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How to be a top Sommelier! Gerard Basset MW MS & Henri Chapon MS (Hotel du Vin) special podcast!  E-mail
Written by Henri Chapon MS and Gerard Basset MW MS   

Gerard Basset
Gerard Basset
GB: I’m often asked what it takes to be a great sommelier.  Aside from the obvious love of wine I would always say a sense of adventure is a prerequisite and the yearn to travel and meet people from all different walks of life.  From the chefs de caves of the grand French chateaux to the flying winemakers of the New World, this is job for people who love to get out and about, learning and of course tasting great wines.

Click here to listen to the Sommelier Masterclass podcast*

 

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"Let's taste It!" Secret Sommelier Bordeaux Wine Tasting Podcast  E-mail
Written by Secret Sommelier   

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Welcome to the podcast page.  Please take your time to listen to each podcast.  Firstly start off with the 'Simple Method for Tasting Wine' created and explained here by Christopher Burr MW.  As you open each wine for tasting, you can then prepare to listen to Christopher and Ewan Lacey taste each wine. 

A Simple Method For Tasting Wine: Christopher Burr MW talks you through how to use the Tasting Chart included with the Bordeaux Tasting Case from Sainsbury's.  Click here to listen -Time, 24mins approx.

Introduction

Click here to listen to the introduction to this tasting.

These are the podcast's for the two white wines and the rose:

Calvet Limited Release Sauvignon Blanc '05

Chateau Bonnet Entre Deux Mers Andre Lurton '05

Chateau Bonnet Rosé '05

Summary for these wines

Here are the reds followed by the Sauternes: 

 Sainsbury's Special Reserve Claret  NV

Chateau Marquis de La Grange '04

Calvet Bordeaux Reserve '02

Taste The Difference Claret '04

Taste The Difference Medoc '03

Taste The Difference Saint Emilion '04

Chateau de La Garde  Bordeaux Superieur '01

Chateau de Respide Cuvee Callipyge Graves '01

Taste The Difference Sauternes '04  

Summary 

Click here to hear the tasting summary of these wines given by Christopher Burr MW. 

 Thank you for taking part and we hope that you have enjoyed this Bordeaux tasting.

For links directly to the MP3 files, please click on the podcast link below: 

 

A simple method for tasting wine

Tasting Intro

Sauvignon Blanc

Chateau Bonnet - Saivignon/Semillon

Chateau Bonnet Rose

Whites / Rose summary

Vintage Claret

Chateau Marquis De Grange

Calvet Bordeaux Reserve

Taste The Difference Claret

Taste The Difference Medoc

Taste The Difference St Emilion

Chateau de la Garde

Chateau de Respide

Bordeaux Summary

 

 

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Bordeaux by night

 
Vertical Warres Port Tasting of all Declared Vintages from ?63 to ?03  E-mail
Written by Secret Sommelier   

Warres Vertical port tasting
Vintage Warres
Anybody who has a love of vintage port or who would like to find out more should click below and listen to our very special podcast of a vertical tasting of declared Warres Port vintages.  Here Christopher Burr MW and Ben Campbell-Johnston travel through the decades in what is both an educational and pleasurable appreciation of the finest fortified wines we know as Warres Port.

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Part 1: The Earl of Erroll's Pearls of Wisdom  E-mail
Written by The Secret Sommelier Team   
Ever since his youthful days in the air squadron, the Earl of E (Merlin) has been
The Earl of Erroll
The Earl of Erroll
a great believer in the creative power of boozy lunches.  In this short excerpt he lets loose his laconic lament for this nations lack of lateral, logical, lengthy lunches and the laborious lumbering lurches towards a box ticking bumbling bureaucracy.
 
Listen to Part 1 of our gracious Lord's advice on how to live dangerously and paradoxically longer.
 
Listen to Lord Erroll    
 
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