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Marlborough at 50: A wine story worthy of Hollywood
Season 5 Episode 2
This is a tale of deception, daring, disaster...and deliverance.
It also features skinny sheep and wine robots.
It's the story of Marlborough, the icon…
2 years, 7 months ago
The John Malkovich EXCLUSIVE
Season 4 Episode 1
'My wife suggested we make wine. I think in the hope of cutting down our wine bill...'
It's classic John Malkovich. The wit as dry as his aged Provenç…
2 years, 7 months ago
LIVE Q&A - sulfites, party wines, climate change, top wine tourism tips and being pretentious
Season 4 Episode 25
This bonus episode may be the last in the current season (4) but it's also a first - the first time we've ever recorded the pod in front of a live au…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Microbial Face of Terroir
Season 4 Episode 24
This episode opens by linking Oppenheimer, Covid-19 and wine - and proceeds to go big by focusing on the small stuff.
Microbes. The invisible world of…
2 years, 8 months ago
Germany's Pulling Power
Season 4 Episode 23
Did you know that Germany is the third largest producer of Pinot Noir in the world?
Or that one in three Riesling vines in the world grow in German vi…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Mystery of Minerality
Season 4 Episode 22
It's a wine word almost everyone uses - but no one really knows what it means, what causes it, or where it's come from.
It makes some people angry, it…
2 years, 10 months ago
Portugal's Fine Wines: Here Be Treasures
Season 4 Episode 21
We all know port. But there’s a whole universe of fine Portuguese table wine out just waiting to be explored. It’s far less known but certainly no le…
2 years, 10 months ago
No Schist Sherlock: How Wine Gets Rocks Wrong
Season 4 Episode 20
‘From virtually any soil a high-quality wine can be made. The use of geology to promote the quality of a wine is thus merely a marketing tool.’
This …
2 years, 11 months ago
Santorini - Wines to Save an Island
Season 4 Episode 19
Santorini's future is in jeopardy. This ancient, famous island vineyard risks being lost beneath the tourism industry's bulldozers. So how can its wi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Santorini - Wine's Jurassic Park
Season 4 Episode 18
Let's go on an adventure to a place variously described as, 'Like being shot to the moon with a glass of fine wine in your hand' and where, 'you basi…
2 years, 11 months ago