Postcards in a Glass

Every glass of wine should tell a story, be an autobiography of sorts that takes you where it originated. There are neutral, generic wines that speak of no place in particular, but a great wine (price is irrelevant here) will share something of its origins, its uniqueness, a reason for you to appreciate it.

This is a bi-weekly podcast sharing journeys with wine, with people who make wine and with people who love wine. I want every glass to send you a postcard from somewhere special and this podcast is your vehicle to visit. The program includes conversations with people who are passionate about wine - wine makers, wine collectors, wine sellers and wine consumers like you and me. Occasionally I’ll include notes are particularly interesting wines that I think do a particularly good job of sending us a postcard from their place of origin.

Guests on the initial series of episodes include winemakers Paul Hobbs, Gerard Bertrand, Bordeaux (and now South of France) superstar Jean-Guillaume Prats, Heidi von der Mehden of Merry Edwards, Clément Pierlot of Champagne Pommery, and Ana Cumsille of Chile’s Carmen winery. Other guests include Greg Lambrecht (inventor of the Coravin wine preservation system) and Adrien Pélissié of La Bouche du Roi at Versailles. We’ve got interesting stories and we taste some interesting wines along the way, all the while exploring wine’s sense of place.

The latest episode, released July 8, 2026, features a conversation with Mathieu Roland Billecart, the seventh-generation CEO of Champagne Billecart-Salmon. Many of the largest houses in Champagne like Moët-Hennessy, Veuve Clicquot and Perrier-Jouët, are owned by corporations. This isn’t a bad thing, but a winery owned for two centuries by a single family has a special cachet. Billecart-Salmon celebrated it 200th anniversary in 2018, and this year released the wine from that vintage, it’s 200th anniversary cuvée, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States. Mathieu and I talked about the anniversary cuvée, the freedom that comes with family tradition, weather changes in Champagne and much more. I invite you to join us for this celebration of Independence on the latest edition of Postcards in a Glass. It’s available at the link below or from iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can listen to our conversation on the podcast episode 17 here

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