Wine Label Revolution: Goodbye Chateau, Hello Dancing Frog!
6/9/202651 min
For this week's special rewind, we ask: Should you judge a wine by its label? Andres O'Hara studies the influence of wine label design; Alexander Smalls shares how the Afro-Asian diaspora changed the world of cooking; we settle the eternal debate: corks or screwcaps?; and we prepare a pasta with broccoli sauce.
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First 90 secondsChristopher Kimball· Host0:00
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Andres O'Hara0:55
You know, if you go to a dinner party, the wine label might be the only labeled object on the table. Nothing else would have a, a packaging or a label, but the wine and the wine label is there. People, they grab it, they pick it up. Maybe during a lull in the conversation, they'll just spin it around, and, and it's just something to get people talking.
Christopher Kimball· Host1:13
That was an excerpt from our story with reporter Andres O'Hara. He explores the science of wine labels and how a new wave of designs may be influencing what consumers are drinking. Right now, it's my interview with restaurateur and award-winning opera singer Alexander Smalls.