Disgorgeous

It's the last main feed episode of Austro Thirsty Empire (WINE CLUB MEMBERS... YOU GET A SECRET EPISODE NEXT WEEK, and Patreons there's a few more interviews bopping around) so we thought we'd bring in the BIG guns: Welcome Emily Gutiérrez, possibly NYC's best Central and Eastern European sommelier to the pod.  We're talking English Royalty, unveiling new bits, purring, sl...

hey, It's Kevin. It's John's birthday and he's in Paris or Rome or something, so here I am, in charge of talking to you about this episode. What a good one! I love when James is on cause I know for a fact I'm the dumbest one in the room. For reference: We were sitting in a triangle shape, I was lounging on the couch and the boys were both at the nerd table. This is optimal...

  ****THE DEADLINE FOR THE WINE CLUB IS FEBRUARY 29 PLEASE SECURE YOUR V. LIMITED SPOTS  @ copakewineworks.com/disgorgeous******** It finally snowed in NYC and things got weird, but we finally got the Hudson Valley's best Sommelier and General Manager of Homespun Cafe, Heather Barr on to talk about the "cold" part of the Austro Hungarian Empire, Czech wine legends, extra senses that...

*** THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR DISGORGEOUS WINE CLUB IS FEB 29 PLEASE DO SO @ Copakewineworks.com/disgorgeous ****  Hey all! This is what the bonus episodes on the Patreon are like, but there's no way we're gatekeeping this one. Sari Khoury is the winemaker behind the stellar Philokalia wines in the Occupied West Bank, and John was lucky enough to snag a long interview about winemaking...

Kevin is on vacation so Big Sturge stepped up for a v fun chat with Ethan Risinger, King Country mouse about Piwi grapes in the Dolomites and Styria. Duck is literally terrified the entire time, so this is officially off the rails from the get go, but actually ends up getting, dare I say, poignant. Cutting edge wine from some of the best terroirs in Europe? Sounds like, uh, you dorks should be pay...

Sarah Favinger, bassist and wine buyer to the stars joins the boys to discuss the white hot border between Ottoman civility and Hapsburg barbarity.  To be incredibly honest, this is probably the most insane we've sounded in years -- sorry Sarah! Hard to overstate how good all these wines were --wines to treasure rather than slam down while doing big depressions, so uh, do as we say and not as...

This is a message from the future. If you don't join the Disgorgeous wine club at Copake Wine Works dot com  the robots will win. I can't explain it right now, but you need to trust me Trust the plan where we go one we go all. Brittany Myrick came on this episode and basically burned down the studio by being so fucking cool. Don't crucify your kids, folks, but  do give them some inc...

Daryl Nuhn, proprietress of Prima and also recent knitting maven, joins the boys to pronounce some truly batshit words like a champion, and also to discuss volcanic wines from the countryside around Budapest.  Duck's mental health crisis takes a downward turn, Kevin just keeps swimming, and the wines all truly, deeply, madly go OFF. I know this is going to sound like a broken record, but seek...

This is the biggest season we've ever done, and we're really giving it the gravitas it deserves. Sorry for all the Hapsburgs stans, but those weirdos are getting ethered all praise due to Hot Ottoman Crush Suleiman the Magnificent. This episode features three wines from Hapsburg crown lands (lmao borders aren't real) and basically traces how insane this season will get. Please seek...

GOAT Guest Christy Frank brought us English wine because people keep DMing Duck and wouldn't you know it? They are all bangers (Not in the English sense [they aren't sausage!] but in the American way, where it means they SLAYYYYYyy). I guess if you are going to England for some reason, bring some of these back? Go to Copake Wine Works for all your upstate drinking needs.  ////List//// Lo...

End of the year Shenanigans by the boys. We love you, thanks for a great 2023. Support the show

🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉Jason Bajalia of Terra Sancta came to talk about Palestinian wine, hope, occupation, types of alligators and to make duck cry. Please bother your representatives and make them know how much you don’t want to pay for this genocide and donate to the Palestinian children’s relief fund .  ////LIST//// Cremisan, Bethlehem, Palestine, ‘Hamdani Jandani,’ 2021// Philokera, Bethlehem Palestine, ‘...

The gandalf of grapes and the wizard of snacking join John to discuss breaking the rules, going "off the grid," and the poetics of farming.  Kevin was turning 40, that's why he wasn't there. Hire Jenny for a job, and drink Nate's wines. ////LIST//// Chateau Massereau, Bordeaux Superior, 'Cuvee K,' 2012// Domaine du Pech, 'la Badinerie du Pech,' 2011// H...

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It's a bad boy episode with a southern flare.  Expect plenty of yuma squeaks, southern accents, and pinot sacrilege. But what if Pinot was always meant to play with Gamay? And what if the the true field blend was.... the friends we made along the way?  ////LIST//// Domaine Tessier, Cheverny Rosé, 2022// Herve Villemade, Cheverny, 2022 // Domaine La Boheme, VDF, ‘Cailloux,’ 2020 // Domaine Che...

Justine is here to taste with us through the Americas. Don't you dare call it the new world. But why is Pinot here? Does it belong here? Is Marquette a better grape? Is John the wine world's answer to Brittany Spears? Gabe I know you want a list of what wines we drink but this is Kevin's season and he's too lazy to type out all those words. Just text John and he'll tell yo...

Christy came on, and Kevin forgot to write notes, so John is GRACEFULLY doing so.  ////LIST//// Ngeringa, Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir, 'Barker Summit,' 2019// Kunoh, Nelson Pinot Noir, 'Casablanca,' 2020// Les Fruits, Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir, 'Atmospheres,' 2019 //// Support the show

Alicia Kennedy is, frankly, a must follow and must read for anyone who believes in food and drink. Sorry, not sorry, she is a guiding light right now and her book No Meat Required is STAGGERINGLY good. She came on the pod to discuss bivalves, the socialism of nice things, wine, vegetarianism and what people think food books need to be.  Truly incredible interview, also, her substack is REQUIRED RE...

The man, the myth, the legend. We are so pleased to have one of our favorite winemakers, Roberto Henriquez, sit down with us for an hour and talk about Chile, French people in Chile, Pais, and more. It should be known that Roberto gave Yuma so many pets and she really appreciated it.  Our season on Pinot Noir will continue next week!  ////LIST//// L.A. Luyt, Maule Pais, 'Pipeno,' 2022 //...

Pinot leaves France and voyages out into the rest of the EU to find herself. But can she ever really escape her past?  Libby is wicked smart, and a good at singing.  We start with some musical theatre chat so you know this episode is gonna be a banger, like a classic Stanley Kubrick movie, you'll be at the edge of your seat. Something about birds.  ////LIST//// Escoda- Sanahuja, Conca De Barb...

Kevin again. Here we are, in a very special Kevin season, and John is too busy getting drunk in Montreal to write anything here. An Auvergne, a Jura, and an Alsatian walk into a pinot.... you won't believe what happens next. ////LIST//// Vincent and Marie Tricot, VDF, '3 bonhommes,' 2022// Benedicte and Stephane Tissot, Cotes du Jura, 'Pinot Noir Sous la Tour,' 2019// Chri...

Dr. Edward Slingerland, author of Drunk:  How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled our Way to Civilization explains, rather patiently, how drinking is, actually, good and makes the case for slightly restrained hedonism. His book, which is out now and purchasable, is almost certainly required reading for anyone working or thinking about booze , especially in an age of moralization and anxiety over drink...

The idea of this season is what if Burgundy never existed. Kevin eats half an edible and explains the concept to John. The boys messed up the recording of this one so the first 15 minutes sound kinda weird sorry. This is Kevin. They drank a Berthout-Gerbet Fixin.  This season is going to be so, so good.  ////LIST//// Berthout-Gerbet, Fixin, 2020 //// Support the show

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