Table Talk: Jonathan Ray
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On the podcast Lara, Liv and Jonny share a glass of wine and discuss Jonathan’s earliest memories of food, his go-to hangover cure and his desert island meal.
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| 0:00.0 | For the past 25 years, Bordeaux Index has been relentless in our focus on changing the fine wine market for collectors and investors. |
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| 0:27.1 | Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators Food and Drink podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Olivia Potts and I'm Laura Prendergast. |
| 0:33.5 | And today we are delighted to be joined by Jonathan Ray. |
| 0:39.8 | Johnny will be well known to regular spectator readers as our drinks editor. He's also a regular drinks columnist for the field, Boats International and Spears magazine. And prior to this, he was |
| 0:45.1 | drinks editor of GQ, having previously spent many years as wine editor of the Daily Telegraph. |
| 0:50.7 | He was also the anonymous bar spy for imbibe magazine. And he's the author of several books on wine, including bloodlines and grapevines, all about wine and how to buy wine. |
| 1:01.6 | Johnny, welcome to table talk. |
| 1:03.2 | Oh, it's lovely to be here. |
| 1:04.5 | Johnny, listeners will know that we always start this podcast in the same place, but I think today we need to start it slightly differently because you very |
| 1:11.1 | kindly sent both Liv and myself a lovely bottle of wine to drink during this podcast. |
| 1:15.9 | So I think perhaps you should start by telling listeners, first of all, what we're drinking. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, of course. I just think all chats are lovely, but chats fuelled or eased by wine are even |
| 1:24.8 | lovelier. And I just thought it would be fun for us each to have a glass. |
| 1:28.8 | We each have a bottle. |
| 1:30.1 | We don't have to drink the whole thing. |
| 1:32.0 | Might. |
| 1:36.1 | Some Chateotayette, T-A-Y-E-T. |
| 1:39.3 | It's a Bordeaux-Superia, 2018. |
| 1:44.3 | It's supplied by one of our partners in the Spectator Wine Club, private cellar. |
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