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/
USAF Retired 🇺🇸
Owned by a Nebelung🐾
🎧 https://www.glassinsession.com/podcast/
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Trattoria da Giovanni, Trieste.
“At Trattoria di Giovanni,
Two glasses of wine
Will make you feel fine”
“At Trattoria di Giovanni,
Two glasses of wine
Will make you feel fine”
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Trattoria da Giovanni, Trieste.
“At Trattoria di Giovanni,
Two glasses of wine
Will make you feel fine”
“At Trattoria di Giovanni,
Two glasses of wine
Will make you feel fine”
Just submitted my 10th audiobook & now sipping this #wine with the last of the pumpkin & pancetta pasta.
🍷I actually slept at this gorgeous estate years ago, ate in their excellent restaurant, toured the cellars, & have loved their wines forever.
#chianticlassico #vino
🍷I actually slept at this gorgeous estate years ago, ate in their excellent restaurant, toured the cellars, & have loved their wines forever.
#chianticlassico #vino
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Just submitted my 10th audiobook & now sipping this #wine with the last of the pumpkin & pancetta pasta.
🍷I actually slept at this gorgeous estate years ago, ate in their excellent restaurant, toured the cellars, & have loved their wines forever.
#chianticlassico #vino
🍷I actually slept at this gorgeous estate years ago, ate in their excellent restaurant, toured the cellars, & have loved their wines forever.
#chianticlassico #vino
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Brazilian Vinho Biogênico de Giffoni advertisement from c. 1920. Vinho Biogênico was a tonic wine intended to help breastfeeding mothers regain their strength and was sold in pharmacies and drugstores (such as this one in Rio de Janeiro).
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Brazilian Vinho Biogênico de Giffoni advertisement from c. 1920. Vinho Biogênico was a tonic wine intended to help breastfeeding mothers regain their strength and was sold in pharmacies and drugstores (such as this one in Rio de Janeiro).
Reposted by Val Caruso
“Sickening moral slum of an administration”
… pretty much sums it up. In fairness I can’t read it b/c I chucked my WP subscription last year, but gonna side with George Will on this very accurate description.
It’s also more polite than “sh*t stain on America, its constitution & the rule of law.”
… pretty much sums it up. In fairness I can’t read it b/c I chucked my WP subscription last year, but gonna side with George Will on this very accurate description.
It’s also more polite than “sh*t stain on America, its constitution & the rule of law.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Sickening moral slum of an administration”
… pretty much sums it up. In fairness I can’t read it b/c I chucked my WP subscription last year, but gonna side with George Will on this very accurate description.
It’s also more polite than “sh*t stain on America, its constitution & the rule of law.”
… pretty much sums it up. In fairness I can’t read it b/c I chucked my WP subscription last year, but gonna side with George Will on this very accurate description.
It’s also more polite than “sh*t stain on America, its constitution & the rule of law.”
Reposted by Val Caruso
I’m with her.
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’m with her.
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😠 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
😁 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
😠 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
😁 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
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,
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November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
🎧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
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You know … a #wine bath sounds wonderful right now. 🥂
#winepodcast
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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...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:51 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
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You know … a #wine bath sounds wonderful right now. 🥂
#winepodcast
glassinsession.libsyn.com/orvieto-wine...
Saw this on my walk this week.
I call it ‘‘Tis the season … nah, fuq it.” 🥃
I call it ‘‘Tis the season … nah, fuq it.” 🥃
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Saw this on my walk this week.
I call it ‘‘Tis the season … nah, fuq it.” 🥃
I call it ‘‘Tis the season … nah, fuq it.” 🥃
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
#northernlights #colorado #porchdrinking #germanwine
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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
#northernlights #colorado #porchdrinking #germanwine
It’s upon us … even with light pollution in central COS #AuroraBorealis
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s upon us … even with light pollution in central COS #AuroraBorealis
#VeteransDay story worth sharing
Colorado veteran finds purpose, camaraderie where she wasn’t looking for it: on the ice
Colorado veteran finds purpose, camaraderie where she wasn’t looking for it: on the ice
Army veteran Carla Best was nearly killed in an attack in Iraq in 2004. A Wounded Warrior sled hockey program pulled her from the brink.
coloradosun.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#VeteransDay story worth sharing
Cartoonists Take Down a Tyrant
The Andy Borowitz Show
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November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Has this not been an SNL SKIT YET?!
🥪 (and now I’m hungry) #sandwichguy
🥪 (and now I’m hungry) #sandwichguy
Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Has this not been an SNL SKIT YET?!
🥪 (and now I’m hungry) #sandwichguy
🥪 (and now I’m hungry) #sandwichguy
In Italy Vino Novello is released weeks before Beaujolais Nouveau in France - Here's the story.🍷
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#wine #wineedutainment #WineEducation #vinonovello #winepodcast #podcast
#Vino #fall
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#wine #wineedutainment #WineEducation #vinonovello #winepodcast #podcast
#Vino #fall
Glass In Session® Winecast: Hello Again Vino Novello, My Friend
Originally Released 8 November 2019 ~ Celebration is in the air as Beaujolais Nouveau is released each November. However, Vino Novello is released weeks prior. Some would say it's the Italian answer t...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
In Italy Vino Novello is released weeks before Beaujolais Nouveau in France - Here's the story.🍷
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#wine #wineedutainment #WineEducation #vinonovello #winepodcast #podcast
#Vino #fall
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#wine #wineedutainment #WineEducation #vinonovello #winepodcast #podcast
#Vino #fall
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)
“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)
America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America, the Juvenile
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 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)
“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)
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
Yet, they are still some of my favorite go-to #wine regions for decent wines at very reasonable prices.
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.
Also, score one for the side of “wine is a grocery” discussion.
Man, the French version of the story says he had bags of groceries and there was wine in the groceries. He didn't survive on just wine. The man had food and other liquid.
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Il passe trois jours dans un ravin… Un cycliste de 77 ans survit grâce à ses courses et un peu de vin
Un septuagénaire a été retrouvé vivant mardi après avoir passé trois jours au fond d’un ravin, dans les Cévennes. En rentrant des courses, l’homme loupe un virage et se retrouve coincé dans un profond...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:29 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.
Also, score one for the side of “wine is a grocery” discussion.
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
This changing of the clocks 2x/year is almost as stupid as *waves hands at America in 2025.*
#FallBack
My annual plea to leave the damn clocks alone, and why morning people are the worst:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Overthrow the Tyranny of Morning People
Leave the clocks alone.
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 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
This changing of the clocks 2x/year is almost as stupid as *waves hands at America in 2025.*
#FallBack
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
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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
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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...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:00 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...
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...
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...
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...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:32 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...
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...
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
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October 25, 2025 at 7:01 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
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I think this may be favorite #wine news story of the year 🍾 #champagne #chardonnayrose 🍇
wineindustryadvisor.com/2025/10/17/p...
wineindustryadvisor.com/2025/10/17/p...
Pink Chardonnay, a Forgotten Grape Variety That Is Regaining Its Place in Champagne’s Heritage
October 17, 2025 (Epernay, France) -- Pink Chardonnay is officially recognized in the Champagne appellation specifications. A natural mutation of white
wineindustryadvisor.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I think this may be favorite #wine news story of the year 🍾 #champagne #chardonnayrose 🍇
wineindustryadvisor.com/2025/10/17/p...
wineindustryadvisor.com/2025/10/17/p...