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Jason Wise

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Documentary filmmaker and producer behind the SOMM film series about wine and the master sommelier exam, and a founder of the SOMM TV food and wine streaming service launched in 2019. Directed SOMM (2012), SOMM: Into the Bottle (2015), SOMM 3 (2018) and The Delicacy (2020), and runs the production company Forgotten Man Films. Hosts the SOMM TV podcast, which covers wine, food and the stories around them. Wine Enthusiast named him to its 2015 list of 40 most influential people in beverages under forty.

Where to Find Them

Jason Wise hosts SOMM TV wine & food . They have also been a guest on XChateau Wine Podcast (3 times) .

Recently: “Episode 304: Wine cameos in movies - October edition” on SOMM TV wine & food (October 2026); “Episode 303: No More American Wine? Canada, Napa, and the 2026 Harvest” on SOMM TV wine & food (October 2026); “Episode 302: The taste of Art” on SOMM TV wine & food (October 2026); “Episode 301: What will happen to Japan’s oldest drink?” on SOMM TV wine & food (October 2026); “Episode 300: The Winery Architect” on SOMM TV wine & food (October 2026); “Episode 299: The Legend of Robert Parker” on SOMM TV wine & food (September 2026).

What They Said

Introducing Get Out as his Halloween pick, the host explains the show's usual game of naming the real wines in a film. Here the labels on screen are invented, so he sets out to recast what the characters would really be drinking.

SOMM TV wine & food · 2026-10-31 Permalink → Listen →
SOMM TV wine & food Around 13:48 into the episode
Jason Wise

I'm having some very, very, very cheap Sauvignon Blanc I bought for cooking wine, but I had nothing else to open during this podcast. So here I am.

Jonah Beer

I love it. Still goes okay, my friend.

Jason Wise

…years, like fireside storytelling. That's what this movie feels like. It feels like a great storyteller is telling you a tale. It's kind of, you know, of ghosts and goblins and demons and whatever else. And, and, but so the wine now, when we get. Into this, there are two big wine scenes. And I want to do something very different than we normally do on this podcast. There are two wine scenes, and I watched this movie twice. I frame by framed. I took pictures of every single wine label, and they did something that makes me infuriated. They used fake wines. And so there's one scene where our protagonist, the black man, meets the family. They have the first dinner together. It's very tense. Allison Williams' brother, who is a very played by Caleb Landry Jones, a very good actor, but he's a very twitchy, disturbing actor in general, but also in this character. And he tries to do what I would classify as like a jujitsu. He wants to fight her…

Jonah Beer

Oh, okay. Jeez. Okay. All right. And

Jason Wise

so you living in Napa. I'm working in this industry. We're going to get ourselves in some shit here because there's one more scene to go that's even worse that happens in this movie. Okay. So I would like to ask you: Yeah, you have Bradley Whitford's character. Yeah. He wishes he could have voted…

Jonah Beer

Yeah. Yeah. He's drinking

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