Enology Methodology (HOW TO DRINK WINE) with André Hueston Mack

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Oh, hey, it's the Tic Tac that you dropped on the sidewalk that you're afraid someone might mistake for drugs and then be disappointed. Ally Warden. Welcome to the world of wine. So enology. It can be spelled with an O before the E or not. We're not in Britain. We're not gonna pretend we are, so we're dropping the O. That's how you spell it in the country that I'm in. But either way, it comes from the Greek for wine, and an enologist, it's fully something you can major in and become degreed in, is schooled in the science of wines or the study of the nature or qualities or varieties of wine. So we are serving up two glasses of it this episode with a world-renowned sommelier and wine maker, and then next week we're gonna talk to a pair of married wine makers and enologists who cover more of the behind-the-scenes of what it's like to run a winery. So consider this first one kind of a how-to on enjoying and understanding and appreciating wine, and reading labels, and faking your way through a wine list or not, and how to chill or not chill with your wines. So this ologist is someone I've been eyeing for so long, and their schedule is bonkers, but it was so worth the wait. At the very start of their career as a sommelier, or a wine steward, they were named best young sommelier. They began working with the chef Thomas Keller, becoming his head sommelier. We'll talk about why that's a huge deal. They founded their own Mouton Noir wines, meaning black sheep, but later rebranded to Maison Noir. We'll talk about that, too.