Top wines of 2025

Top wines of 2025

Our top wines of 2025 and the episodes featuring the bottles.
1. 2022 Xander “Sonoma Coast” Pinot Noir
2. Abbott Claim Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay
3. Stolpman Vineyards “Love You Bunches” Chilled Sangiovese
4. Wyfold Vineyards Brut Rosé
5. Château Beauséjour Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse
6. Lytle-Barnett Brut sparkling
7. Crissante Alessandria Barolo del Comune di La Morra 2019
8. Folly of Man Momtazi Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
9. Domaine Albert Joly Puligny-Montrachet “Les Tremblots” 2023
10. Albert Bichot Romanée-St-Vivant

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Top wines of 2025
  • A Conversation with Xander Soren

    Xander Soren has been famous for creating cutting edge software for apple including “Garage Band”. Now he will be known for creating one of the most exciting new collections of Pinot Noir with the express mission of pairing with Japanese food. Today we talk about his story and how he approached...

  • Tasting Notes Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay

    Oregon's Eola-Amity Hills is now making some of the United States most respected and delicious Chardonnay. In this episode Alban Debeaulieu of Abbott Claim walks us through his wine.

  • Lightning in a Bottle: How Love you Bunches Quietly Took Over the World

    A natural carbonic wine from Santa Barbara has changed the face of wine drinking around the world. This is the story of “Love you Bunches”, a wine with a small beginning that has become a very big thing. Pete Stolpman and Jason Wise tell the story of success.

  • Wine Cameos in movies and TV with Jason Wise & Jonah Beer

    We are back with another episode spotting wine that appears in movies and streaming! Jonah Beer of Gabriel glass and Pilcrow wine joins Jason to discuss wines found in: The Sopranos, The Insider, Weekend at Bernie’s, Curb your enthusiasm, The Wire, and the Coen Brother’s film “A serious Man”.

  • Beneath Bordeaux

    The medieval village of Saint-Émilion may be famous for the vines surrounding it, but it holds an ancient secret. Kilometers of tunnels, quarries, and cellars wind below closed off to the millions who visit each year. On this new episode, we take you past the walls that exist for regular visito...

  • The Family Behind a Billion Bottles

    A husband and wife team change the face of wine and help people discover over a billion bottles. Tony and Barbara Laithwaite have done so much in wine it's almost impossible to list it all, but in this wide ranging conversation we will try. From the beginning of English sparkling wine, democrat...

  • Behind The Glass: Lytle Barnett & Aubaine

    Sparkling wine from Lytle Barnett has been at the forefront of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, becoming one of the world’s leading wine regions for over a decade. Watch the story of how a dream became a legend and how the addition of still Pinot and Chardonnay made that dream one of the great new win...

  • Blind Tasting Sessions: Episode 10 | Jonah Beer & Meghan Zobeck

    Jonah Beer, Vice President of Frog's Leap Winery, and Meghan Zobeck, Winemaker at INCONNU, blind taste each other on two wines.

    2018 Massican Sauvignon Blanc
    1997 Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon
    2016 Domaine Albert Joly, Puligny-Montrachet Les Tremblots
    2009 Cain Five Cabernet Sauvignon

  • Blind Tasting Sessions: Episode 7 | Jonah Beer & Jodi Bronchtein

    Friends Jodi Bronchtein, sommelier at PRESS, and Jonah Beer, Vice President of Frog’s Leap Winery, meet to blind taste each other on two wines.
    *Episode contains strong language

    2010 Cameron Clos Electrique, Dundee, Oregon
    2013 Crissante Alessandria Galina, Barolo
    2018 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, ...

  • Drink A Bottle: Unicorn Burgundy

    Two of the top wine professionals in America dig into their cellars and open rare Burgundies, including a once in a lifetime post World War 2 bottle. This episode features Pilcrow Wine winemaker and owner of Gabriel Glass Jonah Beer, and Armen Khachaturian of Peter Michael Winery in Napa Valley.