The Wine Pair Podcast cover art

The Wine Pair Podcast

The Wine Pair Podcast

By: The Wine Pair
Listen for free

About this listen

Recommended by Decanter Magazine who call The Wine Pair Podcast fun, irreverent, chatty, and entertaining! In each episode, husband and wife team Joe and Carmela learn about, taste, and give our honest review of three wines that are reasonably priced - meaning under $25 each - and easy to find. Our podcast is made for people who want to learn more about wine, find new wines to enjoy, and just want someone to talk about wine in a fun and funny way that regular people can understand. So, if that sounds like you, you are in the right place!
Contact us at joe@thewinepairpodcast.com
Instagram: @thewinepairpodcast
Website: https://thewinepairpodcast.com/

© 2025 The Wine Pair Podcast
Art Cooking Food & Wine
Episodes
  • WTF is Bonarda AKA Charbono?
    Oct 26 2025

    If you are looking for a crowd-pleasing, bigger red wine, this may be the ticket. Wait, you’ve never heard of Bonarda or Charbono?!? Shameful! It’s time to get you edumacated! It is not uncommon that the same wine will have two different names depending on where it is from, but it is unusual that a wine that has been around for thousands of years, was once one of the most popular wine grapes in California, Savoie France, and Argentina (in fact was more widely grown than Malbec in Argentina for a while), is almost completely off everyone’s radar. But no more! This is an easy drinking and food friendly red wine that we think is compatible with almost every red wine drinkers’ palate. It may not be the most complex wine ever, but it is a wine that is hard not to like. We think it is a wine you should hunt down if for no other reason than it may be a wine that you are shocked is not more popular. It’s way better than the average crappy Cabernet Sauvignon by a long shot! Plus, one of the wines we selected is from a rising star in California named Kenny Likitprakong who some are calling the best winemaker in California making under $25 wines. Wines reviewed in this episode: 2022 Folk Machine Charbono, 2022 El Enemigo Bonarda

    Send us a Text Message and we'll respond in our next episode!

    Contact The Wine Pair Podcast - we’d love to hear from you!

    Visit our website, leave a review, and reach out to us: https://thewinepairpodcast.com/
    Follow and DM us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewinepairpodcast/
    Send us an email: joe@thewinepairpodcast.com

    Show More Show Less
    50 mins
  • Orange Wine, One More Time!
    Oct 19 2025

    Is Orange wine still a vibe wine? A couple of years after our first episode on Orange wine, we revisit it to see if it’s still all that. The verdict? It is! We dig into what Orange wine is, how it is made, and what makes it different from the other styles and colors of wine, namely red, white, and rosé. And we will spare you the drama - it is not made from oranges. It is a white wine where the juice is left on the skins, hence the color. Although it seems hip, new, and trendy, Orange wine is a very ancient winemaking technique most famously made thousands of years ago in the country of Georgia. What people are attracted to about Orange wine is not just the color, but the fact that it is often associated with natural and low-intervention winemaking techniques. Listen in to learn more, to hear our podcast tribe name of the week from listener Lindsay, and a story about church wine in Kenya hitting the bars in our Wine in the News This Week section. Wines reviewed in this episode: 2024 Côté Mas Orange Vin de France, Borgo Savaian Masarêt (AKA Aransat) Skins are Kings Orange Wine

    Send us a Text Message and we'll respond in our next episode!

    Contact The Wine Pair Podcast - we’d love to hear from you!

    Visit our website, leave a review, and reach out to us: https://thewinepairpodcast.com/
    Follow and DM us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewinepairpodcast/
    Send us an email: joe@thewinepairpodcast.com

    Show More Show Less
    50 mins
  • WTF is Trousseau? (Jura wine exposed!)
    Oct 12 2025

    All the cool kids are talking about wines from Jura, but should you believe the hype? Well, when it comes to the red wine Trousseau, we say a resounding YES! If you have never heard about the Jura wine region in France, it’s time to let you in on the secret so you can be part of the hip “in” crowd. And if you are a Pinot Noir or Gamay lover, we have a wine that we think is going to be a new go-to for you. Tucked away in a little corner of France between Burgundy and Switzerland is Jura, and one of the signature wines is Trousseau which is a fruity, elegant, juicy gem ready to be discovered. This is the perfect wine for our podcast listeners - delicious, under-the-radar, reasonably priced, and a wow-your-friends wine. Join us as we uncover the mystery! We also talk about an international wine scam in our Wine in the News this Week section, and we have another listener interview on the name for our wine tribe this week. Wines reviewed in this episode: 2020 Frederic Lornet Charles Rouget Cotes du Jura Trousseau, 2023 Domaine Ligier Arbois Trousseau

    Send us a Text Message and we'll respond in our next episode!

    Contact The Wine Pair Podcast - we’d love to hear from you!

    Visit our website, leave a review, and reach out to us: https://thewinepairpodcast.com/
    Follow and DM us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewinepairpodcast/
    Send us an email: joe@thewinepairpodcast.com

    Show More Show Less
    48 mins
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.