Uk Wine Show

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Synopsis

The UK Wine Show is all about wine and the UK wine scene. We interview winemakers, consumers, wine bar owners, scientists, you name it, if it is about wine in the UK we will cover it. Almost all good wine from around the world washes up on these shores so we'll find out more about the people behind the wines that are making a splash.

Episodes

  • Simon Waghorn on Wine Awards

    24/06/2007

    Simon Waghorn is winemaker for Whitehaven and Astrolabe, two top award-winning New Zealand wine brands. We get his views on wine awards and how winnning can help sell wine.

  • Michael Cox Wines of Chile

    22/06/2007

    Wines of Chile is a promotional body that represents 90 Chilean wineries with offices in Santiago and London. Michael Cox heads up the UK office which was set up in 2003. We asked him for his perspective on Chilean wine.

  • Mark Hallett Grape Escapes

    15/06/2007

    Mark Hallett is owner of Grape Escapes a wine tour operator specialising in wine holidays to the vineyard regions of France. We find out what their tours to Champagne have to offer.

  • Tony Jordon CEO of Green Point

    08/06/2007

    This week we feature Tony Jordon the CEO of Green Point Australia on the recent release of their entire sparkling range under crown seal.

  • Julia Trustram Eve English Wine Producers

    01/06/2007

    This week is English Wine Week so we met up with Julia Trustram Eve, Marketing Manager for English Wine Producers, the Marketing Association for the English Wine Industry. We discuss issues including new Brussels legislation and global warming.

  • Denbies Wine Tourism with Chris White

    25/05/2007

    Denbies is England's largest vineyard and attracts 300,000 visitors a year. General Manager and son of the owner, Chris White, lets us in on the secret of Denbies' success.

  • James Booth Virtual Wine

    18/05/2007

    James Booth is co-founder of Virtual Wine, the wine media company that runs wine tastings over the Internet. We find out how a virtual wine tasting works and why the idea is catching on.

  • Wine Closures with Jamie Goode

    11/05/2007

    Jamie Goode is the wine writer and blogger behind wineanorak.com. In this interview we discuss the technical issues with a range of closures including the screwcap, natural cork, diam, zork and the vino lock.

  • George Bowden Leventhorpe Winery

    04/05/2007

    Leventhorpe Winery is a commercial vineyard and winery based in Leeds in the North of England. Owner George Bowden tells how he grows vines at the extreme edge of viticulture and why badgers, birds and hedgehogs are as much a hazard as frost and fungi.

  • Wine Storage Cabinets

    27/04/2007

    Two competing manufacturers of wine cabinets are Dometic Wine Cellars and Liebherr. Each use very different technology to store wine so we find out how they work and explore the pros and cons.

  • Lucy Hargreaves Spiral Cellars

    20/04/2007

    Lucy Hargreaves is co-owner of Spiral Cellars, a company who specialise in home wine storage. We find out how the Spiral Cellar system works and how it rivals the traditional cellar.

  • Claire Wood Two Hands Horizontal Tasting Part 2

    13/04/2007

    Two Hands Wines was established in 1999 with the objective of making the best possible Shiraz based wines from prized Shiraz regions in Australia. In part 2 we taste 3 wines from 3 regions in a horizontal tasting.

  • Claire Wood Two Hands Horizontal Tasting Part 1

    06/04/2007

    Two Hands Wines was established in 1999 with the objective of making the best possible Shiraz based wines from prized Shiraz regions in Australia. In part 1 we compare 3 wines from 3 regions in a horizontal tasting.

  • Richard Selley Geology and Wine Part 2

    30/03/2007

    Richard Selley is a Professor of Geology and a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. In Part 2 we explore the different soil types in vineyards across the UK.

  • Richard Selley Geology and Wine Part 1

    23/03/2007

    Richard Selley is a Professor of Geology and a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He explains how the different soil and rock types affect the vines that are grown on them.

  • Matt Skinner

    16/03/2007

    Australian-born Matt Skinner is sommelier at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant and a well-known personality in the UK wine world. Matt tells us how he got to where he is today, starting 13 years ago in an Aussie bottle shop.

  • Joel Peterson on the Zinfandel grape

    09/03/2007

    Joel Peterson is founder of Ravenswood, the largest producer of Zinfandel in the world. In this second interview with Joel we discuss the latest genetic research into the origins of the Zinfandel grape.

  • Joel Peterson of Ravenswood Winery

    02/03/2007

    Joel Peterson is founder of Ravenswood in Sonoma, California. Ravenswood is the largest producer of Zinfandel in the world and is now owned by Constellation Brands. Find out why Joel is so passionate about Zinfandel and how he became the 'King of Zin'.

  • Nicholas Ingham Fairtrade Wine

    23/02/2007

    As Fairtrade Fortnight approaches we talk to Nicholas Ingham of Fairtrade wine importers Grape-2-Wine and find out how the Fairtrade foundation can help producers in developing countries to get a better deal for their wines.

  • Jamie Goode on Wine Science

    16/02/2007

    This week we talk to Jamie Goode about his book, Wine Science, and wine blog and website, wineanorak.com.

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