Latest Married mws Podcast Episodes
UK Wine's Counterculture
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - April 19, 2024 09:00 - 58 minutesThere's a new wave of English and Welsh wine producers disrupting the neat and tidy order of the classic UK wine scene. Guerrilla producers - cool kids who aren't afraid to go off-piste and craft dangerous, divisive wines packed full of quirks and kinks. Their attitude? It's better to be naughty...
Sassicaia - The Insider's Guide
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - April 03, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutesNot many wines ascend to the status of 'icon'. But Sassicaia is one of them. The beauty is that it's not a flashy wine - quite the opposite ('old school' might be a more appropriate description). What's more, its ascent to the wine stratosphere is largely accidental - this scented, elegant Bor...
Going Gaga for Garnacha
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutesIt's called 'The Grenaissance'. This exhilarating revival of the grape variety known as Garnacha in Spain and Grenache in France, once the world's fourth most widely planted wine grape, which has gone from workhorse to show pony in the blink of an eye. How come? What's changed? Who's leading th...
Grower Champagne with Lea & Sandeman
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - March 06, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutesFrom big brand to fine wine - it's no exaggeration to say that grower champagne has changed the notion of what champagne can and should be. Pioneers like Francis Egly of iconic grower champagne Egly-Ouriet have invested huge amounts of time and money prioritising their vineyards, relentlessly f...
Light Strike: Wine's Not-So-Secret Scandal
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - February 23, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutesLight strike is probably the biggest wine fault you've never heard of. Bigger than cork, bigger than oxidation or anything else. That pretty-looking bottle of rosé perched on the bright supermarket shelf in a clear glass bottle? Probably knackered. If it's been exposed to light for a while, it...
Ancient Vines to the Rescue in St Mont
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutesDeep in the wilds of south-west France there's a vineyard that was planted over 200 years ago with unknown vines that may hold the secret to fighting climate change. Join us as we head (virtually) out to Gascony to peer into the mists of wine history and see what lessons it holds for the future...
ORANGE WINE Part 2: Gimme Some Skin
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - January 26, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutesSo - orange wine. Is it any good? What qualifies a wine to be 'orange'? Does it sell? And who's going to win our argument about one particularly divisive orange wine?! Dive into the controversial, topical and intriguing subject of orange wine with us as we chat with Saša Radikon of iconic orang...
ORANGE WINE Part 1: The Resurrection
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - January 12, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes'Please can you do an episode on orange wine?' pleaded listener David. 'It's not just hipster wine! These are some of the finest wines in the world...' How could we resist? Orange wine is topical, misunderstood, controversial... It's also an intriguing story featuring a wine style lost in th...
A Southern French Feast
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - December 29, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutesWine. Food. Merriment. And a touch of southern French sun. That just about sums up this episode. We're exploring Occitanie - the sun-kissed southern French region that stretches from the western Rhone through Languedoc and Roussillon into South West France. Taken as a whole, it's the world's ...
Our WINES OF THE YEAR (2023)
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - December 15, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutesOur Wines of the Year format has grown into this riotous, rollicking rollercoaster of a show which we humbly offer up for your amusement and delectation. This is no shopping list. Nor is it a chest-beating exercise in showing off how #wineblessed we are. This episode is the story of a year i...
Ukraine: Wine not War
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - December 01, 2023 06:00 - 49 minutesOdessa Black. It's the name of a (Ukranian) grape variety. But it could almost be code for the desperate times the people of Ukraine are living through. In this episode, we explore the history and current context of Ukraine, hearing first-hand insights from Tania Olevska of the Ukrainian Wine ...
The New Face of Languedoc
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - November 17, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutesLanguedoc is a wine region on the move. Sure, it's a huge region with plenty of history, some of it troubled. But there are things happening in Languedoc wine now that are innovative, surprising, intriguing and...well, delicious. In short, it's well worthy of our attention. In this episode,...
The Ten Wines Never to be Without
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - November 03, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutesWe're going full-on Moses mode in this episode, nailing down the ten wines you should always have at home. Of course, personal taste plays a part. You want to have wines to hand you're going to reach for - which means your favourite styles. But beyond that, it helps to have some expert insight...
Ageing English Fizz - How, Why and What
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - October 26, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutesEnglish sparkling wine. We all know it's good. But how well does it age? And could this be the secret to unlocking even greater quality from what are already exciting wines? We do our best to answer these questions and more with the help of several large glasses of very fine mature English ...
Ventoux: Next Century Wines
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - October 13, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutesIt's a wine region variously described as, 'dynamic', whose wines are undergoing a quality 'revolution', and memorably compared to South Africa's uber-cool Swartland. It's also got a big old mountain on its picture postcard. Not to mention truffles galore. This is Ventoux. And we want to tak...
The Six BEST Wine Books
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - September 28, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutesWhat are the wine books every wine lover should own? We thought about it. We argued. We drank some wine. Argued some more... And then we decided: let's go for it. No messing around: choose just the six BEST books every wine lover needs, whether enthusiastic newbie or jaded expert. It wasn't e...
Marlborough at 50: A wine story worthy of Hollywood
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - September 15, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesThis is a tale of deception, daring, disaster...and deliverance. It also features skinny sheep and wine robots. It's the story of Marlborough, the iconic New Zealand wine region which is celebrating its 50th wine birthday, after vines were planted by Frank Yukich in August 1973. Yukich had ri...
The John Malkovich EXCLUSIVE
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - September 08, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes'My wife suggested we make wine. I think in the hope of cutting down our wine bill...' It's classic John Malkovich. The wit as dry as his aged Provençal Pinot Noir rosé (yes, you read that right). In this epic episode, we get to know John Malkovich the famous actor of stage and screen - but a...
LIVE Q&A - sulfites, party wines, climate change, top wine tourism tips and being pretentious
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - August 17, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutesThis bonus episode may be the last in the current season (4) but it's also a first - the first time we've ever recorded the pod in front of a live audience! A lovely bunch of people came together in our home town of Winchester to drink a glass or two of fine Hampshire fizz and bombard us with s...
The Microbial Face of Terroir
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - August 07, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutesThis episode opens by linking Oppenheimer, Covid-19 and wine - and proceeds to go big by focusing on the small stuff. Microbes. The invisible world of yeasts, bacteria and beyond. We're just starting to understand how important microbes are in terms of defining wine style and quality. Sure, ...
Germany's Pulling Power
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - July 14, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutesDid you know that Germany is the third largest producer of Pinot Noir in the world? Or that one in three Riesling vines in the world grow in German vineyards - and much of these are making dry, increasingly terroir-driven wines these days? There's much that's surprising, or perhaps unexpected ...
The Mystery of Minerality
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - June 30, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutesIt's a wine word almost everyone uses - but no one really knows what it means, what causes it, or where it's come from. It makes some people angry, it leaves others mystified - but some adore the term and can't get enough of it. Is this yet another example in wine of (as one listener calls it...
Portugal's Fine Wines: Here Be Treasures
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - June 16, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutesWe all know port. But there’s a whole universe of fine Portuguese table wine out just waiting to be explored. It’s far less known but certainly no less exciting…so we dive in. Peter’s fired up after a recent trip to host a masterclass in Porto, where he tasted wines back to 1978 and recorded wi...
No Schist Sherlock: How Wine Gets Rocks Wrong
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - June 02, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes‘From virtually any soil a high-quality wine can be made. The use of geology to promote the quality of a wine is thus merely a marketing tool.’ This is an episode that may ruffle a few feathers. We speak to two wine-loving geologists, Professor Alex Maltman and Dr Geert-Jan Vis (the latter r...
Santorini - Wines to Save an Island
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - May 19, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutesSantorini's future is in jeopardy. This ancient, famous island vineyard risks being lost beneath the tourism industry's bulldozers. So how can its wine community fight back? By making exceptional, characterful, inimitable wines and selling them to the world, that's how. In this episode (our 1...
Santorini - Wine's Jurassic Park
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - May 05, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutesLet's go on an adventure to a place variously described as, 'Like being shot to the moon with a glass of fine wine in your hand' and where, 'you basically have the personality of an active volcano in your glass.' Santorini is arguably the ultimate wine destination - a windswept, arid, infertile...
News & Views – Re-Writing Wine’s Ancient History, Silly Money Wine, Drops of God & More
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - April 21, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutesWhat wine news is worthy of your attention? How should you warm up your (fine) wines in an emergency? What wines are really worth paying silly money for? And which wines should we have loved...but didn't? These are just some of the questions we dive into in this Listener Q&A episode, where we ...
Ahead of the Curve with New Zealand Chardonnay
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - April 07, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutesChardonnay polarises people. But times change and this is a grape that's moved on - arguably nowhere more so than in New Zealand, which in recent years has started to deliver quality, diversity and great value in spades. It's timely, too, given the supply shortages and booming prices of the win...
The End of the Hangover?
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - March 24, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutesCould it be true?! No more hangovers is a tantalising notion, a Holy Grail for many drinkers. But how could this happen, and what would it mean for the world of booze and wine? Join us as we dive headlong into the enthralling world of hangover hacks (including at least one credible ‘remedy’) an...
Australian Pinot Noir Comes of Age
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - March 10, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutesEvery wine lover craves great Pinot Noir. Burgundy is ever pricier and scarcer. So where to look? Australia might not seem the obvious destination for Pinot Noir. It’s better known for hefty reds (think: Shiraz, Cabernet), historic styles like Hunter Semillon or its heroic ‘stickies’ (sweet and...
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