Videos

Here are two videos of some of what I got up to recently while launching American Wine  on the east coast of the US. My hard-working co-author Linda Murphy and I launched it together on the west coast, as shown here at a great all-afternoon reception at Raymond winery in the Napa Valley. More...

30 Aug - See below for a response re the proliferation of red wine grapes in Nierstein. On Monday, Michael Schmidt and I sat side by side at your service on the first of this year's two-day unveiling (the timing having been much discussed on this red-hot thread in our forum ) of the VDP's. More...

Andrew McInnes (pictured) of Ch La Cardonne in the Médoc sent me the following message on reading in Bordeaux 2011 - our plans that I was not going to Bordeaux to taste the primeurs this year: 'To ensure that you don't feel left out, I thought you might be interested in spending 30. More...

A fascinating - if not exactly new - piece of vineyard technology appears in the video below. It shows a GPS-guided planting machine in action at Rathfinny in Sussex, where the first vines in a new 400-acre project were planted on 26 March 2012 - read more about Rathfinny in this article .. More...

See this film made at FEIRT, an event in Sydney last month described in For Riesling addicts. The picture on the left shows me about to get my first tattoo, observed by James Halliday. Below are the results.   More...

This short film of the recent Room to Read gala dinner in Sydney was made by wine writer Nick Stock and Luke Eblen and donated to the charity. A total of more than a million Australian dollars was raised for spreading literacy in the developing world. See Postcard from Sydney for my account. More...

This week I have been mainly in the Côte de Nuits. Enthusiastic poster on our Members' forum , German wine enthusiast Symon Brown will be glad to know that I managed to make time to visit his heroine Cecile Tremblay yesterday and that, having rented space in the old co-op in the back. More...

The film below shows how oak barrels are made, at Australia's only winery cooperage, at Yalumba in the Barossa Valley. (The photograph below shows an additional un-filmed stage, when barrels are toasted to order.) Yalumba use imported French and American oak which they turn into. More...

During the Saturday before the big Hospices de Beaune wine auction (see this video ), there is a huge wine tasting in a large convention centre outside the city to which anyone can go and many locals - especially young people, I was delighted to see - do. All they have to do is buy a ticket and. More...

This short film was made at the Chapitre des Chevaliers du Tastevin dinner at the Château du Clos de Vougeot the weekend before last, as described in Breaking my Hospices duck . The musicians at Clos de Vougeot are all amateurs apparently but play to a very high level. Must be the wine. . More...