341: Jacques Lardière

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jacques Lardière retired from his role as Technical Director of Maison Louis Jadot in Burgundy in 2012, a job he had started in 1970. He now oversees Jadot's Résonance project in Oregon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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, We're about to get to an interview with Jacques Lardier of Maison-Louis Jadot and
0:29.4	Resinne, Vineyard in Oregon, but before we do that I wanted to share with you something that
0:34.5	Frederick Barnier said about Jacques in episode 242 when I interviewed
0:39.4	Frederick and we talked about his transition into Jadot where he is now as technical director having succeeded Jock.
0:47.2	People who know him, they know that sometimes it's difficult to understand what he want, what he say because he has his own vocabulary, his own world, his own ideas, and I'm not sure sometimes
1:00.4	it's so clear in his mind but he has something very special he feel very well everything
1:06.4	so he has a talent jack is talented clearly he has a great talent with the wines he he feels very well, so it means that it tastes very well.
1:16.0	And he is able to see what will happen before it happens on the wine, so it's something very special.
1:22.0	And he has made fantastic wines during
1:24.6	42 years so and in a company with Jadot like a producer for as Jadot it's something which is
1:30.9	huge because we are producing different wines and to be consistent during
1:35.8	42 years it's something which is fantastic.
1:39.4	About what he had to say about Jacques was very on point and very correct and really helped me understand better the experience that I would later have interviewing Jacques.
1:48.5	This is not an interview that is necessarily the easiest to understand, but it's gold.
1:54.9	There are things in here that you just couldn't get from any other person
1:58.0	in the entire world.
1:59.8	Jacques essentially was selling snake venom to a professor at an academy and then that professor
2:06.2	introduced him to Jules Chauvet.
2:08.5	And originally it wasn't Jock's idea to make wine, he was going to be a forest ranger. So here's this guy that enjoys being in nature,
2:16.8	likes to go out in forests and collect snakes and get the venom out of them and sell him to a university. and because of that he gets an introduction to somebody
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