Wines We Drink
A podcast for wine learners and lovers exploring specific wines each episode and explaining the stories and nuances behind each bottle we drink. Hosted by Keith Herndon and Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum. wineswedrink.com
Episodes
In Season Five’s concluding episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are drinking and enjoying a bottle that Wine Spectator described as a “textbook Napa Cabernet—ripe, forthright and well-defined.”
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s eleventh (penultimate) episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are featuring a red blend comprised of grapes that thrive in Portugal’s Douro River region.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s tenth episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are opening a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Southern France as an example of this exceptional red wine that combines elegance and affordability.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s ninth episode, Charlotte Varnum and Keith Herndon are opening an exceptional bottle of Zinfandel made with grapes sourced from an exceptional vineyard in Sonoma.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s eighth episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are opening an intense, yet energetic, Shiraz from Australia’s Barossa Valley, highlighting how an Old World varietal found its way in a New World terroir.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s seventh episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are enjoying a luscious Syrah that hails from an unexpected vineyard discovered accidentally by a vacationing French winemaker.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s sixth episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are celebrating the midpoint of the season by drinking and talking about an excellent Champagne, discussing bubbly and celebrations and suggesting a food pairing most may not expect.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Five’s fifth episode, Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are back in the Napa Valley for one of our favorites – a beautifully balanced Chardonnay from one of the region’s most accomplished wineries that is also renowned for its scenic grounds.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season Fives’s fourth episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are drinking an exquisite Riesling from the Finger Lakes in upstate New York based on the style recommended by an esteemed Cornell University viticulturist interviewed in Wine Conversations.
For more insights on this week's wine, our book, as well as other episodes from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instag...
In Season Fives’s third episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum are drinking and talking about the Italian varietal Vermentino, but our bottle of this dry white wine is produced by a legendary Napa grape grower from his family’s Rutherford Dust vineyard.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrin...
In Season Five’s second episode, hosts Charlotte Varnum and Keith Herndon are visiting California for a wonderfully bubbly rosé that highlights the expertise of a pioneering winemaker.
For more insights on this week's wine as well as others from previous seasons, head to wineswedrink.com. You can also find us on Instagram @thewineswedrink.
In Season five’s opening episode, join us co-hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum as we express our enthusiasm for returning for another season of our summer fun project – a case of episodes expressing our love of wine and the joy we get from talking about it and sharing our finds with our audience. We’ll talk about our big trip to Beverly Hills for the Taste Awards red carpet, publishing our book and then we’ll set up the over...
In our final episode of this season of Wines We Drink, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum drinking and enjoying an exceptionally bright wine from Sancerre, but it is a Pinot Noir and not the Sauvignon Blanc that made the region famous. We will see you next summer for season five of Wines We Drink!
In Season Four’s eleventh (penultimate) episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum explore a red blend from the renowned Bordeaux region of France that is a seductive combination of mostly Merlot and a bit of Cabernet Sauvignon.
In this episode of Wines We Drink, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum open another red blend, this time one from Canada made in the Bordeaux style that is described as “full of fruit with a classic and elegant structure.”
In Season Four’s ninth episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum are opening a red blend, but simply calling it a red blend is only the beginning of the story for this amazing Pacific Northwest wine.
In Season Four’s eighth episode, our hosts, Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum and Keith Herndon, are opening a full-bodied red from the country of Georgia made from Saperavi, a unique grape that calls the birthplace of wine its home.
In Season four’s seventh episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum are enjoying a California red wine perfect for hot summer barbecues. It’s made from a varietal – Valdiguié – that was misidentified for decades.
In Season Four’s sixth episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum are celebrating the midpoint of the season by drinking and talking about Crémant, an excellent French sparkling wine that is not Champagne.
In Season Four’s fifth episode, hosts Keith Herndon and Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum are talking about another of Keith’s wine trips – this one to a lesser known region: the Temecula Valley. We’re sampling a beautifully balanced bottled of Viognier, a grape varietal synonymous with the Northern Rhone that has found a home in Southern California.
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