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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 with Jasper Morris MW
Jasper Morris MW talks about the second edition of his book, “Inside Burgundy,” and what has changed since the first edition 11 years ago.
▻ Randall Grahm
Elin McCoy interviews the iconoclastic maverick Californian winemaker Randall Grahm.
▻ Climate Change with Jeremy Cukierman MW
Jane Anson talks to Jeremy Cukierman MW about his new book “Quel Vin Pour Demain?”.
▻ The Bordeaux Market in the US
Elin McCoy investigates Americans’ renewed love affair with Bordeaux.
✒ Book Review – South of Somewhere
Brian St Pierre reviews South of Somewhere by Robert V. Camuto.
▻ Vitalie Taittinger
In our series ‘The Next Generation’, Elin McCoy talks to Vitalie Taittinger about taking over from her father as President at Champagne Taittinger.
▻ The Irish Influence on Bordeaux with Professor Charles Ludington
Who knew that the Irish were responsible for modern Bordeaux?
▻ Omnibus IX
John Stimpfig looks at the Liv-ex 2021 classification’s winners and losers, plus the lawsuit in St Emilion, sale of Jancisrobinson.com, Napa’s elaborate tasting rooms, and more, lively discussions in this month’s episode.
✒ 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…
▻ Omnibus VIII
Biblical times, fire and floods in the vineyards around the world. Jane Anson, Elin McCoy and John Stimpfig report on the big wine stories happening now.
▻ 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.
▻ Juan Pablo Torres-Padilla
What does it take to buy an unknown Napa estate and restore it to greatness? Elin McCoy talks to Juan Pablo Torres-Padilla about how he came to buy the Sullivan Rutherford Estate.
▻ 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.
▻ Omnibus VII
Omnibus Seven is full of politics and controversy this month – Ausone and Cheval Blanc are leaving the Saint Emilion classification, Champagne industry’s fury at Putin’s new wine law, new research says sulphites aren’t to blame for allergies plus revolutionary paper bottles and lots more.
▻ 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.