S2 - EP0024v2 - Wine Reads - Welcome to Our New Segment

If you like this podcast, please be sure to rate us 5 stars in Apple podcasts and like our videos on YouTube.&#160; Sorry for the misfire - harvest got me out of practice!<br/><br/>Episode 0024:<br/><br/>Wine Reads &#8211; November 18, 2021<br/><br/>Welcome back to Viti+Culture, and welcome to season 2.&#160; It&#8217;s been a few weeks since our last podcast, but here we are, rested and ready to deliver some great content.&#160; Harvest is finally over, a few fermentations remain bubbling away, the cellar is cleaned, our equipment is winterized, and we are moving into our next phase of cellar work - stabalizing and bottling sparkling wine, preparing to bottle our early release wines like our Cabernet Franc Rose, our White Merlot, and some of our Chenin Blanc, and finally disgorging some of our sparkling wines, such as our 2017 and 2019 Chardonnay based Blanc de Blanc, and Chenin Blanc.&#160; I&#8217;ll keep you updated as to what winemakers are experiencing in the cellar as we move forward with season, and key you in to some of the winemaking decisions we have along the way.<br/><br/>We are also launching a new segment - Wine Reads - where we choose an article from the world of written content on wine, read it on the show, and share our thoughts and opinions on the topic.&#160; If you&#8217;re a wine writer, feel free to forward me an article for consideration at <a href="mailto:viticulturepodcast@gmail.com">viticulturepodcast@gmail.com</a>.&#160; I&#8217;m happy to look it over, and maybe even discuss it with you on the show.&#160; We will continue to produce and publish our long-form interviews on YouTube, but some of the shorter content will be podcast and Substack only, so make sure you&#8217;ve clicked subscribe in your favorite podcast platform, and sign up to our Substack newsletter.&#160;&#160;<br/><br/>For our first Wine Read, I figured I&#8217;d actually reflect on the 2021 vintage by reading the letter I&#8217;m preparing to send out to our Missick Cellars Wine Club.&#160; I&#8217;m excited to be ship