The Wine Centric Show

🎙 Bringing wine stories, tips, and expert interviews to everyday wine lovers. 🍷

The Wine Centric Show is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Wine Centric Show, a arts show with 52 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Episode #53

  Chêne Bleu: Farming Like It's the Ninth Century

  Sep 9, 20261h 12m

  Nicole and Xavier Rolet bought a 900-year-old ruin in the hills above Provence and turned it into one of the Rhône's most talked-about wine estates, a property critics have called the world's first "Super Rhône." They built it inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on Mont Ventoux, where wolves and wild boar walk through the vineyard at harvest and eat the grapes right off the vine. They still won't spray a single synthetic chemical. Nicole and Xavier talk about what it actually costs to farm that way, the research that convinced them it was worth it, why their rosé can age for decades when the industry says it should be finished in a year, and the medieval love story behind the names of their two flagship reds, Abélard and Héloïse. It's a conversation about building something the slow, uncompromising way, on purpose. What We Cover Why Viognier is one of the most divisive grapes in the Rhône, and a Master Sommelier's blind-tasting trick for spotting it How buying a "complete ruin" in France became a decades-long restoration, and a marriage Why Chêne Bleu farms without synthetic chemicals, even with wolves and wild boar eating the crop at harvest The additive that's quietly responsible for the "drink your rosé within a year" rule, and why Chêne Bleu's rosé doesn't follow it The 12th-century love story behind the names Abélard and Héloïse, and why Xavier is glad he isn't the one the wine is named after Presented By InVintory This episode is brought to you by InVintory. Get the most out of your wine collection, download InVintory and enjoy wine the way it's meant to be. Use code WINECENTRIC for 25% off Premium. Learn more at invintory.com The Preferred Glass of The Wine Centric Show Glasvin Every wine in this episode tastes better out of the right glass. Glasvin is the glassware The Wine Centric Show pours into at home. Use code WINECENTRIC for 10% off your order. Shop Glasvin → https://tidd.ly/41vgdSQ Where We Recorded This episode was filmed on location at Fearrington House , in Pittsboro, North Carolina. About Chêne Bleu Chêne Bleu is the wine estate Nicole and Xavier Rolet built at Domaine de la Verrière, a restored 9th-century priory in the Vaucluse, southern Rhône. The estate sits inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on Mont Ventoux and is farmed without synthetic chemicals. Nicole Rolet also chairs Areni Global, an institute focused on the future of fine wine, and founded Fine Minds for Fine Wines. Website: chenebleu.com Instagram: @chenebleuwine · @laverriereprovence Follow The Wine Centric Show Web: www.winecentricshow.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@WineCentricShow Instagram: www.instagram.com/winecentricshow Facebook: www.facebook.com/winecentricshow LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wine-centric-show Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@winecentricshow1 Apple Podcasts: www.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wine-centric-show/id1776985726 Spotify: www.open.spotify.com/show/3jA2ZyVD8dM6FiFDiiIzDa

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #52

  Grüner Veltliner & the Wachau: Rudi Pichler Makes Wine on the Rocks

  Aug 26, 202646 min

  Rudi Pichler has a rule: act, don't react. It's shown up in every decision he's made since he came home from working a harvest in Napa Valley and took over his family's small, struggling vineyard in 1997 — including the year he deliberately cut two-thirds of his own harvest, the year his twins were born, just to make sure there'd be a handful of bottles waiting for them thirty years later. Matt talks with Rudi and his daughter Theresa, who now runs export and marketing for the estate. The Pichler family has farmed since 1731. They talk about the grandmother who told Rudi which impossible, abandoned vineyard to buy (it's now one of the most celebrated sites in the region), the moment a legendary Burgundy critic told him he didn't need a single oak barrel, and the two soils in one small vineyard that are 370 million years and 16,000 years old respectively. It's a conversation about staying small on purpose in an industry that mostly rewards getting bigger. In this conversation: Why Rudi calls himself a "wine caretaker" instead of a winemaker The Wachau's three-tier quality system — Steinfeder, Federspiel, Smaragd — explained simply The vineyard nobody else wanted, and the grandmother who told him to buy it anyway What it means to lose the fear of being too small, learned in the shadow of Napa Valley Foot-stomped maceration, leaf canopies as sun umbrellas, and why Rudi still refuses new oak The 1996 harvest Rudi cut on purpose, and the wine his twins are only now old enough to drink Presented by InVintory. Download InVintory and enjoy wine the way it's meant to be. Code WINECENTRIC gets you 25% off a year of Premium. We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners: ▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/ THE PREFERRED GLASS OF THE WINE CENTRIC SHOW ▪️Glasvin: Use code WINECENTRIC for 10% off: https://tidd.ly/41vgdSQ Subscribe for more deep dives into wine culture. Listen now on YouTube + all podcast platforms Full episode and show notes at winecentricshow.com

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #49

  Never Lose a Bottle: InVintory Takes On Wine's Legacy Giants

  Jul 15, 202651 min

  Wine tech has a problem nobody talked about until Josh Daiter's father pulled a shelf out of his wine fridge in Florida, watched the bottle he was hunting for roll off and shatter on the floor, and called his son the next morning fed up. That broken bottle became InVintory, now one of the leading platforms in wine collecting. This is the first episode of The Wine Centric Show to go deep on cellar management and wine technology, and our guest is Josh Daiter, co founder and CEO of InVintory. Josh holds two master's degrees, in entrepreneurship and in AI, and he wasn't even into wine when he started. Over the hour we trace the company from an augmented reality experiment to its 3D VinLocate cellar mapping, its sommelier vetted database of more than 650,000 wines, and Vincent, the AI sommelier that is equal parts beloved and controversial. We also get into the things most founders won't say out loud: why wine pricing apps are "always suspect" and how InVintory keeps a collection's value honest, the "dumbest, smartest" $100K ad summer that landed 20,000 users, how a team of just 11 competes with the giants, why the wine world resists AI harder than almost any other industry, and where cellar management goes when the app disappears into your glasses and your kitchen speaker. Whether you track your collection in InVintory, CellarTracker, Vivino, or a battered Excel sheet, this one is about the future of how we collect, store, and actually enjoy wine. 🍷 Download InVintory and drink deliciously. We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners: ▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/ THE PREFERRED GLASS OF THE WINE CENTRIC SHOW ▪️Glasvin: Use code WINECENTRIC for 10% off: https://tidd.ly/41vgdSQ 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into wine culture. 🎧 Listen now on YouTube + all podcast platforms 🔗 Full episode and show notes at winecentricshow.com #WineCentricShow, #MattWeiss, #InVintory, #JoshDaiter, #WineTech, #CellarManagement, #WineCollecting, #WineCellar, #WineApp, #AISommelier, #VinLocate, #CellarTracker, #Vivino, #LiveX, #WinePricing, #WineData, #WineStartup, #WineTechnology, #WineCollection, #FineWine, #WineInvestment, #WineStorage, #Sommelier, #WineTrade, #WineIndustry, #WinePodcast, #Wine

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #48

  Paul & Emily Michael: How a British Knight Built a California Wine Dynasty

  Jul 1, 202649 min

  Paul Michael didn't plant his first vines by choice. He was seventeen years old, on a family holiday in California, when his father climbed out of a rented Cadillac in the middle of Knights Valley and announced they were coming back to plant. That was 1982. What followed is one of the great origin stories in American wine. Paul and his wife Emily join Matt Weiss to talk about the multigenerational vision behind Peter Michael Winery, the accidental tasting that started it all, how a five-year-old waking up above the fog line named one of their most celebrated wines, and what it means to build something designed to outlast you. They also reveal the four bottles Paul would open for someone who had never heard of Peter Michael — vintage specific. Write them down. Recorded at Fearrington House, Pittsboro, North Carolina. We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners: ▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/ THE PREFERRED GLASS OF THE WINE CENTRIC SHOW ▪️Glasvin: Use code WINECENTRIC for 10% off: https://tidd.ly/41vgdSQ 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into wine culture. 🎧 Listen now on YouTube + all podcast platforms 🔗 Full episode and show notes at winecentricshow.com

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #47

  Raventós i Blanc: Why Pepe Raventós Left Cava Behind and What He's Building in Its Place

  Jun 17, 202655 min

  Pepe Raventós is a 21st generation winemaker who walked away from the appellation his grandfather helped build. Cava had become a commodity. The name carried the wrong story. So he left. What followed was a decade-long fight to prove that Penedès — a poor, rural corner of Catalonia with more than 3,000 years of winemaking history — deserves its own appellation and a seat at the table with the greatest sparkling wines in the world. Along the way, Pepe planted the wrong grape in the wrong place, discovered an abandoned farm nearly converted to a chicken factory, and built a winery in a garage underneath his bed. He paid farmers twice the going rate. Moved his family to New York for five years. And found an almost extinct grape called Sumoll that he believes will one day rival Nebbiolo on the world stage. This is not a conversation about Cava. It's about what happens when a rebel with deep roots decides to start from scratch. We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners: ▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/ THE PREFERRED GLASS OF THE WINE CENTRIC SHOW ▪️Glasvin: Use code WINECENTRIC for 10% off: https://tidd.ly/41vgdSQ 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into wine culture. 🎧 Listen now on YouTube + all podcast platforms 🔗 Full episode and show notes at winecentricshow.com Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Pepe Raventos and His Journey 04:54 Leaving the DO: A Family Decision 10:33 The Philosophy of Natural Winemaking 15:47 Exploring the Unique Characteristics of Charello 21:19 Cultural Influences: From Penedes to New York 27:11 The Economic Impact of Kava on Farmers 33:50 Reviving Abandoned Vineyards and Local Communities 41:03 Balancing Passion and Business in Winemaking 50:01 The Future of Penedès Wines and Recommendations 54:29 Wine_Centric_Show_v1 Linked Comp 05.mp4 Tags:#PepeRaventós, #RaventósIBlanc, #SpanishWine, #WineCentricShow, #Penedès, #CanSumoi, #Xarello, #Sumoll, #WinePodcast, #Sommelier, #WineInterview, #Winemaker, #NaturalWine, #SparklingWine, #CavaAlternative

  ListenShow Notes

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.