and the meaningful
- Episode 14: The Emergence of Uruguayan Wine with Juan Andrés Marichal of Marichal Wines
“Uruguay is in a very good moment. Many people are saying that this is the next region you have to discover.”
- Episode 13: The Fascinating World of Fungi with Guiliana Furci of Fundación Fungi
“Chile shares its marine ingredients with Peru. We share our terrestrial animal ingredients, or species, with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil. But, really the only ingredients that differentiate us totally from our neighbors are our mushrooms.”
- Episode 12: From Wine Lover to Winemaker, with Michael Evans of The Vines of Mendoza
"We knew we had this idea of buying a piece of land and farming it for people and letting them start their dream of making wine."
- Episode 11: Curiosity as a Compass, In Conversation with Peggy Markel
"If you know that you’re looking for that particular thread of authenticity, you’re going to look for it in everything that you do."
From our Journal
IN SEARCH OF FLAVOR, EPISODE 39: Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone through Travel
In this solo episode, Liz shares about navigating an uncertain life moment and confronting that fear of the unknown. How can travel sharpen these life skills on the road and at home? We dig into that in this episode. Travel provides the ultimate opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. From […]
READ MOREIN 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 […]
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