In The Drink is a weekly podcast focused on better understanding the world of delicious alcoholic beverages through interviews with some of the most engaging people in the industry. It is hosted by Food & Wine Sommelier of the year and NY restaurant owner Joe Campanale. Who also happens to make a little wine in Italy himself, called Annona. Joe will be talking with winemakers, sommeliers, brewers, beverage directors, bartenders, distillers and journalists to hear first hand what goes in to making our favorite drinks.
Latest episodes
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43 min
Episode 224: Pascaline Lepeltier on Creating World-Class Wine Lists
This week In The Drink welcomes Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier. Pascaline grew up in the Loire Valley, so it almost seems like her career as a wine expert (and wine lover) wa…
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47 min
Episode 223: Athena Bochanis of Palinkerie on Hungarian Wine
This week Joe talks to Athena Bochanis, founder and owner of Palinkerie, a company dedicated to bringing the wine culture of Hungary to the US. Athena was getting her law degree wh…
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37 min
Episode 222: Talia Baiocchi on Writing about Cocktails and Wine
This week on In The Drink, Joe welcomes back Talia Baiocchi. Talia is a James Beard Award-winning author and Editor-in-Chief of In The Drink's favorite online drinks publication, P…
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38 min
Episode 221: Fred Niger of Domaine de l'Ecu
This week, Joe sits down with Fred Niger of Domaine de l'Ecu. Domaine de l’Ecu is a well loved vineyard famous for elevating Muscadet. One of the first to farm in the Loire Valley,…
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45 min
Episode 220: Antonio Benanti on His Volcanic Vineyard
This week on In The Drink, Joe sits down with winemaker Antonio Benanti. Antonio and his twin brother Salvino run their family’s notable winery which sits on Sicily’s famed Mount E…
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43 min
Episode 219: Rajat Parr on his Great Wines Field Guide
"This week Joe talks to Rajat Parr who is an acclaimed sommelier, winemaker and author...so there’s plenty talk about. Especially Rajat’s hotly anticipated book 'The Sommelier’s At…
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49 min
Episode 218: Dustin Wilson and Jeff Taylor of Verve Wine
This week on In The Drink, Joe is joined by Dustin Wilson, co-founder of Verve Wine in TriBeCa and Jeff Taylor, the store’s GM. Both Jeff and Dustin are sommeliers who have worked…
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39 min
Episode 217: Ryan Mills-Knapp on Sourcing Rare Wines
As partner of the unique wine supplier R Squared Selections, Ryan Mills-Knapp knows the ins and out of sourcing especially hard to find bottles of wine. This week, Ryan returns to…
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45 min
Episode 216: Victoria James on Understanding Good Rosé
This week on In the Drink, Joe sits down with Cote Beverage Director and rosé aficionado, Victoria James, to talk about what's good -- and what's bad -- in the world of pink wine.…
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47 min
Episode 215: Piero Incisa on Family Tradition, Argentina, and Biodynamics
This week we welcome Piero Incisa of Bodega Chacra. Piero comes from one of the oldest and most celebrated winemaking families in Italy. He's the grandson of Marchese Mario Incisa…
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45 min
Episode 214: Dan Petroski
Dan Petroski was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and has the swagger and the accent to prove it. After attending Columbia University where he played football, Dan went to work for…
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51 min
Episode 213: Jon Bonné on The Natural Wine Divide
In The Drink is back, and to kick off a new season, host Joe Campanale sits down with Jon Bonné to discuss a heavily debated topic in the world of drink: natural wine. Jon Bonné is…
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51 min
Episode 212: Brad Thomas Parsons
On this special episode, Joe is joined by Brad Thomas Parsons, the author of Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All (winner of the James Beard and IACP Cookbook Awards),…
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34 min
Episode 211: Gut Oggau
Host Joe Campanale is joined by Stephanie and Eduard Tscheppe-Eselböck of the Gut Oggau winery in Burgenland, Austria. Before starting the winery, Eduard made conventional wine wit…
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43 min
Episode 210: Charles Antin
Charles Antin is a Senior International Wine Specialist and Auctioneer at Zachys Wine Auctions, and was both a commercial auctioneer and charity auctioneer at Christie's for close…
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41 min
Episode 209: Terre Magazine with Rachel Signer
On an all new episode of In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in the studio by wine and food writer Rachel Signer. She is the co-founder of Terre, an independent, art-dri…
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57 min
Episode 208: John Slover, the Sommelier's Sommelier
On the season premiere of In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined by "sommelier's sommelier" John Slover, beverage director of The Pool, which was recently given a three-star re…
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48 min
Episode 207: Linday Lawry, Director of International Wine Center
This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in the studio by Linda Lawry, the Director of International Wine Center in New York. She is the primary lecturer for the WSE…
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44 min
Episode 206: Ian D'Agata
Ian D’Agata has been speaking and writing about wine for over thirty years. He is the Senior Editor of VINOUS (USA), where he writes mainly on the wines of Italy, Canada, France an…
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52 min
Episode 205: Jared Roth
This week on In the Drink, host Joe Campanale is joined in studio by Jarred Roth, the beverage director of Tom Colicchio’s Fowler & Wells and The Bar Room, a restaurant and bar…