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Why does wine taste good?

Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests visit the Australian Wine Research Institute in Adelaide, to find out what science can teach us about wine.

For this special Christmas episode, Brian Cox and Robin Ince visit the Australian Wine Research Institute in Adelaide to find out what science can teach us about wine. They are joined by stand-up comedian Tim Minchin, Nobel Prize winner and vineyard owner Brian Schmidt, flavour chemist Mango Parker and sensory and consumer scientist Patricia Williamson. The panel are put through their paces as they sample a variety of wines, learning the hard way that the majority of wine鈥檚 flavour isn鈥檛 down to molecular chemistry but instead the holistic experience of wine drinking: the perceived price, mood in the room and even the weight of the bottle.

Producer: Caroline Steel
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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Christmas Day 2022 13:15

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