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Felicitations! Such a clear and perfectly explained video. It brought back happy memories of promoting Charles Heidsieck and Piper Heidsieck Champagnes in the 90s as the Account Director for their marketing agency. I needed to remind myself of the making process as I'm doing a talk in my village to our Rendezvous social group of francophiles!
Best drink around New Zealand pinot noir first of all. Get used to the struggle to find good value for money. It gets a lot worse and a lot more expensive in Burgundy.
Best drink around New Zealand pinot noir first of all. Get used to the struggle to find good value for money. It gets a lot worse and a lot more expensive in Burgundy.
Most grand cru wines are simply wines from a delimited area with their own appellation. They are usually on sale at high prices which will have the customer reaching for a reference book if the label is not recognised. Let's hope what is in the bottle justifies the high price, but there is no automatic guarantee that it will. There is just one Chablis grand cru appellation, but the appellation is divided into individual plots which are normally considered to be like grand crus in their own right. Volnay Santenots has its own appellation, but is not considered to be a grand cru.
Quality of french wines have definitely deteriorated over several years now. I assume down to global warming. There are more exciting wines to experience from countries that are not set in their ways
Came across this video out of curiosity was looking to try some sparkling wine from my own country. But out of pure coincidence I run the machine that makes the windbreaks in the video.
Pretty funny he mentions global warming. The reason we drink burgundy is that theentire region was under the sea 150,000,000+ years ago. The climate has always been changing. You climate Nazis need to get a grip.
Some years ago i got lucky and was given the opportunity to taste Le Monrachet Grand Cru and it left me deeply impressed. It was nowwhere near as broadshouldered and vanilly as stuff from overseas, but concentrated, rich, refined and detailed, with a finish that lasted a minute easily. I envision this must be what heaven feels like🤗
Hello. We are the Korean reality program ‘Europe Outside the Tent: South France’. We're working on a French episode right now, and it would be great if you could let us use this footage for our show! We look forward to your response! thank you!
Hello. We are the Korean reality program ‘Europe Outside the Tent: South France’. We're working on a French episode right now, and it would be great if you could let us use this footage for our show! We look forward to your response! thank you!
Hello. We are the Korean reality program ‘Europe Outside the Tent: South France’. We're working on a French episode right now, and it would be great if you could let us use this footage for our show! We look forward to your response! thank you!
I found only one topic missing in this thorough video. "Vintage or Producer", especially in Europe. California doesn't have the wild swings in vintage quality, so it isn't that important. For me, Buying the Producer in Bordeaux is lazy. Buying the Vintage takes more effort, but has a much higher reward. Why would you want to spend $500/bottle for a 1st Growth(now, a Great price, but using a Short-hand example, 93 Points) in an off-vintage, when you could buy previous great vintages of lower priced($50-100), well-regarded 3rd-5th Growth producers(94-97 Points), that are still available in a quality wine shop? Why would you buy a pedestrian 2nd Growth, Dufort-Vivens(90 Points) instead of an Excellent 3rd, Giscours or 5th, Grand Puy Lacoste(95-97 Points) for the same price, with a little more effort? St Emilion has great wines(exotic, fruit-forward flavors) in most recent vintages(2015-2022) for $35-75(94-97 pts). I'm not a big fan of 2nd-label wines(Alter-Ego, Carruades de Lafite) for the same reason. Each Appellation has its own similar, GENERAL flavors(St Julien--sour cherry, Ste Estephe--more tannic, etc.). $100-300 for a 94 Point 2nd label, or $60-125 for a 95-97 Point, D'Issan, Pontet Canet to get the same general flavors? I recommend only buying a few bottles in a off-vintages, IF you "must taste the vintage" at a cheaper price. Otherwise, forget it.
