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  • Was Wine Invented or Discovered? Kathleen Burk Explains | Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E41

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    Somewhere in the late Neolithic, so thestory goes, hunters followed birdsong to a tree of berries, filled theirstomachs, carried the rest home and forgot about them. Two days later the jarwas bubbling. Someone had to taste it.

     

    Historian Kathleen Burk tells that story,and many more, in conversation with Suzanne Mustacich. Their route runs fromNoah and Dionysus through Canaanite cedar traders, Jamestown's failed vines andthe rabbis who suddenly appeared during Prohibition, to Port, Italy'srebellious Super Tuscans and the question of whether alcohol-free wine is wineat all.

     

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    Chapters

    00:00 The Essence of Wine

    00:53 Kathleen Burk's Journey into WineHistory

    02:21 The Discovery of Wine

    07:15 Wine and Spirituality

    08:15 The Canaanites and Egyptian WineCulture

    11:13 The Narrative Structure of WineHistory

    13:10 The Impact of Empires on Wine

    15:08 The American Wine Experience

    17:05 Prohibition's Effect on Wine Culture

    21:55 Italy's Wine Evolution

    27:05 Spain's Wine Resurgence

    30:26 The Role of Fortified Wines

    35:40 Future Challenges in the WineIndustry

     

    #JaneAnsonWinePodcast #WineVoices#WineHistory #KathleenBurk #WineAGlobalHistory #HistoryOfWine #Prohibition#SuperTuscans #Port #Madeira #WineBooks #WineSearcher


    49 min
  • What does a wine actually taste like after 100 years in a barrel? — Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E40

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    "Dear wine lover, please enjoy thiswine. Think back over the hundred years it's been ageing, waiting for thismoment. Hopefully, the world has seen a hundred years of peace."

    That's the message Charlie Seppelt haswritten for whoever opens the barrel his family is laying down today — one thatwon't be touched again until the year 2126.

     

    In this episode, Jane Anson sits down withCharlie Seppelt, Senior Winemaker at Seppeltsfield and fifth generation of thefamily that founded it, to taste the 1926 Para Vintage Tawny: a wine laid downexactly a century ago under a mandate from Charlie's great-great-grandfatherBenno Seppelt, who decreed it could not be touched for 100 years — and nevertasted it himself.

     

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    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction to the 1926 Para VintageTawny

    03:12 The Legacy of Benno Seppelt

    06:04 The Unique Aging Process of TawnyWine

    08:54 The Impact of Historical Events onWinemaking

    12:12 The Art of Fortification andPreservation

    15:07 The Scarcity and Demand for VintageWines

    17:55 Tasting Notes and EmotionalConnections

    20:50 Future Winemaking and Legacy

    23:58 The Role of Family in Winemaking

    27:07 Reflections on the Len Evans Tutorial

    30:03 Conclusion and Tasting Experience

     

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    36 min
  • Crafting Chile's Most Ambitious Wine - Inside Almaviva - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E39

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    Manuel Louzada was five years old the firsttime 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 manresponsible for Almaviva, the Franco-Chilean wine born from a handshake betweenBaroness Philippine de Rothschild and Concha y Toro. In this conversation he tellsJane Anson how a phone call in his mother's kitchen in Sintra led him back to awine he'd tasted and admired since 1996, why the Andes and the Pacific fightfor control of the same vineyard every afternoon, and what it took for oneestate to become, before Opus One, the very first non-Bordeaux wine ever soldthrough the négociant system.

     

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    50 min
  • How a broken-down château became a Bordeaux Icon - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E38

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    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 one block Cabernet estate, sight almost unseen, and found Château Smith Haut Lafitte: one block, ringed by forest, its tower broken, its vines poorly kept — and something about it they couldn't walk away from.


    In this episode, Florence tells host Suzanne Mustacich the full story: renovating a derelict château, converting to organic farming before anyone else in Bordeaux was doin git, watching daughter Mathilde build the skincare brand Caudalie from a backpack and a small motorbike, hosting a king who insisted on making his own barrel, and expanding into Pomerol and Napa Valley — all while handing the keys, gradually, to the next generation.


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    Chapters00:00 The Heart of Château Smith Lafitte

    02:49 A Journey from Business to Wine

    06:10 The Vision Behind Château Smith Lafitte

    09:00 Organic Farming and Environmental Commitment

    11:49 Royal Connections and Organic Advocacy

    15:13 Reflections on Vintages and Vineyard Life

    18:00 Expanding Horizons: New Ventures

    20:53 Navigating Challenges in Napa

    24:11 Family Legacy and Future Aspirations

    32 min
  • “Never Lose the Sense of Wonder” Christian Seely on a Life in Wine - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E37

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    "I think it's very important never to lose a sense of wonder about these things — and in my case, a sense of wonder that I'm actually here."Christian Seely, managing director of AXA Millésimes, oversees one of the most far-flung fine wine portfolios in the world: Château Pichon Baron, Pibran and Suduiraut in Bordeaux, Domaine de l'Arlot in Burgundy, Disznókő in Tokaj, Quinta do Noval in the Douro, Outpost on Napa's Howell Mountain, Platt Vineyard on the West Sonoma Coast, and Coates & Seely, the English sparkling wine house he co-founded in Hampshire and now the Isle of Wight.


    Host Suzanne Mustacich asks him the obvious question — how do you hold all that together? Christian talks about the total conviction that a great wine must be the unique individual expression of its vineyard, and a deliberately decentralised structure that leaves each estate's team to pursue that expression on its own terms.


    He remembers discovering Bordeaux with his father, falling in love with wine, and driving to work along the Route des Châteaux. He talks about the excitement of discovering new vineyards, opening the first bottle from his English sparkling wine project, and the privilege of being able to make wine every day.


    A personal conversation about vineyards, wine and the joy of still being fascinated by them.


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    Chapters0:00 A life spent chasing wonder

    0:44 Suzanne introduces Christian Seely

    1:22 A snapshot of the AXA Millésimes portfolio

    2:15 No group winemaking policy — decentralisation as a philosophy

    4:10 Visiting the vineyards through harvest

    4:52 Getting his start: a gap year in Bordeaux with his father

    6:38 The drive to work past Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

    7:52 Platt Vineyard: fog, the Pacific, and West Sonoma Coast

    10:07 Outpost: volcanic soils and altitude on Howell Mountain

    12:50 Domaine de l'Arlot: Burgundy's rare monopoles

    14:59 A quarter-hectare next to DRC

    16:23 Bordeaux vs Burgundy, and Pichon Baron's three wines

    19:51 Le Griffon Blanc: grafting Suduiraut onto Pauillac

    3:35 Tokaj: Aszú, puttonyos, and the wine of kings

    24:53 Disznókő and the fall of communism

    30:45 Quinta do Noval: field blends and the Nacional parcel

    38:38 Blending a consistent house-style tawny port

    43:19 Coates & Seely: building English sparkling wine from scratch

    48:03 The dream dinner party#WinePodcast #ChristianSeely #AXAMillesimes #Bordeaux #Tokaj #Douro #Burgundy #NapaValley #EnglishSparklingWine

    52 min
  • Starting a Non-Profit: A How-To Guide - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E36

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    Inspiration and Practical Guidance for Initiating Change

    "Do not overthink it. You want to make a difference — just do it."


    Jane Anson and Chinedu Rita Rosa share the inspiring story of creating Bordeaux Mentor Week, a program designed to open doors and foster diversity in the Bordeaux wine industry: from a garden conversation into a week-long bootcamp that has now brought 28 scholars from roughly 20 countries into Bordeaux's wine industry.


    They walk through it all — the frustration that started it, the first six scholars chosen on a shoestring budget, the sponsors and estates who said yes when nobody had a track record yet, the visa nightmares nobody warns you about, and the moment at a right bank château dinner when a scholar's tears revealed that imposter syndrome doesn't disappear once you've made it through the door.


    If you've ever thought about starting a mentorship program, a non-profit, or any kind of grassroots initiative — in wine or anywhere else — this is the practical, honest version of how it's actually done.


    With huge thanks to everyone who has backed Bordeaux Mentor Week, including the Gérard Basset Foundation, the Académie du Vin Library, Château La Lagune, Château Bellefont-Belcier, Château Biac, Bernard Magrez Start-Up Win, Christian Holthausen, and every estate, sponsor and mentor who has opened a door.


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    Chapters00:00 Introduction to Bordeaux Mentor Week02:50 The Genesis of Mentoring in Bordeaux06:08 Building the Foundation: First Steps08:52 Challenges and Solutions in Logistics11:51 Recruiting Mentors and Scholars14:40 Learning from Mistakes17:49 The Impact of the Program21:04 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome23:42 Success Metrics and Achievements27:03 Unexpected Outcomes and Connections29:45 Advice for Aspiring Change-Makers32:35 The Future of Bordeaux Mentor Week


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    44 min
  • Inside Pomerol's Best Kept Secret - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E35

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    When Jean-Baptiste Bourotte left a career at Cartier to come home to Pomerol, he gave himself three years to decide whether he'd made the right call. Twenty-odd years later, he's still there—running five Bordeaux estates, including two of the appellation's most quietly serious addresses, Clos du Clocher and Château Bonalgue, alongside the family's historic négociant house, Ets Audy.


    In this episode of the Wine Podcast, host Jane Anson sits down with Bourotte as his family marks 100 years in Pomerol, and the conversation moves easily between deep history and hard-won, practical wisdom.


    Jean-Baptiste explains how Clos du Clocher's dense blue clay and Bonalgue's mixed gravel-sand-clay terroir produce two very different styles of Pomerol, what a négociant actually does inside La Place de Bordeaux, and what a career at Cartier taught him about pride in a product and telling an honest story. He also shares the centenary manga he commissioned—illustrated using the estate's own blue clay—his picks for what to drink right now, and the lunch he didn't realise he was sharing with DRC's Aubert de Villaine.


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    Chapters

    00:00 The Resilience of Bonalgue Wine History

    01:49 Meet Jean-Baptiste Bourotte: A Dual Role in Wine

    04:10 The Family Legacy in Pomerol

    09:17 Understanding the Role of a Négociant

    13:00 Market Trends and Consumer Interests

    14:56 Innovative Celebrations for a Centenary

    20:31 The Evolution of Bonalgue's Terroir

    25:33 Lessons from the Luxury Industry

    30:54 Navigating Challenges in Wine Production

    35:14 Addressing Misconceptions about Bordeaux Wine

    42:23 Recommended Vintages to Enjoy Now


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    44 min
  • The Wine Grape DNA Detective - Part 2 - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E34

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    Suzanne Mustacich continues her conversation with Swiss grape geneticist José Vouillamoz, the real-life "grape DNA detective."

    Together they follow the Camino de Santiago to uncover how medieval monks may have spread grapevines across Europe, trace Savagnin Blanc's surprising family tree (parent of both Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc—and grandfather of Cabernet Sauvignon), and tell the incredible detective story of how eight forgotten vines in the French countryside turned out to be the missing parent of both Merlot and Malbec.

    José also makes the case for why obscure, unloved grape varieties might be wine's best defence against climate change, takes us inside Switzerland's wild 320-grape-variety wine scene ("Swiss wine does not exist"—you'll understand why by the end), and shares his dream of an AI app that could identify any grape variety from a single photo of a leaf.


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    Chapters

    00:00 Cold open: Is Sauvignon Blanc older than Pinot Noir?
    00:32 Welcome back to Part 2
    00:47 Did monks spread grapevines along the Camino de Santiago?
    02:07 José's books on Swiss & French grape varieties
    02:29 The family tree: Savagnin Blanc's secret children
    03:47 The Camino de Santiago's surprising link to Savagnin Blanc
    05:56 Why rare and obscure grape varieties matter
    08:20 Saving Sagrantino from extinction
    09:43 The detective story behind Merlot's missing parent
    10:56 Finding the last 8 vines of Madeleine Noire des Charentes
    13:17 "Swiss wine does not exist"—inside Switzerland's 320 grape varieties
    16:06 Chasselas, Petite Arvine & Completer: Switzerland's heritage grapes
    17:14 Can AI identify a grape variety from a photo?
    18:49 José's dream app: "Grape This"
    20:28 What will grape DNA research discover in the next 10 years?
    22:57 Genetic engineering, climate change and the future of wine

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    27 min
  • The Wine Grape DNA Detective - Part 1 - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E33

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    Suzanne Mustacich speaks with Grape DNA detective José Vouillamoz, taking us on a journey through the ancient and surprising history of wine grapes — from wild vines and lost grapes to monks, migration and the Camino de Santiago.

    José Vouillamoz is a Swiss botanist, grape geneticist and wine grape DNA detective renowned for his surprising discoveries.

    From the Taurus Mountains of Türkiye to the Camino de Santiago, from rare Pinot Noir pips to recently discovered lineage of Merlot and Malbec, José traces how vines moved with people, trade, war, monks and migration. He explains the origins of grape domestication, the rediscovery of forgotten grape varieties, the importance of preserving genetic diversity, and how AI could one day help identify grapes in the vineyard.

    A must-listen for anyone interested in wine history, ancient vines, rare grape varieties, ampelography, viticulture, and the detective work behind the DNA of wine.


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    Chapters

    00:00 The Origins of Grape Domestication

    10:11 Exploring Ancient Wine Regions

    20:13 The Journey of Grape Varieties

    25:03 The Connection Between Wine and Humanity


    #WinePodcast #WineGrapes #GrapeDNA #AncientVines #RareGrapes #WineHistory #Ampelography #Viticulture #JoseVouillamoz #CaminoDeSantiago #SavagninBlanc #PinotNoir #Furmint #VitisVinifera #WineLovers #WineEducation #OldVines #IndigenousGrapes #TurkishWine #FrenchWine #SwissWine #WineScience #GrapeVarieties #VineyardHistory #SuzanneMustacich #JaneAnson #AIwine


    26 min
  • Pichon Comtesse: The Art of Pauillac - Jane Anson The Wine Podcast E32

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    In this episode, Nicolas Glumieau shares his fascinating journey from military service and opera singing to becoming a top Bordeaux estate director at Château Pichon Comtesse in Pauillac. Discover insights into blind tasting, team management, and the links between science, practical experience and art in winemaking.

    This in-depth interview explores the nuances of Bordeaux winemaking, terroir, climate change impacts, and tastingtechniques, offering valuable insights for wine enthusiasts and professionals alike.

    Plenty of business advice here also; you'll learn about how to build a team that works, how to lean in to your passionswhile building a career, and how tradition, innovation, and collaboration shape the world of fine wines.

     

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    Chapters

    00:00 The Art of Winemaking and Nature's Role

    03:02 Nicolas Glumineau: A Multifaceted Journey

    05:59 From Opera to Wine: A Unique Transition

    08:51 Military Experience and Its Impact on Leadership

    11:41 The Essence of Teamwork in Winemaking

    15:02 Learning from Bordeaux's Top Estates

    17:57 Pichon Comtesse: A Unique Terroir

    20:43 The Challenges of Modern Winemaking

    24:07 Climate Change and Its Effects on Viticulture

    27:01 Demystifying Bordeaux for Younger Drinkers

    29:52 The Complexity of Wine Tasting

    32:48 The Future of Bordeaux and Its Classification

    35:47 The Influence of Champagne on Bordeaux

    38:33 Final Thoughts and Quickfire Questions

    52 min