Psychic Terroir

By: Chad Westbrook Hinds
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  • Iruai Wine presents Psychic Terroir: an existential exploration of what it means to make, serve, sell and consume wine in a chaotic and changing world. Join us on a journey through candid conversations with wine thinkers and drinkers, in search of new ways to celebrate wine. A wine podcast about the mystery of wine, and all its wondrous and strange qualities that can't be deduced on an Advanced Sommelier Exam, or quantified into a magazine's number score.
    2024
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Art Food & Wine Philosophy Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Is Natural Wine Dead? Part Deux with Joseph Shaughnessy

    Is Natural Wine Dead? Part Deux with Joseph Shaughnessy
    Feb 3 2025
    On today's show, we expand on our conversation about the state of natural wine and the discourse around it with Joseph Shaughnessy. Joseph is sommelier at the legendary MÄS restaurant in Ashland, OR, as well as a winemaker with his own label: Cru Siskiyou. Joseph graciously brings some counterpoints to our last episode's conversation with Alice Feiring and makes the case for more traditional wine expressions. Joseph and I dive into a dialectic debate ranging from the virtues of typicity, the difficulty of defining "natural wine" satisfactorily, left brain terroir vs. right brain terroir, and the "reverse Parkerization" that can be found in the natural wine movement. Joseph and I both love philosophical thought experiments, and it was such a blast going down the rabbit hole and stress testing some of our preconceived notions about wine and what we love about it. Needless to say, we gracefully settle the debate once and for all and heal all discord in the wider wine industry. You're welcome! This was also our first in-person episode, which allowed us to share a few bottles and chat about the experiential differences in an excellent French natural wine as compared to a delicious and well aged more traditional California Cab. .....................

    SHOW NOTES:

    Joseph's Insta: southern_oregon_somm

    Joseph's Wine: Cru Siskiyou

    MÄS: https://masashland.com/


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    Song - Jonathan Wilson: "Desert Raven" off the album Gentle Spirit - https://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • Is Natural Wine Dead? with Alice Feiring

    Is Natural Wine Dead? with Alice Feiring
    Jan 20 2025
    I'm thrilled to have Alice Feiring on the show: a prolific writer and natural wine advocate, as well as a profound influence on my own burgeoning journey in the wine world. We chat about the interesting moment natural wine finds itself in, framed from the timeline of her first book when the term "natural wine" was obscure, to its unprecedented rise to a level worthy of co-opting and commodification, to our present day and the backlash the nebulous term "natural wine" is currently facing during these difficult economic times. We also chat about the controversial health reports that have emerged in relation to alcohol consumption, and of course I make this lauded wine writer tell me a personal ghost story. .....................

    SHOW NOTES:

    Alice's Site: https://thefeiringline.com

    Alice's Substack: https://feiring.substack.com/about

    NYT "Is Natural Wine Dead?" Article: NYT

    Alice's Latest Book: To Fall in Love, Drink This

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    Song - Jonathan Wilson: "Desert Raven" off the album Gentle Spirit - https://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com
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    45 mins
  • Monte Rio is a State of Mind with Patrick Cappiello

    Monte Rio is a State of Mind with Patrick Cappiello
    Nov 14 2024

    Today on the show I'm excited to bring on Patrick Cappiello of Monte Rio Cellars. We talk about navigating the choppy waters of the difficult wine economy since his call to action this Spring to drink more domestic wine. We explore the unhelpful infighting going on in the progressive wine world over dogmatic use or disuse of sulfur and filtration. Patrick tells us about some of the producers he fell in love with as a young sommelier whose wines transcend traditional notions of terroir for him. I also give Patrick his first tarot reading to help him find a missing ID card, and I'm happy to report he texted me after the recording session to let me know that I nailed it.

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    Beaming to you live from the beautiful city of Telos, below the majestic Mount Shasta, behold the fifth episode of Psychic Terroir . . . a wine podcast about the mystery of wine, and all of its wondrous and strange qualities that can't be deduced on an Advanced Sommelier Exam, or quantified into a magazine's number score.

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    SHOW NOTES:

    Patrick's Site: https://patrickcappiello.com/

    Monte Rio Cellars: https://www.monteriocellars.com/

    The '76 Redo: https://www.the76redo.com/

    Song - Jonathan Wilson: "Desert Raven" off the album Gentle Spirit - https://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com
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    1 hr and 9 mins

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