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The Unreserved Wine Talk Podcast with Natalie MacLean

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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 ... read more

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Champagne Special with the Restaurant Guys Mark Pascal and Francis Schott

How do you become a wine expert? What should you do when you're presented with a daunting restaurant wine list? Can you serve Champagne before the start of the meal? Where can you look for Sparkling Wine that tastes as good as Champagne?

Dec18th

Pairing Gift Wines with Personalities

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Dec11th

What’s Minerality in Wine? Plus California Wildfires

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Festive Wines with the Globe & Mail’s Christine Sismondo

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Nov20th

Wine for Normal People with Elizabeth Schneider

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Nov13th

Pairing Chocolate & Wine, Harvest 2019 Update

Get insider tips on pairing wine and all types of chocolate, plus how is the 2019 harvest going in BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia?

Nov6th

Flying with Flavour: Travel and Wine Stories with Stephanie Piché

Chef and Dining and Travel expert Stephanie Piché shares her experiences and adventures from exploring a secret cellar in France to pairing tapas and wine in Spain and getting the most out of wine fe...

Oct30th

A Full-Bodied Framework to Taste, Pair & Buy Wine Like a Pro

Would you like to know how to taste, pair and buy wine like a pro? Would you like to walk into a liquor store and know exactly which new wine you want to buy, confident that you’ll love it even tho...

Oct23rd

Behind the Scenes: A Wine Writer’s Life

Since there’s always been quite a bit of curiosity about what I do, I’ll take you behind the scenes with a day-in-the-life of a wine writer. Seven days in fact. I’m going to record a short updat...