409: Rhone Grape Varieties Throughout California

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🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Erin Scala takes a tour of Syrah and Grenache vineyards throughout California, and talks with winemakers working with Rhone grape varieties in that state.

The following winemakers and vineyard professionals are interviewed within this episode:

Chris Pittenger (Skinner Vineyards)

Gideon Beinstock (Clos Saron)

Randall Grahm (Bonny Doon Vineyard)

David Gates, Jr. (Ridge Vineyards)

Bob Lindquist (Qupe)

Ryan Roark (Roark Wine Company)

William Allen (Two Shepherds)

Larry Schaffer (Tercero Wines)

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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 story of Roan grape varieties in California is a compelling tale full of narratives fit for a Hollywood movie plot.
0:35.8	We'll visit the gold rush and we may bump into some forest cats and bears along the way.
0:42.4	Now wine has been in California long before Roan varieties arrived with the Mission
0:47.3	Grapes of Spanish origin.
0:49.9	You could make the argument that the famous Mission Grape likely also has origins on the North
0:54.8	Mediterranean coast, just like many Rhone varieties.
0:58.9	Rhone varieties, as we know them today, arrived on the California scene in the mid 1800s.
1:05.0	Their arrival corresponded with the Gold Rush.
1:10.0	As 49ers poured into the region, many people set up businesses and shops to provide food, drink, and shelter to the new arrivals.
1:20.0	I met up with Chris Pettinger,
1:23.0	winemaker at Skinner Vineyards in the Sierra Nevada foothills,
1:26.0	who talks a little bit about the original Skinner winery,
1:30.0	set up by James Skinner, a Scottish man who came to California for the Gold Rush.
1:34.8	So, California's kind of started.
1:38.0	Gold Rush started.
1:40.0	Gold Rush.
1:41.0	So 1849, Sutter's Mill, Marshall, that all originated right outside of Fosterville, which is the heart of El Dorado.
1:51.0	And with that, came tens of thousands of miners and with that came
1:59.8	the people from all over the world. So France, Italy, Scotland, in the case of the Skinner's
2:06.8	it thrived for over 40 years through the turn of the century,
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