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Send a text The Leonardslee Family Vineyard label encapsulates the extraordinary journey of its owner, Penny Streeter OBE, from humble beginnings to creating a prestigious English sparkling wine. Once living in homeless accommodation, Penny's story is a modern-day Cinderella tale. We get a birds eye view of everything Leonardslee Vineyard stands for hearing directly from head winemaker, Johan...

Send a text WOW!  This is an incredible episode and one which if you ever wanted to understand the difference in wine just by different terroirs, is a must listen! Arnaud talks to us about his family history, the will to succeed and the investigative nature of them looking into soil types and composites closely to really understand the Sancerre region. A brilliant 30 minutes of your time!

Send a text This is an incredible story of winemaking and changing up the norm. Listen to Mike, head winemaker at Journey's End in Stellenbosch, South Africa explain why at Journey's End they deem themselves to be a cool climate orientated vineyard. How they have looked at terroir and tested different clones, varietals and technological advances to pursue different styles of wines that a...

Send a text This is a story with head winemaker Jose Quintana of a fantastic model in Vagabonds and how they have evolved from a small production urban winery establishment, taking grapes from across the UK to create fabulous wines, to building for the future. Majestic Wines have taken on Vagabonds to create a mega business and now they are building larger premises to make larger volumes and suppo...

Send a text Located in the renowned Rutherford region of Napa Valley, St Supery Wine Estate, owned by Chanel has all the hallmarks of an incredible wine growing estate. The wines are hugely impressive as is their CEO, Emma Swain. Emma gives a wonderful insight into the inner workings of one of the very best vineyards in Napa Valley in California and gives us inside intel into the environment, viti...

Send a text This is a true example of what can be done no matter the surroundings! Built in the centre of the city of the Hague in the Netherlands is a co-operative vineyard. They create a range of wines and having developed different winemaking techniques, both from their individual experiences as well as collaborative expertise, have created an environment from which this green space is thriving...

Send a text This time we head to the Hampshire chalk orientated coast. We find out what Black Chalk Wine have been cultivating and nurturing over the years since inception. We look into the result of having a chalk bed from which to grow the known Champagne varietals and why there is a differential to their wines. Zoe Driver, winemaker at Black Chalk, gives us a deeper level knowledge base and hig...

Send a text WOW! What an episode we have for you here! Series FOUR and we have started it with a cracker. The one and only Fergus Elias, Director of Wine and Head Winemaker at Balfour in the UK kicks us off as our guest for the show. A brilliant winemaker, he discusses everything from the change in duty in the UK to taxation more generally, what Balfour is up to these days and their focus, what he...

Send a text Hosted LIVE on Instagram, this is the upload of The Xmas Special, where we recap how much fun we have had during Series 3 and look ahead to what 2025 brings with SERIES 4! Stay tuned as we have a lot of amazing guests coming to your ears very soon. 

Send a text It seems incredible that we have done now the best part of THREE Series and hadn't before, actually spoken to the largest producing nation in winemaking terms in the world! Italy!! So here we are, picking up on that vibe and speak to the vineyard owner, Domenico Veronese of Villa Bogdano 1880. This Italian winery is a story that starts from a very early age and the desire to one d...

Send a text WOW! What an episode and boy have we got an educational podcast for you! We speak to the award winning winemaker that is Jen Parr from Valli wines in Central Otago, New Zealand. Not only has she won so many awards for her winemaking abilities that it would take me too long to write here, but this is also an INCREDIBLE insight into the whole region of Central Otago in NZ. For anyone who...

Send a text We head back to close to where the podcast originated back in Devon for this episode and speak to one of our good friends, Sarah Massey, head winemaker at the award winning Lyme Bay. In line with English Wine Week, we get an insight into how Lyme Bay create their amazing catalogue of sparkling and still wines plus find out what is Sarah's favourite wine to create and much more. A...

Send a text We bring our next episode of The Andy and Olly Show to you from 3 different places in the world. Olly, sunning himself in Sicily, Andy enjoying the rain in the UK and our special guests this week, Tipchenitza Winery from Bulgaria, 1hr drive from Sofia. Olly and Andy were lucky enough to see and try the range of wines that Tipchenitza Winery offers at ProWein in Dussldorf and at the Lon...

Send a text From Somontano to Shrewsbury. This is an episode that will pull on your heart strings if you ever wanted to become a winemaker. From an idea that started which captivates you from youthful exuberance to hard work and effort in making that idea become a living reality. Tom and Emma create wines in Spain and live in Shrewsbury. How? Listen in and better yet find out so much more about in...

Send a text Wow ! Listeners are in for a cracker! Find out about Domaine Jones - owned and run by Katie Jones, a UK citizen who tells us about her journey to France and the establishment and build out of her wonderful Old Vine orientated plots in Southern France. An incredible journey as well as insight into what it takes to overcome adversity to live a dream. Incredible episode!

Send a text This is most definitely a show for anyone that would like to learn about: - Biodynamic winemaking and farming - Gravity winery management - Micro climatology - South African terroir and soil types - Utilising and Enhancing Winemaking with the balance of technological advances with holistic winemaking Gaining BALANCE! This is the key takeaway from the episode with the wonderful, Johnath...

Send a text WOW what an episode we have for you! Special guests Jordan Wines from the Stellenbosch Kloof in South Africa tell us all about how they met, how they took on, developed and enhanced the winemaking business. Alongside that, how they have been leading champions in moving South African Wines ahead, leading by example in development and knowledge. Incredible to have Gary and Kathy on the e...

Send a text WOW! Swedish Wine Movement is here.....! This is an incredible episode from Jeppe at Vejby Vineyard in Sweden. Find out all about the winemaking practices, utilising a Solera-system style blending process to articulate the biodynamic winemaking culture. The first in the region to create a red wine, it is mindblowingly good! His aspirations are for evolving into Orange wine production t...

Send a text Head winemaker, Dave Sutton gives us an in depth look at viticulture in Central Otago, NZ. The 4 sub region plots that make up the Te Kano culture, the terroir and grape varietals created from a blank canvas as well as how the Te Kano name came about. This is a story of an award winning wine estate in New Zealand that is pushing boundaries with organic winemaking in both white and red...

Send a text Andy and Olly are joined by the incredible Adam, head winemaker at Saddle Goose, based in the UK. This is no ordinary episode though, this looks at rewriting the script and challenging the norms of winemaking. Adam takes us on a story of exploration, with winemaking experience from working around the globe alongside Masters degrees too!  Adam explores the wonderful world of Pet Nat, Na...

Send a text Within the Chiltern hills, between Oxford and Henley, stands Hundred Hills Wine Estate. An exclusive winery which solely produces some of the finest sparkling wines in England and Wales.  Listen to this podcast and do not let some of the poor sound quality (we do perform it live) for some of the questions put you off, because the depth of knowledge that you hear from Stephen, head wine...

Send a text Andy and Olly welcome you to a THIRD series of The Andy and Olly Show. This time taking you GLOBAL! That's right, we are now venturing further afield, not just focusing on the UK wine industry, which is still very important to us, but also finding winemakers and wine estates with new challenges, new information and climatology and so much more. In the first episode, we speak to th...

Send a text Join us as we discover all about the creation of the highly regarded and award winning Ashling Park Estate in Chichester with Gail. This is no ordinary vineyard estate, this is something that really is quite something. With an incredible winemaker who has been highly accoladed and incredible grounds, hear about all the wonderful things you can do here in West Sussex.

Send a text Join us as we embark on another foray in finding out more about the 'local' winemaking scene - as we move to Jersey this week for some super interesting and insightful information on everything from grape varietals, to terroir to fermentation temperatures. Jordi, the head winemaker is on hand to guide us through wine making in Jersey and the challenges they face as well as th...

Send a text Join us and listen to Andy at Denbies in Dorking, Surrey. Olly and I were lucky enough to try the 2022 Orange Solaris and boy is this wine special! Make sure you make a note. Also, listen till the end to find out who Olly's sporting hero is and who he would like to appear on the show as a guest.... As ever feel free to reach out to either co-host as a vineyard who would like to ap...