SOMM TV

SOMM TV is a food and wine streaming network launched in 2019.^[1]

The network shows original films, such as SOMM, SOMM: Into the Bottle, SOMM 3, and The Delicacy as well as original series productions and educational content.^[2][1][3][4] It also shows licensed wine and food content such as Bottle Shock and Supersize Me.^[4]

Verticals, which features vintages that defined a winery or winemaker, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in fall 2019.^[3] In 2021 the service released a documentary titled Verticals: Lafite Rothschild.^[5] The program is narrated by Éric and Saskia de Rothschild.^[5]

In April 2020, the documentary A Chef's Voyage, which had been slated for a traditional release, instead premiered on SOMM with rental fees going to the LEE Initiative's Restaurant Workers Relief Program to support those laid off because of the COVID pandemic.^[6]

In 2021 it released a new reality TV competition show, Sparklers.^[7] It was nominated for a 2022 James Beard Foundation Award in the Reality or Competition Visual Media category.^{[citation needed]} Production was set to begin on a second season in spring 2023 with Joel McHale as a guest judge.^[8]

In February 2022, it premiered Saving The Restaurant, which followed Colorado restaurateur Bobby Stuckey as he tried to help restaurants avoid closure during the pandemic.^[9] When Stuckey's own restaurants close, Stuckey helped form the Independent Restaurant Coalition.^[10]

In June 2022 it premiered The Whole Animal.^[11] It won a James Beard Award in 2023 in the Visual Media - Long form category.^[12]

In July 2022 it released Auction Lot 288, the story of the world's most expensive Champagne, featuring a bottle of 1874 Perrier-Jouët.^[13][14]

The Oldest Vine was released in December 2022^[15] and tells the story of a more than 200 year old vine, still producing wine in Los Angeles at Mission San Gabriel.^[16]