Name: Session 3A: WINE, WELLNESS, AND OTHER MODERN CONTRADICTIONS @ Anthony Road
Start: 2026-06-29T10:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-29T10:45:00-0400

Welcome to the FLXCURSION 2026 - International Riesling Expo!

Session 3A: WINE, WELLNESS, AND OTHER MODERN CONTRADICTIONS @ Anthony Road

Monday June 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

Anthony Road Wine Company @ 1020 Anthony Rd, Penn Yan, NY 14527, USA

WINE, WELLNESS, AND OTHER MODERN CONTRADICTIONS
Maryam Ahmed · Samantha Cole-Johnson · Jon Ross · Dr. Max Wallace
Monday 10:00–11:45 AM · Anthony Road

The prevailing narrative places wine and wellness on opposite ends of the spectrum. One is framed as indulgence, the other as discipline. One promises pleasure, the other control. But as rates of loneliness climb, burnout becomes commonplace, and hospitality grapples with how to care for both guests and workers, perhaps we're asking the wrong (or at least insufficient) questions. Join moderator Maryam Ahmed (Maryam + Company) and panelists Samantha Cole-Johnson (Senior Editor US, JancisRobinson.com), Jon Ross (Co-founder, Legend Imports), and Dr. Max Wallace (Clinical Psychologist and Certified Sommelier/WSET 3) for a conversation that goes beyond supplements, step counts, and hangover discourse. Through a tasting of exceptional wines, we'll interrogate connection, mental health, labor, community, and the role of pleasure in a meaningful life. Because if wellness is only about what we eliminate, we’re missing the point entirely.

Flight 1
1. Mt. Yengo Brut, NV Adelaide Hills, South Australia
2. Fio ‘Teppo’ Riesling Trocken, 2020 Mosel, Germany
3. A.J. Adam Häs’chen Riesling GG, 2023 Mosel, Germany
4. Chalmers Greco, 2021 Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
Flight 2
5. Frog’s Leap La Grenouille Rouganté Rosé, 2025 Redwood Valley, CA
6. Dr. Lippold ANTE Ürziger Würzgarten-Neuberg, 2018 Mosel, Germany
7. Commonwealth Crush Ghost in the Scene, 2025 Virginia, USA
8. Hermann Wiemer Josef Vineyard Noble Select, 2014 Finger Lakes, NY

Moderators

Maryam Ahmed

Speakers

Samantha Cole-Johnson

Senior Editor US, Panelist

Sam has been writing for JancisRobinson.com since her Diary of a Willamette cellar rat series in 2019. Since then, she has worked five harvests (bouncing hemispheres), collected her DipWSET, been shortlisted once for a Roederer International Wine Writers Award and twice for the IWSC... Read More →