Go With Your Palate
Go With Your Palate
Joe Wagner
E84 Annual Harvest Update 2025 | Joe Wagner
43 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2025 at 7:00 pm.
Welcome Winemaker's Nick & JLO!
Celebrating 25th year harvest for Belle Glos Wines
Challenges for this year in Napa Valley
Differences in wine vintages? All about consistency!
Brix & Heatspikes & Vineyard F ups
Wine Vintage of the Year
Healthy Healthy Fruit (recognizing the positives)
Let's talk yeast and other organisms (wine talk)
Love for Bordeaux (collaborative travel trip)
Old World vs New World (the wine evolution)
Laws of the Wine World
Cost vs Quality (the declassification of wines and getting more bang for your buck)
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🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Harvest Update 2025 | Inside the Crush With JLO & Nick Reinell It’s that time of year, folks—Harvest Update 2025—and we brought in the heavy hitters. This week, Joe sits down with Copper Cane’s own winemaking rockstars: John “JLO” Lopez, Director of Winemaking, and Nick Reinell, Winemaker, resident crusher of grapes and egos (mostly Fat Mario’s). If you’re a cork dork, buckle up. We dig into everything from this year’s Napa Valley harvest conditions to the never-en...