Video: Inspired to Discover New Terroir (with St. Innocent Winemaker Mark Vlossak)

Without the established rules of Europe, how do American Winemakers discover great new terroir?  For St. Innocent's Winemaker Mark Vlossak, it is all about inspiration.  In this short six minute video, Vlossak talks about the different subregions of Oregon's Willamette Valley and what he find so inspirational about each of them.

http://www.austinbeeman.com/ An interview with St. Innocent Winery Winemaker Mark Vlossak on Oregon Wine (part 4). Mark Vlossak talks about how New World winemakers choose terroir. He talks about inspired winemaking and then details what inspires St. Innocent Winery about various Willamette Valley terroir.

This is Episode #50 of the Understanding Wine with Austin Beeman video podcast and the fourth of five videos from my interviews with Mark Vlossak of St. Innocent Winery. Click below to see the other parts of the interview.

A Video about Italy's Great Sparkling Wine .... and it's not Prosecco! It's Franciacorta

If I ask you to name Italy's great sparkling wine, you'd say Prosecco.  Right?  Sorry, wrong.

There is no denying that Prosecco has exploded throughout the wine-drinking world, conquering the category of 'value-priced sparkling wine.'  But it didn't have to be this way.  The region of Franciacorta in Northern Italy produces some of the world's greatest sparkling wine - and have for a long time.

This four minute video, produced in Franciacorta by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Parzen in Franciacorta, gives you a brief look at the people, place, and food of the great Italian Sparking Wine Region.  Enjoy.

Directed by Ben Shapiro and produced by Jeremy Parzen (DoBianchi.com). In this short film devoted to one of Italy's greatest expressions of sparkling Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Franciacorta grape growers and chefs talk about what sets their wines apart from the rest.

Video: Going Deeper into Willamette Valley's Terroir. With St Innocent Winemaker Mark Vlossak (part 3)

Get ready for a master-class on the specifics of terroir in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.  If you ever wondered why Oregon is so exciting a wine region, this video will make it very clear.

Join us for eleven minutes with St. Innocent Winery's Mark Vlossak.  It's well worth your time!  Vlossak discusses the intricacies of terroir and how New World Wineries - such as those in Oregon - deal with discovering and using it.  The focus is on why factors influence terroir.

This is episode #49 of Understanding Wine with Austin Beeman.

http://www.austinbeeman.com/ An interview with St. Innocent Winery Winemaker Mark Vlossak on Oregon Wine (part 3). Mark Vlossak digs deeper into the concept of terroir by explaining the four things that make up terroir. This interview is Episode #49 of Understanding Wine with Austin Beeman

This is part three of a five part video with Mark Vlossak.