News & Views 2025: Alcohol In Deep Space; Pope Francis - Wine Legend; Global Wine Stutters - But Essex, Bhutan, Pompeii On The Up Wine Blast With Susie And Peter podcast

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News & Views 2025: Alcohol in deep space; Pope Francis - wine legend; Global wine stutters - but Essex, Bhutan, Pompeii on the up

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Where we selectively recap on the wine headlines in recent months (informative - but also fun) and respond to various questions, comments...and grumbles.

We gaze into deep space in search of booze. We consider how global wine can be in the doldrums...but Essex is on the up. We hear a sad tale of vandals destroying scientific research, and a heartening story of how ancient Pompeii wine is set to be revived.

Above all, we revel in the wise words of the recently deceased Pope Francis, who declared wine to be a 'gift from God', a 'healthy consumer habit' and, 'a true joy for the heart of man'. Apparently he told winemaker Ricardo Cotarella: 'You can't party without wine.' Our kind of Pope.

We play our globally popular Guess the Missing Word in the Wine Headline game, this time featuring Bridget Jones, Bhutan, a wrestling superstar and various forms of wildlife. Just a trigger warning for anyone traumatised by the mention of Peter's pants from our previous episode on fake wine - Peter's pants feature again.

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Chapters

1. News & Views 2025: Alcohol in deep space; Pope Francis - wine legend; Global wine stutters - but Essex, Bhutan, Pompeii on the up (00:00:00)

2. Hello and welcome (00:00:05)

3. We're launching subscriptions for Season 7 (00:00:47)

4. Alcohol has been found in deep space (00:02:28)

5. OIV: 2024 was an annus horribilis for wine (00:04:14)

6. Could 2026 be the year things start looking up for wine? (00:08:26)

7. Essex bucks trend as global vineyard prices stutter (00:09:34)

8. Vandals rip out TEA assisted evolution vines (00:10:52)

9. TWE experiments with elite mildew- and drought-resilient grapevines (00:12:43)

10. Pompeii Wine Production Rises from the Ashes (00:13:36)

11. Pope Francis - Wine Legend (00:14:57)

12. Bridget Jones (00:16:45)

13. Smelling the difference between Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc (00:17:58)

14. First vintage for Bhutan (00:19:07)

15. Professional wrestling legend goes viral (00:20:30)

16. MID-EPISODE RECAP (00:21:42)

17. Your views, comments and grumbles (00:22:05)

18. Outro (00:34:34)

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