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Hosted by Andreea Botezatu · education · EN-US · 53 episodes
The Wine Lab is an educational wine podcast where wine meets science, history, culture, and the occasional myth that deserves to be retired. Hosted by wine scientist and enologist Dr. Andreea Botezatu, each episode explores how wine is grown, made, tasted, misunderstood, and enjoyed. Created for curious wine lovers, students, winemakers, and anyone who wants to understand wine a little better, The Wine Lab combines accessible wine education with wine science, grape varieties, wine regions, sensory science, winemaking, history, and culture. Expect clear explanations, curious stories, and enough technical detail to be useful without making you feel as though you accidentally enrolled in a chemistry class.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Wine Lab is an educational wine podcast where wine meets science, history, culture, and the occasional myth that deserves to be retired. Hosted by wine scientist and enologist Dr. Andreea Botezatu, each episode explores how wine is grown, made, tasted, misunderstood, and enjoyed.
The Wine Lab is hosted by Andreea Botezatu. The show has published 53 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Beaujolais Nouveau Explained: Gamay, Carbonic Maceration & Banana Aromas" (19 October 2026, 21 minutes), "Dictators and Their Favorite Wines: What Stalin, Castro and Other Strongmen Drank" (5 October 2026, 23 minutes), and "Texas Wine on Its Own Terms" (7 September 2026, 25 minutes).
The Wine Lab publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 21 minutes across 53 episodes.
Booking probability for The Wine Lab is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Wine Lab requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Wine Lab's contact route on record: verified email.
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Andreea Botezatu hosts The Wine Lab, an education show with 53 episodes published.
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Why does Beaujolais Nouveau taste so different from other red wines, and what exactly is carbonic maceration? In this episode of The Wine Lab , we go inside the grape berry...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Joseph Stalin drank the semi-sweet Georgian red Khvanchkara. Fidel Castro developed an unexpected enthusiasm for Chablis. Nicolae Ceaușescu’s preference for the obscure...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Texas is far too large and diverse to have a single wine climate, grape or style. In this episode of The Wine Lab , Andreea travels through the state’s major wine-growing...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com For thousands of years, winemakers have been trying to solve the same problems: wines that were too acidic, cloudy, unstable, oxidized, or simply didn't taste very good. The...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Thomas Jefferson knew his Bordeaux, traveled through European wine regions taking meticulous notes, ordered Château Lafite directly from the source, and spent years trying...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com What does “dry” wine actually mean? How much sugar can a dry wine contain? And why can two wines with the same residual sugar taste very different? In this episode of The...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Cork or screw cap? For many wine drinkers, the answer feels surprisingly personal. In this episode of The Wine Lab, we explore the history, culture, science, and occasional...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Why is Pinot named after a pine cone? What makes Tempranillo “the little early one”? Why does Saperavi mean “the dyeing grape,” and who decided to call Xinomavro “sour...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Rioja is famous for Tempranillo, oak barrels, and the familiar classifications Crianza, Reserva, and Gran Reserva. But behind those words lies a remarkably diverse region...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com In this episode of The Wine Lab , we travel through the Loire Valley, one of France’s most diverse and historically layered wine regions. Following the river from the...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com In this episode of The Wine Lab , we continue our series on the great wine regions of the world with Burgundy, or Bourgogne, one of France’s most influential and fascinating...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Bordeaux is one of the most influential wine regions in the world, but it can also feel intimidating. In this episode of The Wine Lab , Andreea explains Bordeaux through the...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Wine is usually described through aroma and flavor, but some of its most important qualities are physical. This episode of The Wine Lab examines wine texture and mouthfeel...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com A glass of rosé often feels effortless - light catching a pale pink hue, a hint of summer in the air - but its story runs deeper. In this episode, we trace how rosé is...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Episode description Wine seems like one of the most plant-based products imaginable, so why are some wines not considered vegan? In this episode of The Wine Lab , we look at...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com What happens when wildfire smoke becomes part of the story of a wine? In this episode of The Wine Lab , Dr. Andreea Botezatu explores smoke taint through the eyes of the...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com What does it mean when a wine smells like rotten egg, burnt rubber, cabbage, garlic, or canned corn? In this episode of The Wine Lab , Dr. Andreea Botezatu explores sulfur...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com This episode of The Wine Lab explores the long and layered history of women in wine. We move through ancient cultures, literature, religious life, art, Champagne history...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Mousiness is one of the most elusive and unsettling faults in wine. Unlike many defects, it doesn’t appear in the aroma. Instead, it emerges after the sip, lingering on the...
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Send me your thoughts at ibotezatu5@gmail.com Sometimes a glass of wine smells like dark fruit and spice. Other times, something unexpected appears — leather, earth, even a hint of barnyard. For some wine lovers, those...
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