The Crush
Totally intimidated by wine?
Whitney Adams and Christina Pickard are the perfect girls to walk you through the wonders of the wine world. They manage to explain terms and techniques behind wine using words you'll totally understand. They'll even help you get out of your wine rut and explore areas of the wine list you might not know about.
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Episodes
19We're Moving!
You can find us at our new website and also on our new iTunes page (resubscribe to this for new episodes!). There’s a brand new episode waiting for you! Oh- and say …
18Moon Vines & Turkey Wines
This week Whitney and Christina tackle Thanksgiving wine pairings (you know they just had to), reveal some ugly truths about Beaujolais Nouveau, and try to understand why New Zealand would want to make a drink from palm trees. And Carmen …
17High Altitude
This week on The Crush, Carmen Grape-iago visits the highest vineyards in the world…where could she be?
16Viva Espana
We’ve returned from Spain and are devoting an entire podcast to the land of tapas and siestas! Find out which wine was the most “brutal of all brutals”, what animal we ate in meatball form and the Rioja food and …
15Top Tips for Wine Travel
This week on The Crush, Christina and Whitney bring you their Top Tips for a planning a wine trip.
14Witness the Chickness
13A Bowl of Lambrusco
12Land of the Hanepoot
Christina at a wedding in Sonoma County with her brother, her cousins, and her beer
On this week’s episode of The Crush, find out why Christina only drinks beer at weddings.
10Skin Contact
Fresh Press: Christina is in LA!! We went to the restaurant where Whitney works as a sommelier- Terroni and had some pretty amazing Italian food and wine. Our …
9Summer in January
Camping wines! Whit drank the Bermejo Tinto and the Les Heretiques and the Chidaine Touraine Rouge while she went camping with the gals.
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8The Land of Focaccia
Fresh Press- Think you had a bad day? Um, this dude dropped $1 million worth of wine from a forklift!
Wine Whine: Mordechai, Nebuchadnezzer and Melchizedek oh my!
7Going Back to Cali
Check out this cool dude and the way he does wine tastings with friends Not About Wine
What the What? How to pronounce: mourvedre! Um…we still have differing opinions. But this is how a French guys says …
6Natural Wine
This week on The Crush, Whitney and Christina talk all things natural wine and taste wine on two different sides of the globe. Whaaaat!?
Pour yourself a glass and listen close!
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5Spoonful of Scotch
This week, Whitney and Christina discuss stolen wine and Whitney’s dream of a Hollywood wine caper. The two also debunk decanters and tell us exactly why people pour wine …
4Mama Irene
This week on The Crush, Whitney and Christina discuss speakeasy style Thai food in London, southern Italian wine, and the two try (once again) to find Whitney and Italian winemaker …
3Cheap Plonk
This week, Whitney and Christina explore cheap plonk made even cheaper, and what happens when a reality star makes wine. They determine which milk is the best for Oreo …
2Bond was Wrong
[h4][dropcap]T[/dropcap]his week, Whitney and Christina talk about what Jon Hamm drinks on his night off, settle whether or not screw caps equal crappy wine, and discuss the perfect non-grape cocktail. Drink it in![/h4] …
Germany
Christina visited Donkey and Goat winery in Berkeley, and Littorai in Sonoma.
Extremely healthy compost=extremely heathy grapes=extremely delicious wine
And here’s a link to the boys from …
Your Hosts
Whitney Adams
Whitney is the lady behind the wine glass at BrunellosHaveMoreFun. Whitney was raised in Lexington, Kentucky, where bourbon is king. After three months, and countless glasses of wine in Italy, Whitney’s heart was filled with vino. Whitney solidified her obsession by becoming a Certified Sommelier and working at several wine shops and Italian restaurants around Los Angeles. She brings a fresh, fun, new world perspective to stuffy wine talk. Say hello to Whitney on Twitter, and be her friend on Facebook.
Christina Pickard
Christina Pickard hails from the Fingerlakes region of central New York, but has lived in London for 10 years. There she works as a wine presenter for TV/media, PR, corporate, and private events, getting whisked around the country and Europe to educate people about the wonderfulness of wine. She holds certificates (Merit and Distinction) from both the Intermediate and Advanced Wine and Spirits Educational Trust (WSET), which really just means she knows her stuff… and she has a tiny bit of a British accent which always helps. Follow Christina’s wine adventures on her website, WineWithChristina, or say hi on Twitter or Facebook.