165: Christian Binner

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 22 April 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Christian Binner is the owner and winemaker of Domaine Binner, a winery located in Alsace, France.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.0	I'm Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Christian Benner on the show today. Hello Sir, how are you? I'm good, thanks. Very nice to see. So your grandfather, Eugene, was bottling wine in Alsace before that that was normally done.
0:38.6	How early was that and then what happened subsequently?
0:41.3	I think my grandfather put wine bottling before the war periods and that would good because he could be autumn, no could make his own wine like he wants.
0:56.5	Independent.
0:57.5	Inverland, thank you.
0:59.5	And especially after the war he could save a bit of wine which has not been destroyed and then he could
1:07.5	make again new wines and the new business continue his business he had before the war and then to continue to be independent from the brokers because many times the brokers
1:18.2	When you are dependent on these people you cannot make completely what you want and the price are not the same and that
1:26.2	all and that was a good thing and there is not a lot of winegrover in each region
1:30.6	who can make this and I think that was perhaps the beginning of the situation I can
1:36.8	live now. In this past there was no pesticides chemicals, it doesn't exist. Then the vines was great and had the luck. My father would not really, he didn't appreciate this. He tests perhaps some things but he said no it's not for me.
1:55.1	I'm not happy with this. I continue to plow my vines to take the manure coming from the
2:00.3	health where there are some cause, to make hand-picking, long-aging in the cellar and the
2:07.4	big oak, old oak vats. And then the base was crazy good for me and to make now natural wines in
2:15.8	biodynamic wine culture. So where are you located in Alsas? I'm in the center, AlsDaz, near Korma.
2:23.0	Al-Daz is 200 kilometers long,
2:26.0	from the north in Strasbourg,
2:28.0	and the south is Melus, and the center is Korma,
2:32.0	where it's one now for good climate situation, a lot of ground crew, a lot of good windgrovers.
2:39.3	It's just five kilometers south of Kolma, a little village located.
2:45.0	And in name is Ammer Schwer.
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