Wine Makers Show: the wine podcast

A psychology degree, an investment banking desk, and one family dinner that changed everything. Judy Chan walked into her father's business expecting an office job and walked out with a brand-new winery, a million bottles of wine and no one to sell them to. We joined her at Silène, our favorite wine bar in Hong Kong, to hear how she turned that mess into a pioneering name in Chinese wine.

Judy Chan runs Grace Vineyard, one of China's best-known wineries, now approaching its 30th anniversary. She takes us from a freezing staff dormitory in Shanxi, where she could not see her own hands at night, to Ningxia, a bet on thick-skinned Marselan, vines that must be buried every winter, and a jasmine gin small enough to slip into a back pocket.

Pour yourself a glass and dive in: Judy shares a blind-tasting test that went her way by sheer luck, a Harvard Business School case that no longer applies to anything, and the question she is still wrestling with today, how to make a legendary label feel new again.

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📚 Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, by Emily Feng
🍇 Learn more about Grace Vineyard
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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.

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A wine list sorted by Chinese zodiac sign. A Cantonese dining room stocked almost entirely with wine grown in China. Both belong to the same Hong Kong restaurant group, and both came out of the same restless head. We sat down with the person who built them, inside the very restaurant he turned upside down.

Jean-Baptiste Copot is director of wine at Black Sheep Restaurants, the Hong Kong group now closing in on 40 addresses across the city, Singapore and Dubai.

In this interview, he traces his path from a teenage kitchen apprenticeship in France, to a Michelin-starred Lyon dining room with ceilings low enough to leave a mark; credits an English mentor who refused to speak a word of French to him; and recounts the hike where the zodiac idea struck him before he tore up Ho Lee Fook's cellar to rebuild it almost entirely Chinese.

Press play and meet the sommelier rewriting Hong Kong's rules!

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📚 Inside Burgundy (second edition), by Jasper Morris MW

🐑 Learn more about Black sheep restaurants

🥟 Discover Ho Lee Fook

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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.

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Pétrus has no grand château, just a modest farmhouse you could drive past without noticing. It has no classification, Pomerol famously refuses to rank its wines. It's made from Merlot, the grape wine snobs love to mock. And yet a single bottle routinely costs thousands of euros, making it one of the most expensive wines on Earth. This is the full story: the Roman-named vineyard, the formidable widow in legendary hats who simply decided her wine deserved First Growth prices, the partnership that conquered America (and the Kennedy White House), the catastrophic 1956 frost and the gamble that saved the vines, the secret buttonhole of 40-million-year-old blue clay, and the bottle that spent 14 months in space.

Watch the Bordeaux classifications video: https://youtu.be/AbhZdnAoFHk

Watch the Saint-Emilion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xktAzbt2Ms

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00:00 Introduction

01:09 Quick settings about Pétrus

02:21 The birth of Pétrus

03:47 Madame Loubat, the widow who believed in Pétrus

06:23 The great age of Pétrus

08:06 The 1956 frost that almost killed Pétrus

10:03 The soil of Pétrus

12:42 How Pétrus is actually made

14:19 Space bottles & Billionaires, Pétrus today

15:27 Why Pétrus really matters?

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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.

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#SaintEmilion #Bordeaux #WineEducation #Merlot #Petrus

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Saint-Émilion is the most beautiful wine town in Bordeaux: a golden medieval village carved into a limestone hill, named after an 8th-century hermit, sitting on a labyrinth of underground caves. It's also home to the most dramatic story in modern wine: a classification system so contested that three of its four top estates quit in protest. In this video: the full history (Romans, the hermit, the monks), the limestone terroir, the Merlot–Cabernet Franc wines, the famously confusing "Grand Cru vs Grand Cru Classé" problem, the garage wine revolution, the satellite appellations for value, and the 2022 classification meltdown, explained.

Watch the Bordeaux classifications video:

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00:00 Introduction

01:18 Orientation on Saint-Émilion

02:43 History of wines in Saint-Émilion

05:38 Limestone: the terroir of Saint-Émilion

07:33 Merlot and Cabernet Franc: kings of Saint-Émilion

09:59 Grand cru de Saint-Émilion vs Grand Cru Classé

11:15 The Classification of Saint-Émilion

12:32 The year that blew up the Saint-Émilion Classification

15:34 The garage wine revolution

17:13 Saint-Émilion satellites

18:23 Buying guide to Saint-Émilion wines

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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.

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#SaintEmilion #Bordeaux #WineEducation #Merlot

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What does it take to inherit one of Southwest France's most respected wine names, and then dare to change it? We caught Antoine Veiry on the last afternoon of VINEXPO Hong Kong, booths coming down all around us, to find out.

Antoine runs Château Montus and Château Bouscassé in Madiran, the two estates his mother and his stepfather, Alain Brumont, built from a nearly anonymous family vineyard into one of the region's best-known names. He walks us through learning the trade from Anselme Selosse in Champagne and Guigal in the Rhône, the day he decided to start acting like he was already in charge, and why he now chases 13.5% alcohol instead of the 15% wines his parents once made.

Expect a crash course in Tannat, Petit Courbu and Manseng; a right bank and left bank comparison you have never heard applied to the foothills of the Pyrenees; a blind tasting of Château Figeac 1985; and a patient bet on vineyard land nobody has planted yet. Tune in!

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📚 La Gloire de mon père, by Marcel Pagnol

🍷 Learn more about Brumont: Château Montus and Château Bouscassé

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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.

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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!

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📚 The Savoy Cocktail Book, by Harry Craddock

🚀 Learn more about Pegasus Distillerie

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▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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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!

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📚 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

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▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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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.

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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?

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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:

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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!

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📚 The World Atlas of Wine, by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

🍷 Learn more about the estates:

• Sarments vignobles
• Château de Lussac
• Château de Saint-Pey
• Château Saint-Jean de Lavaud
• Château Vieux Maillet
• Château Cantereau

🤖 Disease-spotting drones: Chouette

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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.

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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.

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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

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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:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1

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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!

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📚 Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine, by Michael Broadbent

🍷 Check the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards

🧑🏼‍⚖️ Learn more about Christie’s Auction House

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🗺️ 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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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📚 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.

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If you think that Orange wine is made from oranges, then this video is definitely for you.

Orange wine. Skin-contact wine. Amber wine. You've seen it on every natural wine bar list in the last few years and probably wondered what on earth it actually is. In this video, I break down everything: what orange wine really is (white wine made like red wine), where it came from (Georgia, 8,000 years ago, fermented in giant clay vessels buried in the ground), how it almost disappeared, and how two stubborn winemakers in a tiny village on the Italian-Slovenian border quietly brought it back in the 1990s. Plus how to taste it, what to eat with it, and the bottles to start with.

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00:00 Introduction

00:54 What is Orange Wine?

03:27 The history of Orange Wine

06:21 How Orange wine is made?

08:37 The disparition of Orange wine

09:45 The come back of Orange wine

13:32 What does Orange wine taste like?

14:35 The difference between natural wine and Orange wine

16:27 How to taste Orange wine?

17:05 Conclusion

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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.

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Forget everything you think you know about California wine. Pour yourself a glass, settle in, and let Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute, take you from the fog-cooled vineyards of Napa and Sonoma all the way to the booming wine bars of Southeast Asia. Recorded live at Vinexpo Hong Kong, this conversation crackles with the energy of a region that refuses to sit still.

Christopher trades finance for wine, builds an import business in mainland China, then spends a decade championing California across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Along the way he unpacks the 154 AVAs that make up the most diverse wine state on earth, retells the Judgment of Paris with an insider's eye, and explains why California's "no rules" philosophy turns winemakers loose to experiment.

Then we open the bottles. Four Chardonnays, all from Carneros, all wildly different.

Tune in for a masterclass in why California is far more than big oaky whites, and why Asia's most curious drinkers are falling for it.

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📚 The Wines of California, by Elaine Chukan Brown

📚 The Wine Bible, by Karen MacNeil

🍇 Learn more about California Wines

🇭🇰 More details about the California Wine Month in Hong Kong & Macau

🍷 The wines we tasted:

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Château Montelena Chardonnay 2023

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Rombauer Chardonnay 2024

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Hyde de Villaine (HdV)De La Guerra Chardonnay 2023

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The Prisoner Wine Company The Prisoner Chardonnay 2021

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Burgundy might be the most confusing wine region on the planet, and also one of the greatest. In this video I break down how Burgundy actually works: its five sub-regions from Chablis down to the Mâconnais, the famous Côte d'Or "Golden Slope," and the four-tier classification system: Regional, Village, Premier Cru, and Grand Cru, that ranks the land itself rather than the producer. Plus: why a single vineyard can have 80 different owners, and what the "climats" really mean. In other words, if you want to learn about Burgundy wines, you’re at the right place. This is your ultimate guide to understand Burgundy.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 Introduction

00:52 Bordeaux ranks the Châteaux, Burgundy ranks the dirt

02:23 The geography of Burgundy from North to South

05:23 Focus on the Côte d’Or (Golden Slope)

06:43 The four-tier wine classification pyramid in Burgundy

10:05 Why one vineyard in Burgundy has 80 owners

12:16 How to read a Burgundy wine label?

13:12 Remember this to master Burgundy wines

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.

More about the Wine Makers Show: https://www.winemakersshow.com/

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/

Discover more on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow

Learn more about wine through our Academy: https://academy.winemakersshow.com/

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Is Saint-Émilion already what it needs to be, or is its future still being written? For Valérie Befve, the answer is clear: Bordeaux must keep building, adapting, and rethinking itself to remain at the forefront of fine wine. As CEO of Château Dassault, the Grand Cru Classé owned by the Dassault family since 1955, she is actively shaping what the next chapter of the region will look like.

Over the course of our conversation, Valérie traces her unusual path from running her own family winery to leading one of the largest estates in Saint-Émilion. We dig into the singular Saint-Émilion classification that makes every estate re-sit an exam every ten years, the gulf between north and south-facing terroirs, and how the region is adapting to a tougher market.

From hospitality and wine tourism to grape-variety choices made for a warming climate, this is a clear-eyed case for why Bordeaux is anything but finished, and why its best value-for-money wines might be the smartest bottles to put in your cellar right now.

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📚 Vigneronne, by Laure Gasparotto

🍇 Dassault Wine Estates

🏆 Understand everything about Bordeaux classifications in a short video

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▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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Bordeaux makes some of the most expensive wine on Earth, but its classification system is a labyrinth. In this video, I break down the 5 main Bordeaux classifications: the legendary 1855 Classification, the ever-changing Saint-Émilion ranking, the 1959 Graves Classification, the Crus Bourgeois of the Médoc, and the Crus Artisans. By the end, you'll know exactly what's on a Bordeaux label, and what it actually means.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 Introduction

00:48 Why Different Classifications?

02:09 The 1855 Classification

05:18 The Saint Emilion Classification

08:20 Graves classification

10:22 The Crus Bourgeois

12:33 The Crus Artisans

13:18 What about Pomerol?

14:00 Recap & Conclusion

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬🍷LINKS TO THE CLASSIFICATIONS🍷 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Grands Crus Classés de 1855: https://gcc-1855.fr/en/

Saint Emilien Crus Classés: https://vins-saint-emilion.com/bienvenue-dans-le-vignoble/grands-crus-classes/

Crus Classés de Graves: https://www.instagram.com/crusclassesdegraves/

Crus Bourgeois: https://www.crus-bourgeois.com/

Crus Artisans: https://crus-artisans.com/

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1

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Curious about how a world-renowned Bordeaux house is shaping the future of Chinese wine? In this episode, we dive into the journey of Charles Treutenaere, the driving force behind Domaine de Long Dai, DBR Lafite’s ambitious estate in Shandong, China.

Together, we explore how he navigates cultural bridges, builds a winery from the ground up, and adapts French expertise to a unique Chinese terroir. We unpack the challenges of earning recognition for Chinese fine wines, the evolution of the local market, and the delicate balance between tradition and innovation.

From vineyard practices to consumer education, this conversation reveals what it truly takes to craft world-class wines in an emerging region. And why the story of Long Dai is only just beginning.

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📚 Château Lafite: the Almanac 1868, by Saskia de Rothschild

🍇 Domaine de Long Dai

🇨🇳 Deep dive into the wines of China with the first comprehensive Chinese Wine Course

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▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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I bring you with me into the world of fine Champagne as I sit down with Guillaume Lété, cellar master and head winemaker at Champagne Barons de Rothschild. In this episode, we explore how a young house built its identity from the ground up, and how Guillaume helped shape its signature style.

From vineyard philosophy to the art of blending, Guillaume breaks down what it really takes to craft exceptional Champagne. We dive into terroir, Chardonnay dominance, and his innovative approach to perpetual reserve wines. Guillaume also shares insights on climate challenges, precision winemaking, and the vision driving the house forward.

If you want to understand what’s behind every great bottle, this conversation will spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation.

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📚 30-Second Wine: The 50 Essential Elements, each explained in Half a Minute, by Hugh Johnson

🍾 Champagne Barons de Rothschild

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▬▬ ⭐️ 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.

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