Best The Song Sommelier Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 103: Decoding Wine and Hip Hop Lyrics: Inside ‘Quintin Tarantino 46:23

6h ago46:23

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In this episode, The wolf of wine takes listeners on an immersive journey through the lyrics of his latest single, “Quintin Tarantino,” where wine references, metaphors, and personal stories blend seamlessly with hip-hop culture. Stone breaks down the song line-by-line, revealing how his passion for wine and his roots in hip-hop intersect, reflecti…

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Classic Material Featuring Jr Boss 36:50

6d ago36:50

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This episode is being re-released due to a significant growth in the audience since its original airing. It falls under the classic material series, intended to familiarize the listeners with the guest, Jr Boss, ahead of an upcoming event in Alabama on August 23. This episode is particularly special as Jr Boss is The Wolf of Wine’s best friend, mar…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 5: Eels 55:20

3M ago55:20

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Send us a Text Message. In Mark Oliver Everett’s autobiography “Things The Grandchildren Should Know”, the author, otherwise known as E, the frontman and band leader of Eels, wrote of Bob Dylan’s self-proclaimed destiny as a musician: “I wish I had something like that, but I didn’t. At all. All I had was an aching sense of desperation. I didn’t hav…

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Episode 102: Wine and Hip Hop at The Philbrook Featuring Eric Asimov 1:08:25

3M ago1:08:25

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This week, we’re giving you a front-row seat to the Keynote Conversation at the 2024 Philbrook Art Museum Wine Experience in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between your host Jermaine Stone and esteemed New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov. This conversation was especially iconic because it fell on the one-year anniversary of the profile Eric wrote about Jermai…

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Episode 101 What pairs with beef ? (Pause) 1:00:17

4M ago1:00:17

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Wine and Hip Hop podcast is back! In this episode, Jermaine Stone AKA The Wolf of Wine dives into a whirlwind of updates and achievements, from snagging an Emmy and James Beard Award nominations for the Tastemade hit series Street Somm, to the upcoming release of his new book and soundtrack that's set to take the summer by storm. But that's not all…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 4: Marika Hackman 1:02:03

5M ago1:02:03

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Send us a Text Message. Marika Hackman's Big Sigh is everything a 4th album should be. Really good songs, good scheduling, sophisticated arrangements (brass and strings accompany many tracks). The album has variety - from the mysterious instrumental interludes of The Ground and The Lonely House (opening sides A and B of my/your bottle green vinyl c…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 3: Travis, with Fran Healy 47:03

5M ago47:03

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Send us a Text Message. Fran Healy and his band Travis have this longevity thing down. Firstly, you must have a love and addiction to music, as something magical. Secondly, that magic is for you to create - making music to nobody’s expectations but your own. But thirdly, you get lucky. As Fran says in episode 3, Season 9: “The chances of a shit kic…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 2: Ed Harcourt 55:41

6M ago55:41

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Send us a Text Message. After 25 years in the music business, both as a major label priority artist and as a jobbing musician, Ed Harcourt still has big ambitions. “My greatest achievement would be to write a song I would never get bored of singing”. Cards on the table, Ed Harcourt’s two instrumental albums made between 2018 and 2020 (Beyond the En…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 1: Crowded House 1:05:59

6M ago1:05:59

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Send us a Text Message. Try playing a Crowded House record (any of them) then let Spotify play on…you will get just the best selection of really great songs. Go on, try it and you’ll see for yourself. This discovery may well make drivetime radio programming a heck of a lot easier, or possibly redundant altogether. You may of course be a Crowded Hou…

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The Art of Longevity Season 9 Preview, with Real Estate 52:17

7M ago52:17

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Send us a Text Message. When Real Estate's fifth album The Main Thing was released to fairly mixed results, was it time for a reset? In a sense, yes. For band leader Martin Courtney, it was time to get back to songs. After all, without songs, bands are just jamming, right? He set the bar high too, inspired mostly by the 1992 R.E.M. classic Automati…

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The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 5: The Staves 1:00:25

9M ago1:00:25

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Send us a Text Message. Like many women creators in the (still) white, male dominated music industry, the Staveley-Taylor sisters aka The Staves, bring a sense of humbleness to everything they have achieved, how they are positioned today and indeed, what the future holds. Is it possible that The Staves are better than they think they are? It seems …

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The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 4: Beirut 55:42

10M ago55:42

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Send us a Text Message. After the fiasco of having to cancel Beirut’s 2019 tour, Zach Condon knew he needed to take the time out to fully recover. Multiple infections, colds and in the end complicated throat ailments had led him to a total burnout, until finally: “My manager and my tour manager saved me from myself. They told me I can’t keep tourin…

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The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 3: Metric 45:51

10M ago45:51

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Send us a Text Message. Metric has become one of those bands that have paved the way for independence, along with Aimee Mann, Chance The Rapper and the other self-releasing copyright owning pioneers. Their fifth album Synthetica (2012) as it turns out, is a favourite of the band’s front woman and main co-writer Emily Haines. Even though it didn’t r…

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The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 2: Half Moon Run 49:16

10M ago49:16

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Send us a Text Message. I had invited Half Moon Run onto the podcast after first hearing Salt - imploring their BMG PR to arrange it as a matter of priority. Speaking with Dylan Phillips was an insight behind the creative process of the (decades long) making of one of my favourite records in ages. Also, I had never spoken to a drummer who is simult…

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The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 1: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 52:15

11M ago52:15

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Send us a Text Message. In the 70s, the teenage years of Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, one would have heard new music by word of mouth, from the music papers, and DJs like John Peel, and it is one of these channels that would have led the young Andy McCluskey in September 1975 to see Kraftwerk play at the Liverpool Empire. It's lazy to suggest…

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Episode 100 ! Street Somm Featuring Jermaine Stone 15:46

11M ago15:46

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What a time to be alive! New York Times, domestic and international tours, add network show with Tastemade, and 100 episodes to the list! The hits keep adding up for the Wine and Hip Hop cru, so Wolf of Wine hits the mic to celebrate 100 episodes and break down his experience filming his new show Street Somm! Tune in to Tastemade on September 25th…

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Episode 99: Complex Wines Complex Rhymes II Featuring Canibus (Part II) 1:13:57

11M ago1:13:57

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And now for part 2..... Jermaine sits with Hip Hop legend Canibus to break down the different elements of complex raps to explain what complexity and wine mean. This is not just a podcast about wine. It’s a master class in how to write a dope rap, with significant insight on flow, metaphors, wordplay, and vocabulary with two masters at their craft.…

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Episode 98: Complex Wines Complex Rhymes II Featuring Canibus 52:19

11M ago52:19

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Jermaine sits with Hip Hop legend Canibus to break down the different elements of complex raps to explain what complexity and wine means. This is not just a podcast about wine. It’s a master class in how to write a dope rap, with significant insight on flow, metaphors, wordplay, vocabulary with two masters at their craft. You would never think that…

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Episode 97 Wine and Hip Hop Takes Champagne Featuring Emilien Boutillat 16:37

11M ago16:37

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Follow more of Jermaine's global travels this summer as he hangs out with Emilien Boutillat, head winemaker at Piper Heidsieck at their winery in Champagne. Jermaine dissects the different elements of champagne to find connections between Wine And Hip Hop as they dive deep into the blending process, the different grapes, and why the winemakers in C…

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Episode 96: Wine and Hip Hop Takes Sardenia... 10:45

11M ago10:45

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This summer The Wolf of Wine got a unique insight into the wine and culture of Sardinia thanks to pioneers and champions in the area, Sella & Mosca. Join him in this episode as he tastes the wines, explores local dishes, and figures out what relates most to the region. If you're feeling the podcast, Check out the visuals on YouTube…

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Season 8 Preview: The Goo Goo Dolls, with John Rezeznik 59:19

12M ago59:19

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Send us a Text Message. So many bands have a complex relationship with their biggest songs (probably because they essentially set a one dimensional benchmark - that of popularity) but dealing with that and playing those songs like it’s the last time you ever will, is part of doing the work. The Doll’s most biggest song and most recent tour are no e…

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Episode 95: Respect The Producer VIII Featuring The McBride Sisters 1:12:32

12M ago1:12:32

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This weeks episode comes straight outta Cali where Jermaine had the privilege of joining the McBride sisters in their home to talk Black Girl Magic, what it was like learning about each other for the first time, setting up their empire, and who inspires them. And of course they dropping gems all the way through, including how they came to name a wi…

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Episode 94: Method to Madness Featuring Mandy Mayhem 1:23:54

1y ago1:23:54

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Remember when you saw an older white woman online rapping the words to Jay Z’s PSA like it was her last will and testament? This week we’re getting to know the woman behind the viral video, Mandy Mayhem. Mandy gave us a rare peek into her thoughts on going viral, what led to that moment, her passion for Hip Hop as an art form, and what made her pur…

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The Art of Longevity 50th Episode: Corey Taylor 54:47

1y ago54:47

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Send us a Text Message. What better guest for this 50th episode of The Art of Longevity than metal’s renaissance man Corey Taylor? A modern legend of the heavy metal genre, Corey has no less than three successful music projects. He is probably best known as Slipknot’s #9 (lead vocals) but before he joined Slipknot, Taylor already had another establ…

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Episode 93 Certified Hustler IIII Featuring Loaded Lux, T Rex, & Cha McCoy 1:06:08

1y ago1:06:08

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Happy 50th Birthday to Hip Hop!!!! The only way to do this was a nod to the most raw, essential, and classic elements of Hip Hop THE BATTLE. We’re bringing you part II to our episode with sommelier and entrepreneur Cha McCoy recorded in her hometown, HARLEM ! She’s so Harlem she brought a few bar spitters from the area, battle rap legends Loaded Lu…

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Episode 92 : The Sip Gawd Featuring Gurvinder Bhatia 58:04

1y ago58:04

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This week Jermaine kicked it with Gurvinder Bhatia, Editor in Chief of Quench Magazine, North America’s longest running food and drink magazine. They discussed Gurvinder’s origins in the biz, his commitment to diversity, the Canadian wine scene, and of course…. Wine and Hip Hop

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Episode 91 Caribbean Roots II Featuring Philippe Andre 1:29:03

1y ago1:29:03

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This week Jermaine kicks it with his old friend Philippe Andre Private Client Director at the prestigious Folio Wine Partners representing brands like; Charles Heidsieck, Rare Champagne, Bruno Giacosa, and many more. They discuss the origin of Philippe’s signature style, How is Hatian roots helped him to forge his way in the wine business, and bein…

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The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 7: The Walkmen 36:34

1y ago36:34

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Send us a Text Message. Following the highly accomplished 2012 album Heaven, cult American indie band The Walkmen went on hiatus. But now they have reformed. In a recent interview with the band’s frontman Hamilton Leithauser, Vulture magazine referred to the now infamously long career break as “a particularly noticeable void”. I would go a lot furt…

1+ y ago50:27

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Send us a Text Message. The Delines’ world is a sprawling, blue collar soap opera. Flawed characters, aimless drifters, chancers and grifters, barroom fights, beat-up cars, parking lots, convenience store robberies, messed up relationships and broken dreams…the characters are never far off disaster - indeed they are predestined. It’s so romantic, i…

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