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Wine News

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7 episodes

4 days ago

Martinborough Pinot Noir; the impact of Australian winemakers on New Zealand wine; Pinot Blanc vs. Pinot Gris; Calmére sale in Napa, Napa vineyard prices and the worrying drop in interest at recent California charity wine auction; Hungary's vineyards under threat from Flavescence Doré and the lack of coverage in wine news; non-alcoholic Sauternes; thieves don't steal wine from Bordeaux Second Growth Ducru-Beaucaillou; more direct action vandalism as intruders empty wine tanks in Bordeaux; for...

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Wine news episode 13

4 days ago

29 minutes

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Wine news episode 12

Remembering Nicolas Potel and the people behind the wine we drink; the best Bourbons of 2025; the US government shutdown and its effect on wines, wine labels and stopping new wine from hitting the shelves; irate feedback from readers and the issues around publishing reader comments, defamation and libel; cannabis smuggled in barrels discovered in Bordeaux; intern dies at Chapoutier; Burgundy winegrower spat with mayor; Cognac to start major vine-pull program; and the Adelaide Symphony Orchest...

2 weeks ago

33 minutes

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Wine news episode 11

Sport and wine this week, along with Italian fraud tales, the interview with Instagram wine personality Emre Rende of Château Garbage; restaurant wine lists and the job of the sommelier; Don and Olly ask if things are slowly getting better in the wine world; the return of violence in the south of France as the CAV raid a cellar in Corbières; Oscar-winning French actor Jean Dujardin releases his whiskey (joining the likes of George Clooney's Tequila and Dan Ackroyd's Vodka); Vinos de Pago, and...

1 month ago

39 minutes

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Wine news episode 10

Darkness, doom and gloom this week as Don and Olly cover the violent death of a woman at the hands of an Italian winemaker; possible smoke taint legal action in Napa Valley; a violent CBD "influencer" charged with extortion and harassment in a Bordeaux court after trying to make the world's most expensive wine; a death in a wine cellar in Muscadet after a winemaker falls into a vat; and another winegrower suicide in Bordeaux. We also cover drones doing vineyard work (and ask whether worker pa...

1 month ago

32 minutes

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Wine news episode 09

Harvests in Champagne and California; "small quantity but high quality" and is there ever a bad harvest; should England drop sparkling wine and adopt still Chardonnay; can you have a wine industry without a bulk wine industry; pesticides, herbicides and fungicides in vineyards; is organic viticulture the answer; Germany's wine industry on the brink; Bordeaux vineyards on the brink too; and anthropomorphic drinking – would chimps make for violent drinkers?

1 month ago

34 minutes

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Wine news episode 08

Simple pleasures (Sparkling Shiraz and Pinot Noir); the world's most expensive Bordeaux and the world's most expensive wines; Trump's tariffs on the way to the Supreme Court; wine's global decline; is viticulture in Rias Baixas the solution? Wine delivered to a Bordeaux prison, Açai wine and a supermarket wine thief's special belt.

1 month ago

26 minutes

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Wine news episode 7

Don and Olly discuss climate change and global warming with the news that St-Emilion estates are already harvesting, Château Lafleur has left the Pomerol appellation, and what this means for terroir in a changing world. Other topics include the ongoing To Kalon court dispute, politicians getting involved in Calimocho competitions, the expanding vineyard footprint on the Balearic Islands and news that Ravenswood Zinfandel is on the cusp of a revival...

2 months ago

26 minutes