News & Views – Re-Writing Wine’s Ancient History, Silly Money Wine, Drops of God & More

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

What wine news is worthy of your attention? How should you warm up your (fine) wines in an emergency? What wines are really worth paying silly money for? And which wines should we have loved...but didn't?

These are just some of the questions we dive into in this Listener Q&A episode, where we respond to your brilliant comments, feedback and questions.

And we field one other question too: are we even married to each other?!
No spoilers here... Suffice it to say that along this particularly fun ride we touch on subjects as diverse as Japanese wine anime Drops of God, wildfires in Chile, Michel Roux Jr, marriage counselling, Cahors, Malcolm Gladwell, alternatives to Grange, our infamous 20-20 wine rule, re-writing wine's ancient history, Leonardo di Caprio - and 'pan-gate'.

We also ask that most critical of questions: are you a wine cuddler...or a wine microwaver?
All details from this episode (including the juicy photos and tweets we refer to in this episode) are on our website: Show notes for Wine Blast S4 E17 - News & Views 1.
Given this episode is all about your comments and questions, please do keep them coming! We'd love to hear your views on our subscription plans too. Do send us a voice message via Speakpipe or you can find more details to get in touch on our website.
Thanks for tuning in. Here's to the joy of wine - cheers to you!

Chapters

1. News & Views – Re-Writing Wine’s Ancient History, Silly Money Wine, Drops of God & More (00:00:00)

2. Welcome (00:00:05)

3. Are we actually married to each other?! (00:00:22)

4. A form of marriage counselling (00:01:48)

5. What this episode's about (00:02:31)

6. On subscriptions (00:03:27)

7. What wine news to pick out? (00:05:21)

8. How wine's ancient history is being re-written (00:06:18)

9. Telmont releases lightest-ever champagne bottle (00:07:51)

10. THe Wine Society says 31% of its carbon footprint is from bottles (00:09:19)

11. English sparkling wine is getting a new glass (00:10:28)

12. Wildfires in Chilean wine country (00:11:26)

13. Drops of God comes to TV (00:13:35)

14. What wines should we have loved...but didn't? (00:14:30)

15. The importance of social interaction for longevity (00:17:33)

16. Cahors! (00:18:10)

17. Alternatives to Grange (00:18:58)

18. Review from Robb (00:19:56)

19. Speakpipe message from Pat in Albany (00:20:56)

20. Summary so far (00:22:12)

21. On Emergency Wine Warming (or 'pan-gate') (00:22:31)

22. What wines are people willing to spend silly money on? (00:29:04)

23. Outro (00:37:47)