Episode 3: MICK HUCKNALL
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Episode 3: MICK HUCKNALL - summary
Olly chats to Mick about his career as frontman of Simply Red as well as his love of wine, which included making his own wine in Sicily as well as a brilliant anecdote about the late Omar Sharif.
Episode 3: MICK HUCKNALL - timeline
00:04 - thanks to our sponsor The Wine Society
00:17 - thanks to our sponsor Penfolds
03:15 - Mick brings Robert Voerzio, La Serra 1999 Barolo. The average price is £143 per bottle.
03:41 - Mick was born in Manchester, England on 8 June 1960
04:24 - a corked wine is one which is infected with TCA
05:29 - Eric Hereema is the owner and Chief Executive of English wine producer Nyetimber
05:56 - the 2012 vintage in England was terrible, with many producers harvesting no grapes at all
06:10 - hail is a perennial threat to the vineyards of Burgundy, and it was particularly damaging in 2016
06:22 - Mick grew grapes on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily
07:18 - Claret is a British term for red Bordeaux wine, Mateus is a Portuguese rosé and Hock is a German white wine.
07:34 - Oddbins and Majestic are two major British wine retailers
07:58 - Margaret River is a designated geographical indication for a wine-growing region in Western Australia
08:14 - Peter Gago is the chief winemaker at Penfolds (who P!nk also mentions in S1 EP1!)
08:26 - Grange is Penfolds' top red wine, and 1962 was a great vintage. The average price is £2,069 per bottle!
“Before I became famous, I was into fizz, but it was dry cider.”
09:37 - champagne is generally very high in acidity
09:45 - Mick mentions three white wines he enjoys as ab aperitif: Riesling, Albariño and Vinho Verde
10:29 - 'second and third growths' are red wines from Bordeaux that were classified in 1855
11:29 - modern-style Barolo wine tends to be less tannic (and therefore drying)
12:09 - 'first-growth Bordeaux prices' refers to the most expensive wines of Bordeaux, which can reach thousands of pounds per bottle
12:40 - Petrus is one the world's most expensive wines, from St-Émilion in Bordeaux
13:10 - blind tastings are when you assess a wine without knowing anything about its origin, grape variety, vintage or producer
13:15 - Don Melchor and Seña are two of Chile's top red wines.
14:22 - Château La Conseillante is a red wine from Pomerol in Bordeaux. The average price for the 1995 vintage is £124 per bottle
15:00 - Château Latour is one of the first growths of Bordeaux
“I love the idea of finding a six-quid bottle and it’s like - wow, this is fantastic!”
15:56 - Riesling is a white grape variety that originates from Germany
18:17 - Château Le Pin is a top red Bordeaux from Pomerol
18:21 - Château d'Yquem is one of the world's best sweet wines, from Sauternes in Bordeaux
19:04 - Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor famous for his roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago
“People say wine is bad for you. I drink one bottle every day. And it’s very good for me!”
19:36 - a vertical is a wine tasting of the same wine across different vintages
19:45 - Jancis Robinson OBE is a British Master of Wine and wine writer. She made a short video of the Paris Penfolds tasting:
21:15 - Rod Stewart and Jools Holland are British musicians whose hobby is trains, apparently
23:09 - Barolo is a DOCG wine-growing region in Piedmont, northwest Italy, at the foot of the Alps
24:18 - Leonor is a Palo Cortado sherry. The average bottle price is £15 per bottle.
25:17 - San Sebastian is a coastal town in northern Spain famous for its cuisine
26:45 - Norman Hardie is a winemaker in Ontario, Canada. The Chardonnay is available from The Wine Society at £23 per bottle.
28:10 - travel case that holds 12 bottles:
Episode 3: MICK HUCKNALL - production notes
Recorded on 15 September 2016 at 67 Pall Mall
Hosted by Olly Smith
Produced and edited by Richard Hemming MW
Mastered by David Thomas
Hardware list: 2 x Røde NTG2 shotgun microphones, Zoom H6 digital recorder, ATH-M20X headphones
Software list: Audacity 2.1.3, Garageband 10.1.6, Wavelab LE8