326: Bernard Portet

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Bernard Portet co-founded Clos Du Val in the Napa Valley of California, where he served as winemaker. He left that winery in 2010.

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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, Bernard Porte on the show, one of the co-founder of the Clodevall winery in Napa Valley.
0:29.0	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:30.0	Very good, thank you.
0:31.0	Good see you, lady.
0:32.0	Very nice to see you. So you were born in the Konyak region in France. Yes, I was born a few years ago on the property of my father and my family had owned that property for Sin So we cannot trace it beyond 1698.
0:47.0	Before that, some crazy rebels burnt the documents of the church or whatever.
0:54.4	So anyway, so since 1698, my family has been based on the same property
0:59.8	and I was born there in the same room as my father was born.
1:03.0	So that's an area where they make a lot of brandy.
1:06.0	That's the area we make cognac over there.
1:08.0	They call it cognac and it's a, it's an
1:10.0	an Appilac control area.
1:12.0	I don't remember, I think it's 100 and some thousand acres. in a
1:15.0	nappilations controller area. I don't remember, I think it's 100 and some thousand acres of,
1:16.0	you know, actors of a vineyard.
1:19.0	That all belongs to you.
1:20.0	Yes, I wish.
1:22.0	I wish.
1:24.6	So I was born there and I grew up there for my first 10-12 years and after that my father moved
1:31.5	to the mid-doc and we followed him naturally.
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