May 19, 2026
I find her refreshing. I find her intriguing. I find her wise: In wine.
Natalie brings to the proverbial table an unabashed view of wine and she will tell you like it is.
I have to tell you that having Natalie McLean on the show was one of those times where you know you could just keep talking for hours, and still...
May 14, 2026
This is what is so interesting about the wine trade. It takes a ton of passion to do this, it is hard work and sometimes, without the passion, it just feels like a vanity project. At Caiarosa in Italy, the passion extends from Bordeaux France.
I have had the pleasure to sit with the Director of the famed Chateau...
May 12, 2026
I have been watching, waiting, watching and waiting again...to talk with Klaas De Jong. He produces some of the most unique and cinematic wine footage in the trade. But it isn't just about the footage, it is the story telling. And he didn't come from the wine side, he is a movie maker who loves wine and he brought the...
May 7, 2026
She is the worlds preeminent authority on wine fraud. If you weren't even aware that wine fraud exists, if does...in a big way.
Wait until you her Maureen's disdain for Rudy Kurniawan, the famed and jailed wine fraudster (he was sent back to Singapore a few years ago), she tells it like she feels it.
You might say...
May 5, 2026
The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles is coming to Yerevan, Armenia. It is a huge feather in the cap of the Armenian wine trade and the story of how and why it landed there is inspiring. Quentin Havaux is the 3rd generation of the fames tasting and judging group and the ascent to international recognition of the CMB is...