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.
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Latest Episodes
Lujan de Cuyo & the Uco Valley — Where the Best Malbec Grows
Mendoza is not a single wine region — it is a collection of sub-appellations at dramatically different altitudes, on different soils, producing wines of genuinely different character from the same grape. Today's episode maps the two most import...
Argentine Wine: Altitude-Driven Mendoza Insight
Malbec is French — a minor blending grape in Bordeaux and the austere dominant variety of Cahors that France never fully cracked. Its transformation in Argentina, where nineteenth-century plantings at altitude in Mendoza's volcanic and allu...
Why Argentina: The Andes Effect and the Altitude Advantage
Argentina's wine story is fundamentally a story about altitude and its effects. Mendoza's premium vineyards sit at 900 to 1,500 meters above sea level, in a bone-dry, intensely sunny environment created by the Andes rain shadow, where dramatic ...
Greek Wine Week Wrap Up
Six episodes, six thousand years of wine history, over three hundred indigenous grape varieties, and one central argument: Greece is the most underrated wine country in the world, and the window of exceptional value it currently represents will...
How to Buy Greek Wine Without Getting Lost
The primary barrier to buying Greek wine is not quality or price, it's unfamiliarity. Most wine drinkers walk past the Greek section in a shop because they don't recognize any names on the bottles. Saturday's practical episode solves that: the ...
