Season 3 is Coming! Our Plans For 2026

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The Wine Pair Podcast MEIOMI Episode

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Hello wonderful listeners, wonderful wine and movie pairing nerds. At least we hope we can convince you to become one of those in 2026. Because folks, season three is coming. Dropping in February, we just posted our brand new podcast logo, a simpler logo to match our new focus on wine and movies specifically, even though we still reserve the right to tackle the occasional TV show, book, comic or music album. But it's going to be movies, wine and movies predominantly. going forward. But let's talk about what entertainment has planned for 2026. We plan to spread the joy of wine and movie pairings well beyond this podcast. We have our first official sponsor on board for season three, a wine shop slash wine bar that will be uh hosting in-person live wine and movie screenings in Los Angeles, roughly one per month starting in March. And we also have an incredible micro cinema film journal run by Jake Weissman, who will be hosting at least a few of these in downtown LA as well. We're hashing out all the details as we speak. Plus, coffee house cinema screenings have begun as of today, the day this episode goes live. And I'll be supplying some wines there as well here in Los Angeles to pair with a series of curated short films. And these won't be the only in-person wine and movie events in Los Angeles this year. I also go to a Tuesday night. don't go every single week, but maybe every other week to every third week. A fella here in LA hosts a Tuesday night wine, wine and movie showing. We do a different movie, a different decade every single week. And I try to bring a wine that of course, because I do the wine and movie pairing, I try to bring a wine that pairs with it. Everyone enjoys it. It's a small crowd of us, different, slightly different group every single week. So if anyone's interested in coming to that, it's kind of an open invitation. So hey, let me know. I'll give you the deets on that as well. So yeah, that's just one of our focuses for this year, live and in person pairing events. We'll be focusing on independent filmmakers at most of our screenings who can attend and give the audience an introduction, do Q &A's and a meet and greet after the screening. And of course, plenty of wine and brief wine education so you know what you're drinking and why. But that is not all. We will also be spreading the joy of trying your own wine and movie pairings at home. On our sub stack entertainment studios calm and also on social media will be sharing our impromptu wine and movie pairings on any night that we have the luxury of doing them. Am I watching heated rivalry tonight? Yes, I am. What wine am I going to be pairing with it? And why? Join us on sub stack and you're gonna find out. And then we'll be hoping for all of you to share your attempted pairings at home as well. Tell us what you're watching, what you're pairing with it and why. This won't be just in a comments thread on certain posts, but also on Substack we have a chat. And so if you subscribe to our Substack for free, you can pay if you want to support us. We will be very happy. And there will be some bonus perks coming up in the near future if you become a paid subscriber. But even as a free subscriber, you will have access to that chat. That chat will be going on uh every couple day basis where we're sharing what we're doing at home in terms of wine and movie pairings. And in that way, you don't find out some nights look, it's just going to be is this the wine I had on hand? Yes, that's the one I had on hand. And this is what I watched. But did it work? How did the pairing go? Did it work? Well, did it not? And why if so or not? Why? We want to foster a community of wine and film lovers so that we can have a lot more fun. with our at-home viewings, become more confident in our wine choices, and foster more of a community, both online and also in person. At least in Los Angeles to get started, because we've got to start somewhere, and we can't just be everywhere. But we'll see how we can spread it from there as well. A couple of satellite wine and movie communities, a couple of good third space greetings and coffee houses and wine bars. As we continue to ramp that up in Los Angeles, we can maybe help you guys out and maybe doing the same wherever you are. It's such a fun concept. It's such a fun thing to do. We've now been doing it for a little over two years. for our own selves and we just love doing it and we want to share that love. And the few times we have done it in person and gone somewhere to a gathering and tried it out with other people, they love it. It's such a fun idea. It makes the wine more fun. It makes the film more fun. It makes the gathering more fun. You have a lot of easy icebreakers when you try something like that. It's just a blast. And the podcast, of course, is continuing season three, baby. It's we have a slew of special guests to kick us off. uh This is all going to drop in February. So that is when season three is going to begin. And we're first up my friends Joe and Carmela Miele of the Wine Pair podcast, one of my all time favorite wine podcasts. They are they have the energy that I need in any podcast and so many wine podcasts. The people are very smart. They're well spoken. The energy is often kind of lacking and Not with these two, my friends, they come the closest to matching the energy that me and Dallas bring to the podcast. Often they even surpass us. So I cannot recommend them enough. They're a husband wife duo and their podcast is a blast. They always do. They have a cap on I believe it's $25 per bottle. They pick a subject each episode, do two bottles, kind of like see what what is the history of this type of wine and how good are $25 under bottles of that wine? Because I don't want you to break the bank. And they do want you to learn a little bit about what all these wines are. And they're very candid about it. They always buy their own wine so they can be brutally honest. They just did Maomi wine and it was brutal. So go check that episode out on the Wine Pair podcast. There's a Vine Pair podcast, which is industry focused and the Wine Pair podcast is for the rest of us. So they will be joining us to discuss the movie. Game Night from 2013 starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams. uh It's one of their favorite movies as a couple. And then we have a wonderful film mind, film person, Nick Langdon from Letterboxd, who will be dialing in all the way from Melbourne, Australia to talk about Miracle Mile from 1988, directed by the writer of Strange Brew and director of Cherry 2000. So that's going to be a fun one as well. And from there, expect a slew of guests. from the current indie and non-de movements, non-de being non-dependent, where indie is independent. ah That is, these are filmmakers that are making movies even as the old Hollywood system continues to crumble under the weight of streaming and franchise fatigue, but they are making it happen. We've been helping them, we've been helping a couple of filmmakers out in the last couple of months. We've been being extra set of hands on film sets and yeah. whatever their budget, whatever they have going on, whatever they can do, they are making feature films happen. Sometimes short films, but a lot of times feature films, which is kind of astounding. I even got to take part in a online YouTube series that has just debuted. It's called Cason Point. That is two words, Cason and Point, C-A-S-E-N, and then Point. It's the name of the main character. It's a character who's trying to be an Instagram crime solver. uh It's hysterical. um And that is by John Stahl, comedy writer extraordinaire. And it's funny. And he found the perfect cast for this series. So I highly recommend Case in Point on YouTube. I'll probably put a little link down below in the description of this episode so everyone can check that out. But we'll probably have him on this podcast. We will definitely have some indie filmmakers. We are really looking forward to it. So join us in February, especially on Substack, where we'll be announcing our in-person events and sharing our everyday wine and movie pairings, as I said, with you, our listeners and readers, and that's where you can share yours too. Anyway, while the podcast has been on break, we posted a massive de-alcoholized wine tasting on Substack, plus, so it's a two-parter. So one, we tried two, we went for the ultra premium price, like the best of the best, the expensive stuff. So we can really see. Where is this category? How far has it come or not come? How good are these wines? We have one post where it's all the white sparkling and rosés. Those are the easier ones to pull off as a de-alcoholized wine. Then there's an entire post on just reds because those are tough. Those are tricky. So we really wanted to put those to the test. And then we have a sort of part three coda where there's a fascinating experience, ah I'm sorry, experiment where a science engineer, scientist guy on YouTube He tried something where vacuum distillation is what we use to de-alcoholize the wine, right? You break it up into its component parts, remove the alcohol, and then put everything back together again to preserve as much as possible. And a vacuum distillation, it all separates under very low heat. So you're not losing, you're not burning off a bunch of stuff when that happens. So he tried a vacuum distillation experiment. where he took a box of red Franzio wine, which it was like a three liter box. And when he broke the price down in actual bottles, it would be like a $3 full bottle of wine. So hey, almost like a real two buck Chuck again, right? They kind of exists in box Franzio mode. And he broke it down into its component parts. I think it was roughly like 12 component parts. And instead of getting rid of the alcohol, he tasted through everything to try and find all the component parts and like which ones didn't taste that great compared to ones where it's like, okay, that's nice boozy because maybe there's a lot of alcohol in that particular part, or it's tart because it's over here, but nothing is bad about it. But there were four parts that they were like, okay, these are these just do not taste good. They got rid of the four parts and combined everything else, including all the alcohol and all that fun stuff. And so You lose some of the liquid, obviously, when you do that. you're going to probably if any winemaker tried this process, you would increase the price because you wouldn't have as much total volume. You'd have to sacrifice some of it, just like you do in a de-alcoholized wine, re-sacrifice all the alcohol. But they got rid of those four parts, put it all back together and then ran a taste test on the reconstituted wine. And when I say reconstituted, they just literally stirred it all back together in a pot. This was not the reconstitution was not scientific. And they did a taste test against cupcake, may owe me nobody like the may owe me. God, may owe me is bad. I'm telling you, go listen to that wine pair podcast. They really trash may owe me. And then they even tried a $60 Caymus bottle and a $100 silver oak bottle. They took their reconstituted wine and saw it. Did it taste better to them than these four from $7 to $100 bottle of red wines? And it did. They thought their wine, they took a that was a $3 bottle of wine. And by doing this vacuum distillation and getting rid of the bad tasting parts and putting the good tasting parts back together, they made a wine that was superior to a $100 plus bottle of Napa red. Now you might say, a Napa red. Okay, well, that's not everyone's a fan of Napa red. But honestly, it's a $3 bottle of wine, it should not have held the candle no matter which$100 bottle of Napa red it was and it did So that kind of shows where the technology might go in the future with vacuum distillation where it's not just getting rid of alcohol But maybe especially if you're gonna do like big bulk wine, right? You're already starting with juice. That isn't that high of quality and so You and then of course, they're gonna manipulate it in some way usually by adding lots of sugar maybe deacid deacidifiers and so you're gonna take that acid down because most people think they don't like acidity which is dumb because a lot of people at most people actually like acidity especially in wine, but whenever they taste something they don't like they usually accuse acidity of it when it's usually not acidity doing that but they get rid of the acidity they add a bunch of sugar and then it becomes a not very good wine and all those bitter not so good flavors because you're using low quality fruit and to make these bulk wines, it all doesn't taste that good. And using this method instead, where you take, okay, the juice isn't very good, but you can change that, not by dumping sugar into it, not by getting rid of the acidity, but by actually taste testing its component pieces and just getting rid of the stuff that doesn't taste good. And look, if you're gonna have a cheaper bulk wine that will be manipulated one way or the other, This could be a game changing technology. So we did a post about that as well. And you can go see the whole YouTube video. It's an hour and 45 minutes long, I warn you. But we break it down in certain uh chapters, which the video does not do, by the way. But we did for you, so can click to particular parts of the video so you can watch this in less than an hour 45 minutes to see the best parts. So check that out on our sub stack, theentertainmentstudios.com. And we actually do. have a heated rivalry right up coming soon with a wine pairing. Because you know what? That show, my friends, it's well done. It's well, I mean, it's cheesily written, but it's so well put together and so well acted, like everyone pulls that show off. It's so watchable. um So yeah, and we're probably gonna do this in tandem with another Substack writer. Fingers crossed, it'll probably start next week. So look for that on Substack. And folks, we will catch you in February when all of this begins. Hope to see you here online and catch us on audio in a few short weeks and catch us on Substack until then and let's start enjoying wine and movie pairing in 2026. cannot wait. All right. Thanks for listening. Ciao for now.