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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.
▻ How to Build a Wine Empire
How do you build a new wine empire? Sarah Kemp talks to Michael Saunders, CEO of Coterie Holdings who is on a mission to do just that.
✒ Great Wines Take Time
A vertical of the rare Château Grillet, organised by Libération Tardive, whose aim is to reintroduce wine enthusiasts to the values and pleasures of well-aged wines.
▻ Casa Real with Baltazar Sánchez
Baltazar Sánchez, the Chairman of the historic Chilean estate Vina Santa Rita, talks to Sarah Kemp about how Casa Real came to be one of Chile’s flagship wines.
✒ Connoisseur Week 2024
Sarah Kemp looks back at her personal highlights of 2024’s fabulous Connoisseur Week.
▻ Wine Maps
Wine map guru Chris Foulkes talks about the history of wine maps, and Jane Anson’s new terroir maps of Bordeaux.
▻ Bordeaux 2023 – Part Two
The second part of our deep-dive into Bordeaux 2023 – a vintage Bordeaux lovers will love.
▻ Bordeaux 2023 – Part One
The first part of our deep-dive into Bordeaux 2023 – putting together the jigsaw puzzle of understanding the latest vintage.
▻ Bordeaux 2023 – A Preview With Jane Anson
As the En Primeur tastings get into full swing, Bordeaux expert Jane Anson looks at the weather conditions that have formed the 2023 vintage.
▻ Biondi-Santi with Giampiero Bertolini
Giampiero Bertolini of Biondi-Santi talks to Sarah about Italy’s iconic estate and the release of the Riserva Storica 1988 and 2010.
✒ Isole e Olena New Releases
Great to meet Emanuele Reolon, the new Estate Director of Isole e Olena at the River Café for the launch of the new vintages.
▻ Ukraine’s Champagne for Victory
Sarah Kemp talks to Mariia Didkovska in Kyiv about “Victoire de la Dignité” a champagne made by Pierre Morlet, with six Ukrainian artists designing the labels.
▻ The Best Books on Bordeaux
Jane Anson and Sarah Kemp discuss their favourite books on Bordeaux – including the novels every claret lover should read.
✒ Why I believe that Tuscany’s golden era is right now
I am convinced that Tuscany’s golden era is right now. Find out why.
✒ The Wine Show
Humour a-plenty this month at “The Wine Show” exhibition at Chris Beetles Gallery in St. James, London.
▻ Ornellaia
A deep dive into how the original Super Tuscan ages – a historic tasting of Ornellaia, one of Italy’s most renowned wines, from 1988 to 2020.
▻ Wine Glasses with Maximilian Riedel
How many wine glasses do you need? Sarah Kemp talks to Maximilian Riedel, the eleventh generation of his family, who have been making glass since 1756.
▻ Australia’s First Growth
Sue Hodder talks to John Stimpfig about Wynns Coonawarra John Riddoch Estate, one of Australia’s First Growths.
▻ Rare Wine Books
Jane Anson talks to Ben Kinmont, the rare bookseller who was responsible for selling Sean Thackery’s unrivalled collection of wine books to Domaine Clarence Dillon.