The Four Top: Wine News and Culture
The Four Top
Each week, wine media veteran Katherine Cole serves up and breaks down the four biggest stories in the vinous world with help from The Four Top team, including our contributing cohost, Martín Reyes, MW. Come for the headlines, stick around for the occasional bad pun, and savor the conversation.
The Four Top is winner of both the James Beard and IACP awards for Best Culinary Podcast.
Radio: KOPB-FM Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Categories: Arts
Listen to the last episode:
Katherine is speaking at a wine celebration in Croatia this week, so we've dug a classic episode out of the vault for you. This engrossing, and at times shocking, episode deals with everyone's least-favorite, most-used herbicide: Roundup. It is the perfect pairing for Earth Week, so please enjoy!
Here it is, folks; our episode about Roundup…but it’s so much more than that. We dive into regenerative agriculture, climate action, and the fight over how to grow grapes on a rapidly changing planet.
Rounding out our expertise this week are Dr. Jamie Goode, an award-winning wine journalist, plant biologist, and the author of I Taste Red: The Science of Tasting Wine; and Anna Brittain, the founder and executive director of Napa Green and Napa RISE.
Previous episodes
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349 - Ep. 150: Reruns: Sound Off on Roundup Wed, 24 Apr 2024
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348 - Ep. 149: Enzymes, Endorphins, and Ethanol Wed, 17 Apr 2024
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347 - Ep. 148: The One with Science In It Wed, 10 Apr 2024
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346 - Ep. 147: Teetotalers vs. Nebuchadnezzars Wed, 03 Apr 2024
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345 - Ep. 146: Import Outrage and Export Heroics Wed, 27 Mar 2024
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344 - Ep. 145: The Curse of the Blue Nun Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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343 - Ep. 144: Sheep and Cheese and Registries Wed, 13 Mar 2024
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342 - Ep. 143: Snow in the Sierras and Saboteurs in Spain Wed, 06 Mar 2024
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341 - Ep. 142: Dr. WHO? Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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340 - Ep. 141: Zillennial Zeitgeist, Secretive Subpoenas & Sub-Zero Temps Wed, 21 Feb 2024
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339 - Ep. 140: Psilocybin and Smoke Taint Wed, 14 Feb 2024
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338 - Ep. 139: The Pope Has Spoken Wed, 07 Feb 2024
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337 - Ep. 138: Good Vibrations from AI Robots Wed, 31 Jan 2024
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336 - Ep. 137: Explosions and Cocaine (and Wine) Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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335 - Ep. 136: Righted Wrongs and French Families Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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334 - Ep. 135: $30,000 Bottles and Beer Goggles Wed, 10 Jan 2024
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333 - Ep. 134: Wine: It Does a Body Good Wed, 03 Jan 2024
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332 - Ep. 133: Financial Failures and Lost Generations Wed, 27 Dec 2023
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331 - Ep. 132: Wine Scams and TikTok Takeovers Wed, 20 Dec 2023
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330 - Ep. 131: An AI Version of Taylor Swift Drinking Natural Wine Wed, 13 Dec 2023
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329 - Ep. 130: Grapes, Water, the Death Star... Wed, 06 Dec 2023
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328 - Ep. 129: Hot Gazpacho Wed, 29 Nov 2023
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327 - Ep. 128: Is Chardonnay the Low-Rise Jeans of the Wine World? Wed, 22 Nov 2023
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326 - Ep. 127: Wine Tastings Are a Civil Right? Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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325 - Ep. 126: Sound Off on Roundup Wed, 09 Aug 2023
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324 - Ep. 125: Sustainability Means Inclusivity Wed, 02 Aug 2023
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323 - Ep. 124: The Viticulture Counterculture Wed, 26 Jul 2023
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322 - Ep. 123: Packaging Visions for Reduced Emissions Wed, 19 Jul 2023
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321 - Ep. 122: Gray Water for Green Vineyards Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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320 - Ep. 121: You Can't Afford NOT To! Wed, 28 Jun 2023
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319 - Ep. 120: "Anna-Dotes," aka The Six Pillars of Sustainability Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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318 - Ep. 119: Hot Takes, Cold Wine, Part Deux Fri, 30 Dec 2022
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317 - Ep. 118: Bonus Episode — Cuffing Season Fri, 23 Dec 2022
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316 - Ep. 117: READY, SET, STRIKE Fri, 16 Dec 2022
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315 - Ep. 116: Bonus Episode — Navel Gazing and Pearl Clutching Fri, 09 Dec 2022
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314 - Ep. 115: What We Need to Know About Web 3.0 Fri, 02 Dec 2022
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313 - Ep. 114: Bonus Episode — Commodity or Luxury? Heroes or Villains? Fri, 25 Nov 2022
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312 - Ep. 113: Is Wine Writing Going the Way of Coal Mining? Fri, 18 Nov 2022
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311 - Ep. 112: Is Wine Culture White Supremacist? Er, um, yeah. Fri, 04 Nov 2022
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310 - Ep. 111: Wine Talk on TikTok Fri, 21 Oct 2022
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309 - Ep. 110: Power, Power, Power Fri, 22 Jul 2022
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308 - Ep. 109: Smash the Glass Fri, 15 Jul 2022
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307 - Ep. 108: Hot Takes, Cold Wine Fri, 08 Jul 2022
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306 - Ep. 107: Taboos & Titillation Fri, 01 Jul 2022
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305 - Ep. 106: Should We Be Pro-Prohibition? Fri, 17 Jun 2022
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304 - Ep. 105: Wine for the Metaverse Fri, 10 Jun 2022
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303 - Ep. 104: The Tractor That’s Bringing Sexy Back Fri, 03 Jun 2022
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302 - Ep. 103: Wine Criticism Is Dead Fri, 27 May 2022
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301 - Ep. 102: The Hurt Lingers. How Do We Heal? Fri, 03 Dec 2021
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300 - Ep. 101: Bonus Episode — Maggie Henriquez on the Luxury Market Fri, 26 Nov 2021