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The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
David Kermode, wine expert, talks through his top drinking picks of the week.
Episodes
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 290 - The changing face of zero alcohol
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David explores the latest breakthroughs changing the face of the zero…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 289 - Nikolai Haram Svorte, World’s Best Sommelier
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to Norway’s Nikolai Haram Svorte, newly crowned as ASI Best…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 288 - Highlights of Series 24
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David presents some favourite moments from series 24 including Tinashe…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 287 - Alto Adige’s defining grapes
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Italy’s mountainous border region of Alto Adige Süd…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 286 - Jancis Robinson OBE MW
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David welcomes Jancis Robinson OBE MW to talk about the ninth edition of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 285 - Melania Battiston on pairings for top tier Prosecco
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG is the theme, as David…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 284 - Travis and Elizabeth Wray
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Winners of the first ever 100 point wine in the history of the IWSC’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 283 - Tim Hayward on The Cocktail Hour
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. The lost art of the cocktail is David’s focus, with guest Tim Hayward…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 282 - Charlotte Kristensen on food and wine pairing
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Charlotte Kristensen, who worked as a lawyer before…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 281 - Australia’s ‘alternative’ varieties
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Australia has been synonymous with the likes of Chardonnay and Shiraz…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 280 - Kyle Davids of Babylonstoren
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Representing a diverse and exciting new wave of South African…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 279 - JC and Carolyn Martin of Creation Wines
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guests are JC and Carolyn Martin, a dynamic double act, both…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 278 - Tinashe Musora
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David meets Tinashe Musora, sommelier and 2025 IWSC emerging talent…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 277 - Luke O’Cuinneagain of Vergelegen
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to South Africa to meet the winemaker at Vergelegen, Luke…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 276 - Highlights of Series 22
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David selects some highlights from the latest series including Black…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 275 - Buying British for Fortnum’s
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Edwina Watson, senior wine buyer for Fortnum & Mason is David’s guest to…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 274 - UK Sommelier of the Year Emma Denney
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Fresh from her success in the fiercely-contested competition for UK…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 273 - Michael D’Souza on Indian whisky
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David explores the flourishing world of Indian whisky with Michael…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 272 - Jacob Leadley of Black Chalk
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. To mark English wine week, the owner of Hampshire winery Black Chalk…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 271 - Olly Smith on Death by Noir
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Most famous as the wine expert and host of the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 270 - The Yarra Valley
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Just an hour from Melbourne, the Yarra Valley is a striking contrast to…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 269 - Kurtis Ogasawara of Robert Mondavi
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. As the Napa Valley’s iconic Robert Mondavi winery emerges from a…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 268 - Peter Stafford Bow
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is a mystery… Or rather, it’s Peter Stafford Bow, a ‘nom…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 267 - Austria @ VieVinum
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David takes the temperature at VieVinum, a biennial celebration of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 266 - Helen McGinn
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. A former supermarket wine buyer, turned TV and Instagram star…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 265 - Discovering Washington State
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to North America’s Pacific northwest to discover…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 264 - Highlights of Series 22
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David has highlights from the most recent series, with Master Distiller…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 263 - Exploring McLaren Vale
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. One of Australia’s oldest wine regions, McLaren Vale is carving a…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 262 - The wines of Cyprus
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Once a bastion of the ancient wine trade, Cyprus offers a small treasure…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 261 - Old vine Zinfandel
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Though its origins lie in Europe, Zinfandel is one of California’s most…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 260 - A guide to Barossa
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious wine…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 259 - Vintage Politics with Abbie Bennington
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s talks to Abbie Bennington, BBC political journalist turned wine…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 258 - Wines of China with John Hoskins MW
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Vines have a long history in China, but wine is a more recent story…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 257 - Napa with Jaime Araujo
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David meets Jaime Araujo, who studied medieval history, took to the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 256 - Billy Abbott on China’s spirits
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. China is the world’s biggest market for spirits, dominated by Baijiu…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 255 - Mel Chester of Giant Steps
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David visits the Yarra Valley to meet Giant Steps winemaker, Mel…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 254 - John Hall on gin’s ‘golden ratio’
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to chemist-turned-Master-Distiller, John Hall, at Cornwall’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 253 - An essential guide to Prosecco’s top tier
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG is the theme as Sarah…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 252 - Highlights of Series 21
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David reflects on series 21, with guests Sacha Lichine of Chateau…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 251 - Calixte Payan, Sober Spirits
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’ talks to entrepreneur Calixte Payan, who has rewritten the rules…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 250 - Sacha Lichine, Chateau d’Esclans
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. To celebrate the Drinking Hour’s 250th episode, David’s special guest is…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 249 - Styrian Sauvignon Blanc
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Master of Wine, Dirceu Vianna Junior, joins David to talk about…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 248 - Julian Langworthy, Deep Woods
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Julian Langworthy, chief winemaker at Deep Woods…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 247 - Drinks in ’26 with Richard Siddle
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. In what’s become a popular annual ritual, David is joined by The Buyer’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 246 - Wine without alcohol
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David explores the innovation and incredible growth of the no alcohol…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 245 - Brown Brothers
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Established during the gold rush of the 1880s and now in its fourth…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 244 - Jeremy McKenzie, Isabel Estate
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to the Jeremy McKenzie, winemaker at Isabel Estate, in…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 243 - Vouvray
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. With one distinctive grape variety, Chenin Blanc, and four very…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 242 - David Moulton, Cape Mentelle
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is David Moulton, chief winemaker at Margaret River’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 241 - Jean-Claude Mas
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is the Languedoc legend, Jean-Claude Mas, one of the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 240 - Highlights of Series 20
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David looks back at series 20, with highlights including Lucie Pereyre…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 239 - Old Vine Conference
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Jancis Robinson OBE MW is among David’s guests as he reports from the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 238 - Rebekah Wineburg, Quintessa
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to the Napa Valley, ahead of the Old Vine Conference, to…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 237 - Benjamin Abric, Weyborne Estate
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Benjamin Abric, the general manager and winemaker at…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 236 - Wine and the climate crisis
Wine and the climate crisis In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David is joined by the authors of ‘Rooted in…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 235 - Olly Smith
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is the country’s top TV wine expert, star of BBC ‘Saturday…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 234 - Loch Lomond’s Master Blender Michael Henry
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Master Blender Michael Henry of Loch Lomond Distillery, winner of the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 233 - Laurent Perrier’s Lucie Pereyre de Nonancourt
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to Lucie Pereyre de Nonancourt, ambassador for Laurent…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 232 - The Pocket Wine Book’s Margaret Rand
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Now in its 49th year, Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is an annual…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 231 - Alto Adige Südtirol
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Südtirol Alto Adige is a mountain wine region that’s part of Italy…