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videoA backpack, a scooter and the start of Caudalie
Florence Cathiard on how a Sunday meeting with a polyphenol scientist turned into Caudalie. It began by riding a small motorbike around Bordeaux with a backpack of samples for local pharmacies. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #Caudalie #Bordeaux #Shorts
video300 acres. One mountain lion. No rattlesnakes seen, thankfully
Florence Cathiard on just how wild their Napa property really is. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #Napa #Wildlife #Shorts
videoA phone call in 1991 led straight to Napa
Florence Cathiard on the tip that took them from a dropped dream to a mountain estate in Napa. A historic, one-block estate, poorly managed but with beautiful terroir rising to the Mayacamas in the Rutherford dust. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #Napa #Rutherford #Shorts
videoLe Thil, ten years of waiting, one small triangle
Florence Cathiard on why Le Thil, beautiful but not as well known, took a decade to finally acquire. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #LeThil #SmithHautLafitte #Shorts
videoA holistic and connected Estate . It's about paying attention
Florence Cathiard on the philosophy behind the Estate and recalling philosopher Michel Serres's warning not to cross a vineyard absent-mindedly. Attentiveness changes what you see. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #Holistic #MichelSerres #Shorts
videoCava Growers Struggle to Find Good Prices for their Grapes | The Week in Wine Podcast
Don sips a triple-aged Jameson while Olly muses on hops and beer. This week we look over a number of early wine harvest stories from the month and Don asks whether or not life might be like toilet paper. There is also a musing on the apparently mediocre reception of Mosel Riesling. This week: Cava growers struggle to find good prices for their grapes; Sazerac faces a lawsuit in France after growers find their contracts abruptly cancelled; Alsace looks to reduce its vineyard coverage; Argentina's bulk wine exports surge, but prices and trends appear much less positive; and northern Italy experiences an early, hot harvest, with some growers having similar issues to those in Cava. Meanwhile, police in the Rheingau issue a remarkably understated press release regarding the recent Rheingau Wine Fair, and a restaurant near Mendoza becomes the latest to host a wine and sexuality dinner. We also look forward to an interesting story on the payouts (or should that be 'payout') in the 2025 Pick
videoA tiny protocol mistake with King Charles
Florence Cathiard on an early encounter with King Charles, a true pioneer of organic farming once dismissed as crazy for it, and her unintentional protocol slip. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #KingCharles #OrganicFarming #Shorts
videoFrom pesticide smell to pure mountain air
Florence Cathiard on the year it took to turn Smith Haut Lafitte's farming around, and the family history of loving nature that pushed them to do it. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #SmithHautLafitte #OrganicWine #Shorts
videoIt's not marketing. It's her father's obsession with nature
Florence Cathiard on the real story behind Smith Haut Lafitte going organic, and why the first attempt didn't go as planned. #WinePodcast #FlorenceCathiard #SmithHautLafitte #OrganicWine #Shorts
videoHow a broken-down château became a Bordeaux Icon - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E38
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 Two ski racers meet on the French national team, marry young, and spend twenty years building a retail empire together — supermarkets, a communications agency, the Go Sport chain of sports shops. Then they walk away from all of it. That's how Florence and Daniel Cathiard came to Bordeaux: not through wine families or wine school, but through a memory. Years earlier, before terrifying downhill races, a coach had handed the young ski team a glass of red Cabernet to help them sleep — decades ahead of the French Paradox headlines. It stuck. So when the Cathiards decided to change their lives completely, they went looking for a left-bank Cabernet estate, sight almost unseen, and found Château Smith Haut Lafitte: one block, ringed by forest, its tower broken, its vines poorly kep
videoMore Early Wine Harvests Across Europe & Interest in Baijiu? The Week in Wine Podcast
Don returns from the UK and Ireland where he wonders if pub-goers might not be better off going to a wine bar and sharing a bottle of wine, given the price of a beer in the capital. Notable mentions on Don's travels include The Winemakers' Club in London and Green Acres in Wexford, among others. A bottle of Nosiola, some great pints of Guinness and a Beaune Premier Cru white are the stars of the last seven and a bit days. Onto wine news and, a sudden spike in US interest in Baijiu aside, the last week has almost entirely been about early harvests across Europe, from Burgundy to Bordeaux, Alsace to Champagne and beyond. There's more on the early Bordeaux harvest (where some estates have started picking red wines); a farewell to Rioja's Benjamin Romeo; a Bordeaux wildfire victim is given hope by a Facebook appeal; a wine cooperative in Rias Baixas aims to go fully digital; and a young winery in Ribeiro produces a solar eclipse wine. There's also more to look forward to this week, with
video900 cases. 3% of production. On purpose
Declaring a vintage nobody else is declaring means two things: be sure it's brilliant, and be ready for it to be tiny. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Port #QuintaDoNoval #VintagePort #Shorts
videoTokaji ferments twice. Here's why
Dry wine first. Shriveled Aszú berries second. Two fermentations, one incredibly complex process. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Tokaji #Hungary #SweetWine #WineEducation #Shorts
videoOne vineyard, one owner: the monopole explained
Most great Burgundy vineyards have many owners making many different wines. A monopole has just one. Here's what that actually means. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Burgundy #WineEducation #ClosVougeot #Shorts
videoA 100% Sémillon in Pauillac? Here's how
Suduiraut Sémillon, grafted onto old Merlot vines, growing on exposed limestone. That's the story behind Le Griffon Blanc. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #PichonBaron #Bordeaux #Semillon #WineEducation #Shorts
videoWill the AI Bubble Crash? The State of Wine in the USA
A quart in a pint pot. Wine-Searcher's US Editor, W. Blake Gray joins Olly talk about everything happening in the North American wine scene right now. Blake talks about the two-tier US economy and how the stock market performance is helping a number of Americans feel bullish about wine. Will the AI boom help fuel this and, conversely, should the AI bubble burst, what will that mean for the US wine industry? Also, there are indications from Gallo that the wine sector is still not all rosy. Blake discusses the prospects for the 2026 California harvest (early and light); the forest fire pressures in eastern Oregon and in Washington State and Canada's Okanagan Valley. There's much to blame Bambi, and Walt Disney, for, apparently. Back to California (and Texas) and the ravages and dangers of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter scares in the state. Blake also covers what could be the best news for wine in the USA this year, namely that the New York Times' editorial stance on the subject may h
videoPuttonyos, explained in one bucket
It's literally a bucket count. How many buckets of Aszú paste per barrel — that ratio is what puttonyos means. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Tokaji #WineTerms #Hungary #Shorts
videoSame estate. Different vines. Both 100 points
Quinta do Noval and Nacional aren't better or worse than each other — just different. Robert Parker gave them both a perfect score in 1997. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Port #QuintaDoNoval #Nacional #Shorts
videoBurgundy’s Earliest Harvest in 500 Years! The Week in Wine Episode 53
Olly has a wonderful Bitter liqueur from Japan to end a Friday evening meal which moves on to a potentially national stereotype discussion about the Japanese being good at certain crafts. Unfair stereotype, or is there a grain of truth? Let us know. This week, our US editor W. Blake Grey tops the readership with his story on wine and its beneficial effects on heart health. Burgundy has its earliest harvest since records began; the flagship white grape of the Marche – Verdicchio – gets its spotlight; NBA star Jimmy Butler's visit to Bordeaux is still being devoured; as is a report on how the Okanagan is dealing with its latest threat: fire. Olly's wine news roundup this week covers Burgundy's earliest harvest in 500 years; a sobering review of harvests in Burgundy in the context of climate change; the white wine harvest is also under way in Bordeaux (here too, it is unusually early); stock levels of wine are prompting harvest concerns in Italy where some wineries may be struggling for
videoChaos on paper. Freshness in the glass. All about field blends
Thirty-five varieties, one pick date, no perfect ripeness. Somehow, that's exactly what keeps field blends fresh in the heat. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #FieldBlend #WineEducation #Viticulture #Shorts
videoEnglish sparkling wine, and the chalk behind it
Same chalk. Same clay. Same grapes as Champagne. English sparkling wine is having a real moment, and the terroir explains why. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #EnglishWine #SparklingWine #MethodeBritannique #Shorts
videoFantastic vineyards. Autonomous teams. No group policy
You don't get a unique expression of terroir by managing every vineyard the same way. That's the whole philosophy. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #AXAMillesimes #Terroir #WineEducation #Shorts
videoBordeaux blends. Burgundy doesn't. Terroir still rules both
One region grows single varieties, the other blends. The role terroir plays doesn't change either way. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #Bordeaux #Burgundy #Terroir #Shorts
videoCold ocean. Warm sun. Perfect Pinot
Redwood forests, Pacific mists, and a whole lot of sunshine. That's the recipe behind Platt Vineyard's Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. #WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #AXAMillesimes #WineEducation #Chardonnay #PinotNoir #CaliforniaWine #Shorts