Celebrating what’s in the glass.
Revived from a previous iteration in 2022, Another Bottle Down is a bi-weekly podcast that explores the when, what, why, and how of the wine and spirits world. Join us as we share the ins and outs, the stories, and our honest insights one bottle at at time.
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Jessica Dupuy
Jessica Dupuy is a Wine & Spirits columnist for Texas Monthly magazine and Forbes.com. Her work has also appeared in Food & Wine, Decanter, Wine Enthusiast, Imbibe, GuildSomm, SevenFifty Daily, Southern Living, and National Geographic Traveler. She holds a Diploma with the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust, and is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, and a Certified Specialist of Wine and Spirits through the Society of Wine Educators.
Jessica has also covered food trends for various publications throughout her career and is the author of Uchi: The Cookbook, The Salt Lick Cookbook: A Story of Land, Family and Love, Jack Allen’s Kitchen Cookbook, The United Tastes of Texas and The United Tastes of the South through Southern Living, and Tex-Mex: Traditions, Innovations, and Comfort Foods from Both Sides of the Border with Atlanta-based chef Ford Fry. Her latest book, The Wines of Southwest U.S.A., a part of the Classic Wine Library, covers the emerging American wine regions in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.
Dupuy holds a B.A. in History from Trinity University and an M.A. in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier–Austin. Dupuy lives in the Texas Hill Country. Among the things she enjoys most are cooking with her kids, sharing great wine with friends, and fly fishing with her husband.
Table Topics
Favorite Wine Region Visited: Central Otago or Valle de Uco (I like Mountain Wine.)
Favorite Beverage T-Shirt: “Jesus Drank Riesling” from Mount Edward Winery in Central Otago
What do you collect: Soil from Wine Regions 🤓
Regrets: I never regret a Gin & Tonic… or a Texas Sheet Cake.
Go-To Spirit: Gin. (Martini, Gin & Tonic, Negroni. They rarely disappoint.)
Struggles With: Mixing metaphors and Fernet Branca with Coke.
Mark Rashap
Mark Rashap is a Certified Wine Educator (CWE) and Regional Sales Manager for Broadbent Selections, an importer of fine wine from around the world. Mark oversees sales and strategic brand development in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Previously, he served as Director of Wine Education for the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas in Austin and consulted privately for various distributors, brokers, and restaurant chains.
With more than 20 years in of experience in the wine industry, Mark has worked in practically every sector from winemaking and brokering wine to retail sales, curriculum development, and video and podcast creation. It was a bottle of Finca L’Ermita shared among a table of winemakers in Falset, Spain that first inspired him to pursue wine. He took passion to a professional level by studying Wine Management while living in Argentina and later as assistant winemaker at :Nota Bene Cellars in Washington State. Chasing his future wife brought him to Austin in 2009.
Mark is a true believer that wine empowers us to appreciate different cultures, celebrate friendship, relive a piece of history, and connect ourselves with the earth. This sentiment led him to start the radio show, Another Bottle Down on Austin’s KOOP 91.7 FM which aired from 2015- 2018.
Table Topics
Favorite Wine Region Visited: There’s something magical about the hills of Barolo, and the people in Australia are so much fun. But, I have yet to got to South Africa
Favorite Beverage T-Shirt: My “Team Negroni” shirt from Jo Barrett. Because who isn’t on that team?
What do you collect: According to my wife, way too many wine maps.
Regrets: I passed on a ride to the Tomatina Festival in Spain. The lesson: Never pass up a tomato fight.
Go-To Spirit: Gin. See favorite t-shirt.
Struggles With: Knowing when to stop talking… and Napa Valley pricing, both the wines and the tourism. There I said it.