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For their tenth anniversary podcast, Jason lays on six bottles of wine from one of the most idiosyncratic and legendary domaines of the world. Say the word ‘Trevallon’ and wine lovers and savants from all over the world will come running. Say it in a restaurant and you’ll find yourself £300 lighter. From Clinton to MacCartney, Trevallon’s relatively short history is a tapestry as rich as the one that Jacqueline, the domaine’s owner, made at Picasso’s behest, that now hangs in the U.N. building. Everything about Trevallon confounds. The appellation changes from vintage to vintage, although Jacqueline’s son, Eloi Dűrrbach's recipe remains the same. Climate and bottle age do the rest. To taste Trevallon, today, is to take a journey down the decades to 1973 when the world was a simpler, nobler place. It’s quite simply, the best of the best and you can’t put that in a podcast.

In their Christmas edition, Jason Yapp comes over all sourcey to regale David with six almost apocryphal stories of how he unearthed several of Yapp Brothers' finest staples from the hills and valleys of his hallowed, happy hunting grounds in La Belle France. Follow him as he follows in the footsteps of Napoleon to tell the sparkling tale of St. Peray and thence to the Basin de Thau to pioneer Picpoul de Pinet long before the posh pubs of England did. Thrill as he ventures to the Cave de Lugny to track down a legendary white Burgundy and then to a Caves Cooperative to shine a light on a scintillating St Chinian. Finally, gasp as the man who never says no to a Pinot (especially if it's from Alsace), reveals what he know's about Pineau .

Just why do we drink so much prosecco and why is Victoria Moore, from the Telegraph, 'getting back into it'? What do Stanley Tucci and David Tennant have in common? How do you prounounce 'Roncaglie'? And is there any justifiably good reason why every pub' in the land wants to sell you a large Pinot Grigio? In this Italian edition of Adventures In Wine, Jason Yapp, our Godfather of the grape, turns his back on his beloved France to drag David, his uncomplaining consigliare, all the way to Sicily, by way of the Dolomites, to answer all of these questions and more - without blowing the bloody fridge doors off.

Jason lines up six classic French wines that make an impression at the dining table without leaving a lasting one on the purse.

In this episode our two, garrulous gringos of the grape get a grip on Grenache, which makes the grade in a great many wines, though its graduation from the grottiest of gripe waters to the graceful grandiosity of Chateuneuf Du Pape isn’t greatly grasped. Grin with gruntled glee as our grandee of the grape, Jason, grows grandiloquent on Grenache’s greatness, whilst gregarious grasshopper, David, grunts with gratefullest gravity. Lirac ‘La Fermade’ Blanc 2023 from Richard Maby Domaine Du Clos des Fées Grenache Blanc 2022 from Hervé Bezeul Chateauneuf du Pape 2022 from Jean Pierre and Emilie Boisson Migliarina Grenache 2018 from Carsten Migliarina Tinto Nero Garnacha ‘Calico’ 2022 from Jeff Mausbach and Alejandro Sejanovich Domaine de Montcalmès Grenache 2020 from Frédéric Pourtalié

Following on from last episode’s climate-conscious look at wines grown beside the seaside, Jason assembles a flight (pun intended) of seven wines that hale from high places, where cool air and steep, free-draining slopes go some way towards mitigating the higher temperatures that otherwise put way too much bang in your Bourboulenc and vavavoom in your Viognier… First up; it’s creamy, it’s toasty and it’s a big deal in the Big Apple… it’s Crémant de Jura from the Tissot vineyard at Arbois. Pure Chardonnay and bottle-fermented. You want high? The mousse alone will take you to a new one! Secondly, whether skiing on the slopes or chillin’ in the chalet, Jacquère is the grape to which all Alpine aspirants inevitably gravitate. Domaine de l’Idylle’s Cruet from the Tiollier family vineyard above Isère, has a low ABV but more zing and fruit than Julie Andrews on the Mehlweg. The hills will very definitely be alive after just one bottle. Thirdly, Nathalie Margan’s highly-regarded Chateau La Canorgue Blanc wears its 13.5 ABV very lightly. ‘Uplifting, apricot and white peach flavours,’ it says on the Yapp Brothers website; ‘Go high or go home,’ says Jason. ‘Salut!’ says David, who isn’t about to go anywhere. Our high flyers’ fourth wine and first red is a fresh and spicy Pinot Noir from Domaine Girard. It’s from Malepère in the Languedoc, but the Pinot Noir makes it a Pays d’Oc. Okay, Doc? Berry, spice and minerality are all beautifully balanced, which is more than can be said for David who is beginning to wonder where he left his parachute. After such dedication to the dizzying heights that wine-making can achieve, it’s only right that our two lofty lovers of wine should find themselves in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Monte Ventoux, feared by cyclists and revered by oenophilists alike is the home of a magnificent, blackberry, pepper and spice confection from Yves Cheron. It may be one of the steepest stages of the Tour de France, but with a bottle of Terre Sauvage in your saddle bag, you’re free-wheeling all the way from Florence to Nice. For their final tasting, David and Jason cross the Atlantic and climb to 1000 metres above the city of Mendoza in the heart of Argentina’s wine-growing region. Tinto Negro from Jeff Mausbach and Alejandro Sejanovich is medium bodied and light on the oak. And at 13.5 ABV you don’t need to say ‘Goodbye,’ to bright, complex flavours, just say ‘High!’

In this episode, Jason and David must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all they ask is a flight of fine wines and a corkscrew to open them by… With ABV’s on the increase and the prospect of even warmer weather to come, Jason has gone coastal and lined up a half dozen wines that reflect the benign influence of the sea and upon which, you can rely for years to come, even if your hair catches fire. 1) A zingy, sharp as a razor clam, Muscadet de Sevre et Maine from Jean-François Baron. 2) Napier vineyard's Klein Luis Darling Sauvignon Blanc, irresistible as the call of the siren. 3) A beautifully balanced, mother-of-pearl pink Côtes de Provence Rosé from Clos St Magdeleine 4) An exemplary St Emilion from Château Milonblanc, as approachable and eager to please as a youthful midshipman. 5) A weighty, Bandol Mas de le Rouvière from family Bunan, leathery and spicy as the bosun after ten years at sea. 6) And a golden-tressed, Corsican, vin doux naturelle from Domaine Pieretti, honey-sweet as a mermaid and not to be taken on the rocks.

In an absolute first for this podcast, our wine-loving friends spend several minutes drinking something that isn’t actually wine. This deviation from tradition, though unthinkable under normal circumstances, is rendered unavoidable by the fact that Jason has decided to answer a question that David wasn’t even aware needed to be asked - unless in a past life, his name had been Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie (i.e. Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife) and the question that bothered his pretty, little head had been, “Whatever would mon petit chou like to drink, ce soir?” Having almost drowned ‘in a sea of ignorance’ when studying Napoleon’s life as a schoolboy, Jason positively redeems himself by expertly surfing onto the shore of knowledge on a giant wave of erudition and libatory learning about the great man’s drinking habits, from the sparkling wine that he drank as a young cadet to the sweet wine he resorted to after exile and poor digestion had taken their toll. In the intervening years, there would have been bottles of heavenly Coulée de Serrant, a single varietal from a seven hectare plot in the Loire and an equally singular and velvety Gevrey Chambertin from Burgundy. To cap it all, Courvoisier from the Charente, naturellement. Not wine, of course, but grapes were involved. Saint-Péray: Domaine Rémy Nodin 'Cuvee Ernest' Mousseux Brut (non vintage) Clos de la Coulée de Serrant: Coulée de Serrant 2021 Gevrey-Chambertin: Domaine Henri Richard 'Aux Corvées' 2019 Vin de Constance: Klein Constantia 2016 Courvoisier VS Cognac

Jason's well-known for keeping a tight ship, but like the egalitarian oenophile we know him to be, he's not averse to granting other mariners of the wine dark sea an opportunity to take the helm and plot a course through the beneficent waters of the bacchanal either. In this instalment, no fewer than six of the U.K's finest sommeliers opine on wine that they would be more than happy to recommend at their own restaurants. There's nothing fancy about their choices either. Here are six, scintillating suggestions that are as affordable and approachable as they are quaffable: Alsace: Léon Beyer Crémant d'Alsace Brut Côtes du Rhône Villages Sablet: Domaine Saint Gayan 'L'Oratory' 2022 Vouvray: Jean-Claude & Didier Aubert Demi-Sec 2019 Vin de Pays de Vaucluse: Le Petit Caboche 2021 Saint-Pourçain: 'La Ficelle' Rouge 2022 IGP Méditerranée: Domaine Richeaume 'Cuvée Tradition' Rouge 2020

The Bordeaux region may be home to some of the most famous and long-lived wines in the world and play host to any number of celebrated appellations, but, says Jason, you can do it on a budget... But would you really you want to? With six sedulously selected bottles to work through, Jason and David hop from one bank of the Garonne to the other sampling everything from the humble to the most high without even getting their feet wet. After a spicy start with a pocket-friendly 2018 Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, Chateau La Brande, they segue onto a silky Graves Pessac 2016, that requires a little more attention and twice as much of your wallet. Yes, when it comes to Bordeaux, you absolutely can believe the hype, as long as your credit is good. All credit then, to a text book Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2018 from Château Alverne, which does all the fruit and new oak spice the right way about. Meanwhile, Château Gombaude-Guillot’s perfectly poised, petal-scented Pomerol of 2014 is a garnet-coloured gem of a wine. By the time the Pauillac: Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2016 is plashing into his Riedel and running black cherry ripples over his taste buds, David hardly knows his left bank from his right and Jason must be walking on water, surely? But there’s more to come in the divine form of a 2009 Chateau Leoville Poyferré, which scored a legendary 100 out of 100 with Robert Parker, but only because 110 doesn’t make any sense. With wines of this order, it can be only too easy to run out of money, but you’ll run out superlatives even faster.

In this episode, Jason and David sample a sextet of wines devoted entirely to one ‘grately’ underrated grape, prized by none other than Cardinal Richelieu, (l’Eminence Rouge of France) and Jason Yapp, (l’Eminence Rouge ou Blanc of Frome). They begin with a perfectly balanced, rose hip and mint, Chinon Rosé 2022 from Domaine Jean-Maurice Raffault, follow it with a peppery, yet gently fruity 2021 Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil from Domaine Taluau and a firm Fred Filliatreau favourite from Domaine Château Fouquet 2020. Then from just across the road, Fred's earthy, exemplary Saumur Champigny: Domaine Filliatreau 'Vieilles Vignes' 2018 and lastly another Domaine Jean-Maurice Raffault from a one hectare vineyard of old vines, ’Clos de L'Hospice' Rouge 2019 - a class act of cassis and sloes with a long finish. Great with food or good to simply sip these are six, shining examples of what Chinon and its environs are capable of. Unsurpassable, under-the-radar rosés and reds from small, independent producers from the Loire valley. You really don’t have to travel any further south or dig any deeper into your pocket.

Welcome to another edition of the podcast where Jason and David drink wine so you don’t have to! Time was when rosé, was like the viola of the wine world; a faintly embarrassing, Barbie-pink hybrid, neither red enough nor white enough to be taken seriously, and rarely music to anyone's ears. But times have changed along with the climate and what might once have been a lunchtime indiscretion on a hot day, has become a main feature on restaurant wine lists and supermarket shelves all year round. Prepare yourself for a breathtaking, tongue-tingling, rosé-run through Jason Yapp’s selection of barely-pink ballet pump, summer wines courtesy of Château Roubaud, Domaine des Oullières, Château La Canorgue, Bandol and Domaine Pieretti; zingy zesty wines from Provence, Corsica and the Rhône delta as well as Yapp’s strawberry and citrus-scented, own-label from the Ardèche.

As far as David is concerned, it’s as German as wearing socks in your sandals and equally as appealing, but in this episode, Jason plies him with five compelling and zesty reasons why he’s just plain wrong about Riesling. From Alsace to Western Australia via the Mosel valley, these slender-shouldered, bottle-green beauties from Leon Beyer, Forest Hill, Willems-Willems, and Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, will not only lend character to a kartoffelpuffer but jazz up a Rogan Josh and titivate a Thom Kha Kai, too. Yes, when it comes to pairing a Prawn Tikka Bhuna, try putting away your over-fizzed, industrial lager and rocking a Riesling instead, but steer clear of the supermarket varieties, if you can. It’s a grape with ‘issues,’ says Jason and requires the dedication of small producers, like the ones above, to do it justice. Zum Wohl!

If there's one thing David has learned from Jason during their many Adventures In Wine podcasts, it's that you simply can't have too many favourites. Favourites are Jason's life-blood; favourite regions and appellations, favourite vineyards, growers and restaurants; favourite sommeliers, even and of course, favourite grapes. Not as fruity as some reds or as tannin-rich as others, Pinot Noir defies easy definitions, but with a line-up of six excellent examples, Jason unerringly demonstrates that if you're prepared to eschew the galley isles of your local supermarket and delve just a little deeper into your pocket, you too, will be adding yet another varietal to your own list of favourites. In this episode our Pinot-driven pair sample a precocious 2022 Domaine Girard Pays d'Oc; a characteristically classy, 2018 Alsace Pinot Noir from Leon Beyer and a subtley-oaked 2019 Spätburgunder from Jurgen Hoffman, before tackling some bigger Burgundian beasts: a velvety smooth 2019 Fixin from Frédéric Magnien; a lambent, red-fruit 2017 Aloxe Corton from Gay et Fils and a masterful 2018 Gevrey Chambertain from Domaine Henri Richard.

With Valentine's Day very much on their minds, Jason and David get fizzical with no less than eight Crémants from the eight Crémant regions of France: Bourgogne, Loire, Alsace, Bordeaux, Limoux, Rhône and Savoie. After such a record-breaking, horizontal tasting, other wine enthusiasts might feel inclined to adopt a similar position, but Jason's and David's enthusiasm for the 'fizz areas' (technical term) of France remains as effervescent as ever. So, don't let the fact that it's not champagne burst your bubble. This Valentine's Day, if you really want to impress your loved one, all you really need is a lively mousse, good length and a dry finish.