Val Caruso
banner
glassinsession.bsky.social
Val Caruso
@glassinsession.bsky.social
Wine Educator, speaker, host/producer of Glass in Session® podcast, DipWSET, CWE, FWS #CorkDork 🍷#Audiobook Narrator/VoiceOver Artist
USAF Retired 🇺🇸
Owned by a Nebelung🐾

🎧 https://www.glassinsession.com/podcast/
Reposted by Val Caruso
I’m with her.
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Val Caruso
😠 Did a social media post immediately evoke anger?
😁 Did a social media post immediately make you grin in agreement?

💡 Posts that tug at our emotions can cause us to share, like or comment without verifying the facts. Instead:

- Pause
- Take a deep breath
- And do a fact-check

#NewsLiteracy
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Val Caruso
Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,
www.eff.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🎧15 silly, yet informative, minutes on #Orvieto covers everything from wine styles to history, painters who were paid with wine … & popes who wanted to be “bathed“ in it.

You know … a #wine bath sounds wonderful right now. 🥂

#winepodcast

glassinsession.libsyn.com/orvieto-wine...
Glass In Session® Winecast: Orvieto: Wine Built this City, Paid Painters, and Bathed Popes | S20E5
Orvieto is a clifftop city, a wine region, and a wine culture all its own with a rich history loaded with silly anecdotes. When your host says there’s more in a glass of wine than fermented grape juic...
glassinsession.libsyn.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Saw this on my walk this week.

I call it ‘‘Tis the season … nah, fuq it.” 🥃
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The #auroraborealis even in the light pollution of COS. Pairing with this lovely Darting 2021 Pfalz Meunier in my emotional support Pinot glass.

#northernlights #colorado #porchdrinking #germanwine
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It’s upon us … even with light pollution in central COS #AuroraBorealis
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
#VeteransDay story worth sharing
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Cartoonists Take Down a Tyrant
The Andy Borowitz Show
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Has this not been an SNL SKIT YET?!
🥪 (and now I’m hungry) #sandwichguy
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This American nightmare captured as eloquently & honestly as ever by @radiofreetom …

“These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs—including the presidency—for which they are not qualified.” (Tom Nichols)
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Yet, they are still some of my favorite go-to #wine regions for decent wines at very reasonable prices.
The Epic Decline of Languedoc-Roussillon’s Vineyard Area, 1974–2023
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There’s always more to the story than what our media wants you to click on.

Also, score one for the side of “wine is a grocery” discussion.
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Getting up at 0415 the last decade of my military career so I could workout before my day was gobbled up by work is precisely why I sip coffee, read, workout, & have the phone off until 10am now.

This changing of the clocks 2x/year is almost as stupid as *waves hands at America in 2025.*
#FallBack
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Resurrecting the #Absinthe episode for #halloween2025.

Blamed for madness, murder, & moral decay, Absinthe was maligned as a spirit so “dangerous” it was banned across Europe & America for nearly a century.

#spookyseason #Spirits #BoozeHistory #podcast

glassinsession.libsyn.com/lets-absinth...
Glass In Session® Winecast: Let's Absinthe ... Again! (re-release for Halloween)
Just in time for spooky season we explore a treat of a fine spirit with a tricky past. Absinthe: what it is, how it behaves in the glass, the deal on wormwood, a brief history, and some thujone theory...
glassinsession.libsyn.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Publishing Day! This was a fascinating story to narrate!

It's the true story of a Russian spy who lived in the US for a decade before the FBI rolled her up, along with her fellow assets.

#Audiobooks #AudiobookNarrator

www.audible.com/pd/B0FXXWY78...
Anna Chapman: The Glamorous Face of a Russian Spy Ring
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The most glamorous spy since the Cold War—and the real story behind the headlines. Anna Chapman lived in New York, ran a tech company, and mingled with Wall...
www.audible.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A lovely bottle that didn’t last long but paired well with the current episode of Glass in Session® where we sip #Soave , geek out on #garganega , & I make a bad joke about “ricco Soave” because I can’t help myself. 🎙️🥂 #wine #vino #podcast

glassinsession.libsyn.com/website/soav...
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s a great day to be high AF on catnip & cozying up to his favorite mushroom 🍄 #Caturday #Nebelung
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
www.instagram.com/reel/DQKFWnu... #tbt to wandering Lyon a couple of years ago this week … yes, that’s an antique working toilet.
Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
So … a bunch of “Baghdad Boob” (not a typo) propagandists

#cantfixstupid
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Not since the War of 1812 has an enemy of the United States caused this much damage to the White House” (Borowitz)

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Donald Trump, Demolition Man
Carrying on a family tradition of wanton desecration.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Val Caruso
A winemaker in Guria, western Georgia, draws wine from a buried kvevri (qvevri) using a traditional gourd ladle inside a marani, the Georgian wine cellar. Several sealed kvevri are embedded in the earthen floor. Undated (likely 1950s–1970s). National Library of Georgia
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM