Host Andrew Elliott and Sommelier Chris Reckord take on the heroic task of sampling every wine commercially available in Jamaica. If you can buy it, we'll try it and let you know where to get it and how much it'll run you. Along the way, Chris imparts his decades of wine knowledge (writing for the Observer and owning his own wine bar in Kingston) to give you a straight forward understanding of what's available on Jamaican shelves.
On episode 30 Andrew and Chris go big when they uncork a bottle of this big California Cab Sauv from Chuck Wagner. It's dark fruit and slight jamminess brings back memories of all those massive California Reds that folks couldn't get enough of in the early 2000's, but without the vanilla overboard.
Published 08/25/24
After a brief summer hiatus Andrew and Chris return to crack open a bottle of The Pale. This Rose produced by famed French winemaker Sacha Lachine evokes the perfect freshness for Andrew and Chris to get into a heady discussion about where the threshold of snobbishness should reside in the world...
Published 08/09/24