Wine Makers Show: the wine podcast

Wine Makers Show
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Join us on Wine Makers Show, the podcast that uncorks the world of wine! Hosted by Antoine, a passionate entrepreneur and wine enthusiast, this show dives deep into the stories, expertise, and journeys of the people who make wine extraordinary: winemakers, sommeliers, vintners, and industry trailblazers. What to Expect In-Depth Interviews: Hear from top figures in the wine world, from renowned vintners to unsung heroes, as they share their experiences, challenges, and secrets to success. Club Episodes: Explore specific wine topics, from production techniques to tasting tips, in focused, occasional deep dives. A Journey of Discovery: Whether you're a novice or a connoisseur, we break down the complexities of wine to make it accessible and engaging. Why Listen? Wine Makers Show is your gateway to understanding wine like never before. With a focus on storytelling and sharing, Antoine brings you closer to the heart of the wine industry, one conversation at a time. Expect authentic discussions, insider knowledge, and a celebration of the craft and culture of wine. Connect with Us Visit winemakersshow.com (https://winemakersshow.com/) to get in touch or suggest a guest. Email Antoine directly at winemakersshow@gmail.com. Follow the journey on Instagram: @winemakersshow Join the Academy (https://academy.winemakersshow.com) and learn everything about wine Tune in to Wine Makers Show and sip on the stories behind every bottle! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  1. 6d ago

    #120 - Maxime Girardin: Pegasus, the Burgundy Distillery Betting on Premium Spirits

    What makes the son of one of Burgundy's best-known wine families walk away from the cellar to chase gin, vodka and liqueurs instead? We drove to Meursault, vineyards on every side, to sit down with Maxime Girardin and find out why he bet on spirits. Maxime runs Pegasus, the distillery he built from scratch after a decade abroad in finance and trading. He walks us through the six-litre still in his parents' garage, the Dutch technology that lets him scale without babysitting a boiler, and the reason the base spirit, the part most distillers ignore, decides everything. Expect back-to-basics thinking, an obsession over organic wheat and Menton citrus, a clear read on why premium spirits keep growing while wine talks crisis, and a pilot's licence earned before a driving one. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 The Savoy Cocktail Book, by Harry Craddock 🚀 Learn more about Pegasus Distillerie 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best French Wine Map: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  2. Aug 16

    #119 - Petrus by the Glass with Cyrus Ho, Hotel Sommelier at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong

    What does it take to run the wine programme for eight restaurants inside one of Hong Kong's most storied hotel groups, and how do you earn a guest's trust for a US$600 pour of 1975 Petrus? We sat down inside Petrus itself, the flagship restaurant at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong, high above Pacific Place at the heart of the city's energy, to find out. We're joined by Cyrus Ho, hotel sommelier for the Shangri-La Group in Hong Kong, who oversees the wine programme across all eight of the group's restaurants, from Cantonese fine dining to Japanese, French and everything in between. Cyrus walks us through the week he spent doing nothing but refilling water glasses under his mentor's watch, the vintage mix-up that taught him never to skip showing a label, and the six-hour mountain drive into Yunnan that convinced him Chinese Chardonnay deserves serious attention. Expect back-vintage Petrus by the glass, a side career as a certified tea master, and a clear-eyed read on why the next generation isn't reaching for wine. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 Inside Burgundy, by Jasper Morris 🍷 Discover the Island Shangri-La Hong Kong 🍽️ Discover the Restaurant Petrus 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best French Wine Map: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  3. Aug 10

    Sassicaia, Ornellaia, Masseto: The Wines That Broke Italy

    🗺️ The France Wine Map: https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france 🎓 Learn wine, join the academy: https://academy.winemakersshow.com In 1968, an Italian marquis with a passion for Bordeaux and racehorses released a wine the Italian wine authorities called "table wine »: the lowest classification possible. Ten years later, in a blind tasting in London, that same "table wine" beat some of the most expensive Bordeaux on Earth. This is the story of the Super Tuscans: the rebel wines that broke Italian wine law, made a swamp on the Tuscan coast world-famous, and forced Italy to rewrite its own rules. Featuring Sassicaia, Tignanello, Ornellaia, Solaia, Masseto, and the men who made them. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Introduction 01:23 The rebellion of Tuscan wines 03:09 A Marquis with a Bordeaux obsession 05:43 Tignanello: the rebellion enters Chianti 08:03 The 1978 blind tasting that changed everything for Tuscan wines 09:20 The origin of Super Tuscan name 10:26 Bolgheri becomes Italy’s Bordeaux 12:40 Italy admits defeat: IGT Tuscana, Bolgheri DOC and DOC Sassicaia  14:19 How to read a Super Tuscan wine label 16:15 Is the term Super Tuscan still relevant today? ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. Follow us on our platforms:  Website: https://winemakersshow.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1 Image credit: https://www.tenutasanguido.com/en/history Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  4. Aug 2

    #118 - Saint-Emilion and its satellites, with Anthony Appollot, GM of Sarments Vignobles

    Ever wondered what it takes to turn Saint-Émilion's overlooked neighbours into a destination in their own right? This episode takes us to Château de Lussac, flagship estate of a Bordeaux group that's rebuilding itself château by château, and rethinking what a satellite appellation can be. We sit down with Anthony Appollot, general manager of Sarments Vignobles, a sixth-generation Saint-Émilion winemaker who spent years as an independent vineyard consultant before assembling the group's four estates in under a decade, to trace how it all came together and where he's taking it next. Anthony walks us through top-grafting Chenin Blanc onto decades-old Merlot vines, why he's pulling up a third of Lussac's vineyard to plant walnut trees and truffle oaks, and the disease-spotting drone he helped calibrate that kept the group's harvest intact during 2024's brutal mildew year. Expect an 80-year-old field blend planted after a killer frost, a secret Italian grape variety, and a very candid read on the Bordeaux crisis from someone who's still buying. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 The World Atlas of Wine, by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson 🍷 Learn more about the estates: Sarments vignoblesChâteau de LussacChâteau de Saint-PeyChâteau Saint-Jean de LavaudChâteau Vieux MailletChâteau Cantereau🤖 Disease-spotting drones: Chouette 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best French Wine Map: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  5. Jul 27

    10 Rules for Choosing Your Wedding Wine (Without Blowing the Budget)

    Calculate the perfect number of bottles: https://www.theweddingwines.com/calculator Personnalize your wine label for your wedding: https://www.theweddingwines.com/label-maker Choosing wine for your wedding is the biggest wine purchase most people ever make (often hundreds of bottles) and almost nobody teaches you how to do it. In this video: the exact quantity formula, where to spend and where to save, the crowd-pleaser styles that work for 100+ guests, why your toast bubbles shouldn't be Champagne, the sale-or-return trick, corkage math, serving logistics that make cheap wine taste expensive (and expensive wine taste cheap), and how to make the wine actually mean something on the day. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Rule 1: Do the math first 03:01 Rule 2: Buy for the crowd, not for you 04:17 Rule 3: Keep it simple 05:07 Rule 4: Spend early, save late 06:22 Rule 5: Don’t overspend on the toast 06:33 Rule 6: Kitchen and the calendar pick your style  08:21 Rule 7: Taste before ordering  09:30 Rule 8: 3 pieces of financial advice 11:20 Rule 9: Confirm the serving conditions 12:52 Rule 10: Add a meaning in the wine  13:56 Recap of the rules for your wedding wines  14:47 Conclusion  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. Follow us on our platforms:  Website: https://winemakersshow.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1 ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  6. Jul 20

    #117 - He sold a bottle for £1.2M: Tim Triptree MW, International Director of Wines & Spirits at Christie's Auction House

    Ever wondered what it actually takes to sell a single bottle for over a million pounds? This episode takes us inside Christie's, the auction house that has been selling wine since 1766, with someone who stands at the rostrum himself. We sit down with Tim Triptree MW, International Director of Wine & Spirits at Christie's, in Macau, where he's judging the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards, to trace his path from investment banking to the world's oldest auction house, and to unpack exactly how a bottle goes from a private cellar to a world record hammer price. Tim walks us through his unlikely route into wine, what it takes to pass the notoriously brutal Master of Wine exam, how Christie's verifies that a bottle is genuinely what it claims to be, and why Chinese wines might be the next big thing to hit the secondary market. Expect a 1.2-million-pound bottle of whisky, a champagne dosage deep-dive, and a very honest take on why Bordeaux still dominates the room. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine, by Michael Broadbent 🍷 Check the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 🧑🏼‍⚖️ Learn more about Christie’s Auction House 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best Wine Map of the Champagne region: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  7. Jul 13

    Alsace Wine Decoded: 51 Grand Crus, 8 Grapes & a Classification Still Being Written

    🗺️ The France Wine Map: https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france 🎓 Learn wine, join the academy: https://academy.winemakersshow.com Alsace is the strangest, most distinctive wine region in France. It's been French, then German, then French, then German, then French again. Its grapes are German. Its bottles are German. Its villages have German names. And yet the wines are unmistakably, deliberately French. In this video I break down everything you need to read an Alsace label: the four "noble" grapes, the AOC system, the 51 Grand Crus (added one by one between 1975 and 2007), the late-harvest sweet wines, Crémant d'Alsace, and the brand-new Premier Cru tier that's being voted on right now. This is your ultimate guide to Alsace wine.  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Introduction  00:54 History of Alsace wine  02:21 Geography of Alsace vineyards  04:10 The 8 grapes of Alsace wines 06:47 The classifications of Alsace wines 11:45 Allowing Pinot noir in Alsace Grand Cru 13:27 Sweet wines from Alsace  14:41 The new step in the Alsace wine classification 16:13 How to read a label of an Alsace wine 17:33 Conclusion about Alsace wine  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. Follow us on our platforms:  Website: https://winemakersshow.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

  8. Jul 5

    #116 - The story of Marie-Antoinette's Champagne: with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne

    Pour a glass and hold onto your tiara: this episode drops us straight into the gilded world of Rare Champagne, the vintage-only prestige cuvée born at the court of Versailles. We sit down with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne, inside the house's headquarters in Reims (in the Salon Marie-Antoinette itself) to unravel a story that runs from a queen's love of pineapple in 1785 to a bottle dressed by Van Cleef & Arpels two centuries later. Maud trades ten years in fashion for the world of Champagne, tracks down the very family who relaunched the brand, and reveals why Rare Champagne only exists in vintage years, why it took four decades to make just four rosés, and why the tiara on every bottle is glued by hand, one dot at a time, by a team of eight women in Reims. Expect royal history, Chardonnay obsession, and a glass of Rare 1988 paired with Comte. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 Marie-Antoinette, by Stefan Zweig 📚 La Rose de Versailles (Lady Oscar), by Riyoko Ikeda (French History through the story of Marie-Antoinette, in a manga) 📚 Vigneronne, by Laure Gasparotto 🍾 Learn more about Rare Champagne: https://www.rare-champagne.com/ 👸🏼 From Septembre 22, 2026 to January 24, 2027: celebration of the 20 years of the movie Marie-Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, through an exhibition presented at the Petit Trianon, at Château de Versailles 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best Wine Map of the Champagne region: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Join us on Wine Makers Show, the podcast that uncorks the world of wine! Hosted by Antoine, a passionate entrepreneur and wine enthusiast, this show dives deep into the stories, expertise, and journeys of the people who make wine extraordinary: winemakers, sommeliers, vintners, and industry trailblazers. What to Expect In-Depth Interviews: Hear from top figures in the wine world, from renowned vintners to unsung heroes, as they share their experiences, challenges, and secrets to success. Club Episodes: Explore specific wine topics, from production techniques to tasting tips, in focused, occasional deep dives. A Journey of Discovery: Whether you're a novice or a connoisseur, we break down the complexities of wine to make it accessible and engaging. Why Listen? Wine Makers Show is your gateway to understanding wine like never before. With a focus on storytelling and sharing, Antoine brings you closer to the heart of the wine industry, one conversation at a time. Expect authentic discussions, insider knowledge, and a celebration of the craft and culture of wine. Connect with Us Visit winemakersshow.com (https://winemakersshow.com/) to get in touch or suggest a guest. Email Antoine directly at winemakersshow@gmail.com. Follow the journey on Instagram: @winemakersshow Join the Academy (https://academy.winemakersshow.com) and learn everything about wine Tune in to Wine Makers Show and sip on the stories behind every bottle! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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