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Gnothi Wine School

Gnothi Wine School

by OCDevel LLC

2 episodes · updated 15 Oct 2026
Education

The scripts and voices for this show are made with AI. It teaches wine from the first sip to an intermediate level, with Oregon's Willamette Valley as home ground. The course starts with tasting, so you can describe a wine's structure and recognize a faulty bottle. It then follows the grape from vineyard to bottle and moves on to sparkling and other special styles, the major grapes, labels and the laws behind them, storing, serving and pairing wine with food, the world's wine regions, and how wine is bought and sold. Each lesson comes back to the valley's hills, winds, soils and Pinot noir. Ricochet Wine Co., a small McMinnville winery, is the worked example of how wine gets made, and shorter segments follow the valley's harvests and news through the year. The winery belongs to a friend of the show's creator, and the show receives no payment for featuring it. For listeners 21 and over; please drink responsibly.

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1. The First Glass

A first lesson in wine that opens with a map of the course, then shows how fermentation and winemaking choices produce the seven main families, followed by a step-by-step method for looking at and smelling a glass. It closes by introducing Oregon's Willamette Valley as the course's home ground, its Pinot noir, and the truth about its latitude compared with Burgundy.