205: Eben Sadie

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Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Eben Sadie is the winemaker and owner of The Sadie Family winery in South Africa's Swartland.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala digs deep into an exploration of farming with clones and what that means.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, In the 1400s through the 1700s through the 1700s global exploration and intercontinental travel
0:31.0	made it possible in some cases for the first time for previously
0:35.1	isolated species of great varieties to breed with one another and create new hybrids
0:40.1	as we call them today. Then, in the late 1800s, the Phyloxor epidemic led many nurseries to experiment with
0:47.8	hybrids out of need rather than curiosity, leading to a massive growth in hybrid planting.
0:53.0	This was followed by a massive backlash against hybrid plantings
0:56.0	in a search for the purity of the past.
0:59.0	Today we've mostly settled into a rhythm
1:02.0	where we graft the scions of one species that is
1:04.2	finifera onto other root stocks.
1:06.5	We found an interesting solution to have purity of grape variety and root stocks with sturdy
1:10.7	genes that can withstand phaloxra. But the Phyloxra.
1:13.0	But the Phyloxra epidemic nonetheless
1:15.0	initiated an overarching conversation in the wine world.
1:18.0	The conversation in which there are many sides
1:21.0	and not always clear answers.
1:24.0	If you've been paying attention to stem cell research and all the messy arguments in the media it stirs up,
1:30.0	or if you've seen any of the sci-fi movies that explore what a world would be like if full of human clones.
1:35.0	Most of the thought-provoking issues revolve around notions of what we consider are self-evident fundamental rights as sentient beings. Independence, freedom, and the notion that a person's body
1:46.2	is a sank vessel for their unique soul. Cloning a human stirs up questions that we don't have answers to.
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