Cheese and wine special with Helen McGinn and a listener Q&A

Dish

Cold Glass Productions

Comedy, Arts, Food, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Nick and Angela welcome a wine expert to Dish HQ. Helen McGinn is an award-winning author, drinks writer and TV wine presenter. Having cut her teeth as a supermarket wine buyer, she went on to found a blog, The Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, which has since become a best-selling book. Helen is the much-loved wine expert on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen and writes a monthly wine column for Waitrose Food Magazine. In this episode, Nick and Angela skip the main course and head straight to the cheese. Helen brings a selection of wine and cheese to the dish table to inspire you this festive season and starts with a bottle of fizz from South Africa, Graham Beck Chardonnay Pinot Noir Brut NV, which our trio tastes with a pecorino and a Cornish Cheese Co. Cornish Brie (available in-store at the Waitrose cheese counter). Next up is a white wine from Bordeaux, Dourthe Roqueblanche Sauvignon Blanc, which Helen pairs with the Clara goat’s cheese, also available at the in-store counter. To follow, a malbec rosé from Argentina goes perfectly with Highmoor, a washed rind cheese from Oxfordshire. Helen pours a red from South Africa, Reyneke Organic Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot, which Nick and Angela try with a Godminster organic vintage cheddar. And finally, Helen recommends a sweet wine, Carte Or Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise NV, which she pairs with the No.1 Colston Bassett Stilton. Having enjoyed their cheese and wine tasting, Nick and Angela tuck into some of your questions: stay tuned for their TV snack choices, their most memorable meal with their partners and what they most admire about each other. Just so you know, our podcast might contain the occasional mild swear word or adult theme. All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish We can’t all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help. Send your dilemmas to [email protected] and she’ll try to answer in a future episode. Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose & Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dish from Waitrose is an SE-Creative Studio production.
0:03.8	I love Christmas party food, and now, Waitrose is offering three packs of chilled
0:08.5	Christmas party food for the price of two. Pick up some of this gorgeous smoked salmon
0:12.1	eclairs or popcorn feta with hot honey or try it for near fries.
0:15.6	Even those sticky beef-to-reacky skewers there are lots to juice from. It's a hard choice.
0:20.9	That's why your third pack is on us. When the offer is this good, expect a little trouble
0:25.1	deciding what to get. Waitrose, food to feel good about.
0:28.4	Selected source, subject to availability. Prices may vary in channel
0:31.0	violence, little waitrose in concessions, cheapest out of free chilled out of zonedly.
0:34.8	This podcast, to make contains some strong language and adult themes.
0:44.6	Oh, hello, and welcome along to Dish from Waitrose. I am Nick Grimshaw.
0:48.8	And I'm Angela Hartnet. And today we have a special episode, don't we Angela?
0:53.1	We do. It's just you and me. Just me and you. Round of applause for Angela
0:58.0	and me. But listen, we are not entirely alone as we are surrounded by piles of cheese
1:07.9	and some bottles of wine as well. And as much as I love our guests, this is pretty ideal.
1:12.7	This is loads of cheese, loads of chutneys, nibbles, crackers. I think we basically have
1:17.7	the waitrose cheese counter on this side. Yeah, around us, basically.
1:21.9	Wait, here's the season I feel for cheese and wine. It is.
1:26.3	And now we do have an expert join us very shortly on the podcast. We have Helen McGinn.
1:31.6	Helen McGinn is friend of the show, also known as the Nackadmother.
1:36.0	Yes. Which I didn't know as the Nackadmother.
1:38.3	Yeah, that's how she started. I know. I didn't realise that.
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