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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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Wine Industry at a Crossroads: Changing Tastes, AI, and Where the Money Goes
Sept. 11, 2025

Wine Industry at a Crossroads: Changing Tastes, AI, and Where the Money Goes

You can't speak of trends in the wine trends in the wine trade without mentioning Felicity Carter. You can't talk data mining in the wine trade without mentioning Felicity Carter...in fact, I can't think of many surrounding t...
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Ancient Roots, Modern Revival: Exploring Armenian Wine and Enotourism with Lilit Grigoryan
Sept. 9, 2025

Ancient Roots, Modern Revival: Exploring Armenian Wine and Enotourism with Lilit Grigoryan

Not of all wine news is about a drop in sales or activity...wine tourism is up. On Wine Talks I regularly discuss the idea that wine is headed back in time to the days where the experience of wine is driving the interest in w...
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Navigating Change in the Wine Industry with Bernardus Winemaker Jim McCabe
Sept. 4, 2025

Navigating Change in the Wine Industry with Bernardus Winemaker Jim McCabe

The wines of the Monterey Peninsula, and particularly those of the Carmel Valley, are exquisite. It is always just so interesting to have the some grape grown in different parts of the world and be so different...soely on the...
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Wine, Terroir, and Storytelling: Cecilia Guzman and the Evolution of Chilean Winemaking
Sept. 2, 2025

Wine, Terroir, and Storytelling: Cecilia Guzman and the Evolution of Chilean Winemaking

When people enter a room, you instantly get a sense of their disposition in life. Are they smiley? Frowning? friendly? Gregarious? and you instantly if this is going to work. I knew instantly that this was going to work when ...
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Science, Grapes, and Adventure: A Wine Student’s Summer at Chateau Haut-Bailly
Aug. 28, 2025

Science, Grapes, and Adventure: A Wine Student’s Summer at Chateau Haut-Bailly

A few years ago, a young woman was interning at the Original Wine of the Month Club. Her internship revolved around social networking, office duties, and one particular job that may have set her career path. Lisa Kassabian wa...
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The Changing Tastes of Wine: Trends, Innovation, and Restaurant Realities with Chef David Slay
Aug. 26, 2025

The Changing Tastes of Wine: Trends, Innovation, and Restaurant Realities with Chef David Slay

I have been hanging around the South Bay beaches since my youth. Maybe you caught my Instagram posts about how that happened. As a family, we spent much of our time in Hermosa Beach; I love the SoCal beach culture. There is a...
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The Power of Connection in Modern Hospitality
Nov. 21, 2024

The Power of Connection in Modern Hospitality

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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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