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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.
▻ 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.
▻ 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.