The Wine Centric Show

Matt Weiss
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  1. 3 days ago

    Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly On Getting Laid Off and Accidentally Building a Wine Media Empire

    Madeline Puckette didn't set out to build Wine Folly. She lost her graphic design job in the 2008 recession, followed a boyfriend to Reno, and picked up a stack of wine encyclopedias from a bar owner who needed help on slow nights. None of it was the plan. Nearly two decades later, she's the Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of one of the most recognizable names in wine education, co-author of a New York Times bestseller and a James Beard Award winner, and the person whose visual framework AI chatbots now use to answer wine questions without crediting her. That unplanned path runs through a wide-ranging conversation: the bottle that broke her mental model of what wine could even taste like (it smelled like black olives), the flavor cards she doodled behind a wine bar that became the seed of Wine Folly, and why she thinks the wine world's go-to explanation for sandy soil is often wrong. Madeline is the Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of Wine Folly under Folly Enterprises, co-author of two books (a New York Times bestseller and a James Beard Award winner), and has appeared in Jason Wise's Somm: Into the Bottle and Somm 3. In this conversation: The vocalist-to-wine comparison game, including her pick for a Whitney Houston wineHow the 2008 recession led her from a graphic design job to a wine bar in RenoThe Chateau de Montfaucon 2005 Côtes du Rhône that broke her idea of what wine could taste likeThe flavor cards that became the first version of Wine FollyWhy AI is now answering wine questions with her own decade of work, uncreditedHer current obsessions: Slovenia's Goriška Brda region and Hungarian HárslevelűBiking through Alto Adige with sommelier Aldo SohmHiring a Master of Wine to challenge her own teaching modelWhy sandy soil doesn't fully explain a lighter-bodied Gamay Presented by InVintory. Manage your wine collection with 3D cellar visualization. Use code WINECENTRIC for 25% off InVintory Premium. Wine Folly: www.winefolly.com  Madeline's Instagram: @madelinepuck  Wine Folly's Instagram: @winefolly

    Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly On Getting Laid Off and Accidentally Building a Wine Media Empire

  2. 29 Jul

    Caparzo and Altesino: Inside a Brunello Dynasty, with Elisabetta and Alessandra Angelini

    Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini wanted Caparzo. Eleven partners owned it, and getting them all to say yes took four and a half years. She didn't walk away. That patience became the foundation of one of Tuscany's most quietly powerful wine families. Matt Weiss talks with Elisabetta and her daughter Alessandra about how they built a portfolio that runs from Brunello di Montalcino to Chianti Classico to the Maremma: Caparzo, Altesino, Borgo Scopeto, Doga delle Clavule, and a fifth Montalcino estate still taking shape. They get into the green label that broke every rule of 1970s wine design, why Montalcino stakes everything on big Slavonian oak, and what it took for a woman to run the deal in a corner of Tuscany that wasn't ready for one. It's a family story, a business story, and a Brunello story all at once. New episodes of The Wine Centric Show every week. 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

    Caparzo and Altesino: Inside a Brunello Dynasty, with Elisabetta and Alessandra Angelini

  3. 15 Jul

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

    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

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

  4. 1 Jul

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

    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

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

  5. 17 Jun

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

    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 Journey04:54 Leaving the DO: A Family Decision10:33 The Philosophy of Natural Winemaking15:47 Exploring the Unique Characteristics of Charello21:19 Cultural Influences: From Penedes to New York27:11 The Economic Impact of Kava on Farmers33:50 Reviving Abandoned Vineyards and Local Communities41:03 Balancing Passion and Business in Winemaking50:01 The Future of Penedès Wines and Recommendations54:29 Wine_Centric_Show_v1 Linked Comp 05.mp4 Tags:#PepeRaventós, #RaventósIBlanc, #SpanishWine, #WineCentricShow, #Penedès, #CanSumoi, #Xarello, #Sumoll, #WinePodcast, #Sommelier, #WineInterview, #Winemaker, #NaturalWine, #SparklingWine, #CavaAlternative

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

  6. 3 Jun

    Master Somm Bobby Stuckey: In Defense of Fine Dining & Friuli

    Bobby Stuckey has spent twenty years telling Americans that the most important wine region in Italy isn't Tuscany. It isn't Piedmont either. It's Friuli. As co-founder of Frasca Food and Wine and one of the most respected Master Sommeliers in the country, Stuckey has watched food journalists question whether fine dining still has a place in American culture. He has a clear answer: they don't know what they're talking about. This conversation covers the wines and producers that put Friuli on the map, the real story behind orange wine, why Merlot and Chardonnay belong in Friuli just as much as Ribolla Gialla, and what it actually takes to build a restaurant culture around a region most Americans have never heard of. One question runs through all of it: how long does a grape need to grow somewhere before it becomes part of that place? We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners:▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/▪️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

    Master Somm Bobby Stuckey: In Defense of Fine Dining & Friuli

  7. 20 May

    The Wine Importer Who Took On Trump and Won | Victor Owen Schwartz | Bonus Episode 45

    When the most powerful man in the world imposed tariffs that threatened to put his business under, Victor Owen Schwartz did what almost no one else was willing to do. He sued. And he won. As lead plaintiff in VOS Selections v. Donald Trump, this 40-year wine importer took the fight from the Court of International Trade all the way to the Supreme Court — winning at every stop. 3-0. 7-2. 6-3. On the morning this episode was recorded, his tariff refunds hit his bank account for the first time. We get into what IEEPA tariffs actually did to an importer running on 5% margins, why Amazon blinked while Victor didn't, how a brunch he almost skipped changed everything, and what it feels like when justice stops being theoretical and shows up in your bank account. 📩 Subscribe to the biweekly Wine Centric Newsletter at winecentricshow.comWe’re grateful for the support of our episode partners:▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/▪️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

    The Wine Importer Who Took On Trump and Won | Victor Owen Schwartz | Bonus Episode 45

  8. 13 May

    Bruwer Raats | The Man Who Built South Africa’s Most Iconic Wine

    Bruwer Raats planted his flag in the Polkadraai Hills when nobody else wanted to be there. The soil was granite, the land was cheap, and the two varieties he chose — Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc — were widely considered the least exciting grapes a winemaker could possibly champion. His colleagues called him a mad hatter. That was 2000. Today, Polkadraai Hills is a declared ward on the label of one of the world's most consistently decorated wines. Matt goes deep with Bruwer on the full arc: growing up in post-apartheid South Africa and the democratic shift that shaped his entire career; training stints in Bordeaux, Napa, Germany, and Tuscany; why granite soils and a south-facing slope were worth more to him than prestige real estate in the Golden Triangle; the braai conversation with his friend and partner Mzo that gave birth to MR de Compostela — South Africa's first 50/50 black-white wine company, not by mandate but by friendship and shared ambition; and the discipline it takes to declassify your only wine in 2010 and again in 2019 because the vintage simply wasn't good enough. There's also a cars-and-wine pairing game to open, the now-legendary Ferrari traffic cop story, and Bruwer's four-bottle prescription for anyone who wants to understand South African wine. First South African guest on The Wine Centric Show. Long overdue. We’re grateful for the support of our episode partners:▪️Fearrington House: https://fearrington.com/▪️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 #BruwerRaats, #RaatsFamilyWines, #MRdeCompostela, #SouthAfricanWine, #StellenboschWine, #PolkadraaiHills, #CheninBlanc, #CabernetFranc, #CapeClassics, #WinePodcast, #WineInterview, #WineEducation, #SouthAfrica, #Pinotage, #FineWine, #OldVineProject, #WineAndFoodPairing, #TheWineCentricShow, #Stellenbosch, #WineTasting

    Bruwer Raats | The Man Who Built South Africa’s Most Iconic Wine
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🎙 Bringing wine stories, tips, and expert interviews to everyday wine lovers. 🍷

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  • Creator
    Matt Weiss
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Matt Weiss
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    The Wine Centric Show

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