439: Jean Gonon on Why Every Vintage Should be Different

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jean Gonon works with his brother Pierre at Domaine Pierre Gonon in the Northern Rhône Valley of France, within the Saint-Joseph appellation.

Jean speaks about the importance of farming, vine selection, and constant care in this discussion, while asserting that the winemaking that follows is quite simple. He also gives a history of Saint-Joseph as an appellation, and as a terroir. Jean explains why his wines taste as they do, in relation to where they come from and the type of vines involved. And he gives his impressions of different grape varieties, like Syrah, Marsanne, Roussanne, and Chasselas.

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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. J Jean Gonnaonon of Doming Pierre Gona in San Josef in the Rhone Valley.
0:29.0	France, hello sir, how are you?
0:30.4	Very good. Thank you.
0:32.3	Very happy to be in New York. So your grandfather had vines, but they had
0:38.7	been somewhat abandoned in his lifetime. Yes. The domain was started by my great-grandfather and after my grandfather was not in a good health
0:48.2	so he stopped and when my parents, my father, start after the war to work, he was very young, and he's got some lands but no more vines, especially after the frost in 56.
1:05.0	So he started to plant again, step by step.
1:10.0	And he first planted Marson. Yes, because most of the lands he had at this time were located in a Leo D named Les Olivier.
1:21.0	And it was a special place for the whites with granite underneath but with a lot of
1:27.2	clays so it was very well known for the whites so we started to plant whites and after in the same ready planted some red.
1:37.0	Les Olivier is south facing, it's a gentle slope and it's not the hardest place to work honestly and he started there and
1:49.8	he started to do his home bottling with a vintage 64 and previously was selling to the
1:59.8	great negotion like Delas or Chappuiche.
2:04.0	And because he's got mostly white, it was not very well known, the whites.
2:11.0	And so nobody wants to buy it. And so he started to, he was not the first to do his own bottling in San Josef, but one of the first, I think the first was Mr. Trola in 56 when the Appalachian was created and for my
2:30.4	father it was 64. And they were family friends, Trola and your dad?
2:35.0	Yes, they were very good friends,
2:38.0	especially with Mr. Trola's father,a, his father, Ernest.
2:44.0	They were very close and they were a little bit involved
2:48.0	in the Sandica of the Appalachian.
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