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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.
✒ The Bunch Tasting
The UK’s independent wine merchants are the source of the best value for money wines you can buy. The recent Bunch tasting demonstrated why. Find out some of the star wines they were showing.
▻ Jane Anson’s New Website Launch
Jane Anson talks to Sarah Kemp about launching her own website, www.janeanson.com, and why she believes the time is right to launch a site dedicated to the wines of Bordeaux.
▻ A Zoo in the Vineyard
Elin McCoy talks to Sarah Kemp about the increasing number of animals being used in various (and often ingenious) ways in vineyards around the world.
▻ The Bordeaux 2020 Campaign
Justin Gibbs of Liv-ex talks to Sarah Kemp about the 2020 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign – how it went, which châteaux did well, and why some didn’t…
▻ Chablis with Rosemary George MW
Rosemary George MW talks to Sarah Kemp about why Chablis is her favourite wine, how its changed, her favourite producers and vintages and the issues it faces today.
▻ Collecting and Investing in Wine – Part Two
In the second of our series “Collecting and Investing,” Elin McCoy talks to Tom Gearing, CEO of Cult Wines.
▻ South America’s Most Exciting New Wine Regions
Leading South America expert Patricio Tapia talks to John Stimpfig about the most exciting new regions in South America and their brilliant producers.
▻ Roussillon
France’s Priorat? Rosemary George MW talks to Sarah Kemp about the wines of Roussillon. She argues they should be as well-known as some of the stars of Priorat, and discusses her exciting discoveries in this overlooked wine region.
▻ Wine and Cryptocurrency
Jane Anson investigates cryptocurrency and talks to Flavien Darius Pommier of Ch Darius and Louis de Bonnecase of BTC Wine who are the wine world’s crypto-pioneers.
▻ Old Vine Vineyards
John Stimpfig talks to Sarah Abbott MW, a woman on a mission to galvanise wine lovers to value great old vines and their wines.
▻ En Primeur 2020
Sarah Kemp talks to Bordeaux expert Jane Anson about En Primeur and the 2020 vintage, which is she is in the middle of reviewing.
▻ German Wine
Sarah Kemp talks to Anne Krebiehl MW, the author of The Wines of Germany, which won the 2020 Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year award.
▻ Champagne’s new wine museum
Jane Anson talks to Gary Shelley from Casson Mann, the man behind the design of Pressoria, the new “Centre for Sensory Interpretation of Champagne”.
✒ Book Review – Château Lafite: The Almanac
Brian St Pierre reviews Château Lafite: The Almanac, 600 pages covering 150 vintages!
▻ Château Climens new dry wine
Berenice Lurton talks about making the first dry wine in the history of Ch Climens, Asphodele.
▻ Wine in Space – Part 2
The Return of Petrus. Sarah Kemp talks to Jane Anson, the only journalist at the tasting of the wine that just returned from space, which was revealed to be Petrus 2000.
✒ Book Review – The Wines of South Africa
Brian St Pierre reviews Jim Clarke’s book Wines of South Africa and finds “it’s a book to be read not dipped into”.
▻ Collecting and Investing in Wine – Part One
In the first of our new “Collecting and Investing” series, Elin McCoy asks Jamie Ritchie of Sotheby’s how to start collecting wine, whether for pleasure or investment.
▻ How Family Equals Sustainability
Jane Anson talks to Paul Symington of Primum Familiae Vini (PVF), an association of 12 of the world’s most historic wine producers, about their sustainability prize.
✒ Scrabble
If you want to win at Scrabble become a wine buff. From our new discovery “Cloop”, to grape names with high scoring points, Brian St Pierre reveals the words which will set you on the winning path.