8 episodes

La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels' popular Wine Boot Camps -- 50 minute educational classes hosted by the wine bar's sommeliers -- can now be experienced on the go, in podcast form! Compagnie Managing Partner Caleb Ganzer and Sommelier Wissam Jaugeon have teamed up to create The Wine Boot Camp Podcast, a monthly deep dive into producers and topics the Compagnie team is obsessed with. Each episode spotlights a winemaking trailblazer from around the world or otherwise topical subject to folks in the wine industry. Each story is told through the lens of New York city's wine scene.

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    • 4.7 • 15 Ratings

La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels' popular Wine Boot Camps -- 50 minute educational classes hosted by the wine bar's sommeliers -- can now be experienced on the go, in podcast form! Compagnie Managing Partner Caleb Ganzer and Sommelier Wissam Jaugeon have teamed up to create The Wine Boot Camp Podcast, a monthly deep dive into producers and topics the Compagnie team is obsessed with. Each episode spotlights a winemaking trailblazer from around the world or otherwise topical subject to folks in the wine industry. Each story is told through the lens of New York city's wine scene.

    Episode 8: Food Scraps Will Save Us

    Episode 8: Food Scraps Will Save Us

    After a few months hiatus, Wine Boot Camp podcast returns with host Caleb Ganzer speaking with Lauren Turk of FeraZero about the challenges and opportunities when it comes to composting food scraps. After a successful trial run picking up and dropping off food scraps through Compagnie, and then a summer-long program at Supernatural Lake, Ganzer learns from Turk about why diverting food scraps to composting programs is so important to tackling climate change.

    • 37 min
    Episode 7: Farmers Are Rockstars

    Episode 7: Farmers Are Rockstars

    Wine Boot Camp hosts Caleb Ganzer & Wissam Jaugeon are joined by writer, private chef, and produce lover Kristy Mucci to riff on one of Compagnie's favorite mottos: farmers are rockstars. Kristy tells her story of how she became a farmers market fanatic and how the farmers who feed us all have so much in common with the winemakers who make our favorite wines. Recorded at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels Centre Street, NYC.

    • 32 min
    Episode 6: Wine + Tea // Tea and orange wine — is that a thing?

    Episode 6: Wine + Tea // Tea and orange wine — is that a thing?

    Join sommeliers Caleb Ganzer and Wissam Jaugeon as they delve further into the subject of tea with expert and importer Sebastian Beckwith of In Pursuit of Tea.

    • 32 min
    Episode 5: Wine, Natural Wine, and Supernatural Wine

    Episode 5: Wine, Natural Wine, and Supernatural Wine

    Wine Boot Camp hosts Caleb Ganzer & Wissam Jaugeon are joined by fellow Compagnie sommelier James Sligh for a lively and passionate discourse on the subtleties and nuances of the natural wine movement. Recorded at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels Centre Street, NYC. 

    • 33 min
    Episode 4: Coffee for Wine Lovers?

    Episode 4: Coffee for Wine Lovers?

    Geek out with Caleb Ganzer, Wine Director & Managing Partner at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, and César Vega of Cafe Integral, as they discuss the overlap between coffee and wine. From grape to glass, bean to cup, these two beverage professionals discuss the ins and outs of coffee production, how to get the best brew at home, and even delve into beverage-on-beverage pairings with sommelier Wissam Jaugeon interjecting a Rosé Champagne into the mix.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Episode 3: Drinking With an Open Mind: an interview with James Molesworth, Senior Editor at Wine Spectator

    Episode 3: Drinking With an Open Mind: an interview with James Molesworth, Senior Editor at Wine Spectator

    Caleb Ganzer, wine director and managing partner of Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, is joined by James Molesworth, Senior Editor at Wine Spectator, to discuss the merits of keeping an open mind when drinking wine and how to discover the hidden gems of fanciful regions such as Bordeaux, Napa, Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Sommelier Wissam Jaugeon tries to stump the duo with a blind wine tasting.

    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

Bacchus1987 ,

Great Cast

The information and the PASSION behind these casts are great. Keep ‘em coming! Looking forward to a return to these casts when things return to normal.

riccamacho ,

Wine for the rest of us

Fantastic podcast by the young, talented wine folk at Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels led by Caleb Ganzer. Whether you are a person whose wine interests are boxed in traditions you know and enjoy or whether you want to spread your wings a bit, these guys strike the right balance between wine nerdom and depth of knowledge with an open-minded breadth of connoisseurship that values food pleasure above all.

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