Old World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate, with Oz Clarke and Jancis Robinson

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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France, Italy, Spain, Germany: these are the ancient Old World wine-growing regions of Europe, where continuity and history reign supreme. California, Australia, South Africa and Chile: these are some of the New World areas, where technology and science trump tradition. Old World wines tend to be light-bodied, with herbal, mineral and floral components. New World wines, thanks to warmer climates, are generally full-bodied, fruity and higher in alcohol. But which wines are the greater? To battle it out, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the UK’s most celebrated wine experts for this major debate. Fighting for the tradition and terroir of the Old World was Jancis Robinson, wine correspondent of the Financial Times and the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine. Fighting for the modernising spirit of the New World was Oz Clarke, the last winner of the World Wine Tasting Championship, and the youngest ever British Wine Taster of the Year. The debate was chaired by Amelia Singer, TV presenter and former wine writer for Waitrose Food magazine. Plus there were questions from the audience from renowned wine experts Steven Spurrier and Hugh Johnson. Each member of the audience was given two glasses of wine, provided by Waitrose & Partner: Old World: Castello Colle Massari, Montecucco Rosso Riserva (Tuscany) New World: Saint Clair, Hawkes Bay Syrah, New Zealand (Hawke's Bay) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hi, I'm Daniel.
1:01.0	Welcome to this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast.
1:03.6	This episode is one of our live debates that we staged recently and the motion is
1:08.1	Old World versus New World, The Great Wine Debate. So in this debate we had an advocate for old world wine, so that's
1:15.4	wine from the traditionally wine producing parts of the world, mostly in Europe.
1:20.3	And on that side of the debate we had Janstice Robinson, the award-winning wine writer.
1:25.6	And on the other side advocating for new world wine.
1:28.6	So that's wine from parts of the world that only recently or relatively recently starting to produce wine.
1:35.1	We had Oz Clark advocating for New World wine and he is also one of the world's leading wine
1:39.7	experts and the debate was chaired by Amelia Singer, the TV presenter and contributor on The Wine Show
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