The Wine Conversation

A frank and fascinating interview with Peter Vinding-Diers, the revolutionary winemaker whose autobiography “Viking in the Vineyard” has just been published. From South Africa to pioneering indigenous yeast at Ch Rahoul, becoming the first flying winemaker and now Mount Etna where he is experimenting again.More information at www.wine-conversation.com/conversations/great-wine-lives-peter-vinding-diers

France’s Priorat? Rosemary George MW talks to Sarah Kemp about the wines of Roussillon. She argues they should be as well-known as some of the stars of Priorat, and discusses her exciting discoveries in this overlooked wine region.

Snoop Dogg has just launched one, George Clooney wants one, top Bordeaux estates are buying in, why everyone wants Rosé. Elin McCoy investigates, plus meteorite corkscrews, the wine Napoleon didn’t receive just sold, and much, much more.

With cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream (over 10% of Americans own it) how is the wine industry getting involved? Jane Anson investigates and talks to Flavien Darius Pommier of Ch Darius and Louis de Bonnecase of BTC Wine who are the wine world’s crypto pioneers.

John Stimpfig talks to Sarah Abbott MW a woman on a mission to galvanise wine lovers to value great old vines and their wines. Find out why old vine vineyards are important and what she and others are doing to save our vinous heritage.

Does having bees in your vineyard result in better wine? Elin McCoy finds out. Award-winning sommelier Terry Kandylis recommends the best Greek wines while John Stimpfig looks into robotic sommeliers, and Alder Yarrow lets rip on why wine aerators are the scourge of the earth, plus all the latest wine news.

Elin McCoy talks to Will Harlan and Cory Empting who are stepping up to manage California’s cult estates Harlan Estate and Bond as Managing Director and Managing Director of Winemaking respectively; they had both earlier been working together at Promontory, also owned by Bill Harlan.

Sarah Kemp talks to Bordeaux expert Jane Anson about En Primeur and the 2020 vintage, which is she is in the middle of reviewing.

Sarah Kemp talks to Anne Krebiehl MW, the author of The Wines of Germany, which won the 2020 Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year award.

How do you make a wine museum interesting? Jane Anson talks to Gary Shelley from Casson Mann, the man behind the designs at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux and Pressoria, the new “Centre for Sensory Interpretation of Champagne,” which is shortly to be opened in the village of Ay in the former Pommery pressoir.