This is our WINE EPISODE. Our guest is Sarah Miller, a freelance writer. She writes a weekly wine column for The Awl about tasting wine, shochu, and beer, called "The Nevada City Wine Diaries."

You can follow @sarahlovescali on Twitter, and you can read more of her columns here:

theawl.com/tagged/wine-diaries

Thanks to John Dziuban for the theme music, and to Jason and the team at his production company, Charts & Leisure:

www.chartsandleisure.com/

Thanks, of course, to our sponsor, HelloFresh, which if offering a SPECIAL DISCOUNT to Awl Podcast listeners: $35 off your first week of deliveries. Just visit www.hellofresh.com and use the promo code AWLCAST.