Ep 458: Matt Walls -- Author of "Wines of the Rhone," Rhone Guru, and the nicest guy in wine

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Walls is a freelance wine expert and an award-winning wine writer and consultant. He is a contributing editor to Decanter, and writes regularly for timatkin.com and Club Oenologique. He is also the author of "<a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Drink-Choose-Taste-Enjoy-Wine/dp/1849491402/ref=sr_1_7?qid=1674509553&refinements=p_27%3AMatt+Walls&s=books&sr=1-7&text=Matt+Walls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Drink Me!</a>" Which won the Fortnum & Mason ‘Best Newcomer’ Award, among others, and he wrote an opus on the Rhône Valley, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999619331/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=winefornorm05-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=3caf7c51d1e2a06cf4a48e4be5a42348&creativeASIN=1999619331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Wines of the Rhône,”</a>** which is a brilliant book that has everything you want to know about the Rhône. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999619331/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=winefornorm05-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=3caf7c51d1e2a06cf4a48e4be5a42348&creativeASIN=1999619331" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/WinesofrhoneBook.png" alt="" width="326" height="336" /></a></p> <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 8pt;"><strong><em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999619331/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=winefornorm05-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=3caf7c51d1e2a06cf4a48e4be5a42348&creativeASIN=1999619331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buy Matt's Book!**</a> Photo: <a href="http://www.mattwalls.co.uk" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">www.mattwalls.co.uk</a></em></strong></span></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Matt judges wine competitions, presents amazing master classes, AND he’s probably the nicest person in the entire wine industry and fun too, as I learned when I met him in the Rhone in 2022 at an industry event in the Rhône.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> <p style="font-we