339: Adrian Bridge

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Bridge is the Chief Executive Officer of The Fladgate Partnership, encompassing the Taylor Fladgate, Fonseca, and Croft Port brands from Portugal.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala discusses how the reign of England's Charles II affected the Port wine trade.

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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, The current atmosphere of the Portuguese wine market can be traced in part to the politics of Charles
0:34.8	the second. Charles the second lived what is probably one of the craziest lives in human history,
0:41.8	even for a European monarch.
0:44.3	His biography presents as someone who is a little bit of a hot mess
0:48.6	who encounters numerous zainy situations.
0:51.8	Seriously, Hollywood writers couldn't make his biography up. It would be too
0:55.7	unbelievable. He had 12 children with seven mistresses, but none with his wife. He was
1:01.4	hunted by Parliament, escaped in disguise, and then asked back to be the king, and he reined over two of the most traumatic social issues in London's history, a plague outbreak, and a huge fire.
1:16.4	Now, the idea of an English crown
1:18.5	had been in the work since about 400 a.D.
1:21.4	So by the time Charles II was born in 1630, there was about 12 hundred years of
1:27.2	precedence for the monarchy. But it just so happened that the foundation
1:31.2	crumbled during Charles II's adolescence, amidst civil war and
1:35.6	fighting religious factions.
1:37.5	Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan who gained political power, helped orchestrate the execution of Charles I, Charles the Second's father.
1:46.0	Before Charles the Second's 20th birthday, his father was beheaded in one of the most incredible political shifts in history.
1:54.0	Cromwell took over and Parliament gained power.
1:57.4	With the execution of King Charles I, things were not looking good for Charles II. He hung out in Scotland for a while. They were
2:06.8	kind to him in hopes that he would advance their religious agenda if they
2:10.0	could restore him to the monarchy. But England advanced into Scotland and
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