Talking of Wine thatwineblokeuk and vinesack

With Joe wandering the markets and festivals across the land, he left me to catch up with Paul from Wildwood vineyard. Frost threats have nearly passed, are the bougies still out or not? Have the buds burst or have they been nipped? What is 'charge' (pronounced a la Francaise)? A relatively quiet month, it gave the chance to look back a bit over the earlier months of the year before motoring on to motoring and crop spraying. We also take a fascinating look at 'baby vineyard' management. An episode that has everything from a Downey Alert, a brief introduction to my prowess as a gardener and even a little tickle of that which may or may not be in a bio-dynamic wine-maker's toolbox. Coal face canaries, a dash of Nigella and a spraying Ghostbuster.
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Back, better late than never!
Terre is the French for soil but how do we translate 'Terroir'? Here we try and lift the lid on this slightly mystical topic. Joe compares vines to factory workers and recalls school blackboards. Ever dreamed in a foreign language? And what on earth is CATSUIT? (It is nothing to do with cosplay). Few little tech gremlins again, apologies

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This is the first of series of bonus episodes. Each month we will be talking to vineyard owner and most excellent grower of grapes, Dr Paul Olding. The idea is to map out the journey of a grape, from vine to bottle. The month of April sees the vines waking up from winter hibernation only to be immediately met with the threat of frost. Paul explains the risks that this poses to the year's crop and guides us through the steps a winemaker can take to alleviate any damage. On this occasion Paul also introduces us to his Kent vineyard, Wildwood, explains to us his choices of grapes and also gives us a brief lesson in the production of vermouth. As always we deviate a little along the way. This time we are distracted by the Young Ones, fork handles and Baboons in South Africa!
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Varietal, variety, or even cultivar? This episode puts broad brushstrokes to the role of grape selection in the making of wine. Speaking of brushstrokes there's even some art history, Chagall and Klimt (or is it Kandinsky?), a bit of Footballers Wives and even some changing of lightbulbs. Its all here…
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It appears we couldn't get everything we wanted to say into one episode so we bunged it into another. Good thing to as it meant we could even answer our first listener question in our new segment, The Listener Bin. In this episode we discuss traditional wine merchants, The Wine Society and what life may sound like at the bottom of an empty port bottle
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Now we know the history of wine and what it is, we need to get ourselves some. From an English market perspective but hopefully the principals can be applied to other countries. From Supermarket to Independent merchants, each have their own qualities. What is the "Magic 80"? What is a "Gondola" in a supermarket? The loss of Oddbins its all here in this latest episode, all with fewer sound gremlins. We're getting there, are we? Let us know.
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