Individual, funny, sometimes quirky and often instructive: here are the best German-language wine podcasts for fans, beginners and professionals. wein.plus presents formats that are worth listening to.
Blind flight
Felix Bodmann, wine blogger, author and owner of webweinschule.de, discusses wines and trend topics such as "Natural wine fraud?", "Ghosts in viticulture" and "The flavour bar of horror" with photographer and wine geek Sascha Radke in his "Blindflug" series under the label "Affektiertes Nippen hilft nix". They pour each other a wine into a black glass for blind tasting and explore the wine together.
Germany's best-known wine influencer and author Louisa Schmidt explains important and unimportant aspects of wine in her 20-minute podcasts, especially for beginners. Together with her co-host Jonas Frank, she talks about trends such as dealcoholised wines, as well as the history of phylloxera, food pairings and the best way to store wine. With her easy-going manner, Lou imparts a lot of wine knowledge and thus takes away Generation Z's fear of wine. The format is sponsored by EDEKA. The aim of the food retail chain is to inspire consumers to enjoy wine.
Every two weeks, Berlin journalist Clemens Hoffmann opens the famous "last bottle" with a guest. This can be a bottle from a legendary vintage or a bottle that has a special emotional value for him. The aim is always to create unique moments of enjoyment and discover the story behind them. An original concept, entertaining and professionally made.
In his specialised podcast, Geisenheim graduate and management consultant Diego Weber talks to winegrowers, suppliers, associations and wine experts about the current problems in the wine industry. His concern: To provide wineries, young winemakers and career changers with practical expertise and concrete input for their business. Since June 2021, Diego Weber has also been publishing his weekly podcast - "The art of selling wine" - in English. Particularly interesting for small and medium-sized wineries! The podcasts can be listened to a week in advance at wein.plus.
Hamburg journalist and wine consultant Christoph Raffelt has been producing his weekly podcast since 2012, which was also the first German wine podcast ever. In it, he presents wines that he finds exciting, interviews top winemakers and visits them at their wineries in Germany and abroad. Raffelt also produces a wine podcast with former Berlin radio presenter and current podcaster Holger Klein in his "WRINT Flaschen" format. The one-hour programmes on wines from trendy winemakers offer an entertaining insight into the world of wine.
Since March 2024, sommelier Silvio Nitzsche from Dresden has been inviting renowned colleagues and giving them an audio stage lasting several hours. The conversation focuses on their careers, anecdotes from the gastronomy scene and future projects. Although interesting personalities have their say, such as Justin Leone, Toni Askitis, Bärbel Ring and ChristinaFischer, the individual episodes are a little too lengthy. It would be desirable for them to be a little tighter, as the average listener won't stay with them for three to four hours.
Every Thursday, Styrian sommelier Willi Schlögl from the Berlinbar Freundschaft meets up with rapper Curly. They chat about wine and the world as they please. They each have a personality from wine community as a guest, with whom they drink, philosophise and laugh a lot. From Master of WineCaro Maurer to champagne expert Nicola Neumann or wine celebrity Günther Jauch - Willi and Curly have hosted them all. Despite the length of almost two hours, it never gets boring.
Blogger and sommelier Daniel Bayer talks to winemakers and wine experts about current topics such as natural wine, no-low wines, terroir and climate change in his one-hour podcast. Interesting for anyone who wants to delve deeper into wine and understand the background. Not all episodes are equally gripping, but it's worth listening to regularly.
