261: Michael Cruse

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Michael Cruse is the winemaker of Cruse Wine Co. and Ultramarine, both based in California.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala talks St. Laurent.

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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, St. Laurent is one of those grapes that you don't hear about too often, and examples are usually presented like rare tastes of a unique world.
0:34.0	Fringes it might be in the US market.
0:36.0	It is quite popular in Slovakia and the Czech Republic,
0:39.0	and it's seeing a resurgence in Germany
0:41.0	and also becoming more popular in Austria.
0:45.7	Austria is widely considered to be the birthplace of St. Laurent and in the country St. Laurent is the
0:51.1	fifth most widely planted red grape.
0:54.0	Its importance is even greater considering that Sveigelt is the number one most widely planted
0:59.7	red grape.
1:01.3	One of Sveigelt's genetic parents is St. Laurent.
1:05.0	One theory for St. Lawrence namesake is that the variety is named after.
1:10.0	You guessed it, A historic figure named, wait for it, St. Laurent, known in many languages as
1:20.2	Saint Laurent, Saint Laurent, San Lorenzo, Saint Laurent, and on and on.
1:27.0	Saint Laurentius, the person, was an interesting deacon who served as the Papal treasurer. But when the Romans came to seize the
1:35.9	treasures he split them up, gave much of it to the poor, and sent away relics in all different
1:41.8	directions. The most famous relic supposed to be among
1:45.7	his dispersion? The Holy Grail. He hid that one especially well.
1:53.0	When the Romans came to collect the gold, he presented them instead,
1:58.0	with a crowd of people made up of the blind, poor, and sick
2:01.0	and told them that these were the true treasures.
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