Good evening and welcome to Plonk of the Week on The Mike Graham Show 🍾🥂 This week features a full sparkling tour of Western and Central Europe.
As always, the drinks are brought in by Chris Walkey, aka “Mr Fizz”, joined by his son Oliver Walkey, the sommelier, guiding the tasting with expert insight. Mike’s glamorous co-star for this episode is Anna McGovern, adding sharp reactions, brave cork-popping and honest verdicts throughout.
From nostalgic classics to premium vintage fizz, the team taste their way through Portugal, England, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Austria in a lively episode packed with wine reviews, studio banter and Saturday night storytelling.
🍷 Wines Featured:
• Mateus Rosé (Portugal)
• Camel Valley Rosé Brut 2018 (Cornwall, England)
• Vintage Cava 2015 (Spain)
• Champagne (France)
• Ferrari Trento DOC 2018 (Italy)
• Dr. Loosen Sekt (Germany, Mosel)
• Steininger Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé Sparkling 2023 (Austria)
Alongside the tasting, the conversation covers:
✔️ Champagne vs Cava vs English sparkling wine
✔️ How to open a bottle of fizz safely
✔️ Wine culture from the 1970s to today
✔️ Fleet Street stories and legendary pub tales
✔️ The ultimate three dinner guests debate
If you enjoy wine tasting, Champagne comparisons, sparkling wine reviews, Mike Graham clips, Plonk of the Week highlights, English wine discussion and entertaining studio chat, this episode is for you.
Comment below which bottle you would pick.
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30 Comments
Great show as always, you should teach Mike and the newbies how to taste and enjoy wine properly!
Had Chinese takeaway,now got nice Merlot,so relaxing watching plonk.
Flourie,chateau nerv du pape ,I love these wines.never drink white wine.have a good evening everyone,no driving.❤
So refreshing! Mike is a real guy living like a lot of us do, and making content others don’t dare to make. The world is changing, media is changing and we’re all here for it!
Very entertaining and great humour
Good Show All!
Great chat.
… love Mike
Love this show. Lots to learn about wine and Mike's stories are wonderful. xx
Poor Anna, she hasn’t got a clue what you’re talking about 😅
This just reminded me that I had some Aldi ripoff Mateos Rose sat in a cupboard that somebody gave me for Christmas about 5+ years ago and had been forgotten about!
I duly got it out and had a glass… now I don't know if is because it's been sat there for so long bit it smelt like turps and tasted rank! The contents of the bottle promptly went down the sink!
Anna McGovern is awesome! More of her please!
I remember wine bars opening Mike! Our hang out as art students in. 1979 was the Brahms and Liszt (= pist) in Covent Garden near the Opera house. Long gone ….. happy evenings!
In the 1970's, there was only two types of wine… Red or White! 😂😂
You are fighter, what talk did to you is wrong. You are hard worker. You have a great sense of humour 😂😂😂 it's important. Well done
mike what a man it will be a long time to find a never one you make my life worth living again thank you friend please sing my way again it would be number ONE XXXX
Good wine and conversation. Way to go!
Oliver should have a silver waiter’s tray.
Laughed a lot this week. Brilliant!
Anxiety the following day has got nothing to do with drinking !
Best Plonk yet. Just like a drinks party. Loved the free flowing chat and easy relationships between everyone including Puch.
Toby Carvery what a memory. Such fun on a very dramatic day for the world. Cheers. Lorna from Antigua. 👍👍👍👍👍
Mike is funny, pity about the girl.
Any decent Kentish Wines ?
This was like having fun friends round for drinks. Fabulous entertainment with stories and reminiscences. Never enough!
PS. I prefer the sign off. It’s too bright for me 😎
Not heard of Tommy Cooper or Laurel and Hardy?! The 2cnd world war was before my time but I've heard of it…😂
As usual, Mike's failing memory is superb.
Richard Harris played Dumbledore in the first and second Harry Potter movies.
❤❤❤
140,000 subscribers congrats. I like the plonk show a lot. Good to see Mike loose, the wine man is chill and fun, and the woman was good last week and so was happy to see her back. Cheers Mike from the USA.
Just a correction Mike. You are over 9 million views now 🥰
Anna was good. Poor thing trying to open the bottle. Mike was funny talking why he wouldn't want to have dinner with Trump lol