sustainable wine

Wines: Fresh Vine 2019 Pinot Noir & 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon

When considering what wines will fit into your lifestyle, it’s important to determine for yourself which factors are important to you. For some, world-view or food sourcing best practices are paramount, for others, dietary concerns or weight management are important to consider, for some, pricing and quality are primary.

In developing the concept of the Wine Taste Filter, we identified four different categories of the varying concerns most consumers have, which we are calling “mountains” and we understand each of these concerns isn’t for everyone, which is why we’re asking: which mountains are YOU willing to climb?

We want to help you identify your priorities when fitting wine into your lifestyle by giving you information and tools to decipher those crazy wine labels and marketing buzzwords to help you determine which wines fit those priorities.

Listen to hear us breakdown the categories and describe what factors fall under each. Keep following along on our "Fitting Wine Into YOUR Lifestyle" series to assist you to be more intentional in your wine selection and to make the most of your wine purchase power.

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Aubrey Terrazas is the Co-Found, Marketing Director, and Master Sommelier Candidate for the Palate Club. Her intro into the wine world began with her degree in French and as she waited tables alongside sommeliers. She continued her learning and worked as a sommelier for many years at the start of her career in wine.

As an avid wine enthusiast and lover of learning, I have thought a lot about becoming a sommelier. Through my research, I found it to be a rigorous and intense process. Aubrey shared that there are many avenues into this field. To work in a restaurant as a sommelier there is no formal education or certification required. Many use their personal knowledge and experience. However, if you do choose to get a certification or even a master's certification, it is very intense because you have to learn about wine and grapes from all over the world.

Palate Club was founded by Nicolas Mendiharat. He became a wine lover growing up in France and noticed a problem in choosing wine from the large variety found on shelves when he moved to the USA in 2015. Even having knowledge about wine, he found difficulty finding the wines he liked when there were so many labels in front of him. Palate Club was founded to help wine lovers find wines that match their taste, learn about wine, and discover new bottles from around the world.

Sustainability Sourced in the wine world is really on-trend right now. People often find that wine labeled “Sustainable” can give less of a hangover, which makes sense because the word sustainable can mean so many things in the wine industry. Aubrey described sustainable as an umbrella term, starting all the way in the vineyard, from how they grow and treat their grapes all the way to packaging. In fact, more than 50% of a wine's carbon footprint comes from a bottle.

As a woman in a very male-dominated industry, Aubrey shared some of what she sees and her advice for women in wine or other industries. Like many fields, as a young woman, it can be hard to get a job and be taken seriously. Aubrey says that the key to success is to work hard and stay authentic to who you are. She finds it important to put the focus on your power and your knowledge and not on using vanity to get ahead. I can say that being heavily involved in the social media world with Crystal Media, it can be easy to be distracted by vanity and compete in that way. However, if you're true to yourself, I truly believe you will get where you want to go in the way you want to get there.

This was such a fun episode for me because as you know, I love wine! It was so fun to talk about wine and learn so much! I cannot wait to hopefully do a tasting with the Palate Club soon!

What’s Inside:

• What is the Palate Club?
• What it takes to be a sommelier.
• Sustainability in wine.
• The ins and outs of palates and the wine world.
• Women succeeding in a male-dominated industry.

Mentioned In This Episode:

Palate CLub
Palate Club on Instagram
Aubrey Terrazas on LinkedIn
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My wine - 2018 Ramos Reserva Selected Blend: João Portugal Ramos
Connect with Crystal
Crystal on YouTube
Crystal on Instagram
Crystal on TikTok

Wines: Archer Roose Prosecco, Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc
Guests: Marian Leitner Waldman and Alicia Towns Franken

We are joined by Archer Roose's owner and founder, Marian Leitner Waldman, and VP of Wine Portfolio, Alicia Towns Franken, to discuss Archer Roose canned wines.

Acher Roose offers ethically sourced wines from producers around the world. Their focus is to provide high quality, eco-friendly, minimal intervention wines. Offering them in cans serves many purposes including smaller portion sizes perfect for that mid-week meal, ease of recycling, ease of transport.

Marian and Alicia share the origin story of Archer Roose, their commitment to featuring minimal intervention wines made by small producers, how they source their wines and why  bringing a sense of place, sustainability and respect for the environment is at the heart of their company.

We enjoyed learning about this eco-conscious wine company. Listen to hear our ratings of these wines and why canned wines could fit  your  lifestyle.

Wines To Find Podcast,  Finalist in the 12th Annual TASTE AWARDS  in  four categories.
-Best Drink or Beverage Program
-Best New Series
-Best Single Topic Series
-Best Food or Drink Podcast

We have been listed in the Top 30 wine podcasts!
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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Night In Venice" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 

Thank you for making us part of your wine story. If you enjoyed this episode, please write a review and share with your wine loving friends and family.
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Beth and Dianne speak with Jill Osur, President and CEO of Teneral Cellars, a "disruptive", woman-owned wine business that is re-thinking what it means to be a wine brand.

 As a former collegiate scholarship softball player at the University of California at Berkeley, and a black belt in karate, Jill Osur has been able to combine her passion for sports and competition into a successful and prosperous career as a social entrepreneur. Jill has helped over ten start-ups launch and is a seasoned sales and marketing executive. Jill is a respected author, speaker, and strategist responsible for raising more than $150 million for the Special Olympics. Jill believes as a female business owner that you have to stand up, speak up, and ShoulderUp to support other women and promote equity. Jill was the recipient of a 2012 Bronze Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year in Consumer Products for up to 2500 employees. Jill was named one of 8 international finalists for a Stevie Award in 2009, an award presented to Women Entrepreneurs in Technology.

Teneral Cellars is an entrepreneurial agent for social change. It is a woman-owned and run empowerment community that supports women’s causes and industry inclusion through the production and sale of phenomenal wine. Founded in March 2020 as a purpose-driven brand, it aims to produce incredible wines from sustainably farmed vineyards, curate meaningful experiences, and build a strong community through cause.

As we’ve talked about multiple times on this podcast, Millennials and Gen Z are using their buying power to highlight and support their own personal values.  This includes purchasing products that are responsibly made and sustainable. 

Today, I invited Beth Vukmanic Lopez, the program director for SIP Certified (which stands for Sustainability in Practice), onto the podcast to talk with us about why communicating your sustainability in your marketing is important in ensuring your brand’s economic sustainability.

Beth even lists a few resources on HOW to communicate your sustainability in your various marketing channels.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Social Media & Sustainability FREE Online Workshop
•  Seasons of Sustainability PDF 
• Newsletter
• Instagram: @sipcertified
• www.SIPcertified.org
• https://www.vineyardteam.org/scholarship/

Disclaimer: The information contained on this podcast and the resources available for download through the accompanying website are for educational and informational purposes only. ​ The information contained on this podcast and the resources available for download through the accompanying website is not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as legal, financial, tax, medical, health, or any other professional advice.

Sam Benrubi, host of The Grape Nation was joined by Harry Root. Since its founding in 2003, Grassroots Wine has grown its portfolio of internationally made wines, and distributes to customers across the Southeast. Deeply committed to sustainability, Harry talks about the significance of Grassroots Wine's commitment to all things grassroots and improving our food and wine industry as a whole. 

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What is sustainability in wine and where do you start?

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Recently I interviewed Michele Manelli, of Salcheto wine Montepulciano Italy. 

We discussed what it means to be a sustainable wine pioneer in Italy and where to start if you start from scratch. Also Michele shared how he influencing other wine companies in Italy and not 'just' his 50 hectares in Tuscany. The wine industry has to reinvent itself and sustainability should be at its core. 

Michele:

• 'More and more people are ready to put their sustainable values beside their other values (quality and price, service)'
• 'Biggest problem is: transparency of the sustainability certifications'
• 'Very fragmented distribution channels, distribution partners are not investing in it or pushing it (sustainability). '
• 'Less standards more solid standards'

Michele and his colleagues have set up a new solid sustainability standard in Italy to move the whole industry (and not just some niches) to sustainability.

The next phase for Salcheto lies not on environmental sustainability but on social.
They introduced the first Welfare plan for vineyard employees in Italy.
They are hosting children of local schools at the vineyard and turning them into sustainability ambassadors.


Show notes and links:
www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2017/09/06/michele-manelli. 

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