about the show
The Grape Nation
The Grape Nation is a weekly wine journey, enlightening, inspiring, and motivating listeners to drink and enjoy more wine. The Grape Nation is filled with unpretentious insight into all things wine, presenting usable information and best in class expert guests weekly. We talk to sommeliers, winemakers, journalists, educators, entrepreneurs, importers etc. Past guests have included Eric Asimov, Laura Catena, Gary Vaynerchuk, Pascaline Lepeltier, Daniel Boulud, Jancis Robinson, Hugh Johnson, Jane, Kevin Zraly, Piero Antinori, Isabelle Legeron, Josh, Alice Feiring, Aldo Sohm, Lettie Teague, Laurent Ponsot, Saskia de Rothschild,, Cathy Corison, Jon Bonne, Maynard James Keenan, Jean Baptiste Lecaillon and Raj Parr to name a few.
WE BRING WINE TO THE PEOPLE!
The Wine List
The Wine List is a new fast-paced podcast from The Grape Nation. We start right off with The Wine List, asking our guests to answer five questions, the same five questions we have asked from day one on The Grape Nation. We get great recommendations and insight weekly. We then see what is going on in our guest’s world. The Wine List is a short-form podcast chock full of important, usable information.
The podcast uploads midweek, weekly.
About the host, Sam Benrubi
It has been a decade since we launched The Grape Nation and The Wine List podcasts presenting the best-in-class wine people. Prior to The Grape Nation and The Wine List, I created, produced and co-hosted “Wine and Web with Gary Vaynerchuk” on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. There is more to wine than what is in the glass, it is about the people who make the wine, their farming practices and most importantly, their stories As much as I enjoy the legacy producers, I am also drawn to the smaller, family makers who practice organics, biodynamics and regenerative farming.. I am a long-time collector, world traveler and have tasted thousands of wines through the years.
— Sam Benrubi