UK Wine's Counterculture

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

There's a new wave of English and Welsh wine producers disrupting the neat and tidy order of the classic UK wine scene. Guerrilla producers - cool kids who aren't afraid to go off-piste and craft dangerous, divisive wines packed full of quirks and kinks. Their attitude? It's better to be naughty than nice. As one winemaker says - he wants to make, 'wines with a cheeky smile.'
In this wide-ranging episode we dive headlong into this world of creativity, experimentation and free thinking. Our journey takes us from wines made under a London railway arch to sheep savaging vines in a Welsh hillside - and we taste everything from orange wines to pet nat, col fondo, 'grower' English fizz and, 'purple Welsh bubbles.'
Interviewed in this episode are Tommy Grimshaw (Langham), Susan and James Kinsey-Jones (Whinyard Rocks), Jose Quintana (Vagabond) and Sergio Verrillo (Blackbook). Also featured are producers Domaine Hugo, Westwell, The Wharie Experience and Ancre Hill.
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Chapters

1. UK Wine's Counterculture (00:00:00)

2. Welcome! (00:00:05)

3. We're getting down with the cool kids (00:00:13)

4. Taster quotes from this episode (00:01:21)

5. Setting the scene (00:02:22)

6. We start in the wilds of Dorset - at Langham (00:05:06)

7. Tommy Grimshaw interview (00:05:57)

8. Langham recommendations (00:13:51)

9. MID-EPISODE RECAP (00:17:27)

10. Whinyard Rocks in Wales (00:17:56)

11. James and Susan Kinsey-Jones interview (00:18:02)

12. London urban winery: Vagabond (00:29:41)

13. Jose Quintana interview (00:30:16)

14. On price (00:42:41)

15. Winery under a railway arch: Blackbook (00:43:48)

16. Sergio Verrillo interview (00:44:59)

17. Further alternative UK wine recommendations (00:52:26)

18. FINAL SUMMARY (00:57:08)

19. Outro (00:57:34)