NEWS RELEASE - June 2006

Wine Podcast is a UK first

The UK Wine Show is the UK’s first podcast about wine brought to you by Chris Scott, founder of ThirtyFifty, the wine tasting company. Although shows exist in the United States and Australia – two of the world’s biggest wine producing countries - wine podcasts are virgin territory in the UK – England ranks amongst the world’s smallest regions yet our consumption is 28 litres per capita per year.*

For a taste of things to come and an overview of the show’s format, listen to Show 1 at www.thirtyfifty.co.uk/uk-wine-show.asp. Each week Chris will be interviewing different winemakers, consumers, wine critics, wine bar owners – if it’s about wine in the UK he will cover it. “Almost all the good wine from around the world washes up on these shores so we’ll find out more about the people behind the wines that make a splash” says Chris Scott “A bit of knowledge can significantly improve your enjoyment of wine so I’ll be picking up and passing on some great wine tips and tricks throughout the shows”.  In Show 2 Chris interviews Dermot Sugrue, winemaker at Nyetimber - UK’s top sparkling wine producer. Show 3 features Owen Elias from Chapel Down.

The show’s uniqueness is its focus on the UK wine scene. Our country has to be the most exciting place on earth to buy wine - we don’t grow too many grapes so we’re happy to drink wine from all over the world and have an amazing choice available to us. By contrast if you go to France you’ll be hard pressed to find anything but French and in Argentina, the worlds 5th largest producer, just under 5 per cent of what is produced is exported!**

For more information visit the website - www.thirtyfifty.co.uk or call 020 8288 0314.

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For more information please contact

Jane Scott at ThirtyFifty tel 020 8288 0314

email jane.scott@thirtyfifty.co.uk