISODE 38: Seba Zuccardi on the Rise of Uco Valley Wines"We make mountain wines…we are mountain people…the Andes Mountains are part of our cosmovision, part of our way to see the world." - Seba Zuccardi
Episode 37: How Fungi & Regenerative Farming Can Save Us (Re-release of Episode 13 with Guiliana Furci)“Without fungi, no plant on earth would live because no plant is able to live outside of an aquatic system without the fungi.” - Guiliana Furci
From our Journal
What the Desert Asks of You
The first thing you notice landing in Calama is the incredible dryness. On the road to the desert oasis of San Pedro, the jumping off point to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the landscape registers few signs of life — dry riverbeds, copper colored hills, and even an entire mountain range made from compressed […]
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The Uruguayan Riviera — February 2027
The Uruguayan Riviera returns February 19–25, 2027 — our third edition, and it gets better every time. I‘m standing on the sand dunes above Playa Mansa in José Ignacio, Uruguay. Big raindrops — the fat, splattering kind — are beating down on my head and the cashmere sweater I am wearing to ward off the […]
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Just back from… Clos Apalta Residence in Chile
I am sitting like a lizard in the warm afternoon sunshine, wrapped in an alpaca wool shawl on a scenic terrace overlooking the Apalta wine appellation and volcanoes of the Andes. The chilly morning rain has moved out and there’s not a cloud in the sky. In the distance, there’s a shrill call of a […]
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