Postcards in a Glass

Barolo is the most storied spot for wine lovers in the Northwest Italian province of Piemonte. Here, where Isidoro Vajra’s ancestors had been growing grapes since the 1880s, the family built a winery in the early 1970s...

Winemaker Weston Eidson of Westborn Wines has created wines that have received extraordinary praise from top wine writers like Jancis Robinson and Jeb Dunnock. They have been struck by the extraordinary quality of...

Nearly 500 years before sauvignon blanc was planted in Marlborough, New Zealand, Pierre-Etienne Mellot was tending his vines rooted in the stony soils of Sancerre. These vineyards tended by the Mellot family have been...

Portugal's Douro Valley is the oldest geographically designated wine region in the world - it's boundaries were formally set in the mid-1700s and for more than two centuries the international image of the region was...

Chile is an amazing country for wine lovers. It has a vine growing area nearly 1000 kilometers in length with three distinct zones from West to East - a cool Coastal Region on the Pacific, a warm Central Valley and in...

Widely referred to as "The Vine Whisperer," Greg La Follette is a California legend, a grape grower and wine maker who has worked with dozens of wineries, made hundreds wines and, for nearly six decades, has been an...

In this era of climate change, many wine growers are cultivating vines in areas once thought to cool for grapes. One of these pioneers is Adrien Pélissié, who has resurrected the vineyards originally planted by Louis...

The Coravin has revolutionized wine for many folks. Greg Lambrecht, a physicist and inventor of medical devices, used his expertise – "I'm very good with needles," he says – to create a device that has revolutionized...

Winemaker Paul Hobbs has seen, and done, it all in the world of wine. He grew up on a farm in upstate New York, considered a career and medicine and, thanks to a few unplanned detours, ended up making wine in California...

Few wines have as strong a sense of place as Champagne, so it's a treat to delve into what makes a great Champagne with the Chef des Caves (chief winemaker) of Champagne Pommery, Clément Pierlot. Clément joins host Lyn...

The legendary Jean-Guillaume Prats, once owner of Bordeaux's Château Cos d'Estournel, has worked in every facet of the wine industry, from creating Moët-Hennessy's wine portfolio in China (and overseeing LVMH's...

In this second episode of Postcards in a Glass, wine educator and journalist Lyn Farmer shares a postcard of France’s Languedoc region with winemaker and wine philosopher Gérard Bertrand. Owner of 17 chateaux and wine...

Our first Postcard in a Glass is a beautiful picture of Russian River Valley, home to some of California's best Pinot Noir (and Chardonnay too!). In the inaugural episode of the program, educator and journalist Lyn...

In Postcards in a Glass, James Beard Award-winning wine and food journalist and WSET wine educator Lyn Farmer shares his favorite thing about wine: every good wine takes you somewhere, it shares with you something of...