Introvert Wine Podcast by Xeniya
Exploring the world of wine one episode at a time.
From a view point of a sommelier and serial wine traveller.
Nerdiness level: beginner, sommelier level: medium, excitement level: advanced!
I'm a sommelier from Kazakhstan, currently working and studying in France. I have an undying passion to explore every wine corner in this world and share it with you - one episode at a time.
I also specialise in marketing, communications, PR and events. Bringing in past experience in Human Ressources, I'm curios about people in wine and their stories.
A serial wine pins&diplomas collector: DipWSET with Merit, Weinakademiker, Italian Wine Ambassador, Cava Advanced Educator, finalist of Best Sommelier of Kazakhstan, completed courses on: Champagne, Burgundy, Jerez, Swiss Wines, Wines of South Africa, Wines of Australia, Rioja... More coming;)
Episodes
21 episodes
Episode 21: Dry January
🎙️Episode 21: Dry January 🍷This episode of the Introvert Wine Podcast is a very personal one.In January, I did Dry January as a wine professional — not to prove a point, not to demonise wine,...
Episode 20: Wine & Health
🎙️Episode 20: Wine & Health with Mark DeWolf 🍷✨As 2025 comes to a close, I’m thrilled to share a very special episode of the Introvert Wine Podcast with Mark DeWolf, wine professional, ADHD advocate, and fellow...
Episode 19: Wines without makeup
🎙️ Episode 19 : Wine Without Makeup with Filipa Pato 🇵🇹🍷I’m thrilled to welcome Filipa Pato — one of Bairrada’s most influential voices — to my Introvert Wine Podcast. 🥳 I’m very grateful to her that we were able to sit...
Episode 18: Let's make Rioja great again
Episode 18: Let’s make Rioja great again with Peter Arijs 🇪🇸🍷Rioja knows how to impress - my first visit to the region was in the fall time, and as soon as I saw all the purple, yellow, orange and dark green shades of the landscape, I f...
Episode 17: Wine Tourism
Episode 17: Wine Tourism with Zhanar Nurlybek ✈️🍷We live in a funny era, don’t we? While wine consumption is in decline, vineyards are getting pulled out, the wine tourism seems to be growing fast and strong 😅😲When the pandemic ...
Episode 16: Sommellerie in India
Episode 16: Sommellerie in India with Amrita Singh 🍷🇮🇳A new episode with a talented and passionate wine friend, Amrita Singh, where we speak about where the love for wine can take you and what similarities fashion and retail have in com...
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Episode 15: Women In Wine
Episode 15: Women in Wine 🍷Show must go on! We are back for season 2! 🔥 and what a perfect occasion to be back today with an episode on Women in Wine 🍇💃🏼Happy International Women’s Day! 🥳Celebrate all the amazing women around yo...
Episode 14 End of Year Review
Episode 14: End of Year Review 🤩 Yes, it’s that moment of the year when everyone’s sharing their achievements and is making plans for the next year! 😉 even if you are not a fan of this, just deal with it 😂 In the last ...
Episode 13 Future of Spanish bubbles
Episode 13: Future of Spanish Bubbles with Marta Casas 🇪🇸🥂My love for sparkling wine is infinite 🍾 Paired with my love for Spain it naturally created a topic that is close to my heart - the Spanish bubbles 😍 it’s true that, perhaps, Spa...
Episode 12 Art of Negotiation
Episode 12: Art of Negotiations with Claire Berticat 🤝It is worth the wait, I promise you! 🤩 We take no hostages and dissect everything about negotiations: definitions, stereotypes, strategies, skills, education and a few personal...
Episode 11 Taste of Moldova
Episode 11: Taste of Moldova with Dumitru CosletI’m not sure how with having so many friends from Moldova and having tasted a good share of wines from there, I yet haven’t visited the country So I will not act as if I know ...
Episode 10 AI in wine with Chat GPT
Episode 10: AI in wine with Chat GPT 🤖Definitely the most technically challenging one, but it was absolutely worth it! 😉👌🏻I love wine and I love technology, so this episode was meant to be from the very beginning 🍷❤️AI h...
Episode 9 Kazakh wine
Episode 9: Kazakh wine with Asem Tusupbayeva 🇰🇿🍷 Yes, it’s definitely an episode that was long coming, and I was just waiting for the right moment and person to record it with. I know you love me, but having speakers that know more...
Episode 8 Modern Georgia
Episode 8: Modern Georgia with Dariko Kholodilina 🇬🇪🍷You know I love to have people on my podcast, who are passionate about the topic we are discussing 😉 So when I was thinking about an episode about Georgia I wanted to talk to somebody...
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Episode 7 War and Wine
Episode 7: War and Wine with Maryna Revkova 🇺🇦🍷This maybe the most important and most difficult episode I did so far. 💔Not because I didn’t enjoy it but rather because it’s a very personal story for me. I truly believe that win...
Episode 6 Science of wine
Episode 6: Science of Wine with Nicholas Spencer 🤓🍷Oh the roads that lead us into the wine world, who would have thought that being stuck for months in a winery during the pandemic would result in a DipWSET certification and WeinAkademi...
Episode 5 Wine communication
🎧Episode 5: Wine communication 🗣️In this first little anniversary episode I’m talking about one of my favorite things- wine communication! 🥳Episode 5 marks the first important milestone for me - five full episodes aired to date, wit...
Episode 4 A Perfect Sommelier
Introvert Wine Podcast, Episode 4 with Marc Almert: A Perfect SommelierWhat is a perfect sommelier? In many cases we think about technical knowledge like appellations, vintages, producers, labels...But the more sommeliers I meet and...
Episode 3 Getting certified
Episode 3: Getting certified with Valeria Tenison 📜Just listing her titles, degrees and certifications will probably take the whole post 😅 So, definitely, Valeria is the person to speak about getting certified in the wine world 🍷 I...
