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Ep 7: Why Isn't There More Wine In Small Bottles? (Or Cans?)
If everybody is moderating their wine intake, then how come there aren’t more small wine bottles on the shelf? And what would it take...
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Ep 6: Why Is Everybody Drinking Guinness All of a Sudden?
It may be more than 300 years old, but sales of Guinness are surging, as the Irish beer finds popularity with new groups of...
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Ep 5: The Unstoppable Rise and Rise of Rosé Wine
Pink wine is everywhere. On supermarket shelves, on Instagram, and clutched in the hands of celebrities. If there is a single defining wine of...
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Ep 4: What’s Driving Us All to Drink Less?
The days of the pre-lunch cocktail followed by the bottle of wine at lunch, followed by a chaser, are well and truly over. The...
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Ep 1: The Hidden Drivers of Fashions in Wine
Why do we drink what we do? And why are we drinking different wines than we did 30 years ago? Lulie Halstead and Felicity...
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Ep 2: The Surprising and Sometimes Violent History of the Gin and Tonic
Gin may have started life as a medicine for heartburn, but it became so popular, it turned into an instrument of mayhem and murder....