Video: The Meaning of Wine with Mark Vlossak of St. Innocent Winery

“It’s a great life ... It’s a great project for my life”

— Mark Vlossak, St. Innocent Winery

Mark Vlossak of St. Innocent Winery answers Austin Beeman's signature question.  "What does wine mean to you?"

This is Episode #51 of the Understanding Wine with Austin Beeman video podcast and the fifth of five videos from my interviews with Mark Vlossak of St. Innocent Winery. Click below to see the other parts of the interview.

• Understanding Oregon Pinot Noir  (part one)
• The Subregions of Oregon's Willamette Valley (part two)
• Going Deeper in Oregon's Willamette Valley Terroir  (part three)
•  Inspired to Discover New Terroir (with St. Innocent Winemaker, Mark Vlossak) (part four)

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1. A Vertical Tasting of St. Innocent Winery 'Momtazi' Pinot Noir

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.

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.

• Understanding Oregon Pinot Noir  (part one)
• The Subregions of Oregon's Willamette Valley  (part two)
• Going Deeper in Oregon's Willamette Valley Terroir  (part three)
• A Vertical Tasting of St. Innocent Winery 'Momtazi' Pinot Noir

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.