Natalie MacLean

Unreserved Wine Talk

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The Unreserved Wine Talk podcast features candid conversations with the most fascinating people in the wine world. Your host, award-winning journalist Natalie MacLean, dives into how it feels to compete in the nerve-wracking World's Best Sommelier Competition, the shadowy underground of wine forgery, the zany tactics of a winemaker who hosted a funeral for cork, and more. Nestled in these colourful stories are practical tips on how to choose wine from a restaurant list, pair it with food and spot great values in the liquor store. Every second episode, Natalie goes solo with an unfiltered, pers...

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Natalie MacLean

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2: Wine Confession: Loving the Buzz of Alcohol 12.12.2018 12:48

As I mentioned in the introductory episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, every other episode I'll be doing a solo episode where I offer up some of my personal wine confessions. This is the first of these special confessional episodes. Many of these stories I've never shared publicly. Some will be funny, others will be funny, and a few will be embarrassing. I've decided to share these confes...

1: Wine Forgery and True Wine Crime with Pete Hellman 12.12.2018 33:50

Peter Hellman is a New York-based wine journalist and best-selling author. His writing has appeared in Wine Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Times, New York Sun and his bestselling books include In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire and Chief!: Classic Cases from the Files of the Chief of Detectives and When Courage Was Stronger than Fear...

Introducing the Unreserved Wine Talk Podcast: Unfiltered Wine Conversations and Confessions 20.11.2018 9:01

Welcome to this special introduction to the Unreserved Wine Talk Podcast! My name is Natalie MacLean and I've been writing about wine for twenty years. Growing up in a small Nova Scotia town, I used to think that wine was just for fancy people. However, I now know that the pure pleasure and passion of wine is for everyone. This podcast serves to help you take the journey I've taken with wine. One...