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Susie and Peter are married Masters of Wine (they really should get out more). In this upbeat show they bring wine to life with a smile via interviews, chat, travel, food, tips, gentle bicke...
Grab your magnifying glass and white coat, we're getting microscopic - but this goes well beyond fermentation. We're exploring the...
Sauvignon Blanc is one of the wine world's most divisive grape varieties. On the one hand, it's hugely popular for its aromatic ch...
SUBSCRIBER BONUS TASTER - A privileged tasting of 100-point wines gets us thinking about scores, so-called perfection in wine, the risks of...
August 2025, a torrid Bordeaux summer: cue thunderbolt. Lafleur , one of Bordeaux's most acclaimed wines, sensationally quits the Pomer...
Meet John Baker , Sydney wine merchant turned Indiana Jones turned author of Stalin's Wine Cellar , one of the most eye-opening wine st...
It's not every wine story that comes with lashings of guns and cash and enforcers and heart-rending breakages - plus the odd death thre...
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY BONUS CONTENT (short taster) : What makes a successful medical inventor develop a parallel life aiming to fundamentally chan...
In which we get over-excited by not only announcing the winners (and sharing the best entries) from our epic Wine Blast One Million Giveaway...
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY BONUS CONTENT (short taster) - Sam Neill leads a double life. He's not Batman, or Bananaman. He's ConvivialWineCha...
New Zealand wine stands at a fork in the road. One path leads towards corporate behemoths churning out industrial quantities of mass-market...
Peter Fraser, head winemaker and general manager at Yangarra Estate Vineyard in McLaren Vale, Australia, died in a house fire on 27th Novemb...
Australia's McLaren Vale is a wine region undergoing a thrilling reinvention based largely around new-wave old-vine Grenache and a motl...
So what do a boxer, a ballerina and a burlesque dancer have in common? You're gonna have to listen to find out... We're very excit...
Books that caught our eye this year include Schott's Significa (yes, 'forbidden soup' is as grisly as it sounds), The Cheese...
Treats galore in this show! Because not only are we announcing our stellar Wines of the Year, we're also launching a HUGE giveaway to c...
What do Hermitage, The Sex Pistols, Tavel and Pink Floyd have in common? They all, ahem, featured at a particularly funky recent London tast...
We all know champagne - but what if you fancy a wine like champagne but maybe less pricey, more fruity or just different? The good news is:...
We're in the middle of, 'the mystery of the world's most expensive bottle of wine.' We've seen the auction, met the...
Picture the scene. Christie's auction house, London, December 1985. A dapper auctioneer is expertly tantalising the stellar audience wi...
Fancy a story about warriors, monks, family strife, an undercover grape variety, risking financial ruin for stubbornly sticking to stylistic...
We have awards! We have good eggs, hot rocks and jailbird vignerons! We even have acts of civilisation and love. Welcome to our Chile Wines...
Jancis Robinson is a wine superstar. But in this concluding episode of our two-part exclusive interview, we want to get behind the sparkling...
Jancis Robinson is without doubt the leading wine writer in the world today. But what's she really like behind the (highly) professiona...
Ahead of Season Seven, we have an announcement! We're finally launching subscriptions - a very exciting moment as we aim to take Wine B...
What's the difference between Prosecco - and Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG? Why is Prosecco a 'democratic'...
English county Essex is better known for its brash behaviour (and certain reality TV shows) than its beautiful wines. But is all that about...
In fiction, Shangri-La was a mythical place of boundless human wisdom and agelessness. These days, after China re-named a city in north-west...
It's not every day the world of wine is described in terms like: 'adrenaline rush,' and going 'crazy'. Welcome to t...
BREAKING: A titanic showdown between top champagnes and the best of the rest has been settled. The victors? Headline writers... This is an i...
Where we selectively recap on the wine headlines in recent months (informative - but also fun) and respond to various questions, comments......
Brilliant rogues counterfeit unicorn wine, fool the establishment and laugh their way to the bank. It's good story - so good that even...
Some people say you need loads of different wine glasses. Others say you need just one kind (known as 'universals'). There's...
Ridge is an iconic wine producer - not just in its homeland California, but in global terms too. But how and why did it attain this status i...
Wine. In a can. A hellish reality of tinny plonk? Or a convenient, eco-friendly, fun new format that's the future for wine? This is fun...
Appellations are wine regions with rules, normally associated with Europe. So how come an enviably free-wheeling, super successful region li...
Wine and other booze are under attack like seldom before, from many sides: moralists, the media, health authorities citing dubious studies.....
Western Australia's Margaret River is renowned as one of the world's foremost fine wine hotspots. But it only got started in 1967,...
What the hell...where the hell...is the Great Southern?! That's what most people say. Which is why Peter got on a plane and braved fire...
Why does wine taste the way it does? Why does Cabernet smell like blackcurrant? Or Syrah like pepper? Or Beaujolais like...bananas?! In this...
Is it a white? Is it a red?! Is it a rosé??!! Or is our WINE OF THE YEAR none (or all) of the above...because it is, quite simply, pure gold...
There's a revolution going on in the vineyards. It's coming to a glass near you soon. And it could change the world of wine foreve...
This show's got everything. It's got deliciously unexpected wine discoveries. It's got live music. It's even got a donke...
Ladybug poo. Cheesy feet. Mould. Boiled eggs. Cabbage. Drains. Vomit. Nail varnish remover. Dead mouse... Yes, you can find all these noxiou...
China has the world's third biggest vineyard and a long history with fermentation and booze. So what's Chinese wine like? Why do w...
Consider this our call to arms for wine. Where we grapple heroically with the thorny issue of wine and health, calling out misinformation an...
A hop, skip and jump away from Sydney, the Hunter Valley is renowned as the birthplace of Australian wine. And yet this is far from ideal wi...
It's a biggie. Our Chile Wines of the Year 2024 - a celebration and exploration of this slender South American nation's wines. And...
Climate change is a worry. We get it. But how to do something positive about it, especially as a wine lover? After all, it's not easy k...
It's popular, it's pleasurable - and it's much misunderstood. Rosé is having a moment and yet the myths remain pervasive. Tha...
Wine can seem tremendously unimportant at a time of war. At what is a torrid time in the Middle East, we wanted to check in with three winem...