The Wine Centric Show

Beyond Expectations Lars Maack: A Farm Bought by Accident, Built on Sauvignon Blanc | South Africa Series Part 5 of 5

Lars Maack says the farm was offered to his family over drinks in a pub, for about the price of a double garage in Germany. Today Buitenverwachting, known in the US as Ba

Kanonkop's Johann Krige: The Pinotage Still Stunning After 50 Years | South Africa Series Part 4 of 5

Kanonkop opened its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinotage to celebrate 50 years of bottling its own wine, and Johann Krige says both were stunning. Recorded in the garden

De Toren: South Africa's First Five-Grape Blend | Stellenbosch Wine | South Africa Series Part 3 of 5

Before every blend, De Toren's cellar master writes three or four words on a sticky note. The final wine has to taste like them. Recorded in the vineyards of De Toren in

Taaibosch: The Stellenbosch Estate That Makes Only One Wine | South Africa Series Part 2 of 5

The South Africa Series, Episode 2 of 5. Taaibosch makes one wine. No second label, no entry-level bottling, just Crescendo, a Cabernet Franc-led blend from the slopes o

Jacques Viljoen & Greg Guy: Boschendal, South Africa's 340-Year-Old Wine Farm | South Africa Series Part 1 of 5

Jacques Viljoen & Greg Guy: Boschendal, South Africa's 340-Year-Old Wine Farm The South Africa Series, Episode 1. Boschendal celebrated 340 years of winemaking history

Oliver Krug & Arthur Larmandier on Krug, Grower Champagne and La Fête du Champagne

Olivier Krug isn't interested in putting Champagne producers in a box. Arthur Larmandier says that at La Fête du Champagne, no one is above anyone. The house and the grow

Peter Liem, Daniel Johnnes & Laurent Champs: On La Fête du Champagne 2026 | Part 1

For years, Champagne's great houses and its small growers didn't share a room. La Fête du Champagne changed that. Co-founders Peter Liem and Daniel Johnnes, and Laurent C

Cyril Chappellet: The Napa Valley Winery That Will Not Sell

Offers to buy Chappellet? The family has said no. Cyril Chappellet, CEO and Chairman of Chappellet, explains why the winery is worth more as an asset than as cash flow.

Chêne Bleu: Farming Like It's the Ninth Century

Nicole and Xavier Rolet bought a 900-year-old ruin in the hills above Provence and turned it into one of the Rhône's most talked-about wine estates, a property critics ha

Grüner Veltliner & the Wachau: Rudi Pichler Makes Wine on the Rocks

Rudi Pichler has a rule: act, don't react. It's shown up in every decision he's made since he came home from working a harvest in Napa Valley and took over his family's s

Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly On Getting Laid Off and Accidentally Building a Wine Media Empire

Madeline Puckette didn't set out to build Wine Folly. She lost her graphic design job in the 2008 recession, followed a boyfriend to Reno, and picked up a stack of wine e

Caparzo and Altesino: Inside a Brunello Dynasty, with Elisabetta and Alessandra Angelini

Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini wanted Caparzo. Eleven partners owned it, and getting them all to say yes took four and a half years. She didn't walk away. That patience became

Never Lose a Bottle: InVintory Takes On Wine's Legacy Giants

Wine tech has a problem nobody talked about until Josh Daiter's father pulled a shelf out of his wine fridge in Florida, watched the bottle he was hunting for roll off an

Paul & Emily Michael: How a British Knight Built a California Wine Dynasty

Paul Michael didn't plant his first vines by choice. He was seventeen years old, on a family holiday in California, when his father climbed out of a rented Cadillac in th

Raventós i Blanc: Why Pepe Raventós Left Cava Behind and What He's Building in Its Place

Pepe Raventós is a 21st generation winemaker who walked away from the appellation his grandfather helped build. Cava had become a commodity. The name carried the wrong st

Master Somm Bobby Stuckey: In Defense of Fine Dining & Friuli

 Bobby Stuckey has spent twenty years telling Americans that the most important wine region in Italy isn't Tuscany. It isn't Piedmont either. It's Friuli. As co-founder

The Wine Importer Who Took On Trump and Won | Victor Owen Schwartz | Bonus Episode 45

When the most powerful man in the world imposed tariffs that threatened to put his business under, Victor Owen Schwartz did what almost no one else was willing to do. He

Bruwer Raats | The Man Who Built South Africa’s Most Iconic Wine

Bruwer Raats planted his flag in the Polkadraai Hills when nobody else wanted to be there. The soil was granite, the land was cheap, and the two varieties he chose — Chen

Kevin Zraly | The Man Who Taught America to Drink Wine

Fifty years ago, a 25-year-old with no money, no connections, and a lot of nerve showed up at an office on the 18th floor of the World Trade Center every single day for t

Cathy Corison Built Napa's Most Patient Winery. Now Grace Is Next.

A UC Davis professor once told Cathy Corison she would never be a winemaker in the Napa Valley. As a woman, it simply wasn't done. She didn't argue. She just went and did