Oct 28, 202642 min
After more than 40 years helping build Allegrini and championing Amarone around the world, Marilisa Allegrini is starting a new chapter. In this episode of Uncorking What’s Next , Marilisa sits down with Jeff Zacharia...
About this Podcast:
Jeff Zacharia spent more than 40 years at Zachys, helping to build the company into a worldwide leader in fine wine, across both auctions and retail. In Uncorking What's Next, Jeff sits down with the winemakers, scientists, collectors, and visionaries shaping the future of wine — the people who live it, love it, and refuse to stop pushing it forward.
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What is Uncorking What's Next about?
Jeff Zacharia spent more than 40 years at Zachys, helping to build the company into a worldwide leader in fine wine, across both auctions and retail. In Uncorking What's Next, Jeff sits down with the winemakers, scientists, collectors, and visionaries shaping the future of wine, the people who live it, love it, and refuse to stop pushing it forward.
What has Uncorking What's Next covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Starting Over After 40 Years: Marilisa Allegrini’s New Wine Chapter" (28 October 2026, 42 minutes), "What Hollywood Can Teach Wine about storytelling: Dan March and Drops of God" (14 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Paul Hobbs: From a Dixie Cup of Yquem to a Global Wine Career" (30 September 2026, 59 minutes).
How often does Uncorking What's Next publish?
Uncorking What's Next publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 46 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on Uncorking What's Next?
Booking probability for Uncorking What's Next is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Uncorking What's Next requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Uncorking What's Next's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Uncorking What's Next are Beverages, Brewing & Distilling and Fruit & Nut Farming. Uncorking What's Next has a society audience.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 14, 202633 min
Dan March, founder of Dynamic Television and producer of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series Drops of God, joins Jeff to help uncork what the wine world can learn from Hollywood about telling a great story. Dan grew up on...
- Sep 30, 202659 min
Paul Hobbs' wine story began with a secret. His mother didn't allow alcohol at the family dinner table. But one winter evening in 1969, his father arrived with Dixie cups filled with a mysterious yellow-orange liquid...
- Sep 16, 202642 min
Carlos de Jesus of Amorim Cork joins Jeff Zacharia to explore how the cork industry fought its way back from the crisis of TCA, cork taint, and why the humble cork may matter more to wine's future than most of us...
- Sep 2, 202640 min
In 1981, someone had the nerve to plant Cabernet and Merlot on the Tuscan coast in a place no one thought could grow great wine. Forty years later, Ornellaia is one of the most celebrated estates on the planet. Lamberto...
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- Aug 19, 202647 min
For nearly 300 years, Château Gruaud-Larose has occupied one of the great terroirs of Saint-Julien: nearly 200 acres in an extraordinary single, unbroken vineyard. And yet, for a good part of its modern history, I...
- Aug 5, 20261h 3m
Marc Bouffard is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is also, by any measure, one of the most respected independent voices in fine wine — built not from a role in the trade, not from a...
- Jul 22, 202638 min
For nearly a century, Domaine Huet has been one of the defining estates of the Loire Valley and one of the world's greatest producers of Chenin Blanc. But in 2003, everything changed. When the Huet family sold the...
- Jul 8, 20261h 16m
Scott Becker grew up on the edge of dairy farm country in Wisconsin, played football at the Air Force Academy, served in counterintelligence — including deployments overseas after 9/11 — and talked his way into Harvard...
- Jun 24, 202647 min
Jermaine Stone — known to many as the Wolf of Wine — didn't grow up around fine wine. He grew up in the Bronx, the first in his family born in the United States, with a dad who was a welder and a dream of making it as a...
- Jun 10, 202659 min
What does it take to change how the world thinks about an entire wine country? In this episode of Uncorking What's Next , Jeff Zacharia sits down with Laura Catena—physician, researcher, sixth-generation vintner, and...
- May 27, 202646 min
What does the next generation of wine lovers actually think about the industry? I sat down with Sabrina Miller and Rachel Anderson, the co-presidents of the Harvard Business School Wine and Cuisine Society, to find out...
- May 13, 202659 min
I discovered MacDonald Vineyards from the auction podium — a wine I'd never heard of, with bidders going absolutely crazy. I came off the block, turned to my son Tom, and said, what is this? He gave me a look that said...
- Apr 29, 202656 min
A conversation with Dr. Laura Catena — physician, fourth-generation winemaker, and one of the leading voices in the discussion around wine and health. In a space often dominated by headlines and conflicting studies...
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Inside Taittinger: Vitalie Taittinger on Tradition, meaningful visits, and the Future of Champagne
Apr 29, 202626 minA conversation with Vitalie Taittinger, President of Taittinger, on tradition, leadership, and the future of one of Champagne’s most iconic houses. We discuss the balance between heritage and evolution, the role of...
- Apr 29, 202649 min
A conversation with Omri Ram of Château Lafleur on independence, old vines, and what it means to steward one of Bordeaux’s most singular wines. From a handwritten letter that changed his life to the philosophy of...
Uncorking What's Next
Uncorking What's Next - Trailer
Apr 23, 20261 minUncorking What's Next launches April 29th. Host Jeff Zacharia introduces the show and what's coming.
Recent guests
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Scott Becker
Founder, Publisher, Chief Content Officer, Becker’s HealthCare and Becker’s Hospital Review
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Jermaine Stone
podcaster, Wine and Hip Hop Podcast
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Rachel Anderson
Fractional CMO, Owner of Pivot Studios, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
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Dr Laura Catena
leading in the Argentinean wine industry, Bodegas Catena Zapata
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