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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.
▻ Burgundy Cuisine
Rosi Hanson talks to Sarah Kemp on how menus have changed in Burgundy – they discuss the catalysts for change, including oeno-tourism, grower wines and Asia.
▻ 2010 Bordeaux Review
Sarah Kemp talks to Bordeaux expert Jane Anson and Kristian Nooitgedagt of Eleanor Wine, about the highly acclaimed 2010 Bordeaux vintage.
▻ Wine in Space
Jane Anson talks to Nicolas Gaume, one of the two founders of Space Cargo Unlimited, about his extraordinary mission – sending wine into space.
▻ 2009 Bordeaux Review
The Wine Conversation takes a deep dive into the 2009 Bordeaux vintage.
▻ Silver Heights
Sarah Kemp talks to one of China’s most renowned winemakers, Emma Gao, who is the chief winemaker at her family estate Silver Heights.
▻ The World’s Greatest Wine Library
Jane Anson talks to Axel Borg, who has just retired from being the Chief Librarian of the UC Davis Wine Library (described by Hugh Johnson as “the world’s greatest wine library”).
▻ Burgundy 2019
Sarah Kemp talks to Anthony Hanson MW about the 2019 vintage. They discuss the quality of the vintage and the impact of the cancelled annual January Burgundy tastings.
✒ Wine on Film
Now that streaming offers us a seemingly endless buffet of movies and TV shows, it seems every taste can be catered for, including gastronomy.
▻ Australia's Extraordinary Wine History
The story behind how Australia became a world-class wine producer, the people, the stories, the setbacks and the triumphs.
✒ Festive Fizz
Whatever the occasion, a glass of bubbly will pick you up, and we all owe it to ourselves after a tough year to bring out our best bottles of fizz.
✒ Book Reviews
New book round-up 2020: recommended wine reads from John Stimpfig and Sarah Kemp
✒ The Labels of Mouton Rothschild
The world’s greatest artists have appeared on the labels of Château Mouton Rothschild. Sarah Kemp finds out the stories behind the labels and how they decide on which artist will appear.
▻ “The Story of Wine”
Sarah Kemp talks to Hugh Johnson about his book "The Story of Wine" which traces the story of wine from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
▻ Assemblage
Sarah Kemp talks to three of Bordeaux's greatest producers on the art of blending individual lots to make their grand vin.
✒ Alpha Estate
Alpha Estate, one of Greece’s most renowned wineries, lies in the remote wilderness of the Amyndeon appellation in the Florina region.