Tasting Diaries: October 2025
No.67 | What's In My Glass
Before I share some of the deliciousness that has graced my glass this month, I wanted to highlight a milestone for Substack readers, just in case you don’t follow me on Instagram. Last Saturday, October 25th, I did an Instagram Live to acknowledge the five year anniversary of recording my first “Cab Franc du Jour” tasting video. Back in October 2020, I got the courage to finally launch this project after sitting on the idea for nearly a decade. As someone who as always struggled with writing (and still does to this day), video allowed me to “get out of my own way” and share my passion for Cabernet Franc in a way that felt informative but also a bit more relaxed. So, this video, and the dozen or so I recorded in the month leading up to launching my Instagram on December 4th, 2020, served as the basis of Cab Franc Chronicles and laid the ground work for the nearly 170 more videos that have since followed. Over time, the videos were supplemented by written posts on Instagram, and eventu…