This bonus episode may be the last in the current season (4) but it’s also a first – the first time we’ve ever recorded the pod in front of a live audience!

A lovely bunch of people came together in our home town of Winchester to drink a glass or two of fine Hampshire fizz and bombard us with searching questions, from which wines we’d recommend for a large and varied dinner party crowd to the implications of climate change for wine.

They even asked us what were the most pretentious wine descriptions we’d ever used. I mean, the cheek of it…

We also touched on issues ranging from ‘sulfite-free’ wine to no/low alcohol, our favourite Chardonnay and rosé, which are the best wine regions to visit, the rise of English wine, multi-vintage versus vintage sparkling wine – and what wines you should ALWAYS have at home.

In our introduction we also feature some recent listener feedback from a Napa wine grower questioning how he should explain terroir to visitors to a professor on how microbes (yeasts) can influence a wine’s mouthfeel.

As for the live Q&A format, we could get used to it.

You have been warned.

Wine Blast on Tour may be coming to a speakeasy near you soon…