#117 - He sold a bottle for £1.2M: Tim Triptree MW, International Director of Wines & Spirits at Christie's Auction House

#117 - He sold a bottle for £1.2M: Tim Triptree MW, International Director of Wines & Spirits at Christie's Auction House

Ever wondered what it actually takes to sell a single bottle for over a million pounds? This episode takes us inside Christie's, the auction house that has been selling wine since 1766, with someone who stands at the rostrum himself. We sit down with Tim Triptree MW, International Director of Wine & Spirits at Christie's, in Macau, where he's judging the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards, to trace his path from investment banking to the world's oldest auction house, and to unpack exactly how a bottle goes from a private cellar to a world record hammer price. Tim walks us through his unlikely route into wine, what it takes to pass the notoriously brutal Master of Wine exam, how Christie's verifies that a bottle is genuinely what it claims to be, and why Chinese wines might be the next big thing to hit the secondary market. Expect a 1.2-million-pound bottle of whisky, a champagne dosage deep-dive, and a very honest take on why Bordeaux still dominates the room. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine [https://amzn.to/4vn9vep], by Michael Broadbent 🍷 Check the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards [https://www.wynnresortsmacau.com/en/wynn-signature/chinese-wine-awards] 🧑🏼‍⚖️ Learn more about Christie’s Auction House [https://www.christies.com/] 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop]: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best Wine Map of the Champagne region [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vignoble-champenois]: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy [https://ausha.co/privacy-policy] for more information.

Alsace Wine Decoded: 51 Grand Crus, 8 Grapes & a Classification Still Being Written

🗺️ The France Wine Map: https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france] 🎓 Learn wine, join the academy: https://academy.winemakersshow.com [https://academy.winemakersshow.com] Alsace is the strangest, most distinctive wine region in France. It's been French, then German, then French, then German, then French again. Its grapes are German. Its bottles are German. Its villages have German names. And yet the wines are unmistakably, deliberately French. In this video I break down everything you need to read an Alsace label: the four "noble" grapes, the AOC system, the 51 Grand Crus (added one by one between 1975 and 2007), the late-harvest sweet wines, Crémant d'Alsace, and the brand-new Premier Cru tier that's being voted on right now. This is your ultimate guide to Alsace wine.  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Introduction  00:54 History of Alsace wine  02:21 Geography of Alsace vineyards  04:10 The 8 grapes of Alsace wines 06:47 The classifications of Alsace wines 11:45 Allowing Pinot noir in Alsace Grand Cru 13:27 Sweet wines from Alsace  14:41 The new step in the Alsace wine classification 16:13 How to read a label of an Alsace wine 17:33 Conclusion about Alsace wine  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. Follow us on our platforms:  Website: https://winemakersshow.com [https://winemakersshow.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/ [https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/] Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP [https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1] Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy [https://ausha.co/privacy-policy] for more information.

#116 - The story of Marie-Antoinette's Champagne: with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne

Pour a glass and hold onto your tiara: this episode drops us straight into the gilded world of Rare Champagne, the vintage-only prestige cuvée born at the court of Versailles. We sit down with Maud Rabin, Managing Director of Rare Champagne, inside the house's headquarters in Reims (in the Salon Marie-Antoinette itself) to unravel a story that runs from a queen's love of pineapple in 1785 to a bottle dressed by Van Cleef & Arpels two centuries later. Maud trades ten years in fashion for the world of Champagne, tracks down the very family who relaunched the brand, and reveals why Rare Champagne only exists in vintage years, why it took four decades to make just four rosés, and why the tiara on every bottle is glued by hand, one dot at a time, by a team of eight women in Reims. Expect royal history, Chardonnay obsession, and a glass of Rare 1988 paired with Comte. Tune in! ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 Marie-Antoinette [https://amzn.to/4atB6Tw], by Stefan Zweig 📚 La Rose de Versailles (Lady Oscar) [https://amzn.to/4eWo02E], by Riyoko Ikeda (French History through the story of Marie-Antoinette, in a manga) 📚 Vigneronne [http://amzn.to/4eiFTJM], by Laure Gasparotto 🍾 Learn more about Rare Champagne: https://www.rare-champagne.com/ [https://www.rare-champagne.com/] 👸🏼 From Septembre 22, 2026 to January 24, 2027: celebration of the 20 years of the movie Marie-Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, through an exhibition presented at the Petit Trianon, at Château de Versailles [https://www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/expositions/marie-antoinette-sofia-coppola] 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop]: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best Wine Map of the Champagne region [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vignoble-champenois]: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy [https://ausha.co/privacy-policy] for more information.

What Is Orange Wine? The 8,000-year-old wine that's everywhere

🗺️ The France Wine Map: https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-france] 🎓 Learn wine, join the academy: https://academy.winemakersshow.com [https://academy.winemakersshow.com] If you think that Orange wine is made from oranges, then this video is definitely for you.  Orange wine. Skin-contact wine. Amber wine. You've seen it on every natural wine bar list in the last few years and probably wondered what on earth it actually is. In this video, I break down everything: what orange wine really is (white wine made like red wine), where it came from (Georgia, 8,000 years ago, fermented in giant clay vessels buried in the ground), how it almost disappeared, and how two stubborn winemakers in a tiny village on the Italian-Slovenian border quietly brought it back in the 1990s. Plus how to taste it, what to eat with it, and the bottles to start with. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📚CHAPTERS 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Introduction 00:54 What is Orange Wine?  03:27 The history of Orange Wine 06:21 How Orange wine is made?  08:37 The disparition of Orange wine 09:45 The come back of Orange wine 13:32 What does Orange wine taste like? 14:35 The difference between natural wine and Orange wine  16:27 How to taste Orange wine? 17:05 Conclusion ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. Follow us on our platforms:  Website: https://winemakersshow.com [https://winemakersshow.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/ [https://www.instagram.com/winemakersshow/] Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP [https://open.spotify.com/show/1J50w14nMbVRCnKSsQ4hEP] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/@winemakersshow?sub_confirmation=1] #OrangeWine #SkinContact #NaturalWine #WineEducation Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy [https://ausha.co/privacy-policy] for more information.

#115 - Inside California Wine: with Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute

Forget everything you think you know about California wine. Pour yourself a glass, settle in, and let Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute [https://discovercaliforniawines.com/], take you from the fog-cooled vineyards of Napa and Sonoma all the way to the booming wine bars of Southeast Asia. Recorded live at Vinexpo Hong Kong, this conversation crackles with the energy of a region that refuses to sit still. Christopher trades finance for wine, builds an import business in mainland China, then spends a decade championing California across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Along the way he unpacks the 154 AVAs that make up the most diverse wine state on earth, retells the Judgment of Paris with an insider's eye, and explains why California's "no rules" philosophy turns winemakers loose to experiment. Then we open the bottles. Four Chardonnays, all from Carneros, all wildly different. Tune in for a masterclass in why California is far more than big oaky whites, and why Asia's most curious drinkers are falling for it. ▬▬ 🎁 GIFTS 🎁 ▬▬ 📚 The Wines of California [https://amzn.to/4vhXjfD], by Elaine Chukan Brown 📚 The Wine Bible [https://amzn.to/4fSPeJI], by Karen MacNeil 🍇 Learn more about California Wines [https://discovercaliforniawines.com/] 🇭🇰 More details about the California Wine Month in Hong Kong & Macau [https://www.cawinemonthhk.com/] 🍷 The wines we tasted: * Château Montelena [https://montelena.com/] Chardonnay 2023 * Rombauer [https://www.rombauer.com/] Chardonnay 2024 * Hyde de Villaine (HdV) [https://hdvwines.com/]De La Guerra Chardonnay 2023 * The Prisoner Wine Company [https://theprisonerwinecompany.com/] The Prisoner Chardonnay 2021 🎁 Get your wine essentials on our shop [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop]: a curated selection of wine accessories, posters and much more 🗺️ Get the best Wine Map of the Bordeaux region [https://www.winemakersshow.com/shop/carte-vins-bordeaux]: as information as decorative ▬▬ ⭐️ ABOUT ⭐️ ▬▬ My name is Antoine, and I’ve been passionate about wine for several years. I knew nothing at first, so I went out to meet the biggest figures in the industry and turned those encounters into a podcast that’s now listened to by over 100,000 people. I now share with you what I’ve learned, and I hope we embark together on a beautiful wine journey to discover the finest experiences. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS DANGEROUS FOUR YOUR HEALTH. CONSUME IN MODERATION. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy [https://ausha.co/privacy-policy] for more information.