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Season Six (2024/2025)

• E1: Chile Wines of the Year 2024
• E2: Hunter Valley – History to High Jinks
• E3: Life or Death? On Wine and Health
• E4: Chinese Wine – What’s the Deal?
• E5: Tainted Love – Your Ultimate Guide to Wine Faults
• E6: Portugal’s Great Whites – Bucking Brancos
• E7: The Vines of the Future…Are Here
• E8: Our WINES OF THE YEAR (2024)
• E9: Lessons in Wine Chemistry
• E10: Don’t Know Western Australia’s Great Southern? You Should
• E11: Margaret River Finds its Voice
• E12: Why Wine Matters
• E13: Appellation Marlborough Wine
• E14: Wine in a Can – Sacré Bleu!
• E15: RIDGE – The Insider’s Guide
• E16: Do you need more than one wine glass in your life?
• E17: Fake Wine – A Laughing Matter?
• E18: News & Views 2025
• E19: Battle of the Bubbles (bonus)
• E20: ‘Adrenaline Rush’: Wine Auctions & Trends with iDealwine
• E21: AO YUN – The Insider’s Guide

Season Five (2023/2024)

• E1: The John Malkovich EXCLUSIVE
• E2: Marlborough at 50: A wine story worthy of Hollywood
• E3: The Six BEST Wine Books
• E4: Ventoux: Next Century Wines
• E5: Ageing English Fizz: How, Why, What
• E6: The Ten Wines Never to be Without
• E7: The New Face of Languedoc
• E8: Ukraine: Wine not War
• E9: Our WINES OF THE YEAR (2023)
• E10: A Southern French Feast
• E11: ORANGE WINE Part 1: The Resurrection
• E12: ORANGE WINE Part 2: Gimme Some Skin
• E13: Ancient Vines to the Rescue in St Mont
• E14: Light Strike: Wine’s Not-So-Secret Scandal
• E15: Grower Champagne with Lea & Sandeman
• E16: Going Gaga for Garnacha
• E17: Sassicaia: The Insider’s Guide
• E18: UK Wine’s Counterculture
• E19: News & Views
• E20: Rías Baixas: Mists, Myths and Mariscos
• E21: Rías Baixas: Albariño with Attitude
• E22: Red Wine Headaches: A Eureka Moment?
• E23: Wine and War – Palestine, Israel and Lebanon
• E24: We Need To Talk About Rosé
• E25: Action Stations – Wines to Combat Climate Change

Season Four (2022/2023)

• Season 4 Trailer
• E1: Matching Food and Wine: Green Pizza!
• E2: Inside the Fort Knox of Wine
• E3: Matching Food and Wine: Spaghetti Bolognese!
• E4: Red Dawn: English Wine and Climate Change
• E5: Matching Food and Wine: Fish Pie!
• E6: Our WINE(S) OF THE YEAR 2022!
• E7: Matching Food and Wine: The ULTIMATE Burger
• E8: Selling Net Zero Wine: Pipe Dream or In The Pipeline?
• E9: The Year Ahead: A Wine Lover’s Wish List
• E10: How To Be a Better Wine Lover
• E11: Burgundy: The Tipping Point?
• E12: The New Beaujolais
• E13: Wine and Your Microbiome – A Recipe for Health?
• E14: Australian Pinot Noir Comes of Age
• E15: The End of the Hangover?
• E16: Ahead of the Curve with New Zealand Chardonnay
• E17: News & Views: Re-Writing Wine’s Ancient History & More
• E18: Santorini – Wine’s Jurassic Park
• E19: Santorini – Wines to Save an Island
• E20: No Schist Sherlock: How Wine Gets Rocks Wrong
• E21: Portugal’s Fine Wines – Here Be Treasures
• E22: The Mystery of Minerality
• E23: Germany’s Pulling Power
• E24: The Microbial Face of Terroir
• E25: LIVE Q&A (Winchester)

Season Three (2021/2022)

• Season Three Trailer
• E1: Fake Booze – A Barrel of Laughs
• E2: English Wine: Now What?
• E3: How To Buy Wine
• E4: Bordeaux’s White Bank
• E5: We’re Making Wine for Hope and Glory
• E6: WTAF – Wine’s Alt-Format Warriors Battle Climate Change
• E7: The Oz Clarke EXCLUSIVE!
• E8: Our Wines of the Year (LIVE)
• E9: Investing in Wine
• E10: A Drink to Dry (LIVE)
• E11: When Coffee Dorks Meet Wine Lovers
• E12: Burgundy 2020 Vintage Brief (LIVE)
• E13: Getting to know the Côtes de Bordeaux
• E14: The New Champagne
• E15: The Magical Science of Taste
• E16: Boxing Clever? (LIVE)
• E17: Georgia 4 Ukraine – For Peace
• E18: On Natural Wine
• E19: Fake Booze, Pet Nad to Yoda
• E20: Adventures in Dosage
• E21: Tasting 1982 Bordeaux
• E22: Armenia’s Ambition
• E23: The World’s BIGGEST Wine Competition
• E24: Wine from the Arab World
• E25: Why Bother Matching Food and Wine?
• E26: Matching Food and Wine: Curry!
• E27: Matching Food and Wine: Lamb!

Season Two (2020/2021)

• Season Two Trailer
• E1: The Sam Neill EXCLUSIVE
• E2: Napa + wine on screen
• E3: Glass Works
• E4: Dreaming of a Wine Christmas
• E5: Burgundy in 2021 Part 1
• E6: Burgundy in 2021 Part 2
• E7: Dry Drinking
• E8: Spread the Love – with Majestic Wine
• E9: Canada, crisps and beyond with Natalie MacLean
• E10: The Undeserved Hangover
• E11: Sommeliers – What Next?!
• E12: Build a Wine Collection at Home
• E13: The Big English Wine Adventure
• E14: Wine as a Career?! (RE-RUN)
• E15: New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
• E16: Our Story, Part 1
• E17: Our Story, Part 2
• E18: Becoming a Master of Wine, Part 1
• E19: Bordeaux in 2021

Season One (2020)

• S1 E1: Australia on Fire + wines for curried meatballs + A is for Alcohol
• S1 E2: Wait, wine can be a career?!
• S1 E3: Domaine of the Bee + wines for creamy dhal – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E4: Emotions run high in Chile + isolation wines – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E5: Singapore locks down + wines for porcini pasta – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E6: Help4Hospitality with Alex Hunt MW – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E7: Paul Hobbs in California + wine glasses – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E8: China’s hangover + Amarone – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E9: Michelin meals on wheels + wild garlic risotto – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E10: Torn in the USA – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E11: Cape Fears: South Africa’s prohibition – Wine Survival Guide
• S1 E12: The BEST white wine grape is… (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E13: Breaking Burgundy (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E14: Cheering up with champagne and Syrah (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E15: Riesling and the Doctor (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E16: The Pig, the pink and the popstar (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E17: Viva Italia! (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E18: The change in Spain (Wine Survival Guide)
• S1 E19: The BEST rosé EVER?!
• S1 E20: Are You Serving Wine All Wrong?!
• S1 E21: Judging Britain’s Best Wines Part I
• S1 E22: Wine 4 Lebanon
• S1 E23: The Hugh Johnson EXCLUSIVE!
• S1 E24: Judging Britain’s Best Wines Part II
• S1 E25: Chile Gets Cool
• S1 E26: LOCK. MY. WINE. DOWN. From big brands to counter-culture wine…
• S1 E27: Extinction, regeneration…wine?
• S1 E28: The BEST red wine grape EVER is…
• S1 E29: Making a wine festival happen
• S1 E30: You asked, we answer – Season 1 FINALE