The Real Wine Show

Jan 19 2025 37 ep. 44 mins 2
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Join hosts Chaad Thomas and Matt Kuhr, along with their panel of guests, on this fun, insightful, and slightly irreverant wine game show! You’ll meet personalities from across the wine world, including winemakers, importers, wholesalers, sommeliers and retailers, and learn about how they indulge and experience their passion for wine through a segment of challenging true-or-false news stories and an emotive blind tasting, where we ask the panelists to talk not about how the wine tastes, but how it makes them feel! Through humor and seriousness, we open the door to inside the wine trade!

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The Real Wine Show 10 Minutes, 10 Questions w/ Francesca Ciacci of Tenuta di Sesta

Jan 19 2025 12 mins  
Francesca, along with her husband Danilo and her brother Andrea, are now at the helm of their historic, family estate in Montalcino, Tenuta di Sesta. As one of the first, twelve wineries to make Brunello di Montalcino, there is a sense of gravity or seriousness in Francesca's wines, which pay more than a nod to tradition while also offering a distinctly modern sense of approach

The Real Wine Show S4 E6 feat. Lena Wellington, Abby Leedom & Elisa Weber

Jan 18 2025 62 mins  
On celebrity wines, King Dons, and the nature of knowledge itself, this panel covered a wide swath of topics, revealing-- most shockingly-- that one of these women didn't know that Martha and Snoop were besties! This episode also saw a perfect call performance during the Wineshop Brainfart segment-- a first!-- and some terrific sussing of the blind tasting. It was to be expecte

The Real Wine Show S4 E5 w/ Bobby Frank, Jake Molle, & Kristen Pennington

Jan 12 2025 70 mins  
Chaad is dead. Long live Chaad. After a devastating failure to record what should have been the actual S4E5, Chaad rallied and friends stepped up to constitute a new panel, which we proudly present here for your listening pleasure. Bobby Frank is longtime Ann Arbor area wine enthusiast with an incredibly deep and educated wine history. Jake handles East Lansing and mid-MI sales for

The Real Wine Show S4 E4 feat. KariAnn Fifer, Mick Descamps & Kevin Williams

Jan 01 2025 73 mins  
In this episode, we're treated to an inside look at how three, Court of Master Sommeliers certified wine professionals think about the current scene. KariAnn both teaches wine at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan and runs the wine program at the acclaimed Oak & Reel restaurant in Detroit. Mick Descamps has restaurant chops, too, but currently runs the wine department at

The Real Wine Show S4 E3 w/ Jamel Favorite, Caroline Lamb, & Tim Tebeau

Dec 06 2024 57 mins  
Join Chaad and Matt as they chat with this diverse and savvy panel of guests representing the three main corners of the MI wine scene.Jamel Favorite is the Marketing Manager (and so much more!) at Modales Winery out in Fennville and makes his home in Grand Rapids. He co-hosts the Music In The Bottle podcast.Caroline Lamb is a Detroit based marketing specialist with wine distributor

The Real Wine Show S4 E2 feat. Maria Vasseliou, Kat McCormack, Taylor Schmidt-Johnson

Nov 29 2024 66 mins  
Resting up after the Thanksgiving indulgence? Making the trip back home? Whatever it is, you’ll probably enjoy it more if you’re listening to this trio of savvy, SE MI wine biz luminaries with their thoughtfully piloted discussions laced with both humor and gravitas. Maria owns SimplyWine in Northville; Taylor is beverage director at the upcoming Echelon restaurant in Ann Arbor

The Real Wine Show S4 E1 w/ Justin King, Alan Collins, Kenny Frost

Nov 23 2024 60 mins  
We're kicking off Season 4 with three former wine directors of Paesano restaurant in Ann Arbor, one of the city's most long-lived restaurants and one of precious few to offer sommelier service, which it did for roughly 24 years. Justin King is currently in sales with Woodberry wine distributing, Alan Collins is an amateur winemaker and grape grower, and Kenny Frost works at Michiga

The Real Wine Show 10 Minutes 10 Questions w/ Brent Mayeaux of Stagiaire

Nov 09 2024 15 mins  
Brent Mayeaux is Stagiaire Wine, a young, super-cool brand kicking out impressive, zero-zero wines from their digs out on Treasure Island, in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Farming and pulling fruit from Santa Cruz Mountains, Marin and a bit from Mendocino, Brent's wines are definitely New California style, but distinguished by the patience he applies to the winemaking, givin

The Real Wine Show 10 Minutes, 10 Questions w/ Anne Charlotte Melia Bachas

Nov 08 2024 12 mins  
Anne-Charlotte is the charming and talented owner/winemaker of Chateauneuf-du-Pape winery, Font du Loup. Distinguished both for being the only estate other than Chateau Rayas sited on sandy soils (although different) and for the fresh, vibrant quality of its. wines, Font du Loup is worth seeking out. Anne-Charlotte is also worth listening to, as she's funny, frank, humble, and pass

The Real Wine Show: 10 Minutes, 10 Questions w/ Adam Mahler

Nov 04 2024 11 mins  
Come hang out with the superior Adam Mahler, the one-man show who is Ampelography, a wine sales and marketing company committed to supporting authentic wines from real people. Big-hearted, right-thinking, and gracious, in his work Adam focuses on education and the stories behind the wines, making him a powerful ally in the distribution chain. Recorded in the midst of the raucous TR