The Real Wine Show

Apr 03 2025 41 ep. 43 mins 3
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Join hosts Chaad Thomas, Matt Kuhr and Kristie Brablec, along with their panel of guests, on this fun, insightful, and slightly irreverent 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 about how a wine makes them feel! Through humor and seriousness, we open wide the door to the world of wine!

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