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CONVERSATIONS
The wine conversation is all about conversations around wine, be it great wine lives, recommendations or travel.
Every month we will be recording ‘magazine-style’ podcasts, but we will also be having in-depth looks at certain subjects and releasing these as separate episodes.
Find the conversations that interest you the most – search by category, or indeed any term / name of interest. Some of our articles contain audio files of our conversations.
▻ Jean-Charles Boisset
The audacious Burgundian who shook up the US wine scene with his consumer-friendly, innovative and sometimes controversial wine experiences.
▻ Denise Adams
Denise Adams left the world of art and interior design to become a biodynamic vintner in Bordeaux and the Napa Valley – listen to her story.
▻ Jamie Kutch
Jamie Kutch is known for his stylish Pinot Noirs. He tells Elin McCoy how he left his job as a trader at Merrill Lynch in New York to pursue his dream.
▻ Trevor Durling of Beaulieu Vineyard
Trevor Durling of Beaulieu Vineyard talks to John Stimpfig about the winery’s illustrious history and discusses the latest 2020 vintage of Georges de Latour Private Reserve.
▻ Hélène Seillan
In our series “The Next Generation” Elin McCoy talks to Hélène Seillan of Vérité in Sonoma about how she left France speaking no English and ended up as Assistant Winemaker to her father Pierre at Vérité.
▻ Tor Kenward
Elin McCoy talks to Tor Kenward as part of our Great Wine Lives series about his 40-plus years in the Napa Valley and his own personal odyssey.
▻ Massican with Dan Petroski
Dan Petroski of Massican Winery talks to Elin McCoy about how he left the world of magazines in New York to become a celebrated Napa Valley winemaker.
▻ Bill Harlan
Bill Harlan talks to Elin McCoy in our series “Great Wine Lives” about how he devised a 200-year plan to create a first growth in California.
▻ Juan Pablo Torres-Padilla
What does it take to buy an unknown Napa estate and restore it to greatness? Elin McCoy talks to Juan Pablo Torres-Padilla about how he came to buy the Sullivan Rutherford Estate.
▻ Maya Dalla Valle
In the second of our series “The next generation” – Maya Dalla Valle talks to Elin McCoy about taking over as head winemaker at her family’s cult Napa winery.
▻ Jesse and Andy Katz
World-renowned photographer Andy Katz took his son Jesse everywhere with him as a child and ignited his passion to become a winemaker. Today he is one of America’s hottest young winemakers and father and son own cult winery Aperture Cellars in Sonoma.
▻ Will Harlan and Cory Empting
What is it like to take over two of California’s iconic estates from a man with a 200-year plan? Elin McCoy talks to Will Harlan and Cory Empting.