Grape Tapes: wine radio

Listen to the episode playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HFqCVpmZlQaNjtTHE79LW?si=2b504cb7ad084f8b Sam and Mike pop open bottles of Uivo Renegado and Huaso de Sauzal, breaking Sam’s yearlong streak of champagne. After they wax poetic on the beauty of magnum bottles and wonder whether that one time they actually a magnum by themselves, they turn towards a discussion of how people’s m...

Sam and I tried something new. We recorded ourselves constructing our episode playlist, and we loved the results so much that we wanted to share it with you! Come join us on a trip down memory lane to 3 weeks ago and listen to us figure out what makes music sound nostalgic. Episode playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ilxnS0OQk6bcGVk3G2OB4?si=94c24caa79354b5c

Listen to the episode playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ilxnS0OQk6bcGVk3G2OB4?si=94c24caa79354b5c We've created a brand new blend of Grape Tapes that we think you're going to love. The varietals are 60% music, 30% boisterous discussion, and 10% wine. We invite you to start off with a wine pour. Sam, sticking to #chardlife goes with a Blanc-de-blancs from Henriet-Bazin. Mich...

Listen to the episode playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0glQ2LWTNKq3fkAsnJErhF?si=a3cf3acfe2ca4bd8 We took the annual August vacation in July, but have no fear, Grape Tapes is BACK and we are going to explain to you a new musical genre: BUTT MUSIC. It's like porn, where you know it when you hear it, and where you're going to hear it...is a wine bar that turns into a straight...

Listen to the accompanying playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OAQbQtlYPifFCzU417TQv?si=761adebb26f845bd Listen, are music festivals basically land cruises? Is this no way to enjoy music? Well, yes. But, what if we could program our very own GRAPE TAPES FEST? On this, Episode 21, we debate the merits of the proliferation of music festivals and how they're basically...county fairs...

listen to the accompanying playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1FkwPvwcmOwfwhzT384GET?si=a23a99aa27a34193 Welcome to episode 20 of Grape Tapes!!!! We are talking all things SCAM. What makes a wine scam? Were you one of those kids that signed up for 10 CDs for the low, low price of a penny? And finally, we talk you through how to avoid Sp*tify algo scams (hint: hang out with music dork...

Listen to the accompanying playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0PDSFlnj1J7Qn7O1tQnVRw?si=1511b3b369654afa Hello and welcome to the 1st birthday (or is it anniversary?) episode of Grape Tapes 2.0!! We may be de-evolving, but we are SO happy to be hanging out with you, drinking wine and *carefully* "crafting" playlists to go with the moods :) On this episode, we count down our...

Listen to the accompanying playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3QTwMgojigq8TYWI79h5D9?si=36260922e1794975 hello and welcome to grape tapes where we are drinking dead starfish from a bajillion years ago!! Have you heard this story? About how the first time Dom Perignon tasted his accidentally bubbly wine he exclaimed, "Come quickly, I am drinking the stars." Well...turns out that's an...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7BJaQe4IvtrAPhpRFRoqnl Welcome to Grape Tapes champagne edition :) We're drinking Laherte Frères, Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature, it is YUM. Smells like honeydew melons and eraserheads and tastes like wet pears...like the kind you get in a french dessert. It is giving us the vibes of getting to know you. It is intimate....

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Fe8CmBd9n3yO3GMMiiB9a Why, hello you. Get ready to melt down into a pool of color, we're headed to destination nowhere, a cosmic, galactic zone of pink bubbles courtesy of Cruse Tradition Rose. Tunes are psychedelic, they're pulsetic, they shimmer, they shoot off into the stars. Up top, we ask, is your local wine st...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uyRnTWJtDUT1xYd7CBJI0 From the untamed hills of Sicily, we're drinking COS frappato, a beautiful, as in LITERALLY GORGEOUS wine. We're talking scents of lavender and berries (weirdly also smells like silly putty??), an ethereal sensation on the tongue as this light bodied red bursts onto your palate and evaporates j...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wUF5WvJEKEr8LbRTcTyoI We're drinking Meigamma's Chupa Cabra Rosso, a 100% muristellu red from Sardinia. It's lush. It's velvety. Nice little hits of chocolate, licorice, and macerated cherries. Kinda a sweet tarts flavor after some sips??? The mood is walking in a damp forest, your bare feet on dewy moss, and the su...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Y6lploikIW6fvFktmjnsQ We're drinking Furlani's Macerato a 100% pinot gris pet nat from northern Italy and it is A MOOD. Big grapefruit rinds on the palate, earthy on the nose, the sunset color looks like cotton candy infused with DIAMONDS! The mood is introspective, bouncy pathos in the woods on a mountain. You're h...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FguaetMcFIbtiJtIO2ETM Grape Tapers recently pondered, what wine would put you in the mood for club bangers? Turns out, it's Wavy Wines ' collab with Bardos Cider , a Syrah and Jonathan, Russet, and Pink Pearl apples co-ferment. The effervescent wine drinks like a juicebox (goes down like a piquette, but is a WINE at...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/53TTU9WYVsD0D360L5PqAd This episode we're drinking Les Vins Pirouettes Ultra Violet de David 2020 and *one of us* got a brett-y bottle, which means two Very Different music wine moods. We smash together hair whipping in your face while dancing with cozy library energy . Listen to the playlist, it is very much Not to...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71Mo6XsjwcYw3naj4VrZl2 Is sauvignon blanc the worst grape? Is wine an aesthetic experience? Are vignerons artists? Is Yard Act a pop punk band? It is with these questions, that we enter the discourse!! The wine is Vigna Flor Solo il Vero Resta Bianco, 100% Sauvignon Blanc, and the mood is a cold blanket on a hot summ...

Listen to the accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RkSH5sya6ztS2MbwzWEvV Are millennials the Wh*te Cl*w generation ?? Do we care that "a longtime analyst of the American wine market" is worried that mainstream drinkers are not buying wine? Are we good living in our little 00 bubble? We riff on these Very Good questions, come to some inconclusive conclusions and invi...