{"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":"Walking with Kings: Thistledown Wines with Paddy Gilhooly","slug":"walking-with-kings-thistledown-wines-with-paddy-gilhooly","published_at":"2026-07-15T09:32:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sensing-up-6573826/walking-with-kings-thistledown-wines-with-paddy-gilhooly","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_ep07_thistledown_wines_002.mp3?dest-id=4110033","summary":"Grenache spent the better part of a century in South Australia as the grape left on the vine until the Shiraz was in. That neglect, strangely enough, is part of what makes some of the oldest vineyards in McLaren Vale so prized today. Valérie sits with Paddy Gilhooly, co-owner of Thistledown Wines, the McLaren Vale project founded in 2010 by Master of Wine Giles Cooke and built on a patchwork of old Grenache vineyards that growers once struggled to sell. Edinburgh-born and now an Australian citizen, Paddy brings a perspective shaped equally by fine dining wine lists in the UK and a detailed knowledge of wine history. The pair discuss Grenache's uneven history in South Australia: its arrival with Scottish viticulturalist James Busby in the 1830s and its recent, deliberate return to favour among growers and winemakers willing to treat old, low-yielding vines as an asset rather than a burden. Paddy speaks to what a single vineyard, and at times a single row, can reveal about a place, and to the strange arithmetic of vines that produce less each year yet somehow grow more interesting for it. Valérie and Paddy taste together, a Rhône-inspired Roussanne Grenache Blanc named for a line of Rudyard Kipling's If , and an old vine Grenache from four vineyards in Blewitt Springs, paired with a cloth-bound cheddar matured close to thirty months in Valérie's own maturing room. What follows is a study in how the right acid and the right salt can lift each other into something neither reaches alone. Thistledown Wines is a small-batch McLaren Vale producer specialising in single vineyard, old vine Grenache. Wines in this episode: Walking with Kings Roussanne Grenache Blanc https://thistledownwines.com/our-wines/Walking-with-Kings-Roussanne-Grenache-Blanc-2024-p746740505 Fool on the Hill…","meta_description":"Grenache spent the better part of a century in South Australia as the grape left on the vine until the Shiraz was in. That neglect, strangely enough, is p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2732,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sensing-up-6573826/episodes/walking-with-kings-thistledown-wines-with-paddy-gilhooly/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/walking-with-kings-thistledown-wines-with-paddy-gilhooly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}