A wine podcast bringing the joys of wine to wherever you are in the world. This is the place for fun, casual wine conversations, with tips, wine facts and wine tasting to inspire your next bottle of wine or vineyard visit. Listen to Winemakers, Sommeliers and Master of Wines who share their extensive knowledge, talking about wine regions and their terroir, their favourite wine pairings and winemaking techniques. This podcast is ideal for anyone starting their wine journey and studying WSET level 1 and 2 or just some great revision for those of you going even further. So grab that wine glass and lets get stuck in!
Episodes
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
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Today we are joined by Helena Nicklin, an award-winning drinks writer, a broadcaster, a judge, and author. who you can watch on TV Series, Three Drinkers (Currently showing on Amazon Prime). She is the winner of best contribution to Wine and Spirits Tourism 2022. She was recognised in the top 100 most influential people in drinks 2022. She has her own podcast called “Bring a Bottle”. This episode (Part 1) Helena talks about filming the Three Drinkers, some funny moments, and how she came about with this series. We talk about how she got into the wine industry, which really wasn't a very smooth start, and certainly something to open up your eyes, to how the industry is evolving and changing. But today's theme, which is COGNAC.
If you want to skip ahead:
2.06: Helena’s story into the wine industry
6.59: Starting with a youtube channel
11.33: How she started the TV Series The Three Drinks with Aidy Smith
(He has also been on my podcast (Ep 46) You can listen to him HERE)
15.19: Recording a series on Cognac
16.29: Still wines made in Cognac
17.21: Blending in Cognac
19.21: The Chalk soils and terroir in Cognac – looking at the sub regions
21.05: Understanding the Champagne name that gets used in two of the sub regions
21.50: Location of Cognac and visiting
22.39: Ideal food pairings for Cognac
25.22: Looking at labelling terms and the minimum age requirements for each
27.48: The difference between Cognac and Armagnac
29.29: Describing Cognac’s aromas and flavours
30.45: The different distillation methods of Cognac and Armagnac
32.02: Why does ‘Brandy’ have a bad name
33.21: Having Cognac in a cocktail
35.16: Buying Wine Tshirts for Helens online shop: DrinkyTees
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Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
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This is Part 2 with wine writer and speaker Christina Rasmussen and we are discussing planting your own vineyard and the decisions that you can make. Christina has planted her very own vineyard in England. So, we will talk about the soils, choosing massal selection over clonal selection, diseases and viruses and vines, grafting your own vines onto rootstocks, grape varieties such as Mondeuse and Pineau d’Aunis, trellising on stakes, high density planting, and so much more. And Christina will be explaining all her reasons for why she has made her decisions, which I just found fascinating, and I hope you do too.
If you want to skip ahead:
1.39: Why Christina planted her vineyard in Oxfordshire, England
3.49: Why plant Massal Selection rather than Clonal Selection?
7.53: Hand grafting V mechanical grafting
10.54: Planting Savagnin grape
11.21: Planting Gamay and Trousseau grape
12.20: Pineau d’Aunis grape variety
13.41: Mondeuse grape variety
15.19: Planting each vines on their own stake
18.58: Planting high density
20.58: Using natural treatments on the soil such as Horsetail ferments and avoiding sprays
23.19: The experience of physically planting each vine in a vineyard
26.35: What Christina has learnt about planting a vineyard
28.35: Inspirational wine friends who have helped Christina on her journey
MENTIONED ON EPISODE: THE ARTICLE DISCUSSING VINE MATERIAL AND VIRUS:
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Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
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Today’s episode is about the grape variety Palomino. Often thought of as a neutral grape variety yet there are certain people in the wine industry that are true believers like my guest today, Christina Rasmussen. She is a wine writer, speaker and has even made her very own still Palomino wine. So, I'm fascinated to pick Christina's brain to hear more about her love for this grape variety and her love for farming the soil and terroir. So, she will be talking about some of her wine projects and how she brings the winemakers story to life. And then, we will be discussing Palomino and all the winemaking steps that she took to make her very own still white wine.
If you want to skip ahead:
2.25: How Burgundy was the start of Christina’s wine story
6.13: Becoming a wine writer
8.49: LITTLEWINE – a digital platform enabling winemakers to communicate directly and tell their story
14.04: Favourite winery Pedres Blanques, Banyuls, whilst traveling France
15.28: Another recommended winery Domaine Ligas in Pella, Greece
16.03: What is permaculture?
18.37: Palomino: How Christina realized how good this variety can be, looking at wines from Envinate and Suertes del Marques in Tenerife, and Eben Sadie of the Sadie family wines and Adi Badenhorst in South Africa
25.01: Making wine with Abe Schoener, a winemaker who has the Scholium project, but also more recently the LA River Wine Company
28.32: Why Palomino can taste special
31.44: Discussing Christinas winemaking journey and decisions when making her own wine The Alley 2019
- flor or no flor
- skin contact
- adding marbles to barrel to raise the levels of juice to top
- leaving wine on heavy lees
- adding sulphites
39.52: How The Alley 2019 tasted
42.00: What Christina learned on her winemaking journey and rescuing a stuck fermentation
44.17: LA River Raisin City White 2019
46.05: Recommended winery for Palomino in Jerez: Muchada-Léclapart
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Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
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This episode is part 2 with wine expert Helen McGinn, who you can watch on BBC’s Saturday Morning Kitchen and ITV’s This Morning. She's the author of the Book and Blog: Knacked Mother's Wine Club. During her 10 years as a wine buyer, one of the most rewarding regions to visit and which offered great value was the South West of France. We will be talking about the wonderful array of different grape varieties down there, the wine styles and the sub regions.
If you want to skip ahead:
1.50: Why is South West of France such a special wine region
3.21: The Co-op Plaimont – supporters of the local varieties
5.09: The views, vistas, and beauty of this wine region
8.18: Travelling to this wine region
9.30: The largest sub-region Bergerac including Pécharmant
12.22: Saint Mont and Fronton sub-region
13.05: The local grapes to discover
14.03: Sweet wines of Monbazillac and Saussignac compared to Sauternes
16.07: Sweet wines of Jurançon
17.10: Sweet wines of Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh
18.40: Madiran and the grape variety Tannat
23.50: Cahors and the grape variety Côt (Malbec)
29.45: Visiting Château Tour des Gendres in Bergerac
34.06: Gaillac, Gaillac Primeur and the local grapes
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Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
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My guest today is Helen McGinn, wine expert on the BBC’s Saturday Morning Kitchen and ITV’s This Morning. She's the author of the Book and Blog: Knacked Mother's Wine Club. She has worked for over a decade as a wine buyer Tesco’s supermarket, and so this episode we are settling down to talk about her career and wine moments. We'll have some wine and food pairing recommendations and you’ll come away with a few wine tips. Enjoy.
If you want to skip ahead:
2.01: Helen’s wine journey
4.21: A Penfolds wine, that set the path for Helen
6.01: Krug 1988 – a significant wine memory
7.46: Joining Tesco’s as a wine buyer, and the lessons learnt
13.44: Starting the wine blog
19.08: Helen’s wine course on Create Academy
21.08: Tips for buying wine in a supermarket
23.36: Filming the wine course down at Wistons Estate with winemaker Dermot Sugrue
26.28: Choosing the wines on Saturday Morning Kitchen
27.48: Balfour Wineries Eight Acre Sparkling Rose £19.50 Coop
31.19: Best food pairings with wine
34.15: Discussing the flexibility of sparkling wine with all foods
35.39: Favorite wine glass for sparkling wine and wine glasses in general
38.43: Helen’s fiction books
41.32: The perfect wine for main character Stella in Helens latest book: This is Us
43.26: The perfect drink for Lizzie Bennett, Pride and Prejudice
44.21: The perfect wine for Lisbeth Salander, The girl with a dragon tattoo
Next week I am back with Helen for Part two and we are going to being talking about the wines of the South west of France.
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
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This is part 1 of the deep dive series into Sparkling wines: All on production and different sparkling wine methods. These episodes are specifically designed to help out my WSET diploma friends. This is a flashcard-style podcast, which is a useful way for those trying to memorize the information, however, for all of you who just love wine and want to know more and increase your knowledge, this will still be a really interesting episode as you can just play it all the way through like any other episode.
If you want to skip ahead:
2.28: The 6 different methods of sparkling wine
3.10: Traditional method
10.09: Transfer method
11.11: Charmat method
12.08: Method Ancestral
13.45: Asti Method
15.30: Moscato d’Asti
16.29: Vineyard decisions
18.17: Winery decisions
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
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This is part two of my chat with wine writer and now part time winemaker Chris Boiling. Check out his articles on Canopy, on the International Wine Challenge website. This episode is all about crazy wine making projects, discussing lesser known varieties, and that includes those of Georgia. We we talk about the wine capital Kakheti, the ancient art of ageing in Qvevri and discussing the Georgian grape varieties Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, Kisi and Khikhvi.
If you want to skip ahead:
1.12: Piwi varities
2.19: Saperavi, the red grape of Georgia
3.00: Rkatsiteli, the white grape of Georgia
4.30: Chris’ dream of making nine wines in five countries in one vintage
7.09: The grape variety Pearl of Victoria
12.41: The PIWI varieties Souvignier Gris and Muscaris
16.08: Lesser known Georgian white varieties: Kisi and Khikhvi
20.42: Looking at Qvevri traditions, what they are and how they are cleaned
30.32: The advantage of ageing in Qvevri
34.37: Getting to Kakheti, the main wine region in Georgia and it’s geography
40.47: Discussing in detail Kakheti, the wine capital
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Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
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This is part one of my chat with wine writer and now part time winemaker Chris Boiling. You can find his work in Decanter or other online wine magazines. And more recently, a wine newsletter called Canopy, which you can find on the International Wine Challenge website. We will be talking about the wines of Slovenia because Chris has bought a home with a small vineyard there and it has inspired all kinds of wine projects. On the famous wine site jancisrobinson.com, you may have seen him chronicling his winemaking disasters in a column called Diary of a Dream. For this reason we will be touching on some winemaking techniques and some mistakes Chris has made on the way. We will look at some interesting grape varieties like Laški Rizling, Refošk, and Rebula. You'll learn about some indigenous varieties of Slovenia alongside the three main wine regions of this country, and I'll be trying Chris's very unique and interesting Pinot Gris.
If you want to skip ahead:
1.58: Why did Chris decided to buy a vineyard in Slovenia?
5.21: Slovenian wine getting the fame it deserves and it’s neighbours
6.45: The wine region Podravje
8.25: Documenting Chris’ winemaking journey on Jancis Robinsons website, called The Diary of a Dream
12.01: The grape variety Laški Rizling and discussing Chris’ Pinot Gris and the winemaking process
18.54: Tasting Chris’ Pinot Gris
25.22: Food pairings for Orange wines/Skin contact wines
27.15: Furmint in Slovenia and it’s differences from Hungary
30.29: The wine region Primorska and Ribolla Gialla
33.31: The red wine Teran and Refosc
35.25: The third and final wine region Posavska
36.03: The wine Cviček
37.31: Indigenous varieties Zelen, Pinella, Ranina and Ranfol
38.59: Movia, a winery that you need to know about
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Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
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This is part two with the expert of Burgundy and Master of Wine, Jasper Morris. As we spoke about in the episode before, he has published two editions of his book “Inside Burgundy”, which both times has won the Andre Simon Prize. So this episode we are going through the regions of Burgundy from the Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise and Mâconnais. I am not going to touch on Chablis at the top or Beaujolais at the bottom as they deserve episodes to themselves. Jasper will be giving us some of his best value regions to look out for, some buying advice and his personal favourite Grand Crus.
If you want to skip ahead:
1.39: Interesting young producers and regions to look out for.
5.21: When was the appellation system created?
6.08: Explaining the appellation system.
12.04: More value wine regions to look out for.
13.27: The grape variety Aligoté.
15.11: One of Jasper’s special memories in Burgundy
17.20: A run down of all the regions and points to note about them,
24.28: Is climate change affecting where to plant on the slopes?
26.29: Jaspers personal favourite Grand Crus
29.22: Inside Burgundy website
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Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
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This is part one of two with the expert of Burgundy and Master of Wine, Jasper Morris. He has published two editions of his book “Inside Burgundy”, which both times has won the Andre Simon Prize. There really isn't much that Jasper doesn't know about Burgundy over the four decades that he has dedicated to this region. So this episode we'll be talking about the quality of Pinot noir and discussing the styles of this great variety across the world. Of course, Chardonnay will get a little attention to, we'll be talking about the use of natural yeasts in Burgundy and the changes in Burgundy over the last 40 years, looking at the use of fertilizers and their effects, the technologies that have been adopted and premox (premature oxidation).
If you want to skip ahead:
2.32: Chat with Jasper
4.33: How Jasper became a UK importer of Burgundian wine
8.14: What is the allure of Burgundy?
9.57: Addressing the cliches of Burgundy ie: The Holy Grail and being a minefield
14.51: Janina’s experience with a Grand Cru Musigny Comte George de Vogue
17.14: Does a new world or old world pinot style exist?
19.59: The flavours and descriptors for Pinot Noir
23.31: Chardonnay
26.07: Using natural yeast
27.59: How has Burgundy changed over the last 40 years?
29.55: Use of fertilizers and chemicals
32.39: Going organic and biodynamic
34.00: Premox
35.41: Natural cork, Diam cork, capusules and wax
39.26: The price changes in Burgundy
40.45: The differences between both editions of “Inside Burgundy” Book
AND NEXT WEEK: Part 2: We will run through the wine regions from top to bottom.
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