The best fledgling podcast concerning the co-ferment of people and place; about wine (and other drinks). Here, we take deep dives, via casual conversations, into the infinitely fascinating world of fermentative beverages, such as wine (and other drinks)... Enjoy, comment, like, share, and subscribe. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fermenting-place/support
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Episode Thirty-Eight - Yoko & Andries Mostert [Brave New Wine, Great Southern, WA]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Eight of the Fermenting Place [podcast] are dynamic duo winemaking artists, Andries and Yoko Mostert from Brave New Wine, straight outta Denmark, in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Yoko and Andries produce wine like no one else I know in Australia. Every bloody bottle is damn delicious, no holes barred, v…
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Episode Thirty-Seven - Vanya Cullen [Cullen Wines, Margaret River, WA]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Seven of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is mindful, innovative, and revered West Australian winegrower, Vanya Cullen of Cullen Wines, Margaret River. Vanya is a pioneering biodynamic winegrower and dedicated devotee of Mother Nature and her resilient ability to provide abundance, provided she is honoured and revered in h…
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Episode Thirty-Six - Dr. Alex Maltman [Geologist, Aberystwyth University, Wales]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Six of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is retired geologist, winegrower, and occasional writer of wine - as seen through an appropriate geological lens - Dr. Alex Maltman, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Dr. Maltman has caused a bit of defensible controversy over the last few years w…
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Episode Thirty-Five - Mark McGill [Cider Maker - Abel, Nelson, New Zealand]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Five of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is apple grower, cider maker, and wine grower, Mark McGill of Abel Cider and Wine, located in Nelson, New Zealand. Mark is a winemaker by trade who dared to delve into the wondrous world of cider, having been surprised by the sheer blandness and banality of such commercially made dr…
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Episode Thirty-Four - Nick Mills [Winegrower, Rippon, New Zealand]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Four of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Central Otago winegrower, Nick Mills... Nick is the steward of one of the most stunning and picturesque vineyard sites in the world; Rippon... located nearby the banks of Roy's Bay in Wanaka, New Zealand. Nick is a deep thinking when it comes to his role and place at Rippon, and …
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Episode Thirty-Three - Dr. Elaine Ingham - [Soil Microbiologist, Oregon, U.S.A.]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Three of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is soil microbiologist, Dr. Elaine Ingham. Dr. Ingham is widely recognised as the world's foremost soil biologist, who, over four decades of experience has, gained advanced knowledge about the soil and the all important 'Soil Food Web', where micro-organisms - made up of a myriad o…
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The Grapes of Wrath Grow Heavy: Why Contemporary Notions of Sustainability Are Unsustainable
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“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.” – Paul Hawken. - - This unique 'inbetweenisode' is an audible reading of a recent essay I published to my website - honandaniel.com - on the fundamental unsustainability of sustainability, entitled... The Grapes of Wrath Grow Heavy: Why Contemporar…
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Episode Thirty-Two - Elaine Chukan-Brown [Wine Writer & Illustrator - Sonoma, California]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-Two of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is North American wine writer, speaker, and educator, Elaine Chukan-Brown. Elaine is based in Sonoma, California, where she writes about her adventures in wine for magazines, such as Club Oenologique, Wine & Spirits Magazine, Decanter, and Gourmet Traveller WINE. Her work has also ap…
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Episode Thirty-One - Francis Hutt [Winemaker - Gisborne, New Zealand]
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My guest for Episode Thirty-One of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is New Zealand winemaker, Francis Hutt. Francis is a funny and curious dude, hard working, family orientated, community focussed, and a really good listener... which is probably a bad thing, in this circumstance, given that he's the one who's meant to do all the talking here. This is…
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Episode Thirty - Quentin Brival [Husk Distillery, Northern Rivers, NSW]
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My guest for Episode Thirty of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is head distiller for Husk Distillers, Quentin Brival... Hailing from the small Caribbean Island of Martinique - the birthplace of Rhum Agricole - Quentin has made a home for himself in Australia, nearby the tiny town of Tumbulgum, on the banks of the Tween River, within the peaceful Nor…
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Episode Twenty-Nine - Tamara Irish [Herrmann Wines - Dunkeld, Victoria]
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My guest for Episode Twenty-Nine of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is winegrower, reader, observer, Dachshund enjoyer, and all-round thoughtful human being, Tamara Irish of Herrmann Wines, in Dunkeld, Victoria. This is a meandering conversation covering all manner of subjects and topics that intersect and interrelate around the concept of wine. It'…
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Episode Twenty-Eight - Mike & Claudia Weersing [Pyramid Valley Vineyards]
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My guests for this very special Episode Twenty-Eight of the Fermenting Place [podcast] are Mike and Claudia Weersing (formerly) of Pyramid Valley Vineyards, Waikari, New Zealand. This stellar couple established Pyramid Valley in 2000, and sold in 2018. Tragically, Mike passed away last year, in 2020. I found this recording of my conversation with M…
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Episode Twenty-Seven - Shane Casey [Brix Distillers, Sydney]
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My guest for Episode Twenty-Seven of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Shane Casey, head distiller at Brix Distillers, Sydney. Hailing from the Hawkesbury, with a background in engineering, Shane moved to the city back in 2014 to pursue a career in distilling. He now heads up a small team of urban distillers located amongst the steep streets of Sur…
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Episode Twenty-Six - Michael Glover [Mammoth Wines]
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My guest for Episode Twenty-Six of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Michael Glover - a candid observer and orator of wine, sage and winemaker at Mammoth Wines from Nelson, New Zealand. Michael is one of the wine world's more impassioned defenders of the art of wine; the romance, the mystery, the history, and the culture that wine embodies. Fascina…
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Episode Twenty-Four - Lachlan McIntyre & Robert Sowter [Lantana Gin]
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My guests for Episode Twenty-Four of the Fermenting Place [podcast] are mates, Lachlan McIntyre and Robert Sowter of Lantana Gin - a small-batch, boutique distillery based in Redridge, Queensland. They make seasonal gin from freshly cut sugar cane, and that most perniciously and prettiest of invasive plant species, Lantana. In Episode Twenty-Four, …
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Episode Twenty-Three - Bruce and Chris Tyrrell [Tyrrell's Wines - Hunter Valley]
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My guests for Episode Twenty-Three of the Fermenting Place [podcast] are father and son winegrowers, Bruce and Chris Tyrrell of Tyrrell's Wines, in the Hunter Valley. Their family are pioneers of wine-growing in Australia, they are custodians of some of the best vineyard sites in the Hunter Valley, and their last name appears of some of the greates…
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Episode Twenty-Two - Mimi Casteel [Hopewell Wines, Oregon]
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My guest for episode Twenty-Two of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Oregon winegrower and advocate for regenerative farming methods, Mimi Casteel. Mimi is the owner and vigneron at her family's vineyard and farm, Hopewell Wine and Vineyard in the Willamette Valley, as well as a spokesperson for the soil, for biology, for ecology, and for the envir…
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Episode Twenty-One - Mark, Charlie, Innes [Wolfburn Whisky Distillery]
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Mark, Charlie, and Innes of Wolfburn Whisky Distillery, Scotland, are my guests for Episode Twenty-One of the Fermenting Place [podcast]. - - In Episode Twenty-One, we discuss... Eau De Vie Ways of Distilling Place The Lost History of Woldburn Making Whisky by Hand, by Sight, by Touch, by Smell Time and Maturation Casks and Barrells Craft Whisky Ta…
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Maynard James Keenan is my guest for Episode Twenty of the Fermenting Place [podcast] - you know, the front man of two (well... three, actually) of the greatest bands ever to exist, ever, and - winegrower at Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards, Jerome, Arizona... (Shout out to Ronnie Sanders from Vine Street Imports for helping make the connectio…
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Episode Nineteen - Herbert Peñaloza [Coffee Farmer - 575 Café]
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My guest for Episode Nineteen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Herbert Peñaloza. Herbert is a coffee farmer, grower and producer from Tolima, Colombia. Here he helps to farm, process, and market single origin coffee beans on the family farm; 575 Café. Herbert is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to coffee and holds great insight into its ofte…
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Episode Eighteen - Jeff Booth [Entrepreneur & Author]
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My guest for Episode Eighteen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Jeff Booth. Jeff is an entrepreneur and author of the book, 'The Price of Tomorrow'... and while he enjoys a glass of wine with friends, every now and then, Jeff is not here to discuss wine (and other drinks), specifically... I asked Jeff to come on the pod because something has bee…
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Episode Seventeen - Max Allen [Drinks Writer & Author]
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My guest for Episode Seventeen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is the inimitable Australian (via the UK) wine and drinks writer and author, Max Allen. Max is the man when it comes to understanding the story's around wine and other drinks. He has been writing about such elixir for almost 30 years, which includes four books, such as The Future Make…
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Episode Sixteen - Michael Tremblay [Sake Samurai - Sake Scholar]
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My guest for Episode Sixteen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is Sake Samurai, Michael Tremblay. Michael is like a Master of Wine, but for sake. He is one of only 70 sake samurai in the world. So, when it comes to wanting to learn and know a little more about sake and its place within our world, Michael Tremblay - Sake Samurai, is the guy you want…
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Episode Fifteen - Bill Downie [William Downie Wines]
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My guest for Episode Fifteen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is winegrower, Bill Downie. Some say, Bill is the O.G. of site specific pinot noir in Australia, who commands a cult following of fervent wine disciples that consider him the grand daddy of the natural wine movement... I dunno, to be honest. Bill's a nice guy, a great winemaker, and esp…
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Episode Fourteen - James Millton [MIllton Vineyards & Winery]
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James Millton is a pioneering New Zealand winegrower, an inadvertent philosopher, and staunch advocate for biodynamic ways of farming - especially at the Millton Vineyards, which lie close to the coast in Gisborne, on the eastern side of the North Island of Aotearoa. James possesses a unique knack of providing incredible insight into the infinitely…
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Episode Thirteen - Tom (and Sally) Belford - [BOBAR Wines]
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My guest for Episode Thirteen of the Fermenting Place [podcast] is an unwitting Australian natural wine OG, and all-round good dude, Tom Belford from BOBAR Wines, in the Yarra Valley (Victoria, Australia)... with a brief cameo, towards the end, from his gorgeous wife and fellow winemaker, Sally. Tom and Sally fell into the natural wine rabbit hole …
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Episode Twelve - Angus Vinden [Vinden/Headcase Wines]
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Angus Vinden is a young winemaker in an old wine region. Thoughtful, mindful, and hard working, Angus has been busy building his wine brand off the back of his family's legacy for the last five years, or so. He puts a firm focus on farming first, viticulture then winemaking - hence the term, winegrower... rather than winemaker. He's a Hunter boy, t…
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Episode Eleven - Hans & Therese Herzog [Hans Herzog]
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My guests for Episode Eleven of the Fermenting Place [podcast] are Hans and Therese Herzog from Hans Herzog wine from Marlborough, New Zealand. Hans and Therese are the dynamic duo behind one of New Zealand's most revered wine labels. - - In Episode Eleven, Hans, Therese, and I discuss... - Making Wine in Austria - Finding a New Home in the New Wor…
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Episode Ten - Jay Drysdale [Bella Wines]
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Jay Drysdale is the owner and winegrower at Bella Wines, in the Okanagan Valley wine region of British Columbia, Canada. Jay is a lover of chardonnay and gamay, and the bubbles they can make. He makes gorgeous sparkling wines using the ancestral method - aka Pet-Nat. Delicate, pure, refined, pet-nats that are a far cry from your typical, smashable …
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Episode Nine - Topher Boehm [Wildflower]
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Topher Boehm is a native Texan, honorary Sydneysider, and the brewer, blender, and co-founder of Wildflower; a producer of fascinating beers, which often feature native Australian ingredients - particularly yeast captured from native Australia flora - alongside other requisite European elements, such as grains and hops, methods and techniques. In E…
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Episode Eight - Adam Rogers [Author of 'Proof']
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Adam Rogers is the author of the New York Times Bestselling Book, ‘Proof: The Science of Booze’… Adam works as the Deputy Editor at WIRED magazine, where he writes about science and various other miscellaneous geekery. Adam was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a reporter for Newsweek. He's also a thoroughly lovely human being to discu…
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Episode Seven - Steve Lubiana [Stefano Lubiana Wines]
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Steve Lubiana from Stefano Lubiana Wines farms wine grapes on his property, down by the Derwent River, in Granton Tasmania. He's an advocate of biodynamic farming and utilising native yeast cultures for all his ferments, which includes some of the best sparkling wine and most expressive examples of pinot noir in Australia.In this episode, Steve and…
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Episode Six - Alex Hunt MW [Master of Wine]
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Alex Hunt MW is a scholar and philosopher of wine. Thoughtful and lucid in his notions around wine quality and assessment, Alex attempts to divorce the elusiveness of objectivity from the prevalence of subjectivity by defining the aesthetic fundamentals that all great wine's - or any drinks, for that matter - ought to aspire to acquire, if they are…
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Episode Five - Chris Moore [Sailor's Grave Brewing Co.]
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Chris Moore is an inimitable and thoughtful brewer of time and place, who thinks about beer the way a chef might think about food, achieving deliciousness in his drinks via curious combinations of aroma and flavour, texture and nuance. How he is able to combine all manner of irregular and esoteric ingredients to encapsulate the unique sense of plac…
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Episode Four - Dr. William Skinner [Anthropologist]
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Dr. William Skinner is an anthropologist, and adjunct fellow at the University of Adelaide. He earned his PhD researching wine production and terroir in relation to the McLaren Vale wine region, South Australia. The title of his thesis is... Fermenting Place, which is where the title of this podcast gets its name from (thank you, Bill!). His resear…
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Episode Three - Andrew Thomas [Andrew Thomas Wines]
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Andrew Thomas is one of the Hunter Valley's most accomplished winemakers. He makes wine with precision, energy, and a seemingly innate understanding of how to exact grace from place, particularly when it comes to Hunter Valley Semillon. His wines are carefully constructed to maximise the best expression of site. Listen, like, subscribe, comment, sh…
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Episode Two - Ashley Huntington [Two Metre Tall]
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Ashley Huntington of Two Metre Tall brewery in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania, is an agricultural raconteur. A brewer, a stirrer, contrarian, and true disciple of the microbial kingdom. Fascinated by fermentation, he is a perpetual pupil of enigmatic action, a keen observer, a beholder of nature and time, broad-minded, poignant, and patient. And he i…
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Episode One - Andrew Jefford [wine writer]
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Andrew Jefford is an English wine journalist, who's commentary on wine always moves me to think more on it, and drink more of it. His articles in Decanter and the World of Fine Wine are always worth the price of admission, as are his books and broadcasts about wine, including this one... obviously. In Episode One of the Fermenting Place [podcast], …
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Some additional info about the intentions and format of the Fermenting Place [podcast], as well as ways to support the show and how to get in touch. Thanks for listening!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fermenting-place/support
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'An intro to a podcast concerning the co-ferment of people and place; about wine (and other drinks); a direct way to connect and conduct fascinating conversations with interesting people about intriguing things...'--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fermenting-place/support…
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