UK Wine Show
Chris Scott
The UK Wine Show is all about wine and the UK wine scene. We interview winemakers, consumers, wine bar owners, scientists, you name it, if it is about wine in the UK we will cover it. Almost all good wine from around the world washes up on these shores so we'll find out more about the people behind the wines that are making a splash.
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May 11, 2007 • 0sec
Wine Closures with Jamie Goode
Jamie Goode is the wine writer and blogger behind wineanorak.com. In this interview we discuss the technical issues with a range of closures including the screwcap, natural cork, diam, zork and the vino lock.
May 4, 2007 • 0sec
George Bowden Leventhorpe Winery
Leventhorpe Winery is a commercial vineyard and winery based in Leeds in the North of England. Owner George Bowden tells how he grows vines at the extreme edge of viticulture and why badgers, birds and hedgehogs are as much a hazard as frost and fungi.
Apr 27, 2007 • 0sec
Wine Storage Cabinets
Two competing manufacturers of wine cabinets are Dometic Wine Cellars and Liebherr. Each use very different technology to store wine so we find out how they work and explore the pros and cons.
Apr 20, 2007 • 0sec
Lucy Hargreaves Spiral Cellars
Lucy Hargreaves is co-owner of Spiral Cellars, a company who specialise in home wine storage. We find out how the Spiral Cellar system works and how it rivals the traditional cellar.
Apr 13, 2007 • 0sec
Claire Wood Two Hands Horizontal Tasting Part 2
Two Hands Wines was established in 1999 with the objective of making the best possible Shiraz based wines from prized Shiraz regions in Australia. In part 2 we taste 3 wines from 3 regions in a horizontal tasting.
Apr 6, 2007 • 0sec
Claire Wood Two Hands Horizontal Tasting Part 1
Two Hands Wines was established in 1999 with the objective of making the best possible Shiraz based wines from prized Shiraz regions in Australia. In part 1 we compare 3 wines from 3 regions in a horizontal tasting.
Mar 30, 2007 • 0sec
Richard Selley Geology and Wine Part 2
Richard Selley is a Professor of Geology and a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. In Part 2 we explore the different soil types in vineyards across the UK.
Mar 23, 2007 • 0sec
Richard Selley Geology and Wine Part 1
Richard Selley is a Professor of Geology and a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He explains how the different soil and rock types affect the vines that are grown on them.
Mar 16, 2007 • 0sec
Matt Skinner
Australian-born Matt Skinner is sommelier at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant and a well-known personality in the UK wine world. Matt tells us how he got to where he is today, starting 13 years ago in an Aussie bottle shop.
Mar 9, 2007 • 0sec
Joel Peterson on the Zinfandel grape
Joel Peterson is founder of Ravenswood, the largest producer of Zinfandel in the world. In this second interview with Joel we discuss the latest genetic research into the origins of the Zinfandel grape.
