The Drinks Business Podcast

Patrick Schmitt MW talks to Horst Mueller, Global Head of Vinlog, Kuehne+Nagel’s beverage specialist about some of the current challenges in the global drinks supply chain.

In this episode of the drinks business podcast, Patrick Schmitt MW continues his conversation with Nick Breeze, a journalist who is both an expert on wine and climate change.Nick Breeze is a Brit who currently lives in Galicia, and is the author of the book COPOUT which covers the COP climate change conferences over the past decade. He recently returned from Dubai, where he attended December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28.

In this episode of the drinks business podcast, Patrick Schmitt MW speaks to a journalist who is both an expert on wine and climate change. Nick Breeze is a Brit who currently lives in Galicia, and is the author of the book COPOUT which covers the COP climate change conferences over the past decade. He recently returned from Dubai, where he attended December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28.For this podcast, we focus on the threats to wine production from climate change. After all, if I were to ask any wine producer what is their greatest long term concern, I’m sure they’d say climate change. So, how worried should we be, or rather, how great a threat is climate change to the business of wine?

In our second podcast with db’s Colin Hay, we discuss why the great châteaux of Bordeaux need to be especially cautious when it comes to pricing this year’s en primeur releases.Following our previous discussion on the role of Bordeaux’s négociants in disseminating fine wines from outside the region, in this podcast we turn our attention to the famous estates of Bordeaux, and why 2024 is such an important year for them.