New Wine Generation
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There's a revolution happening in the world of wine. While tradition once dictated the way things were done, a new generation of wine drinkers are shaking things up - in the way it's sold, consumed and written about - with the intention of shaking off the fustiness and perceived snobbery. Not only is there a new attitude about what's deemed good but there's an openness to alternative production methods and artisanal producers. Sheila Dillon asks if the underground movement we saw towards craft beers and ciders and specialist coffees is now being witnessed in the world of wine.
Dan Keeling of Noble Rot magazine argues this movement echoes indie labels in the music scene in which he started before immersing himself in wine writing. Award-winning sommelier Charlotte Sager-Wilde explains how trying to train up on wines while earning a small salary working in hospitality led her and her husband to a new model of wine bar - selling good wines by the glass rather than the bottle and training staff to share ideas with the curious rather than look down their noses. Meanwhile Peter Honegger has started his own wine store - while still a student - selling Austrian wines from niche producers who weren't being stocked elsewhere. Meanwhile we hear about the new tech which is enabling wine enthusiasts to gen up on wines and form their own opinions and ask is branding is putting style over substance.
Sheila Dillon asks if the slow moving world of wine is seeing its own revolution and if these new ideas can open the world of wine to more enthusiasts.
Presented by Sheila Dillon, Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Sheila Dylan and welcome to this BBC download of the Food Program. |
| 0:06.0 | For information on the BBC's terms and conditions of use, visit |
| 0:09.6 | www. |
| 0:10.9 | BBC.co. UK slash Radio 4. www For all the changes that supermarkets have brought to our wine drinking and buying habits, |
| 0:26.0 | wines still a mystery to many, possibly most of us, |
| 0:30.0 | and I'm definitely in that most. |
| 0:32.0 | I mean, I can barely tell the difference between Bordeaux and Burgundy. |
| 0:36.0 | It sometimes seems that the wine world is one of the last redoubts of our class system, |
| 0:42.0 | something chaps absorb as they grow up. While the rest of us try to grapple |
| 0:46.2 | with the world so complex, it's easier just to hurry down the aisles and reach for one of |
| 0:51.1 | this week's special offers. |
| 0:53.0 | But all that is changing as I can see around me. |
| 0:57.0 | This is a wine bar unlike one I've ever been in before. |
| 1:00.0 | It's sort of casual and as welcoming to the novice as the geek and it seems like |
| 1:06.3 | there's no question too naive and no description too simple. There's a real mix of |
| 1:11.3 | both expensive wines, wild wines, working wines, many, many of them by the glass. |
| 1:20.0 | It's sort of like a real ale pub back at the beginning of the micro brewery revolution. |
| 1:25.0 | The owners and the regulars want you, me, everyone to be part of their club. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, I'm now in the studio with three of those regulars, three people who are part of this new down with the people, let's all join in, wine movement. |
| 1:42.0 | Dan Keeling was a music man. let's all join in wine movement. |
| 1:43.0 | Dan Keeling was a music man, A&R, until he was seduced into a wine life |
| 1:48.0 | by the wine shop next to his office. |
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