Just Another Wine Podcast

What are the new fine wines? Is there such a thing? Jamie, Doud and Emily talk about how taste has evolved from the traditional certainties and hierarchies into a greater appreciation of wines from less fashionable regions, grapes, and growers. Jamie cites Hugh Johnson’s aphorism that a fine wine is a wine that makes you want to write about it. The gang speculate about the qualities that make for a fine wine and conclude that the former prerequisites of impressive structure and ageworthiness are perhaps less important than the sense of purity and the capacity to lyrically communicate terroir. Made...

So much of our tasting energy is spent assessing a particular’s wines aromas and flavours using our sense of smell and what we can detect with our indvidual palates. We rarely discuss the role of appearance, how the wine presents itself, the clues that we can derive from examining intently the liquid in a glass. Emily, Jamie and Doug talk about various aspects of visual appreciation, from the quality of light we taste in (daylight versus artificial, for example), to how appearances can sometimes be deceptive, as well as what find appetising when we look at a wine. They touch...

Wine has been viewed by successive governments as a form of alcohol to be taxed. There is little/no understanding of the importance of wine as an accompaniment to food, but also how taking wine, in the right spirit, can be a civilising influence. Not only has wine inspired poetry, music, and art over the centuries, it is the social drink par excellence, bringing people together, acting as the catalyst for making new friends.
 
In a wide-ranging podcast, Emily, Jamie and Doug celebrate the joy of wine drinking, acknowledging how the flavours in a glass of wine may transport to...

In the final episode recorded in 2025, Emily, Jamie and Doug reflect back on a year of podcasting, where they tackled a variety of topics concerning many different aspects of wine, controversial and otherwise, and celebrate the work that growers do to bring their wines to fruition. They discuss why they particularly enjoy the format of the podcast and the dynamic achieved by bringing different experiences and opinions to the table. Both Jamie and Emily talk about their highlights of the year, especially wine regions that they have visited, whilst Doug reveals his wines of the year. They acknowledge that...