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Wine Spectator Instagram Live Chats



Straight Talk with Wine Spectator is an Instagram Live series that feature discussions with wine and food newsmakers. This live chat series began during the COVID-19 crisis in order to shed light on the challenges these industries faced and now Wine Spectator has expanded Straight Talk into regularly scheduled programming.

Tune in to Straight Talk weekly on Wine Spectator’s Instagram page.


See the link below to their upcoming schedule and find archives of past episodes.


The next two upcoming episodes will feature Champagne Telmont president Ludovic du Plessis and Bedrock Wine Co. founder Morgan Twain-Peterson. Ludovic du Plessis has been working in the luxury wine and spirits industry for nearly twenty years, spending a decade at Dom Pérignonand Moët & Chandon, then joining Louis XIII Cognac as global executive director in 2014.


Ludovic du Plessis chats with senior editor Alison Napjus on Wednesday, March 30 at 3 p.m. ET. (Photo courtesy of Champagne Telmont)


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