A Question of Drinks
Episodes
Ep 22: Everyone Swears They Want Authenticity. But We Keep Buying Big Brands. Why?
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter where your favourite drink comes from or who makes it? Using the tangled origin story of the Tequila Sunrise, the secretive monks behin...
Ep 21: The Real Reason You Can Remember the Name of Your Favourite Spirits, But Not Your Wine
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wine is the original luxury product, so why are there so few memorable wine brands? In this episode, Felicity and Lulie dig into wine’s historic all...
Ep 20: Wine's Dirty Secret: Why Everything Looks the Same When Everything's Changed
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is wine innovative or stuck in the past? When listener Patrick asks why nothing seems to have changed in wine over 30 years, Lulie and Felicity turn t...
Ep 19: The 5 Psychological Traps Dominating Your Liquor Cupboard
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lulie and Felicity put out a plea on social media — “Tell us what’s in your drinks cabinet” — and discovered a whole world of crimes against...
Ep 18: Why the Reign of Red Wine Is Ending
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it red wine that accrues all the prestige? Is this because red wine is better — or for a historic reason? Felicity and Lulie dig into this my...
Ep 17: Why Does Natural Wine Make Some People So Angry?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Natural wine has attracted vitriol, mean-spirited editorials and plenty of controversy. One of our listeners wrote in to ask why all the angst, and th...
Summer Repeat: Why Isn't There More Wine In Small Bottles? (Or Cans?)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Lulie and Felicity are busy writing the scripts for the new episodes, here's a repeat of one of our most downloaded episodes to date, asking tha...
Summer Repeat: The Unstoppable Rise and Rise of Rosé Wine
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lulie and Felicity are going on holiday! And so have re-uploaded one of our most commented-upon episodes, for new listeners. Pink wine is everywhere. ...
Ep 16: How Do Celebrities Influence What We Drink?
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrity drinks are nothing new — they’ve been around for the past couple of centuries. But today’s star-backed bottles are more strategic than...
Ep 15: Why Do Holidays Change the Flavour of Wine?
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the same wine taste magical on holiday but boring when you open it at home? Felicity and Lulie unpack the fascinating mix of physiology, psyc...
Ep 14: Is Gen Z Giving Up On Alcohol? Part 2
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of A Question of Drinks, Felicity and Lulie continue their deep dive into Gen Z drinking habits. Is this generation truly rejecting al...
Ep 13: Is Gen Z Really So Different When It Comes to Alcohol? Part 1
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the question of the moment: why is Gen Z drinking less alcohol? Academics are wondering, banks are wondering, and the drinks trade doesn’t kn...
Ep 12: Lies on the Label and Other Wine Crimes
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Felicity and Lulie investigate the murky world of wine and spirits fraud — from harmless fakes to lethal counterfeits. They start with historic wine...
Ep 11: Who Really Invented Champagne?
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fizz-filled episode of A Question of Drinks, Felicity Carter and Lulie Halstead investigate one of the wine world’s most persistent myths: w...
Ep 10: Why Are So Many People Signing Up for Wine Education?
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are so many people suddenly fluent in tannins, terroir, and Tokaji? There is an explosion of interest in wine education — and not just in the wi...
Ep 9: Is The Wine Trade Out Of Touch? Understanding Why People Get Confused by Wine
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many people find wine so confusing? Is it something about wine itself, or is it because of the misconceptions that the wine trade has abou...
Ep 8: How The World Went Wild for Prosecco and Launched a Trade War
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when sparkling wine, global trade policy, and Paris Hilton collide? In this episode, Felicity Carter and Lulie Halstead take a deep dive...
Ep 7: Why Isn't There More Wine In Small Bottles? (Or Cans?)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If everybody is moderating their wine intake, then how come there aren’t more small wine bottles on the shelf? And what would it take to put them th...
Ep 6: Why Is Everybody Drinking Guinness All of a Sudden?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It may be more than 300 years old, but sales of Guinness are surging, as the Irish beer finds popularity with new groups of consumers of all ages. How...
Ep 5: The Unstoppable Rise and Rise of Rosé Wine
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pink wine is everywhere. On supermarket shelves, on Instagram, and clutched in the hands of celebrities. If there is a single defining wine of the 21s...
Ep 4: What’s Driving Us All to Drink Less?
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The days of the pre-lunch cocktail followed by the bottle of wine at lunch, followed by a chaser, are well and truly over. The peak of alcohol consump...
Ep 3: Do Award-Winning Wines Taste Better?
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Lulie Halstead and Felicity Carter as they unpack the complex world of wine scores, medals, and critics, asking where they come from and why the ...
Ep 2: The Surprising and Sometimes Violent History of the Gin and Tonic
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gin may have started life as a medicine for heartburn, but it became so popular, it turned into an instrument of mayhem and murder. Hosts Lulie Halste...
Ep 1: The Hidden Drivers of Fashions in Wine
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we drink what we do? And why are we drinking different wines than we did 30 years ago? Lulie Halstead and Felicity Carter do a deep dive into w...
Trailer: Welcome to A Question of Drinks
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we drink what we do? Why do some drinks catch fire for a time, and then spend decades at the back of the cupboard? And how do some drinks becom...