{"podcast":{"title":"Sensing Up","slug":"sensing-up-6573826","podcast_index_feed_id":6573826,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/482685/rss","website_url":"https://smellycheese.co/pages/sensing-up-podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/4/6/7/d46793f5d94c65fd5f2e77a3093c12a1/Sensing_Up_-_Cover_Art.png","author":"Valérie Henbest","episode_count":42,"summary":"Hello and welcome to Sensing Up, a podcast you need to listen to with your 5 senses! My name is Valérie Henbest. I am French. I am Australian. I am on a mission to discover more about the senses and how they promote pleasure once you engage them and listen to them more carefully. Each episode will give you a reason to listen, look, smell, touch and taste more effectively. Special guests will share their own \"Madeleine de Proust\" moment - the memory they conjure up from a little cake, a special perfume, a piece of art or a particular piece of music. Sharpen your tastebuds, fine tune your eardrums, clear your nose and throat, and keep your eyes wide open. Join us for a journey through textures, flavours and aromas from our daily life. Allow us to turn a mundane activity into a magical moment. Using your own senses AND many talented food and wine lovers from Australia and all over the world. Sensing Up - a podcast on 'ideas worth tasting'!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:18:53.827528+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sensing-up-6573826"},"episode":{"title":"Sixth Generation Wines: A Conversation with Bec and Richard Hardy","slug":"sixth-generation-wines-a-conversation-with-bec-and-richard-hardy","published_at":"2026-06-16T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sensing-up-6573826/sixth-generation-wines-a-conversation-with-bec-and-richard-hardy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sensing-up-6573826","url":"https://smellycheese.co/pages/sensing-up-podcast","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/e704b009-9da4-44ec-abfc-1839fd423199/sensing_up_s04_ep06_bec_hardy_wines_002.mp3?dest-id=4110033","summary":"Thomas Hardy arrived in South Australia in 1850, and what followed was the making of one of the country's most storied wine dynasties. One hundred and seventy-three years later, his sixth-generation descendant Bec Hardy is making wine in McLaren Vale with the same instinct for possibility. In this episode, Valérie is joined by Bec Hardy and her husband Richard for a conversation that moves freely between history and harvest, heritage and reinvention. Bec traces the arc from Thomas Hardy's improbable journey, through the branching of the family line, to the founding of Bec Hardy Wines in 2020 alongside the related but distinct Pertaringa label, now approaching its fiftieth year. Richard, a former financial services professional who came into the wine world via negotiation and a rather tax-efficient honeymoon, brings a sharp commercial instinct and an endearing candour about the business of wine. The conversation deepens over a glass of the Pertaringa Yeoman Shiraz, a single-vineyard wine drawn from vines planted in 1843, possibly on land once owned by Thomas Hardy himself. Bec describes the wine's intensity with precision: small berries, dark fruit, the beginning of secondary characters in the 2021 vintage. Valérie pairs it with a Burgundian Epoisses, and the result is, by any measure, compelling. Find the Pertaringa Yeoman Shiraz 2021 here: https://bechardy.com.au/products/pertaringa-yeoman-shiraz-2021 Find the Epoisses cheese here: https://smellycheese.co/products/epoisses Valérie Henbest is a French-Australian cheese specialist born in Normandie. Imports 10+ tonnes of French cheese monthly, sells at Smelly Cheese Shop, Adelaide Central Market. French National Order of Agricultural Merit 2023. Inducted into Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, Paris. Sensing Up is a s…","meta_description":"Thomas Hardy arrived in South Australia in 1850, and what followed was the making of one of the country's most storied wine dynasties. One hundred and sev…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2045,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sensing-up-6573826/episodes/sixth-generation-wines-a-conversation-with-bec-and-richard-hardy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sensing-up-6573826/sixth-generation-wines-a-conversation-with-bec-and-richard-hardy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}