LIVE Q&A - sulfites, party wines, climate change, top wine tourism tips and being pretentious

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

This bonus episode may be the last in the current season (4) but it's also a first - the first time we've ever recorded the pod in front of a live audience!
A lovely bunch of people came together in our home town of Winchester to drink a glass or two of fine Hampshire fizz and bombard us with searching questions, from which wines we'd recommend for a large and varied dinner party crowd to the implications of climate change for wine.
They even asked us what were the most pretentious wine descriptions we'd ever used. I mean, the cheek of it...
We also touched on issues ranging from 'sulfite-free' wine to no/low alcohol, our favourite Chardonnay and rosé, which are the best wine regions to visit, the rise of English wine, multi-vintage versus vintage sparkling wine - and what wines you should ALWAYS have at home.
In our introduction we also feature some recent listener feedback from a Napa wine grower questioning how he should explain terroir to visitors to a professor on how microbes (yeasts) can influence a wine's mouthfeel.
We also feature a plug for our sensational value charity sparkling wine - please click here if you'd like to buy a bottle or two of Hope & Glory to help us raise funds for the brilliant Marine Conservation Society.
As for the live Q&A format, we could get used to it. You have been warned. Wine Blast on Tour may be coming to a speakeasy near you soon...
All details from this episode are on our website: Show notes for Wine Blast S4 E25: LIVE Q&A (Winchester).
Thanks for tuning in. Here's to the joy of wine - cheers to you!

Chapters

1. Special bonus episode - and Season 4 closer (00:00:00)

2. A Wine Blast first! (00:00:07)

3. Things we cover in this Q&A (00:01:28)

4. Matt C from Napa on re-defining terroir (00:02:15)

5. Nic S on how yeasts affect wine mouthfeel (00:04:18)

6. Will G from Honolulu on Portuguese wine (00:06:11)

7. Thanks for supporting the show (00:07:26)

8. Coming up in Season 5... (00:07:52)

9. A plug for our charity English sparkling wines (00:08:39)

10. LIVE Q&A intro (00:09:26)

11. Is English wine sustainable - or a short-term glamour project? (00:10:57)

12. Given climate change, what new wine regions are emerging? (00:13:31)

13. What is the most pretentious wine description you've heard or used? (00:16:07)

14. Non-Vintage versus Multi-Vintage..? (00:17:57)

15. What wines should you always have at home? (00:21:14)

16. What wines for a large dinner party of meat-eaters and veggies? (00:25:50)

17. Any good no/low alcohol wines? (00:28:45)

18. Can you recommend any sulfite-free wines? (00:31:42)

19. Can you share your favourite wine tour or region to visit? (00:34:47)

20. Outro (00:37:16)