Ohhhhh a kinda sorta return to old form! In that I spend a hot extra several minutes hanging out and taking to Christopher Ruhland, my fellow WSET Diploma graduate and author of "Press or Champagne". But first I ever so briefly review some rosé Champers and recap other wine goings on. Tune in!

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It's the June edition and it's a good one! Elle has boatloads of wine-person updates-- she's been to a ton of tastings (Alsace! Abruzzo! Line39 spritzers!), taken trips (Italy's Garda DOC!) and was a behind the scenes helper at the LA Spirits Awards, so the juice flows, and how! She then does a bit of a dive into Côte du Rhône wines and tastes a village level one. Lastly, she chats with friend of the pod Mike Stone, host of the Tall Mike Wine Podcast and tasting room manager of Sonoma's Nicholson Ranch. Good times. Straight ahead.

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Wowwww has the wine scene in Los Angeles ever been happening! This month, Elle recounts five tastings (she's now a Barolo pro, just saying), drinks a fabulous bottle of Pinot Noir by Thomas T Thomas, gets into why she thinks cottage cheese is a fabulous food in an edition of On the Food Side, and lastly but not leastly, she talks with wine writer Kathleen Willcox!

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April's episode is all things Malbec! Plus a Final Five with a wine woman:) April 17th is Malbec World Day, so in its honor, Elle is reviewing Malbec, Mon Amour, a book by Laura Catena and Alejandro Vigil, the winemakers at Catena. Then, naturally she drinks a delicious glass of Catena Malbec. moving in a different direction, her Final Five segment is with Katja S. Newman of La Cienega Vineyard. Elle can attest to the deliciousness of her wine! Listen in to hear what's she's drinking, what she likes to eat with it, where she'd be interested in making wine besides California, and more!!!

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It's your March edition! Just in the nick of time. First up, Elle has the deets on a sexy soil from the Northern Rhone. The wine she is drinking is an Rkatsteli (a Georgian grape) made in the Finger Lakes by Dr. Konstantin Frank, whose eponymous founder hailed from the Ukraine. Lastly, Elle calls Robert Cameo, the author of "South of Somewhere", a book about southern Italian wine. She asks him the final five and the two get into that Italian vino!

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This month Elle's got the goods and they are...great. Just great, really. She shares a Sexy Soil named wolfey, and tasted the Kwaya Sangiovese, a collaborative effort! Lastly she calls Maryam Ahmed, star of SommTV's Sparklers, and cofounder and leader of the Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum, for the Final Five! Get yourself a bottle and dive in!

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This month Elle keeps it short-ish and dry with a her usual segments n' tangents, plus a stellar woman-made wine! She starts with a Sign of Wine Times, aka exciting news about suphur-ing wine, if such things can be exciting (she says they can)! Next she sips a Geodesy Cabernet Sauvignon, then wraps it all up with a Final Five questions with musician and writer Lamar Woods!

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Oh hi, just in the nick of time its the December edition!!! This week Elle chats with John Taylor of Pairs With Life Cellars about how he got into wine, and why he started his own line! She also recaps tasting of his Big Gay Rosé and Tous les Jours Pinot Noir--spoiler alert, both were delicious.

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This week Elle's got the November wine update! Then she introduces a La Scolca Gavi dei Gavi aka a refreshing white wine made from Cortese, hailing from the Piedmont region in Italy. Next up is On the Food Side. This month the food of choice is pho--that's right, Elle actually enjoyed a soup, but she wants the word broth to be banned. Lastly is the Final Five where Anush O'Connor. Anush is your go to for all things Armenian wine--although she's making some of her own in Southern California right now!

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Elle's back for October! This time she'll take you on a journey with her to the Languedoc, in a first time ever segment she calls Wanderlust. Then, she'll try a Malbec from Coen Wines you should lean into too! Lastly, the final five is with Urban Wine Tribe's John Michael Morcilio!

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