and the meaningful
- Episode 22: Insights on How to Travel in South America in 2022
We have to be more intentional if we want to have this newness and these experiences that we’re craving so much...it’s okay to do less and go slower...but we’re still there.
- Episode 21: The Argentine Wine Revolution with Laura Catena of Catena Wines
“The reason I believe the best wines in the world are made by multi-generational families is that they are made by trial and error. These unique, grand cru plots, like Adrianna Vineyard, are found like that.”
- Episode 20: What is Terroir, exactly?
The finest wines offer clarity, distinctiveness, grace, balance, deliciousness, complexity, modesty, persistence, and sometimes even a little paradox. Today to kick off a new season, we dig into a theme that we discuss time and time again: terroir. Terroir is a term that is increasingly used in any ‘origin’ or craft product, so we […]
- Episode 18 (Part II ) : Olive oil as a way of life with Carola Dümmer
“Olive oil is an alive product. It’s not a commodity or refined fat. That is part of my mission, to educate on how to use olive oil.”
From our Journal
IN SEARCH OF FLAVOR, EPISODE 38: Seba Zuccardi on the Rise of Uco Valley Wines
In this episode, we sit down with Seba Zuccardi, the pioneering force behind some of Argentina’s most distinctive and terroir-driven wines hailing from the Uco Valley in the Mendoza province. While the Zuccardi family winery was established by his grandfather in Mendoza’s Maipú region in the 1960s, it’s Seba who has spearheaded an audacious exploration […]
READ MOREIn Search of Flavor, EPISODE 37: How Fungi & Regenerative Farming Can Save Us (Re-release of Episode 13 with Guiliana Furci)
Soil is life. Without it, we cannot sustain ourselves on Earth. We are losing it, poisoning it, chopping it up with tilling, and with it, depleting the fungi which are integral to it, an intricate system, a web, that connects the plants, micro-organisms, digests carbon dioxide, and so much more. In this re-release of Episode […]
READ MOREIn Search of Flavor, EPISODE 36: The Skinny on End-of-year Travel
South America’s Southern Cone exudes an irresistible summer siren song during the end-of-year travel season. While the days get cold, rainy, or snowy in the North, the weather is all sunshine and gelato in the South. It’s no wonder why it’s a favorite winter destination, from Patagonia’s glaciers to the sun-drenched vineyards of Mendoza and […]
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