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The Wine Show

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Introduction
The Wine Show is a 13-part series on Wine broadcast on ITV featuring actors Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys as well as wine experts Joe Fattorini and Amelia Singer


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Chefs And Wine With Food
The show interviews prominent chefs working in Britain and asks them to choose a wine first and then match a dish to it. Goode, Rhys and Fattorini are given the wine and then speculate on the type of dish that the chefs would have chosen to go with it. The chefs featured in the first series are Atul Kochhar, Michael Caines, Jose Pizarro, Peter Gordon, Francesco Mazzei, Brad McDonald, Clare Smyth, Dan Doherty, Elena Arzak, Niki Nakayama, Frances Atkins and Stephen Harris.

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