Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1999, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is a wine expert. He's

sloped, sipped and spat his way through countless television programs as

his effervescent taste buds have taken him on a voyage of discovery

through the world that he loves.

His pleasure is ours too.

His knowledge and Parnash have made him one of this country's most popular guides to the

mysteries of wine.

It might not have been, after he became an actor and appeared in some of the West End's most famous musicals.

It was only when a publishing friend asked him to write a wine guide that the career which made him famous began. Since then he's won most of the

major wine writing awards on both sides of the Atlantic. It's a talent which came entirely naturally.

I remember tastes and smells like a pinbrick, he says.

He is Oz Clark. Was your palate always so sharp then, Oz or is it something you've cultivated?

I think it was always pretty sharp. I mean I

remember being a nuisance to my father complaining about the quality of fish and

chips and I had a particular favorite shop and I always wanted to go to that

particular favorite shop because the cod was fresher or because the potatoes were newer.

So it all stretches to food as well.

Oh yes, I think the whole point about taste is that wine we have to borrow language for. There's no wine language and

consequent you have to draw in flavours from every part of life and its taste,

it's food, it's also emotions and it's also the way the wind blows on the cliff tops and the way you feel

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