415: Frederic Lafarge Shares the Family Secrets to Making Great Burgundy

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🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Frederic Lafarge operates Domaine Michel Lafarge with his family, with cellars located in the Burgundian town of Volnay, in France. Frederic and his wife Chantal also recently began the Lafarge-Vial domaine, with holdings in the Beaujolais crus of Fleurie, Chiroubles, and Cote de Brouilly.

In this interview Frederic goes deep into the explanation of his winemaking for the various crus and grape varieties (including Pinot Noir, Gamay, Chardonnay, and Aligote Doree) that he works with. There are several surprising revelations, and Frederic explains quite well why, for example, he chooses to use stems with Gamay when he avoids them for Pinot Noir, and his thinking about the different crus. This interview comes full circle when Frederic describes how a technique he started using in 2015 is the same method that was used at the family domaine in the early 20th century, before his own father was born.

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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. The Frederick Lafourourge of domain Michelle Lafourge on the show.
0:27.6	Hello sir, how are you?
0:28.7	Fine, thank you.
0:29.9	Very nice to welcome you here.
0:31.6	So you were born in 1958? Yes, exactly and my grandfather is a very early
0:40.8	for selling. It's the first domain for selling his wine in bottle. He began the first vintage in bottle, the vintage
0:48.6	1934. And we, the easiest bottle for the family begin of the 20th century.
0:58.0	And we have the old bottle of the domain is the 1904. And so the sellers date back to the 13th century, the sellers that you work in today.
1:07.0	The old sellers was built in the 13th century, and the old seller was built in the 19 and 18th century and my father built a new seller in
1:19.5	1974 and we built with my father a new seller in 1987.
1:28.0	And how big was the domain at that time in terms of Hector?
1:32.0	When I arrived in 78 we have 9.5 vector and I was the opportunity to buy the Pommer Pezroll in Intifive, yes.
1:47.0	And in 1990, I bought Percille of Ville Village and Percille of Bélèlein Pinotour and after I have the opportunity to buy the Volley Cayra in 2000.
2:05.0	And in 2005 I bought a parcel of Mitten and the parcel of Boon Le
2:10.6	Esecro.
2:11.6	So let's talk about the different parcels of the domain. So you have Borgonn Rouge, which is a single parcel.
2:17.0	Yes.
2:18.0	The parcel was located between the Volnais and the is the first terror of Burgoy just after the Volna.
2:28.0	We have a lot of elegance, a charm but with a silky very round tunnel. It's a very good tower for Burgon-Pilinwa.
2:36.0	The tenant for Burgon opened more quickly than the Vonee Village.
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