“What’s the perfect wine to bring when you’ve called your sister-in-law a cow at a family dinner, you’re turning up at the next Sunday lunch and you’re in desperate need of a peace offering in a bottle?”
That was the critical question posed by ‘Trisha from Bolton’ to The Celebrity Traitors star and national treasure Alan Carr and his best friend Lee Peart on the pair’s new podcast Bottoms Up! (online).
Not that the pair profess to be experts. To them, labels can be “like the Da Vinci Code”. They love wine but know next to nothing about it, they conceded on the first episode, and so are taking their “first steps on a wine odyssey to learn a thing or two”, but, Carr insisted, “not in a wanky way”.
There was a lot of chit chat before any drop was drunk. It covered Carr’s love life (“No one will bite, it’s depressing,” he mourned), going to the theatre with Claudia Winkleman, the dying out of names like Alan and Lee, and Peart’s When Harry Met Sally-esque responses to a holiday wine tasting tour. “I was trying to show appreciation but I just looked horny,” he said.
Show sponsor Laithwaites provided some bottles for the duo to try, and they quizzed each other on the tasting notes, before social media wine expert Tom Gilbey popped up with some words of wisdom. Don’t be intimidated by anything related to wine, he urged. After all, “it’s just fermented grape juice”.
A delightfully bonkers romp. As Carr insisted about everything he tasted: “There is a hint of banana. I don’t care what you say.”
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