Riedel Glass
Our latest podcast contains an interview with Georg Riedel of the Riedel Glassworks Company which celebrates 250 years of existence this year.
Topics covered: The relationship between Riedel and the Swarovski family, the most difficult period since Georg Riedel took over the firm, innovations in glass manufacture, how a wine glass can show a wine to [...]
Whilst on the subject of Yquem…
Just a day or so ago we posted our latest podcast from People in Wine. This is an interview with Alexandre de Lur Saluces whose family married into the estate over a couple of hundred years ago and who was running Yquem for thirty years up until the beginning of the new millenium. The questions [...]
Pinot: the parties of the second part…
Well, the second part has been out a week or so. We have interviews with Jacky Barthelmè (Alsace, France), Paul Fürst (Germany), Joe Davis (California) and Michel Bettane. You can listen to it either through iTunes (and other podcatchers) or by clicking on our customised radio player either on the right hand side on Blog [...]
Pinot - the parties in the first part
We’ve posted our latest podcast entitled Pinot Noir Around the World Part I. That’s right… we’ve had to divide our material into two parts because we had so much of it. I think the interviews we have with the winemakers are fascinating - they all have hugely different backgrounds - and yet united in their [...]
People in Wine: Lesson Number One
Frank Swainston (below), in his kitchen at Constantia Uitsig, Cape Town , South Africa.
Our latest podcast People in Wine Special: food and wine matching, is available for download on whichever podcatcher you favour. You can also listen online at our main website - www.finewinepress.com. It is a special year-end edition and hence longer [...]
People in Wine
In the current programme (no. 4) we interview two sparkling wine producers (sic!) about their techniques and their objectives - Rob McNeill from Mumm Napa (USA) and Natalia Fryar from Jansz in Tasmania. Richard Juhlin gives us his thoughts on some perfect food matching for Champagne and sparkling wines. You can hear this podcast on [...]
People in Wine: Champagne
A two-part programme, the second will focus on New World sparkling wines. In the first programme we have an interview with Remi Krug (Rèmi Krug)) and ask him what is so special about Krug Champagne?
People in Wine - A matter of taste
Just thought we would let you know that our next programme (the second - hope you managed to catch the first programme) will be out shortly. We are covering some questions concerning ‘taste’ - that multi-faceted subject which is so hugely misunderstood and is so complicated. We try and answer some basic questions: is food [...]
People in Wine now available on iTunes
‘People in Wine’ is now available through Apple’s iTunes software. If you have iTunes, simply go to the Podcasts section and look under ‘wine’. We’re near the top of the list.
People in Wine
Preview a new radio programme / podcast on wine - ‘People in Wine’: interviews include Carole Bouquet on her wine Sangue d’Oro, a Passito from Pantelleria. Rod Phillips author of A Short History of Wine (Penguin Books) on Ontario Wines and the misuse of ‘terroir’. Michel Bettane on Burgundian wines and his views [...]