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Wine Talks with Paul K.
Wine Talks with Paul K.
All you knew about wine is about to bust wide open….we are going to talk about what really happens in the wine business and I’m taking no prisoners... I am your host Paul Kalemkiarian and as the 2nd generation owner of the Original Wine of the Month Club, I sold 17,000,000 bottles of wine and tasted somewhere north of 100,000 wines. And what I learned is that wine is about the story; the story can't be that I bought this wine on the internet for 5 bucks. Join me as we peel back the real stories behind the wine you are tasting. How can Groupon sell 12 bottles for $60 and the wines be good? How do you start a winery anyway and lose money? And is a screwcap really better than a cork? Sometimes I have to pick a wine at the store by the label and the price...and I get screwed. Subscribe now and prepare to be enlightened.
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Wine Talks with Paul K.

Wine Talks with Paul K.

All you knew about wine is about to bust wide open….we are going to talk about what really happens in the wine business and I’m taking no prisoners...

I am your host Paul Kalemkiarian 2nd generation owner of the Original Wine of the Month Club, and I am somewhere north of 100,000 wines tasted.

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Breaking Wine Barriers: Rita Rosa’s Journey from Nigeria to Bordeaux
Dec. 9, 2025

Breaking Wine Barriers: Rita Rosa’s Journey from Nigeria to Bordeaux

Wine Talks has been watching this woman. She is making waves in a part of the wine world that one might not consider in daily converstaion: Nigeria. How does one become a Bordeaux specialist in Nigeria? Where does that inspir...
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Terroir, Technology, and Taste: The Future of Wine in Armenia
Dec. 4, 2025

Terroir, Technology, and Taste: The Future of Wine in Armenia

Start your winery dream. On this episode of Wine Talks, Adam Kablanian shares a compelling story of entrepreneurship, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of a dream in the wine industry. After a successful career as a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Adam Kablanian decided to chase his passi…
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Oregon Wine's Evolution: In the Vineyard with Robert McKinley of Norris Winery
Dec. 2, 2025

Oregon Wine's Evolution: In the Vineyard with Robert McKinley of Norris Winery

Wine is family. True wine, true expression, true passion only comes from the support of the family. Not just your blood relatives, but the family of wine. One who is in the trade and has an earnest appreciation for the value ...
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Reflections on Wine, Family, and Finding Passion in Life’s Unlikely Journeys
Nov. 27, 2025

Reflections on Wine, Family, and Finding Passion in Life’s Unlikely Journeys

I came into the studio today to get some wine and organize a few things. I also wanted to test the internet connections because yesterday I had two show fall apart from internet issues. It seems they were on the guests side. ...
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How French Village Life Changed the Hoffman Family’s View of Food, Wine, and Culture
Nov. 25, 2025

How French Village Life Changed the Hoffman Family’s View of Food, Wine, and Culture

It is a dream for many people to pick up and move to another country. Virtually, no one acts on that dream. Steve Hoffman did. And it seems it takes a certain type of partner, a certain type of children and a certain type of ...
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Inventing the Coravin: Greg Lambrecht on Transforming Wine Culture and Expanding By-the-Glass Exploration
Nov. 18, 2025

Inventing the Coravin: Greg Lambrecht on Transforming Wine Culture and Expanding By-the-Glass Exploration

Who invents these things? and what experience do they have that gets them to the point that they can invent these things? Entrepreneurs are a crafty bunch. They dream. They test themselves. They switch gears on the fly. So go...
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The Power of Connection in Modern Hospitality
Nov. 21, 2024

The Power of Connection in Modern Hospitality

```html In today's fast-paced digital world, genuine human connection is more valuable than ever. This blog post delves into the transformative power of authentic interactions, particularly within the hospitality industry. We'll explore how seeming…

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"Experiential Innovation" is real.
Aug. 12, 2024

"Experiential Innovation" is real.

Experiential Innovation Paul Kalemkiarian  Host of Wine Talks with Paul K The concept of “experiential innovation” is critical to most consumer products going forward in a post COVID world. And certainly, wine is at the top of …

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Stay The Course
July 5, 2024

Stay The Course

It is common conversation among people in the wine trade to say that our industry. is in a rut. And I would agree. It is wrestling with an identity crisis. The market forces are multi-pronged and complicated. It isn't like the old days where you wo…

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