Stories.

Interviews, region deep-dives, tastings, and the occasional rant, eight years of conversations on wine without snobbery.

What wine goes with a cheese board?

Château Tour des Termes 2023: a Saint-Estèphe worth opening young, if you give it air

#122 - Jean-Baptiste Copot: Director of Wine at Black Sheep Restaurants

California is selling $150 wine for $30. The real question is what the $150 was for.

LVMH's partner is leaving Ningxia. A Ningxia winery just raised money to plant in Tibet.

Chandon China's vineyards are for sale at one yuan. The yuan is not the price.

What to eat with beaujolais nouveau?

Pétrus explained: no château, no classification, €4,000 a bottle

Burgundy lost a third of its crop and told its growers not to raise prices

Roussillon has lost 47% of its sales and four co-operatives. Nobody is writing about it.

New Zealand sold 6% more wine and earned 0.5% more. That gap is the whole market.

Saint-Émilion explained: the Grand Cru trap and the 2022 meltdown

What wine goes with seafood? Oysters, crab and the whole platter

Grand Fidèle Altitude Chardonnay: a northern grape under a southern sun

Four AI detectors say a chatbot won wine writing's £3,000 prize. Two say a human did.

Everyone reported Champagne going to 15% alcohol. The wine cannot physically get there.

What wine goes with scallops?

#121 - Antoine Veiry: Brumont's Next Generation at Château Montus and Château Bouscassé

People would rather ask AI than a sommelier. And most estates are invisible to it.

A Chinese winery is building a wine culture with jazz. Gascony has done it for 40 years.

What wine goes with Christmas dinner?

Ruinart is opening its UNESCO crayères after dark for three nights in October

Michelin ranked Bordeaux and left out Latour. None of it was news.

Estelle Roy of La Chablisienne is the IWC White Winemaker of the Year 2026

France just made its smallest harvest since 1957. Bordeaux went up.

I ran the Marathon du Médoc, and it has ruined normal marathons for me

What wine goes with foie gras?

Someone paid £500,000 for 55 bottles. Nobody has ever bothered to fake a £12 wine.

Fine wine has not been this cheap since 2014. Bad for producers, very good for you.

Bordeaux is losing supermarket shelf space, and that may be the best thing to happen to it

#120 - Maxime Girardin: Pegasus, the Burgundy Distillery Betting on Premium Spirits

Rare held its 2012 back for not being ready. It just scored 100 points

What wine goes with cheese fondue?

Wine's problem is not that people stopped drinking. It is that nobody can find the good stuff.

The wine trade war nobody won, and the storage bill that proves it

Our guest from episode #106 just passed the exam almost nobody passes

Everyone watches China. Japan just quietly became Asia's biggest wine buyer

KFC opened a wine bar, it sold out, and honestly we love it

#119 - Cyrus Ho: Hotel Sommelier at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong

Super Tuscans: the wines that broke Italy's rules (and won)

Britain does not switch to rosé at 20°C, and the study everyone quotes does not exist

#118 - Anthony Appollot, Sarments Vignobles: rebuilding Château de Lussac and Saint-Émilion's satellites

China's white wine boom is crashing Marlborough's prices, and clever producers are already pivoting

Louis Roederer just bought its first Burgundy estate in 250 years, and it asks the region's biggest question

How to choose your wedding wine: 10 rules (without blowing the budget)

Champagne is heading for its earliest harvest ever, and the region is built to take it

#117 - Tim Triptree MW: inside Christie's wine and spirits auctions

Le Cep in Beaune: the hotel that brings the world's epicureans together

Young, curious and mostly women: the wine drinkers China has and the West is missing

Alsace wine explained: the most German region in France

#116 - Marie-Antoinette's Champagne: with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne

Orange wine, explained: the 8,000-year-old wine that's suddenly everywhere

#115 - Inside California Wine: with Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute

Keenan Winery: a Spring Mountain tasting in Hong Kong

The Ultimate Guide to Burgundy Wines

#114 - Building the Saint-Emilion of tomorrow: with Valérie Befve, CEO of Château Dassault

Discovering California wines in Hong Kong: a Judgment of Paris 50th-anniversary lunch

The Judgment of Paris: the 1976 tasting that changed wine forever

Bordeaux wine classifications: all 5 systems, and which ones still matter

#113 - Charles Treutenaere: General Manager of Domaine de Long Dai (DBR Lafite)

#112 - Guillaume Lété: Cellar Master at Champagne Barons de Rothschild

#111 - Fongyee Walker: Mainland China's First Resident Master of Wine

How to Choose Wine for a Wedding: The Complete Guide

#110 - Antonin Pillot: a New Generation in Chassagne-Montrachet

#109 - Linden Wilkie: Founder of The Fine Wine Experience and Club Bâtard

#108 - Winnie Chen: managing 17,000 wines in the heart of Macau

5 things that shocked us during the biggest wine tasting in China

#107 – Eddie McDougall: the Flying Winemaker

#106 – Derek Li: from Hong Kong nightlife to Advanced Sommelier & Wine Educator

Behind the Label: Maxime Pierlot, Champagne or not Champagne?

#105 - Pierre-Marie Pattieu: inside the life of a Master Sommelier

#104 - Xavier Jean: owner of Couvent des Jacobins

#103 - Richard Hemming: Master of Asian Food & Wine Pairing

#102 - Reeze Choi: Best sommelier of Asia & Pacific and rising winemaker

Behind the Label: Laurent Delaunay, a Burgundy legend, vs Pinot Noir

Global Wine Production Climbs 3% in 2025 After Historic 63-Year Low

Two Wine Traditions Set to Captivate Enthusiasts Worldwide in Late November 2025

#101 – David He: Founder of Wine App

17th Hong Kong International Wine &amp; Spirits Fair Concludes With Record Attendance and Global Participation

Western Sanctions Reshape Russia's Wine Market

17th Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair Concludes With Record Attendance and Global Participation