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A French Château in Wisconsin: 13th-Generation Winemaker Philippe Coquard on the Remarkable History of Wollersheim Winery
Episode 6
What is one of America’s oldest winery buildings doing on a hillside above the Wisconsin River? This episode was recorded on location at Wollersheim …
17 hours ago
Wine That Built the Roman Empire: Master of Wine Joel Butler on Ancient Rome’s Lost Vintages
Episode 5
What did the Romans actually have in their cups? Joel Butler, one of the first two US-resident Masters of Wine (a title he earned in 1990), joins hos…
1 week, 6 days ago
How France Conquered the Wine World (and the Man Executed for Bad Wine) | Rod Phillips
Episode 1
Why did France become the center of the wine world? Wine historian Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University and author of French Win…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Champagne at 10 A.M.: What Burgundy’s Winemakers Don’t Tell You About Terroir | Marion Demossier
Episode 2
What is terroir, and is it really just soil and climate? Anthropologist Marion Demossier, Professor of French and European Studies at the University …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Hiding Wine from the Nazis: How French Winemakers Outsmarted the Reich | Don & Petie Kladstrup
Episode 3
In June 1940, France fell to Nazi Germany, and the occupiers quickly set their sights on one of the country's greatest treasures: its wine. Award-win…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Wine’s Hidden Family Tree: Grape DNA Detective José Vouillamoz on Where Your Wine Really Comes From
Episode 4
Where does your wine really come from? Swiss botanist and grape geneticist Dr. José Vouillamoz, co-author of the James Beard Award–winning Wine Grape…
2 weeks, 6 days ago