Modo di Bere: Wine & Language

When the waiter pours a taste of wine for you and it's your job to inspect that wine for flaws, while the sommelier and your fellow dinner guests look on, this episode is your guide to how to taste th...

27 Des 202459min

Blind tasting—deducing the grape, age and geographic origin of a wine based on sensory analysis alone—can seem like the wine world’s most mystical practice. Wine flavor scientist Dr. Rachel B. Allison...

20 Des 202456min

You can wash a donkey’s head, but you’ll waste your water, your soap, and your time. If you have a woman, a drum, and a duck, you have a revolution. You’ve got more horns than a chariot full of snails...

14 Des 202444min

This is just a preview of our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. You can listen to the entire episode, and watch the full video, by becoming a supporter at the Podcast Lover level. Just visit the link p...

6 Des 20243min

Michele Thomas is a writer, sommelier and the manager and buyer at a neighborhood wine shop in Brooklyn. RT and Michele are old friends from RT's wine rep days. They get together to dish about the pur...

6 Des 202448min

Calabrian rhyming toasts. A drinking song from Padua. Kinetic toasts from France and Spain. Taiwanese dialect for “Bottoms up!” Modo di Bere host Rose Thomas shares funny drinking sayings from around ...

26 Nov 20246min

Rose Thomas spills the prosecco on Italian swears, her favorite Italian gesture, the ultimate spritz recipe, and the bartender travel advice that could cure your ennui. This travel story episode revea...

21 Nov 202416min

Sam Bail was feeling better. So much better that two months into her sobriety experiment, she knew she wasn’t going back to drinking alcohol. But she missed her softball team, and all the other relati...

23 Feb 202457min