Katherine Cole – Katherine Cole

11.18.22 / IS WINE WRITING GOING THE WAY OF COAL MINING?

Katherine Cole — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:26:07 +0000

In today's fragmented, fast-moving media landscape, what is the value of serious wine writing?

6.3.22 / THE TRACTOR THAT’S BRINGING SEXY BACK

Katherine Cole — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:00:26 +0000

On the newest episode of The Four Top, our guests are Carlo Mondavi—a futurist making a space-age tractor that’s actually affordable—and Rajat Parr, a luddite who has gone back to the land and is practicing regenerative agriculture at Phelan Farm.

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12.20.21 / BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE!

Katherine Cole — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:57:31 +0000

We'll be taking a break from The Four Top for the next few months to produce our next season. But before we go, we want to make sure you caught the extra bonbon that made our first-ever wine season even sweeter: Our bonus interview with Maggie Henríquez, President and CEO of Krug Champagne.

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12.7.21 / THE HURT LINGERS. HOW DO WE HEAL?

Katherine Cole — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:01:52 +0000

Raw, uncomfortable, embarrassed, wounded, defensive, inadequate. These are the feelings many of us experience as we face the wine industry’s most sensitive issues, including sexism, racism, and inequity.

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11.24.21 / WHAT WINE GETS WRONG ABOUT INDIGENOUS AMERICANS

Katherine Cole — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 23:27:45 +0000

This Native American Heritage Month, The Four Top turns its focus on our nation’s first communities. Indigenous American cultural values are very much in line with the oenological concept of terroir, and yet the wine industry has historically misunderstood and mistreated these cultures.

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11.18.21 / FEELING CONFLICTED ABOUT SELLING LUXURY

Katherine Cole — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:39:27 +0000

Joining us for this episode are two pros who manage to balance activism with a career in—let's face it—hedonism.

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11.8.21 / EVERYONE (EXCEPT OUR GUESTS) IS WRONG ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY

Katherine Cole — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 04:01:11 +0000

Why does Martin want to “make lighter bottles sexy”? Find out in Ep. 98 of The Four Top, in which we discuss rethinking the wine business to protect the planet and safeguard our future. Get ready to throw your sustainability preconceptions and misconceptions onto the compost pile and join us for this eye-opening conversation.

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11.1.21 / THE VINEYARD STORIES YOU HAVEN’T HEARD

Katherine Cole — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:59:18 +0000

The stories you don’t hear in wine-education classes or read about in magazines are the most important ones out there. These are the stories of brutality and enslavement in vineyards—practices that continue to this day. Prepare to be shocked, surprised, and enlightened by Ep. 97 of The Four Top.

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9.12.21 / THE NEW (NON) RULES OF WINE PAIRING

Katherine Cole — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:33:27 +0000

In the first episode of The Four Top's new wine season we are joined by Regine Rousseau and Derrick Westbrook to discuss why “traditional” wine pairings (think Champagne and caviar) don’t work, and explore more abstract pairing concepts, such as wine with music, poetry, fragrance and… CBD?

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10.21.20 / “JUNK” FOOD + JUDGMENT

Katherine Cole — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:34:07 +0000

How did McDonald’s come to play a defining role in Black American history? And should society judge individuals on the basis of the foods they eat? Historian Marcia Chatelain, author and columnist Roxane Gay, and Memphis-based health advocate Whitney Trotter discuss in Episode 81 of The Four Top.

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