435: Samuel Guibert on the Unique Blend of Mas de Daumas Gassac

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🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Samuel Guibert is a co-owner and winemaker at the Mas de Daumas Gassac winery, in the Languedoc region of France.

Samuel goes into detail about the unusual red and white wines of Mas de Daumas Gassac, a winery that blends Pinot Noir, Nebbiolo, Tannat and a number of other grape varieties together with Cabernet Sauvignon for their red. Samuel explains the setting of the individual vineyards that compose Mas de Daumas Gassac, the wine history of the surrounding Languedoc region, and the evolution of the winemaking at his winery.

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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, Samuel Giber of Masa Damma Gassak on the show today. Hello sir, how are you?
0:29.0	Bonsieur, I am very well. Thank you for having me.
0:32.0	Very nice to see you.
0:33.0	Well, likewise.
0:35.0	Your dad had an interest in gardening,
0:37.0	and he purchased a farm in early 1970s.
0:40.0	So my dad, after meeting my mother in the mid-60s, decided to,
0:46.4	what they decided to have a family,
0:48.7	and I came first, and at the time I came,
0:51.1	they found this old farm, which was totally was totally rundown it wasn't a vineyard
0:55.3	it was nothing but a vineyard it was a rundown farm that the previous owner were
0:59.1	happily giving away or selling away to retire in a local village.
1:03.7	There were vines there already or no?
1:05.8	About two acres with made of vineyard and not red wine actually, white wine made of
1:12.1	cleret. It was almost out of production, the
1:15.0	vinyl was very, very run down, two acres was not a lot, but it allowed the previous
1:21.2	owner to have their own wine for their own consumption.
1:24.0	So the name of by state obviously is Mass, which means Farm House,
1:27.8	Domas, which was the name of the previous owner or the farmers for 9th generation and then Gassac which come from the name of the river that flows in the middle of the valley where the master Magassac estate is.
1:40.4	And why do you think that your father and mother decided on that particular spot?
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