In this episode of The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast, Master Sommelier Ian Cauble returns for part six of our engaging conversation. Ian opens up about his laid-back attitude towards wine, emphasizing that enjoying wine should be a comfortable experience for everyone, regardless of their knowledge level. He shares amusing anecdotes about his adventures in wine, including drinking from a bottle while riding a camel in Morocco.
Ian also reflects on wine trends and reveals a surprising secret: he doesn't mind adding ice to his rosé on a warm day! He discusses the importance of finding good wine at reasonable prices, especially in Europe, and how his relaxed demeanor makes wine accessible to all. Tune in for insights, laughs, and Ian's refreshing perspective on the world of wine.
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Welcome. Welcome to the best five-minute wine podcast with Forrest Kelly.
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If someone made an action figure, Ian Cobble, Master Sommelier, what accessory would he
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Oh man, I think I would probably be wearing board, you know, like board shorts, like surfing
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board shorts and flip flops. And then I would have like a quick silver short sleeve t-shirt
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on a hat with sunglasses on my head. And I would have a nice glass in my hand of burgundy.
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I could see that. I could picture that on the comic book cover.
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Yeah. So, you know, you know, as you know, all business in the glass, but all, you know,
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I grew up on the beach and, you know, I love the beach. Anybody, you know, me, I just,
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you know, I just want to retire on the beach of Kauai and three day. But, you know, the
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salt water is just so great. And, you know, but it's cold right now in Napa. So I'm not
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wearing flip flops, but I do wear Birkenstocks and flip flops a lot of the year. And even
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when it's cold and people are like, what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know. I'm a little
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confused, but it is what it is.
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How would you rate yourself on a scale of stuffy and uptight on, you know, the wine
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sommelier parts where everybody thinks that to, I've decanted a wine in a hotel bathroom
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Yeah, I'm not I'm not I'm very, you know, I can't I can be a little bit particular. I think
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you probably hear like, I really love great wines and I don't like, you know, BS made wines
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with sugar and lots of oak. But at the same time, you know, I'll drink wine out of a out of
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a Dixie cup and a hotel and a motel six and then, you know, off the side of the five freeway
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if I need to. But I'm probably like a three or three or four on a 10 scale of that
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stuffiness. I try to, you know, you know, growing up on the beach, you know, I grew up, you
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know, very relaxed. I grew up going to a lot of reggae festivals.
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I love reggae. I love that whole culture.
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You know, I just love just people feeling comfortable around me as well.
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And, you know, if you're kind of too stuffy, people don't feel comfortable.
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So I've I've always gone out of my way in this in this business to just try to make people
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who don't know much about wine around me feel comfortable as well.
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I think that's important.
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And, you know, if I need a decanter, I'll, you know, rinse out an old, you know, old
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container I found under somebody's sink and just make sure it's not contaminated.
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But anything can be a decanter and I'll drink wine out of anything.
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And, you know, I'll frankly drink any wine.
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I just don't really enjoy drinking oaky sweet wine.
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But I can find a bottle for eight dollars at your local supermarket that's decent, you know,
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in local kiosk or something.
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But, you know, and wine doesn't have to be expensive to be good.
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And especially when you get to Europe.
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I mean, if you, you know, in America because of the import costs, but if you get to Europe
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and you you go to a French supermarket like a Carrefour, you can find stuff for five dollars
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a bottle. That's, you know, you know, your buddy's driving up the road and you can serve
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that in a local in a paper cup, you know, and you're happy.
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I figured you were too stuffy because on your website, you know, you've got a picture of
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you on the beach with your wife and your children and you're on a camel.
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Oh, is that camel photo up there?
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Yeah, that was interesting. I was in I was on the beaches of Morocco during that travel
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in Europe when I was twenty three.
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I ended up in a beach called Essouira where Jonas Joplin and Jimi Hendrix got
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together and they, you know, he made, you know, Castle in the Sand and Purple Haze and
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all that stuff. And they spent a summer there.
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But I lived in that town for a month.
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And I when I went back about 20 years later, I visited some wineries up the hill and
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went back to that same beach where I was, you know, broke in twenty two and went back
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and was riding camels with the local, you know, white wine and drinking it out of out
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of the bottle. If you can see that photo of the camel, I'm drinking out of the bottle on
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the camel on the beaches of Essouira.
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So, OK, last two questions here.
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What is there a wine trend that you secretly love and your other Somali friends may
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tease you about it? A trend?
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I mean, I don't I don't really think there's many trends out there right now, to be
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honest. I mean, a trend.
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I mean, I mean, I don't know.
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I mean, I don't mind a little bit of ice and rosé, for example.
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That doesn't bother me if I'm out at a if I'm in a park, you know, and in my rosé is
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getting warm and there's no way to cool down.
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I'll add a couple ice cubes or to my white wine.
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I'd rather have I'd rather have a slightly diluted cool glass of wine than a warm glass
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Other than that, I can't think of any trends.
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I mean, I don't know. Trend is I mean, I just don't know.
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I say Petnat, I'm not a huge fan of Petnat, which is, you know, kind of the same
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fermentation in the bottle all the way through.
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I don't really I don't really like drinking Petnat very much.
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Petit au naturel, which is what it means.
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