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December 2024

Episode 7: Tell it how it is
Selling wine with pigs and oak trees
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Alastair Leithead
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28:36

June 2024

Episode 6: Under the Lake
Cartuxa wines and the monastery that guards them
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Alastair Leithead
31:26
Episode 5: Staying Roman
Building on Roman history at Torre de Palma wine hotel
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Alastair Leithead
1
30:32

May 2024

Bonus Episode (4): Talha with a twist
Bundled into a car on St Martin's Day for a talha treat
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Alastair Leithead
10:21
Episode 4: Going Roman
Heading to the town that still makes wine the Roman way
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Alastair Leithead
33:12
Bonus Episode (3): Wine Class
Starting our formal wine education...with Port
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Alastair Leithead
11:26
Episode 3: Hard Graft
Listen now | A shipwreck, three generations of winemakers and three new grapes
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Alastair Leithead
1
33:41
BONUS EPISODE (2): Esporão
Listen now | Join a wine tasting with former winemaker João Ramos
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Alastair Leithead
15:31
Episode 2: Deep in Alentejo Wine Country
The story of a region told through Esporão and three of its iconic winemakers
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Alastair Leithead
2
29:31
BONUS EPISODE: Vicentino
Take a deeper dive into our most local winery
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Alastair Leithead
13:35
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