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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.
▻ Bordeaux 2025: Part 2
En Primeur 2025: Jane and Sarah are halfway through the Bordeaux 2025 tastings and share their thoughts so far on the vintage.
▻ Bordeaux 2025: Part 1
En Primeur 2025: Jane and Sarah describe the vintage, which despite on paper looking like 2022, is in fact quite different in character.
▻ How You Get The Next Generation Into Fine Wine
Sarah Kemp talks to Harry Tennant and Tilly Loughton, from The Goed Wine Collective, on the secrets of talking to their generation about fine wine.
▻ Drops of God
Sebastien Pradal talk to Elin McCoy on how he chose the wines and locations for the hit Apple TV series “Drops of God”.
✒ Isole e Olena 2026 New Releases
John Stimpfig reports on the latest releases from Isole e Olena, one of the great estates of Tuscany.
▻ The 250-Year History Between USA and Bordeaux
Jane Anson discusses the extraordinary relationship between the USA and Bordeaux as the US begins to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence.
▻ The Connoisseur Week in Tuscany
Discover the amazing people visited and great wines drunk when Jane Anson and Sarah Kemp visited Tuscany on the inaugural Tuscany Connoisseur Week.
✒ Why Now is Tuscany’s Golden Age
Sarah Kemp discusses the reasons why Tuscany is outperforming Bordeaux and the rest of the fine wine market.
✒ Château Lascombes
John Stimpfig talks to Axel Heinz, who caused shockwaves last year when he left Ornellaia and Masseto to head back to Bordeaux to run Château Lascombes.
▻ The Best Wine Books 2025
Time to clear your shelves, or build some more, as Brian St Pierre recommends the best wine books to buy this Christmas.
▻ The 1945 First Growth Bordeaux Tasting
Jane Anson describes the historic tasting of Bordeaux’s 1945 First Growths to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
▻ The Golden Vine Auction
Romané Basset talks about some of the stellar experiences being offered at the Golden Vine Auction, which goes online on October 20th.
✒ The Latest Wine Books
Brian St Pierre takes a look at the latest crop of wine books, and picks out the ones he believes should be on every wine lover’s shelf
▻ Where is vineyard sustainability today, with Rodrigo Soto
John Stimpfig talks to Rodrigo Soto, one of the earliest and leading practitioners of organic and biodynamic farming.
▻ Château Lafleur Leaving the Pomerol Appellation
Emergency Bordeaux podcast! Jane Anson and Sarah Kemp discuss the news that has sent seismic waves around the wine world.
▻ The Connoisseur Week 2025
Find out why the Connoisseur Week is Sarah Kemp and Jane Anson’s favourite week of the year.
▻ Optimism in the Wine World with Adrian Bridge
Adrian Bridge of the Fladgate Partnership reveals how his belief in wine consumers helped create a vibrant tourist industry, both in Porto and the Douro Valley.
▻ 20 years of Barons de Rothschild Champagne
Philippe Sereys de Rothshild and Guillaume Leté talk about the creation of Champagne Barons de Rothschild.
▻ Bordeaux 2024 – The Verdict
The verdict is in! Listen in to our final podcast on En Primeur 2024, where after three weeks of tasting Jane Anson delivers her verdict on the vintage.