The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

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• True/False: Can You Send a Drink From Your Phone Right Now? Quiz Show 02.06.2026 4min

  Rusty Cellars takes over as quiz master for a two-round, ten-question game show deep dive into Shared Spirits — the app Sherman Mohr calls "Venmo for cocktails." From restaurant integration to promotional sampling events to the Over 50 Pros story, this Pop The Quiz episode puts your knowledge to the test. Multiple choice, true or false, no excuses. Keep score and see if you've been paying attention.
• Truffle Hunting, Mt. Etna Wines, and a Bed That Gives You a Hug 29.05.2026 5min

  Former Bad Company bass player Paul Cullen returns to talk about his upcoming hosted wine cruise aboard Oceana's Alora — and if you've been on one of his cruises before, you already know this one is going to sell out. Paul and Bonnie Cullen are hosting an April departure out of Rome (Civitavecchia), with stops in Salerno, Messina (Sicily), Trani, Bari, and Montenegro. The standout excursion: a private visit to Gambino Vineyard on the slopes of Mount Etna, a fan favorite from past cruises.
• The App That Lets You Buy Someone a Drink - Shared Spirits Pt. 1-6 28.05.2026 27min

  Sherman Mohr is a serial entrepreneur who turned a pandemic pivot into a nationwide spirits and wine marketing operation — and he's just getting started. As co-founder of Shared Spirits, a mobile platform that lets restaurants and suppliers deliver digital drink credits to customers.
• From a Library Pamphlet to $5.3 Billion: The Ernest Gallo Story 27.05.2026 4min

  In 1933 — the same year Prohibition ended and their parents died in a murder-suicide — Ernest and Julio Gallo started a winery with less than $6,000 and a how-to pamphlet from the public library. What followed was one of the most relentless, controversial, and consequential stories in American food history. Ernest didn't just build a winery. He built the distribution infrastructure for an entire industry, created brands that became household names, survived a nationwide boycott led by Cesar Chavez, and sued his own brother over the right to use the family name — on cheese. By the time the fine wine world took him seriously, Ernest Gallo had been unstoppable for decades. This is his back label.
• Pop The Quiz: Flying Whale Edition — No Mercy, Just a Wine Quiz 26.05.2026 5min

  Rusty Sellers is back and he's not playing — well, actually he is. The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast's resident quizmaster puts your Flying Whale Wine knowledge to the test with two rounds, ten questions, and zero sympathy
• Spirits to Second Acts: Sherman Reinventing Your Income After 50 Pt. 6 21.05.2026 4min

  Sherman Mohr wraps up his conversation with Forrest by sharing a passion project born directly from his work running a spirits and wine promotions agency — Over 50 Pros. After noticing that his best brand ambassadors were consistently in their 60s and 70s, Sherman began developing resources and inspiration for over-50 professionals navigating career transitions.
• One Station Wagon, One Crazy Bet, and the Birth of Oregon Wine 20.05.2026 2min

  David Lett loaded a station wagon with grape cuttings in 1965 and headed to a place nobody in the wine world took seriously — Oregon's Willamette Valley. Too cold, too wet, too far from Napa. He planted the world's most fragile grape in iron-rich Jory soil, lived in a trailer, and ignored everyone who said it couldn't work. Then in 1979, his 1975 Pinot Noir entered the Wine Olympiad in Paris — not to win, just to see where it stood. It stood next to the best wines in the world. This is the Back Label story of David Lett, the man who didn't ask wine country for permission.
• Senegal to Napa: How a Filmmaker Built a Wine Brand Worth Talking About Pt. 1-5 19.05.2026 24min

  Maba Ba is a serial entrepreneur, filmmaker, and WNBA superfan who stumbled into wine over a lunch meeting in Miami — and hasn't looked back since. In this conversation, he unpacks everything.
• Wine Tech You Didn’t Know You Needed: How Shared Spirits Could Change Tasting Rooms Pt. 5 14.05.2026 5min

  Forrest talks with Sherman Mohr about Shared Spirits — a progressive web app that works like a native app and is poised to reshape how wineries, tasting rooms, and restaurants engage customers. From saving the app to your home screen to gifting bottles during wine tours, Sherman explains how Shared Spirits can drive foot traffic, boost sales, and modernize the tasting‑room experience.
• The Oldest Wine Evidence on Earth Is in a Museum — Here's the Story Nobody Tells 13.05.2026 3min

  The story of wine doesn't start in France. It starts in a museum in the country of Georgia, where 8,000-year-old clay jars called qvevri still carry the chemical fingerprints of fermented grapes. And the twist? The greatest wine-drinking civilizations in history — the Greeks, the Romans — thought drinking wine straight was an act of barbarism.
• The Wine That Works by the Fireplace AND by the Pool Pt. 5 12.05.2026 5min

  Maba Ba breaks down Flying Whale's rosé — a fuller-bodied, dry take designed to shatter the myth that rosé is only a summer drink. Then he shares what sent him chasing Viognier instead of Chardonnay.
• How COVID Accidentally Launched a Cocktail Tech Revolution — Shared Spirits Party Pack Pt. 4 07.05.2026 4min

  Forrest talks with Sherman Mohr about how Shared Spirits transformed from a confusing pre‑COVID concept into a post‑pandemic hospitality breakthrough. From Nashville bachelorette “party packs” to mobile‑first drink gifting, Sherman explains how customer behavior, QR codes, and mobile payments opened the door for a new way to buy, send, and redeem cocktails.
• The Wine Forgery That Cost a Billionaire $35 Million — And Nobody Went to Jail 06.05.2026 5min

  Thomas Jefferson was America's first great wine obsessive — he ordered 20,000 bottles in his lifetime and stocked the White House cellar personally. So when a hidden cache of 18th-century bottles etched with the initials "T.J." surfaced in a Paris cellar in 1985, the wine world lost its mind.
• The Ancient Myth Hidden Inside This Stunning Wine Label Pt. 4 05.05.2026 4min

  Maba Ba reveals the creative process behind Flying Whale Wine's striking black bottle — and why simplicity was the hardest thing to achieve. Drawing on his storytelling background and the ancient legend of the Dogon people, he knew from the start the design had to feel like a collector's coin.
• App That Lets You Buy Someone a Cocktail From Anywhere — Why Restaurants Love It Pt. 3 30.04.2026 5min

  Sherman Mohr explores Shared Spirits — the “Venmo for cocktails” platform that’s changing how restaurants, bars, and brands connect with customers. From gifting drinks across the country to tracking redemptions, campaigns, and customer behavior, Sherman reveals how this technology is reshaping hospitality and beverage marketing.
• She Had No Legal Rights. She Changed Wine Forever. The Veuve Clicquot Story 29.04.2026 4min

  In 1805, a 27-year-old French widow was told she had no legal right to run a business. She ran one anyway — and in doing so invented a technique still used in every champagne house on earth, cracked the Russian Imperial market under Napoleon's blockade, and built one of the most recognized wine brands in history.
• Flying Whale Wine: The Story Behind the Black Bottle Pt. 3 28.04.2026 4min

  Maba Ba pulls back the curtain on Flying Whale Wine — from the vineyard's seamless transition to new ownership, to the deliberate winemaking philosophy behind each bottle.
• Secret World Behind Wine Lists: How Restaurants REALLY Choose Your Bottle Pt. 2 23.04.2026 6min

  Forrest uncorks the hidden mechanics behind how wines make it onto restaurant lists and retail shelves. Guest Sherman Mohr reveals the behind‑the‑scenes world of distributors, suppliers, sampling budgets, real‑time sales data, and why your favorite bottle keeps showing up at your local store.
• The Wine Tasting That Broke France (And Changed Everything) 22.04.2026 4min

  In May 1976, while America celebrated its bicentennial, a modest wine competition in Paris quietly rewrote the global wine map. Englishman Steven Spurrier assembled nine of France's most respected wine experts for a blind tasting — and California walked away with the top honors in both whites and reds. The French press buried the story. Thirty years later, history finished making its point. This is the Judgment of Paris.
• Met a Stranger, Filmed in a City of Trash, Ended Up Owning a French Winery — Pt. 2 21.04.2026 6min

  How Maba Ba Went From Senegal’s Trash City to Launching Flying Whale Wine in France.