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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.
▻ Sebastián Labbé – The 2024 Chilean Vintage
Sebastián Labbé, Chief Winemaker for Santa Rita premium wines, talk about Chile’s 2024 vintage.
▻ Jean-Charles Boisset
The audacious Burgundian who shook up the US wine scene with his consumer-friendly, innovative and sometimes controversial wine experiences.
▻ Paolo de Marchi
As Paolo de Marchi leaves Isole e Olena after 50 years, find out how he helped change the image of Italian wine forever.
▻ Eduardo Chadwick
Eduardo Chadwick kick-started modern Chilean winemaking and proved to the world that Chile could make fine wine.
▻ 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.
▻ Olivier Bernstein
Olivier Bernstein is one of Burgundy’s new bright stars. He talks to Elin McCoy about how his dream of making top Burgundy came true.
▻ 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.
▻ 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.
▻ Marchese Lamberto Frescobaldi
Sarah Kemp talks to Marchese Lamberto Frescobaldi the 30th generation of his family to make wine, in our series “Great Wine Lives.”
▻ Randall Grahm
Elin McCoy interviews the iconoclastic maverick Californian winemaker Randall Grahm.
▻ 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.
▻ Peter Vinding-Diers
A frank and fascinating interview with Peter Vinding-Diers, the revolutionary winemaker whose autobiography “Viking in the Vineyard” has just been published.