The Wine Show

Episode 2

Episode 2

In this edition, they travel to Montalcino to meet a Tuscan called Cinzano where they crash his vintage Fiat 500. Wine expert Joe Fattorini heads to Chile to discover if Gregorian chants can affect the way wine tastes. Chef Dan Doherty reveals his favourite grape, and cooks a dish to complement it. Gizzi Erskine travels to Arizona to meet rock star turned vineyard supremo Maynard James Keenan.

Episode 3

Episode 3

In this edition, they head to Italy's ancient capital, where they find out why ancient Romans added cheese to their wine. Joe Fattorini finds himself in a very tight spot in the Loire, when he discovers how one winemaker helped the French Resistance during WWII. Chef Jose Pizarro reveals his favourite grape and cooks a dish to complement it. Amelia Singer heads down under to explore one of wine's best kept secrets - the Mornington Peninsula.

Episode 4

Episode 4

Series for wine lovers presented by Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys, along with experts Joe Fattorini and Amelia Singer from their base in the Italian countryside. In this edition, the two Matthews travel to the Vatican to meet a priest who needs a new communion wine. Joe heads to South Africa, where he heads out on baboon patrol at a vineyard inside a game reserve. Chef Francesco Mazzei goes to his home in Calabria to reveal his favourite grape, and cooks a dish to complement it. Amelia joins Joe on skis when they go head-to-head over French Alpine wines, and share their secret vin chaud recipes.

Episode 5

Episode 5

In this edition, the two Matthews head to Chianti country, the one-time home to a certain Mona Lisa Gherardini. Joe Fattorini visits the Maule valley to find out how hope can find roots in the vineyards at the epicentre of Chile's devastating 2010 earthquake. Chef Atul Kochhar fires up his tandoor to complement his favourite wine. Finally, the programme visits Moldova, a tiny country where a quarter of the population rely on wine for their livelihood, to find out just why Russia stopped buying their wine.

Episode 6

Episode 6

In this edition, Joe visits Israel, to explore some wines grown in the promised land - but also close to the border with civil-war-torn Syria. Claire Smith aims for perfection in pairing an expensive white burgundy with turbot, and Gizzi cooks for two Napa Valley winemakers on a train.

Episode 7

Episode 7

Series for wine lovers presented by Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys along with experts Joe Fattorini and Amelia Singer from their base in the Italian countryside. Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys offer tips on avoiding a hangover, chef Peter Gordon cooks a dish to accompany New Zealand wine, and Joe Fattorini goes to Shanghai.

Episode 8

Episode 8

Series for wine lovers presented from a villa in the Italian countryside by Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys, with experts Joe Fattorini and Amelia Singer. The two Matts head to Bologna where they get a masterclass in its most famous dish. Joe fulfils a lifelong dream to bid on a barrel of wine at Burgundy's famous Vente des Vins auction. Does he succeed, and if so, where will he keep all 288 bottles? Spanish chef Elena Arzak reveals her favourite wine, and creates a perfect dish to accompany it. Amelia Singer explores the German roots of one of Australia's greatest wine regions, the Barossa Valley.

Episode 9

Episode 9

Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys star in this series about the stories behind some of the world’s most fascinating wines. From their villa HQ in the Italian hills our two gentleman head to Verona, setting for Romeo & Juliet where they practice their newly learned sommelier skills on two unsuspecting lovers. Amelia Singer valiantly attempts to persuade Joe Fattorini that there’s more to do with port than drink it at Christmas. They then take a cruise up the Douro, Portugal’s most stunning wine country, to visit one of England’s oldest wine families who are at the forefront of Portugal’s wine revolution. Star LA Chef Niki Nakayama chooses a Japanese sake as her favourite wine and creates a dish to match it. And Joe Fattorini takes us to Chile to find out just how far the ‘Volvo’ of the wine world has come and visits the cellar where 120 Chilean revolutionaries hid during the Chilean war of independence.

Episode 10

Episode 10

Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys star in this series about the stories behind some of the world’s most fascinating wines. From their villa HQ in the Italian hills they travel north to the mountainous region of Trentino where they meet an inspirational winemaker who ages her wine in clay urns. Joe Fattorini heads to Hong Kong to explore China’s ‘red obsession’ and a WW2 bunker where the most exclusive wine tastings in the world take place. Yorkshire Chef Frances Atkins shares her love of white wine and creates a very unusual dish to match it. Amelia Singer visits Seppeltsfield in Australia’s Barossa Valley where she comes face to face with some snapshots of her own family’s history.

Episode 11

Episode 11

Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys star in this series about the stories behind some of the world’s most fascinating wines. In their villa HQ in the Italian hills they turn the tables on wine expert Joe Fattorini and send him off to find a wine that breaks all the rules. He heads to the beautiful city of Orvieto and meets a winemaker who’s making a cool climate pinot noir in Lazio. Chef Stephen Harris shares his love of red burgundy and creates a simple dish to complement it. Matt and Matt are challenged to tell the difference between a £120 bottle of French wine and one from Spain that costs just £10 as The Wine Show looks into wine fraud and the story of Rudi Kurniawan, the most famous wine criminal in history. And Joe meets the matriarchs at the Township Winery in Cape Town doing everything they can to create a legacy for their children.

Episode 12

Episode 12

Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys star in this series about the stories behind some of the world’s most fascinating wines. From their villa HQ in the Italian hills they head to Venice to meet Francesco da Mosta and find out about the Venetian love of the ‘aperitivo’, the opening drink of the evening. Joe Fattorini heads to the beautiful island of Santorini to visit an underwater wine cellar in one of the world’s oldest winemaking regions. 2 Michelin Star Chef Michael Caines shares his love of English bubbles and creates a dish to match it in the heart of the Devon countryside. And Amelia Singer heads to Adelaide and the Vineyard of the Future to see the cutting edge technology being used to help winemakers counter the effects of climate change, before going to Tasmania to see how one winemaker decided to expand his business into the most southern point in Australia.

Episode 13

Episode 13

Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys look back at some of the best moments of the first series, as well as the trips that resulted in the completed Wine Show case.