In the Drink

Piora Wine Director Victoria James has worked in restaurants since she was just thirteen. While bartending during college, she took her first wine course and was instantly hooked. In 2011, she worked harvest for Michael Terien in Sonoma and then continued her studies with the American Sommelier Association in Viticulture and Vinification, as well as Blind Tasting.
 She became certified as a Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2012 when she was just twenty one.

Victoria joined the Piora team in the fall of 2015. She oversees the Michelin-starred wine list featuring 400 labels from small producers in Italy, France and the United States with a special focus on Champagne and Switzerland. Here she has been named Forbes '10 innovators under 30 shaking up the NY food scene' as well as 'New York's Youngest Sommelier' by The Back Label Magazine, Wine Enthusiast's 'a 40 under 40 tastemaker of 2016' and Wine & Spirits Magazine's '2016 Best New Sommelier.'

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined by Elisabetta Foradori, the top producer of Teroldego, an ancient, native grape variety that is related to Syrah and Pinot Noir. In 1985, at the age of 19, Elisabetta took over her father’s estate in the Campo Rotaliano zone of Trentino in the foothills of the Dolomites. By 1999, she was being referred to as the “undisputed top producer of Teroldego, and had received numerous accolades, especially for her Granato, the most bold and concentrated of her Teroldego bottlings.

Elisabetta began experimenting with biodynamics in the 2000s as a means to introduce more energy and dimension to her wines. As her work in the vineyards evolved, the wines too began to change, from big and concentrated to a more textured and elegant style. In 2009, after having tasted the amphora aged wines of COS, she began experimenting with terra cotta tinajas made to order in southern Spain. Today, she ferments and ages her Teroldego Sgarzon, Teroldego Morei , and the white Nosiola Fontanasanta in these large (420-480 liter) amphorae.

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in the studio by Patrick Cappiello, the Operating Partner and Wine Director of Rebelle and Pearl & Ash restaurants, creator of Renegade Wine Dinner, Chef Sommelier for Daniel Johnnes "La Paulée", and Food & Wine host for Playboy Magazine.

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Wine Director and Master Sommelier Michaël Engelmann joined The Modern in 2014, having previously held the role of Wine Director at the Grand Award-winning Rockpool Bar & Grill in Sydney, Australia. Michaël's accolades include “Best Sommelier in America” from the American Sommelier Association (2009), and being voted one of five “Best New Sommeliers” by Wine & Spirits Magazine (2009). In the same year, he passed the Advanced Sommelier Exam of the Court of Master Sommeliers, earning the Rudd Scholarship for his high score. In 2011, Michaël passed the Master Sommelier exam and was awarded the Krug Cup for passing all three parts on his first attempt; he is one of only 14 individuals in the history of the Court to have done so.

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in the studio by Thierry Valette of the Clos Puy Arnaud vineyard.

Clos Puy Arnaud is mentioned in the Feret book (the bible of Bordeaux's Wines) in 1874 as a first growth. Thierry Valette has been producing here since 2000. The vineyard is run with the principles of an organic approach, and has been involved in biodynamic agriculture since 2004.

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This week on In the Drink, Dorli Muhr will discuss her wines at Muhr-van der Niepoort and the state of the Austrian wine industry. She will also discuss Orange wines.

Carnuntum is a lesser-known Austrian wine region, east of Vienna, and this is where the Muhr-van der Niepoort winery is based. Dorli resuscitated her family vineyards here, taking advantage of the Spitzerberg’s distinctive terroir, together with the old Blaufränkisch vines and their tiny yields. The result are wines that reflect the tastes of the wine producers themselves: elegant and refined, with structure, length and plenty of floral freshness.

Also in the studio is Stetson Robbins of Blue Danube Wine, which is collaborating with Anfora to produce the event series Week of Orange Wine.

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RdV Vineyards is a boutique vineyard and winery that occupies 100 acres of land in Delaplane, Virginia. Led by Rutger de Vink and master sommelier Jarad Slipp, RdV focuses on doing one thing extraordinarily well: creating world-class Bordeaux-style blends. Since its founding in 2004, RdV has quickly earned high praise from wine experts around the world. In May 2016, RdV’s “Rendezvous” became the first red wine from Virginia to be served at a White House state dinner.

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined by Isabelle Legeron, founder of RAW WINE, the world's leading natural, low-intervention organic and biodynamic wine fair, which is coming to New York for the first time this November.

Isabelle is France's first and only Female Master of Wine and extremely passionate about promoting wine transparency. Isabelle has dedicated her life to disrupting conventional understandings of what wine is and advocating for more sustainable, environmental and beneficial approaches to winemaking. Her fair is a 2-day showcase of some of the best wine talent in the world – leading the charge for transparency, providing clarity to consumers and driving the conversation to know what's in your glass.

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in the studio by Jorge Riera, the wine director of both Contra and Wildair. His small-production, natural-focused wine lists have garnered praise for their quality and accessibility. Jorge previously worked at Balthazaar in its very early days, as well as 360 in Red Hook and Lower East Side institution Ten Bells.

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This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined by Adam Leith Gollner, a contributing editor at Saveur Magazine. The author of The Fruit Hunters and The Book of Immortality, he has also written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Travel and Leisure, Gourmet Magazine, and The New Yorker.

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