My guest this week is Sylvia Ba, a Vinicultural Expert with a master’s degree in Wine Business and much more!
Two topics today, Building a Wine Cellar and then managing your collection with “VinoVoss” AI Sommelier.

Good Life Guy’s Cellar

How to Build Your Wine Cellar on a Budget
For most wine lovers, the journey to appreciating wine isn’t smooth. At first, the wine world may seem complicated and elitist, with all the esoteric words in the tasting notes and the wine jargon mentioned by sommeliers. But once you get started, the world of wine is welcoming and offers so much to explore. If you are on this journey and thinking about getting serious about wine as a hobby but don’t know how to build a wine cellar, this is your guide. Building a wine cellar is not just for wealthy people. Every wine lover can build a wine collection, also when on a budget. Wine cellar on a budget

Tracking Your Inventory and Enjoying Your Wines
As you gradually build your wine cellar, it’s important to keep track of your inventory. For long-term storage, keeping track of your bottles not only informs you of the best time to enjoy them but also the value of the bottles over time. Fortunately, in 2024 we don’t need to do this with a spreadsheet, as there are many digital wine cellar services that you can use to keep records of your wine collection.

With digital wine cellar and virtual sommelier apps like VinoVoss, for example, you can simply add the wines to your account under “My Wine Cellar.” These apps allow you to catalog your collection, track the aging process, and even get recommendations on when to drink each bottle. Many of these platforms also offer community features, letting you connect with other wine enthusiasts, share tasting notes, and discover new wines based on your preferences.  Learn more about VinoVoss

Wine consultant Sylvia Ba is a vinicultural expert.  With a master’s degree in wine business from Burgundy School of Business, as well as diverse background and experiences in Europe and Asia, she currently offers expertise in marketing, research, purchasing, and copywriting for clients in the wine industry all over the world. Sylvia’s experience includes working as a junior editor for a leading Chinese wine media outlet and as a fine wine salesperson for ASC Fine Wines, the largest fine wine importer in China. She also served as Export Manager for Vinum Hadrianum, an artisanal winery in Abruzzo, Italy.

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Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2021 Sanford & Benedict, Sandhi Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay
Chardonnay from Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Barbara, Central Coast, California
The wine has aromas of Meyer lemon peel and pith with hints of raw ginger, honey, and green apple all under a cloak of crushed white rock. The texture offers a restrained fleshiness on the mid-palate with a focused and bright saline finish. ABV12.8% 

  • 95 points Decanter Tasted at the beginning of 2023, a reductive quality was still obscuring bright, penetrating green apple and kiwi flavors with a smoky, earthen veil. It’s a gorgeously sleek, richly textured wine with a pulsating core of acidity and salty mineral intensity.
  • 94James Suckling
    Lovely texture and density, showing dried apple, fresh ginger and pastry dough. Layered, with phenolic tension.
  • 93Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
    The 2021 Chardonnay Sta. Rita Hills has alluring aromas of white peach, freshly baked bread, panna cotta and matchstick with savory undertones. The medium-bodied palate has dynamic flavors that range from ripe fruit to matchstick and saline. It has a focused spine of acidity, a pleasing touch of textural grip and a very long, layered finish.
  • 92Wine Spectator Complex and seamless, there’s plenty to admire in this white wine. Shows spiced, poached pear, dried apple, grilled lemon and fresh tangerine flavors that are juicy and generous, with details of sage, white pepper and toasted sesame seed on the finish.
  • 91Wine Enthusiast here’s a strong streak of tarry minerality to the nose of this bottling, which shows brisk lemon peel and even petrol on the tightly wound nose. The palate is stony as well, with a potent acidity slicing through lemon-peel flavors.

 

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