This week Brendan Hines (Lie to Me, Suits, The Tick) joins the Wine Whisperer and Mademoiselle Palate to whine about televisions being everywhere.

The Grape of the Week/Grapes of Thrones is Tempranillo! AKA...a lot of other names. Get the lowdown on this grape and it's spiritual home of Rioja.

They also go over some of the mailbag responses. Hear what pricy wines podcast fans are sipping!

Before getting into his whine, Brendan reveals the notes he took on the show's opening banter. Turns out Shaughn and Ellen are song/band name generators.

Brendan gets into his whine: annoyance at televisions in public places. Shaughn and Ellen pair it with a blind tasting to envelope all their senses and tune out any televised distraction! Or noise distraction. Like former whine-er Melanie Lynskey, Brendan has misophonia.

They discuss who is better at tuning things out and focusing, men or women. And as if to prove a point the guys devolve into discussing what drugs they've indulged in. Other topics covered: reading in public, eavesdropping in bars, and cashews at midnight.

This blind tasting is a white wine, and this time they have the Court Masters grid to guide them! Follow along as they feel the bottle and break down wine's elements. Phenolic bitterness remains mysterious.

Do they correctly guess? Tune in and find out!

In a bonus round they taste another flavor of FlyWine: The Kitchen Sink. 

The Lightning Round covers grapes' water needs, what a rain shadow is, the thickness of Tempranillo's skin, musical keys and wine colors in respect to age!

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