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Brad was recently invited to Sydney to look over 35 vintages of the Wolf Blass Black Label. Not a bad day by the look of it!

In between tasting back through three and a half decades of great wine he managed to catch up with Wolf and chief winemaker, Chris Hatcher, to talk about the past and present of the Wold Blass label.

This week’s guests:

• Wolf Blass
• Chris Hatcher – Winemaker @ Wolf Blass
• Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Malbec 2007 ($120-$130)

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week Brad catches up with Luke Skeer, winemaker at Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate to talk about the most important (Luke’s words) Wynns Cabernet Sauvignon, the Black Label.

This week’s guest:

• Luke Skeer – Winemaker @ Wynns Coonawarra Estate
• Wynns ‘Black Label’ 2009 ($24-$35)

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week Danny catches up with Sue Hodder, winemaker at Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate to talk about the upcoming release of the Wynn’s flagship Cabernet Sauvignon.

This week’s guest:

• Sue Hodder – Chief Winemaker @ Wynns Coonawarra Estate
• Wynns John Riddoch 2008 ($90rrp – released 3rd August 2011)

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

In this, the second part of our interview with Maynard James Keenan we talk about who introduced him to wine, and what’s more important – tending the vines for Caduceus Cellars or touring with Tool, Puscifer or A Perfect Circle?

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week we were lucky to be able to catch up with Maynard James Keenan backstage in Melbourne, Australia before he took to the stage with his band, Tool. But it wasn’t music we wanted to talk to Maynard about, but his winery Caduceus Cellars.

In this, part one, we chat with Maynard about choosing to grow wine in Arizona along with tasting his latest white blend of Chardonnay and Malvasia.

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Remember, there’s still time to get into the running to win our Best Dozen of 2010! Subscribe (for free) and you’re in the running to win! Following us on twitter and facebook will double or triple your chances of winning!

Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

We like big calls here on Wine Week, and there’s no bigger call than to name a wine as the best single vineyard white wine in the world. That’s exactly the accolade that the Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon picked up this week in London at the International Wine and Spirits Competition. After a call like that, we had to check it out.

While no one has ever called the Mamre Brook Shiraz the best wine in the world, we’ve never been unhappy drinking it, and think the new label design is pretty good too.

To round out the week, and our last episode before number 200, we check in with a Chardonnay from Yabby Lake. Tom Carson and the folks from Yabby Lake are taking part in the Wine Rules touch footy competition this weekend in Elwood, so why not drop past and try his wine if you haven’t already had the chance to.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon 2005 ($40-$45)
• Saltram Mamre Brook Shiraz 2008 ($25-$35)
• Yabby Lake Chardonnay 2007 ($32-35)

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We are also super excited to announce the brand new Wine Week Radio podcast!

You can subscribe to the Wine Week Radio podcast via iTunes and every week we’ll have a new episode where we look at what’s happening in the wine industry.

Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week Danny, Brad and Caroline are joined by special guest Leanne De Bortoli to talk about charity touch football event Wine Rules as well as the state of the Yarra Valley. They also talk about the other goings on in the world of wine this week.

Download episode 14 of the Wine Week Radio Podcast
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Follow the Wine Week Radio podcasters on twitter: @WineWeek (Danny & Brad), @bellabacchante (Caroline).

This week Danny, Brad and Caroline talk about the big winners in the Gourmet Traveller Winemaker of the year awards and the Langtons Classification V. They also talk about the other goings on in the world of wine this week.

Download episode 9 of the Wine Week Radio Podcast
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Links from this week’s Wine Week Radio Podcast:

Sue Hodder and Allen Jenkins named Winemaker of the year.
Langtons Classification V
Orlando closes doors in Griffith
Women buy more wine than men
Aussie dollar continues to climb
French wine book for children
Japanese comic book makes French vineyard famous

What’s On?
Mornington Pinot Week
Langtons Classification tasting

Follow the Wine Week Radio podcasters on twitter: @WineWeek (Danny & Brad), @bellabacchante (Caroline).

In part 2 of our recorking clinic special Peter Gago guides Danny through the process of checking a 1987 Bin 389. Will the wine be good enough to meet the standards of Penfolds’ Chief Winemaker? And what happens once the taste test is complete?

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

Every couple of years Penfolds allows people to bring in older bottles of their wine to be assessed by the winemakers. We took along a bottle of Bin 389 from 1987 for Peter Gago – chief winemaker for Penfolds – to open and evaluate. We also got a chance to talk with Peter about the stories behind the bottles they see at the clinics and why Penfolds hold them.

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny