Latest Peter richards Podcast Episodes
We Need To Talk About Rosé
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - July 11, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutesIt's popular, it's pleasurable - and it's much misunderstood. Rosé is having a moment and yet the myths remain pervasive. That's our cue to ride to the rescue, busting a host of rosé myths as we go, shooting down cardinal sins from the hip, and urging a radical re-think of rosé all round. We ...
Wine and War: Palestine, Israel and Lebanon
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - June 28, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourWine can seem tremendously unimportant at a time of war. At what is a torrid time in the Middle East, we wanted to check in with three winemakers - from Palestine, Israel and Lebanon - and ask: can wine really be a source of positivity during troubled times? What we hear in this episode may sur...
Red Wine Headaches: A Eureka Moment?
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - June 14, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutesWine brings pleasure. But for some it can also prove painful. Red wine is particularly problematic for a proportion of the population, with just a few mouthfuls bringing on swift and excruciating headaches. Now scientists think they may finally be on to why. In lab experiments, they've identifi...
Rías Baixas - Albariño with Attitude
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - May 31, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutesIf Rías Baixas is famous for one thing, it's characterful, invigorating white wine based on the superstar Albariño grape - described in this episode by one winemaker as a variety that can take you, 'from the swimming pool to the Michelin-starred restaurant.' Its blossoming popularity over rece...
Rías Baixas - Mists, Myths and Mariscos
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - May 21, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutesWhat do bagpipes, rain, witches, pilgrimage, lampreys and Albariño all have in common? Not much really - but they are all featured in this episode on Rías Baixas, the intriguing wine region in north-west Spain famous for its seafood, verdant landscapes and refreshing, brine-tinged white wines. ...
News & Views - global wine wobbles, free wine for phones, Merlot in the bath & does cling film remove cork taint?
Wine Blast with Susie and Peter - May 03, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutesHow and why is the global wine scene in a bit of a state? Why is wine threatened by weight-loss drugs and smartphones? Does drinking high quality wine make you happier - and does light drinking increase longevity? This is our periodic programme where we catch up on the more intriguing wine new...
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...
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