The Original Wine Road Trip
An Informal Biography of Dionysus. Humans are driven by a primeval desire for travel, adventure and a raunchy party. This urge resides among our deepest instincts. Since time immemorial we…
Author: Craig Heschuk
Episode 23: The Chinon Wines of Domaine Bernard Baudry
The third stop on our podcasting tour of the Loire Valley takes us to the famous Domaine Bernard Baudry for great Cabernet Franc from Chinon. I had a really wonderful…
Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast Wineries – Split, Hvar and Beyond
When the makers of the film Mama Mia decided to use Hvar on the Croatian Adriatic coast as the location for Mama Mia 2 instead of the island of Skopelos…
Episode 22: Jacky Blot and the Re-Invention of Chenin Blanc
Jacky Blot, as you will hear in this episode, is one of those mavericks in winemaking who come along and truly shakes things up across a wine region. In the…
The Best Wine Shop in the World.
A vital anchor in the life of a wine lover is their favourite wine shop. Wine passion involves a quite complex fabric of gastronomy, academic investigation, tasting and sampling as…
Sussex Sparkling Wine Country.
Sussex embodies the beauty of England in just about every way. It is a region of forests, quaint villages, rolling hills, pretty houses, imposing country estates, beaches, ancient historical sights…
Episode 21: Pierre-Henri Gadais Talks About Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine.
Muscadet from Sèvre-et-Maine is a thrilling wine with a range of expressions that riff off the bright acidic backbone, minerality and lemon flavours of the Melon de Bourgogne grape. Winemakers…
Episode 20: Cocktails with Winemakers Instalment 2 – Tetris on the Crushpad with Felix Egerer.
The Second Stage in the Winemaking Process. Felix Egerer is our winemaker guide again and this is the second instalment of our sub-series on winemaking operations. We are moving down…
The Wine-Soaked Lens of Matt Wilson.
I discovered Matt’s work on Instagram and I follow his posts on @matt.wilson.gc with tremendous anticipation. Matt Wilson’s wine photography always brings some striking visceral joy. In most of his…
Walking The Wine Bars of Midtown Manhattan
Aria Wine Bar on West 51st Street is one of the best stops on your wine walk Manhattan’s wine bars are so numerous that it’s hard to know where to…