The Wine Rack - Snooker & Snark
Join hosts and long-suffering best friends Jennie Bancroft and Chloe Johnson for a glass (or bottle) of wine and some chat about snooker... sort of.
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- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Snooker à la Carte
Chloe and Jennie drink to Kyren Wilson's excellent Shanghai Masters triumph (bubbly was drunk prior to recording) and celebrate the proper start to the season. For their third Free Ball of Season 3, …
01:01:21 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
A Rather Rogue Gallery
After a longer-than-intended hiatus, Jennie and Chloe return with another episode of snooker chat and plenty of nonsense. They look ahead to the 2025/26 season, then talk through a few "controversies…
01:56:52 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Snooker Superfan, I Choose You!
Jennie and Chloe kick off Season 2 of this soon-to-be award-winning snooker podcast with a bumper 2-hour long episode! They chat to fellow snooker superfan (and one of the Snooker Fairy Godmothers) K…
01:56:09 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
A Superlative Snooker Season
In the final episode of Season 1 of the soon-to-be-award-winning Wine Rack podcast, Chloe and Jennie look back on the 2024-25 Snooker Season, share some highlights and discuss the pitfalls of having …
01:02:53 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
A Midnite Train to Sheffield
Jennie and Chloe reflect in depth on the 2025 Snooker Halo World Championship, which Jennie had the great pleasure to attend courtesy of Midnite, one of the tournament sponsors. Her back is still rec…
01:36:01 |
Tue 13 May 2025
It's Crucemas Eve for Certain
It's The Wine Rack's 1st Birthday and, to celebrate, they popped open the bubbly and got to chatting about the draw for the 2025 World Snooker Championship! There are some tasty match-ups for everyon…
01:39:50 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Snooker Player
Jennie and Chloe record in Manchester in the midst of the Snooker Tour Championship and reflect briefly on the Players Championship before hopping on a call with Taylor Wilson, snooker manager extrao…
01:36:05 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
You're Playin' with the Big Dogs now...
Jennie and Chloe review the two latest snooker tournaments out east - the World Open and the World Grand Prix, celebrating some excellent wins for John Higgins and Neil Robertson, and looking ahead t…
01:16:20 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Not So Horrible Histories
Jennie and Chloe build a little on their mental health discussions, then talk snooker again with the Welsh Open and recap the Championship League. The Free Ball takes a journey back in time to assign…
01:36:00 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
Mind Your Business [The Mental Health Spesh]
Jennie and Chloe have a heart-to-heart about mental health, following on from Mark Selby and Ronnie O'Sullivan opening up at The Masters. Some snooker is discussed (the German Masters and the Champio…
01:49:50 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
The Johnstone's Paint [Old] Masters
Jennie and Chloe reconvene post-Christmas to present a Preview of the Johnstone's Paint Masters at Alexandra Palace. With some epic match-ups in the Top 16 (technically 17 at time of release, with Ne…
01:21:21 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Mistletoe & Whine - The Christmas Special
In this bumper Christmas episode, Jennie and Chloe recap three snooker events - The Shootout, The Scottish Open and The Saudi Arabia Masters. They discuss the issues with snooker in Saudi, the lacklu…
01:21:12 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
A Chemist & an Art Historian walk into the Barbican...
Chloe and Jennie look back on the UK Championship 2024 on the day of the final, featuring some 'live' commentary on the match between Judd Trump and Barry Hawkins. Also includes a defence of Jack Lis…
01:01:50 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Champion of All Trades, Master of None?
Jennie and Chloe record following an epic and exhausting week in Bolton attending the Champion of Champions tournament. They reminisce on some highs and lows of the tournament and generally revel in …
01:21:33 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Snooker Hall of Horror I
Jennie and Chloe talk briefly about the recent Northern Ireland Open and bemoan yet more bizarre scheduling decisions by WST, then get into a fantastically frightening Free Ball where they cast the h…
00:47:11 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Wonderful Wuhan and Desert Island Dingbats
Chloe and Jennie reflect on the Wuhan Open (what they saw of it) and have a trademark moan about the WST calendar and its seeming lack of clarity and direction. Then, they lament over Lisowski and ra…
01:00:03 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Crimes Against Snooker
Jennie and Chloe discuss the highs and lows of the British & English Opens, then send most of the Top 16 to prison for crimes they could theoretically commit, but definitely haven't. Please don't sue…
01:09:01 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Strictly Speaking, it isn't a Fourth Major
Jennie and Chloe chat about two new events on the Snooker Calendar - the Xi'an Grand Prix and the "Saudi Arabia Masters" - bemoaning how terrible Matchroom is as a streaming platform and how disappoi…
01:08:43 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Shanghai Pic 'n' Mix
The snooker season has officially begun, so it's time to celebrate with some proper snooker chat. Chloe and Jennie look back at an excellent week in Shanghai before despairing, yet again, at the terr…
01:03:40 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Snooker Sponsorship? It's all Greek (or Norse) to us...
With more WST sponsors being announced, Jennie and Chloe have a wee ramble about the sponsors they'd love to see on the tour and get geared up for the first proper tournament of the season. The Free …
00:57:32 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
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