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videoMetal Band Gojira Launches Bordeaux Wine - Wine Heists & More | The Week in Wine Podcast
Don is nonplussed by a "smug" New Zealand Pinot Noir [name withheld] while Olly enjoys a Saumur blanc (L'Insolite) from Loire guru Thierry Germain. This week saw a lot of people reading the latest on grumblings against the Napa Valley Vintners organization – to which we asked how different this was from any gripes and grumbles against over-arching wine bodies globally - read more about this story https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/09/napa-valley-vintners-faces-questions-over-pay. Other popular headlines included the news that the historic Gundlach Bundschu winery had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But we asked if it really was all bad news here (not least with the acquisition of Artesa winery by the irrepressible Jean-Charles Boisset) and also took a moment to admire just how sanguine Rob McMillan, from Silicon Valley Bank, is when talking about the wine industry. The Most Expensive Italian wines was also headliner that impressed, not least due to the fact that it a
videoHow Seppeltsfield Makes a Wine That Ages for a Century
Charlie Seppelt breaks down the viticulture and fortification behind a wine built to age 100 years. Watch the full episode with Jane Anson. #Seppeltsfield #Winemaking #ParaVintageTawny #FortifiedWine #Barossa #JaneAnsonPodcast #WineScience #Shorts
videoConcha y Toro's land. Rothschild's savoir-faire. A name from Beaumarchais
Manuel Louzada on the layered story behind Almaviva's name, symbol, and worldwide recognition. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #ConchaYToro #Rothschild #Shorts
videoDifferent countries, different teams, one common thread
Manuel Louzada has run teams on three continents. His answer for what makes them work has nothing to do with borders and everything to do with passion. #WineLeadership #Almaviva #WineIndustry #TeamCulture
videoWhat does a wine actually taste like after 100 years in a barrel? — Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E40
WINE-SEARCHER PRO 🍷 ✨ Get 10% off a 12-month Wine-Searcher PRO subscription with the code 'JaneWS' at checkout. 👇 https://www.wine-searcher.com/get-pro?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=winevoices "Dear wine lover, please enjoy this wine. Think back over the hundred years it's been ageing, waiting for this moment. Hopefully, the world has seen a hundred years of peace." That's the message Charlie Seppelt has written for whoever opens the barrel his family is laying down today — one that won't be touched again until the year 2126. In this episode, Jane Anson sits down with Charlie Seppelt, Senior Winemaker at Seppeltsfield and fifth generation of the family that founded it, to taste the 1926 Para Vintage Tawny: a wine laid down exactly a century ago under a mandate from Charlie's great-great-grandfather Benno Seppelt, who decreed it could not be touched for 100 years — and never tasted it himself. 🍷 Subscribe to the channel ✨ Like this video to support fine wine
videoFamily business or LVMH? He chose new ideas
Manuel Louzada on the unexpected turn that took him from small jobs in Portugal to a production director role at LVMH. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #LVMH #PortWine #Shorts
video2016 Almaviva. Opens like coffee. Breathes into cherries.
2016 Almaviva. Opens like coffee. Breathes into cherries. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #2016Vintage #Shorts
videoI can count with the fingers of my hand the places that get this right, from To Kalon to Puente Alto
Manuel Louzada on the rare places where Cabernet Sauvignon is elegant enough to blend, and the Carménère rediscovery that changed everything. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #CabernetSauvignon #Carmenere #Shorts
videoNew Zealand lets the terroir speak. Rioja lets the winemaker speak.
Manuel Louzada on a better way to think about old world versus new world wine. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #OldWorldNewWorld #Shorts
videoNo irrigation. 200 years old. Still thriving.
Manuel Louzada on how the oldest, densest-planted vines protect themselves in extreme heat, and what that means in the glass. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #DouroValley #Toro #Shorts
videoAI Writing Row at the 67 Pall Mall Communicator Awards - The Week in Wine Podcast
Join us for another roundup of the past-week news and stories from the world of wine and spirits. Don has a bottle of 19 Crimes and wonders about the appeal of fruity, red blends for the new consumer while Olly enjoys a bag-in-box 2024 Bourgogne Chardonnay from The Wine Society (as recommended by Julia Harding MW at the recent Aotearoa Chardonnay Symposium). This week, we kick-off by talking about two stories that haven't featured on the website: the recent AI wine writing storm kicked off by the 67 Pall Mall wine communicator awards (Olly thinks most wine writers are looking in the wrong direction); and the latest news from Australia that popular wine company Mac Forbes is going into administration (and the quite public social media posts made by some of the vineyards the company owed money to that were put online prior to the announcement). There's also talk of Gallo's old, small pet project Monte Rosso; Donelan's resurrection of the Obsidian Vineyard in Sonoma County's Knights Va
video100% through La Place de Bordeaux, by design
Manuel Louzada on the Baroness Philippine de Rothschild decision that shaped Almaviva's place in the world. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #PlaceDeBordeaux #Shorts
videoOne phone call. From Port to Chandon Argentina.
Manuel Louzada on the friend and the conversation that redirected his whole career. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #ChandonArgentina #Shorts
videoSea level to 7,000 metres, in a 150km drive
Manuel Louzada on just how extreme the geography gets between Chilean and Argentine wine country. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #Chile #Argentina #Andes #Shorts
videoShorter macerations. Lower temperatures. More elegance.
Manuel Louzada on how climate change is quietly rewriting the winemaking rulebook at Almaviva. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #ClimateChange #Winemaking #Shorts
videoWine as culture. Wine as diversity. His grandfather's rule.
Manuel Louzada on the two lessons about wine that shaped his whole career.
videoA move at thirteen that changed everything
At 13, Manuel Louzada thought his mother's move to Spain meant losing everything. It turned out to be the first step toward Chandon Argentina, and eventually Almaviva. #WineCareers #Almaviva #ManuelLouzada #WineIndustry
videoMichelin's Bordeaux Ratings Fail to Cause a Major Stir | The Week in Wine Podcast
Don drinks a Taylors South Australian Merlot and Olly has a saline Aard Chardonnay. Michelin's Bordeaux ratings fail to cause a major stir while Napa's visitor tasting woes continue to dominate the stats. Our Most Expensive Champagne Top 10 is also a good performer but, we ask, is it the cost of living crisis that means our 'Best Value' series nowadays performs considerably better than our 'Most Expensive' when it comes to grabbing readers' attention? New Zealand's top Chardonnay producer Kumeu River also makes headlines with a look at what they're up to (including a slight shift in production to Hawke's Bay). Talking of Hawke's Bay, there are more winery woes there as another winery bites the dust; and Italian Chardonnay proves a hit with the readers, as does the "US Booze War". This week we also look at: changes to Champagne alcohol levels; a winemaker on an Israeli settlement in the West Bank says the UK, French and Canadian ban on settlement products has only increased his resol
videoFifty years later, memories of first time tasting wine still give goosebumps
Manuel Louzada on his grandfather, Bairrada sparkling wine, and the childhood taste he's never forgotten. #WinePodcast #ManuelLouzada #Almaviva #Bairrada #Shorts
videoCrafting Chile's Most Ambitious Wine - Inside Almaviva - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E39
WINE-SEARCHER PRO 🍷 ✨ Get 10% off a 12-month Wine-Searcher PRO subscription with the code 'JaneWS' at checkout. 👇 https://www.wine-searcher.com/get-pro?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=winevoices Manuel Louzada was five years old the first time his grandfather let him taste a sparkling wine from Bairrada. Fifty years, four countries and several of the world's great wine houses later, he's the man responsible for Almaviva, the Franco-Chilean wine born from a handshake between Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and Concha y Toro. In this conversation he tells Jane Anson how a phone call in his mother's kitchen in Sintra led him back to a wine he'd tasted and admired since 1996, why the Andes and the Pacific fight for control of the same vineyard every afternoon, and what it took for one estate to become, before Opus One, the very first non-Bordeaux wine ever sold through the négociant system. 🍷 Subscribe to the channel ✨ Like this video to support fine wine storytel
videoVines, trees, orchards and a bike to get around
Florence Cathiard on why living inside the vineyard means noticing everything, the way you would in your own garden. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #Vineyard #Shorts
videoLittle islands of civilization, protected spaces in a changing world
Florence Cathiard on why she's building spaces in her vineyard to outlast the pace of change around her, brought by big technology companies. Real change of this kind takes around 30 years. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #WineClub #Shorts
videoNo AI will ever make a Petrus
Florence Cathiard on why wine is culture, not just alcohol. Civilization in a glass of crystal #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #WineCulture #Shorts
videoGavin Newsom's Plumpjack Winery Compensation, Napa Wine Tastings Struggles & More Wine News
Don gets a case of birthday wines, covering a range of top New Zealand Chardonnays while Olly enjoys a Saumur-Champigny from Thierry Germain. This week's top stories feature two (well, three if you count or Most Expensive Zinfandel Top 10!) Californians: the struggling category of sit-down Napa wine tastings and Gavin Newsom's Plumpjack winery being the only winery to get compensation for the Pickett fire in 2025. We also go back to the 80s: shoulder pads, double-breasted jackets with rolled sleeves, the threat of nuclear war, and Chenin Blanc. A number of eyes are also on the latest Jane Anson interview (by Suzanne Mustacich) with Florence Cathiard of Château Smith Haut-Lafitte. This week, we look at the news that many younger drinkers prefer to use AI tools like ChatGPT to get wine recommendations rather than consult a sommelier; a new study finds early-harvest Chardonnay is "more susceptible" to oxidation; a cocaine haul is found in sparkling wine truck passing through Burgundy;