The Daily Decant
The Daily Decant delivers practical wine knowledge in five minutes a day to help you choose, order, and talk about wine with more confidence in everyday social settings. Each episode offers concise insights on regions, varietals, and standout bottles you can use the next time you're at dinner, hosting friends, or picking out a bottle.
The Daily Decant
Latest Episodes
The Indigenous Grapes Nobody Knows: Greece's Hidden Variety
Greece has over 300 indigenous grape varieties, and most international wine drinkers know two of them. Today's episode covers the five Greek grapes worth knowing beyond Assyrtiko and Xinomavro: Moschofilero, the intensely floral pink-skinned wh...
Xinomavro: The Red Grape That Changes Everything
Xinomavro is the red grape of northern Greece that serious wine writers have compared to Nebbiolo, producing wines of extraordinary structure, acidity, and longevity from the mountain appellations of Naoussa and Amyndeon. Today's episode covers...
Santorini & Assyrtiko: Volcanic Wine Unlike Anything Else
Santorini's vineyards are unlike any other on earth: ancient, ungrafted vines coiled into basket shapes low to the volcanic ground, surviving winds and drought that would defeat any conventional trellising system. The wine they produce — Assyrt...
Special Guest - Jaime Gillespie with Somm.ish
I sat down with Jaime Gillespie, the creator behind the popular wine tips and travel platform Somm.ish, for a wide-ranging conversation about where wine culture is headed, the destinations that are reshaping how she thinks about wine, and the j...
