Ray Isle, Food & Wine Magazine
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Ray Isle, Food & Wine Magazine
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Ray Isle's first real memory of wine is lying on a floor incollege while someone squeezed it into his mouth from a bag.
The bottle that actually changed things was a Diamond Creek Volcanic Hill Cabernet at a dinner in the late eighties — first sip whatever, third sip what the hell is this. He was writing fiction at the time. What pulled him across was the stories: working harvest, he met a Santa Cruz Mountains vineyard manager who shot a deer, skinned it, wore the skin through the vineyard, and lost his whole crew when they decided he was a warlock. Now he's the executive wine editor at Food & Wine, the wine guy on TODAY, and the author of The World in a Wine Glass — 275 producer profiles built on the belief that knowing who made a wine changes how it tastes. We get into the Taco Bell test for what's actually artisanal, why he'd rather write about a $25 Rhône than a $700 Burgundy, the pricing gap driving young drinkers away, and which half of biodynamics he thinks is bonkers.
New episodes Tuesday mornings.