Stop Wasting Your Wine

Join us as we review the 2018 Finca Bacara, Tabá Monastrell from Jumilla Spain! This week we learn about the Monastrell grape, and the guys get in touch with their authentic selves. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠FaceBook⁠⁠

Join us as we review the 2022 Ferrari-Carano, Fumé Blanc from the North Coast of California. This week, Aaron rants about the origins of the term Fumé Blanc, Colin struggles with the intro, and Joel might finally get to use the car puns he's been waiting to use since the last "car wine" episode. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠...

Join us as we review the Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde from Portugal. This week, we learn a bit about the Vinho Verde region, Colin loses at his own game, and the boys may have found another Certified Porch Pounder (CPP)! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠FaceBook⁠

Join us as we review the 2020 Davey Family Shiraz from McLaren Vale, Australia! This week, the boys learn the difference between Shiraz and Syrah, Aaron retroactively gets a wine fridge wine, and Colin meets a flavor note that still puzzles him to this very day! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠FaceBook⁠

Join us as we review a trio of rosés with three incredibly special guests! This week, Aaron, Colin, and Joel are joined by their wonderful wives! These three lovely ladies have put together a blind tasting of rosé wines between $10 and $30, and it's up to the crew to rate and review each of them. Wines Reviewed in this Episode A) Avaline Rosé, France B) 2022 Famille Bougrier, Rosé D' Anjou...

Join us as we review the 2017 Chianti Classico Riserva from the producer Famiglia Castellani, in Tuscany, Italy. This week, we hit the wildly important 29th episode milestone and the boys learn about Chianti and its rock star grape Sangiovese. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠ ⁠FaceBook⁠

Join us as we review the 2020 Pinot Gris Tradition from the producer Lucien Albrecht in Alsace, France. This week, the boys learn a Hungarian curse word, explore the fascinating history of the Alsace region in France, where this week's wine originates, and discuss the differences between Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio Show Notes: If you would like to take a listen to the Grocery Store Wine Showdo...

Join us as we review a red Bordeaux from Chateau De Thau which is located on the right bank of Bordeaux. This week the guys discuss the difference between the left and right banks of Bordeaux, learn why you get a sample of wine at a restaurant, and introduce their new merch to the world! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠...

Join us as we review a non-alcoholic Riesling from the producer Giesen that comes to us from Marlborough, New Zealand. Being that we are in the midst of dry January, we thought it would be appropriate to jump into the world of non-alcoholic wine. This week we learned a bit about how non-alcoholic wine is made and we found out nobody is into the StopWastingYourWineOs moniker. Connect with the show....

Join us as we review the Louis Bouillot Crémant De Bourgogne, Blanc De Blancs, from Burgundy France. This week, Aaron rants about Crémant and Colin tries to find a sparkling wine that out values the Veuve from a few episodes ago. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠...

Join us as we review the 2021 Carmen Gran Reserva Merlot from Maipo in Chile. This week, the guys discuss the issue of having old crackly bones and small sleeping children, they peel back the layers on the criteria each of them uses to assess and rate a wine, and the research department uncovers the truth about a potentially misleading sticker placed on the bottle. Show Notes: Below is the episode...

Join us this week as we review the Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne from France. Joel drops some awesome knowledge on us as we dive into the history of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne house in a fun game of "Fact or Fiction" and there is some significant disagreement as to where the guys end up putting this bottle of bubbly. Will this popular Champagne live up to the Yellow Label hype? Get the l...

Join us this week as we review the Catena 2020 Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina. This week Colin helps the guys search for a replacement for the much-maligned Layer Cake Malbec, Joel helps Colin with the learning segment, kind of, and Aaron finally gets to do the social media sign off at the end. We hope your holiday shopping is "wrapped" up and you enjoy the show! Connect with the show. W...

Join us this week as we review the Black Box Sauvignon Blanc from Chile. We're venturing into uncharted territory today with our first-ever review of a wine in a box/tetra pack. Let's just say the guys have some mixed feelings about it. We also learn a bit about the Sauvignon Blanc grape! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: ⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://...

Join us this week as we review our first Bordeaux Blanc from Château Rauzan Despagne from the Bordeaux region of France! Aaron smells tennis balls for the first time, we wrap up our trivia game and Aaron throws down the boxed wine gauntlet. This one is a fun one! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: ⁠stopwastingyourwine.com⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/stopwast...

Join us this week as we review a dry Riesling from Domdechant Werner located in the Rheingau region of Germany! We jump back into our trivia game and learn about how grape juice is turned into wine. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/

Join us as we review Rosé Bubbles from House Wine in Walla Walla, Washington. We'll take a brief pause from our winemaking trivia game to welcome our second guest, Warren, a good friend of the show. We'll also explore wine packaging as we delve into our first-ever canned wine experience. Warren has his own podcast "Because I Got Highlights" which provides "highly" opini...

Join us this as we review the 2018 Gordon Estate Syrah from the Columbia Valley in Washington State! This week, we start learning about the wine making process and Joel and Aaron answer some trivia questions. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/

Join us as we review the 2022 Neethlingshof Pinotage from Stellenbosch, South Africa. We'll explore the polarizing nature of the Pinotage grape and share our own polarized opinions. Find out who loved it, who hated it, and why in this week's episode! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourw...

Join us as we review the 2018 Beronia, Rioja Reserva! This is our first time reviewing a wine made from the tempranillo grape, and we're excited to share our thoughts. We also dive into the Rioja classification system and learn Aaron is great at picking up context clues. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

Join us this as we review the Marques De Monistrol, Brut, Cava, from Spain. This week we celebrate yet another new addition to the Stop Wasting Your Wine family and learn a little bit more about Cava! Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/

Join us this as we review the 2022 Famille Bougrier, Sauvignon Blanc from France. This week, the boys make 11.5% ABV seem like it's a high alcohol wine and we finish our conversation on wine labels. Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you! Website: stopwastingyourwine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/ Happy Sipping!

Join us this week as we review the 2019 E. Guigal, Côtes du Rhône. In this episode, Aaron provides us with some, let's say, well-researched tasting notes, and we continue our discussion on wine labels, delving into what the region on the front of the bottle signifies.

Join us this week as we review the 2020 Freakshow Red Blend from the Michael David Winery in Lodi California. We're excited to launch our guest series, where we will showcase wines picked by fellow wine enthusiasts and learn from true experts from time to time. This week we are delighted to be joined by our very first guest, Aaron's good friend Mike. Because Mike was so generous with his t...

Join us for our first ever Grocery Store Wine Showdown! The boys do their best to try to find an enjoyable wine from minefield that is the mass-produced selection at your local grocery store or bottle shop. It wouldn't be a showdown if there was only one wine being reviewed, so this week Aaron, Colin, and Joel each picked a wine in hopes of being crowned the inaugural Grocery Store Wine Showdo...