448: Lee Hudson's Grape Guide

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Lee Hudson is the owner of Hudson Ranch and Vineyards, in California's Carneros district.

Lee recalls his early days in Texas and in France, as well as the experience of working the 1975 harvest in Burgundy at Domaine Dujac. Lee describes founding his own ranch and vineyard in California, and gives a grape by grape guide to different grape variety characteristics and how the ways they are grown can affect them. Those interested in Chardonnay, Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, and Pinot Noir will find a lot to learn from what Lee has to say about how those grapes behave in the vineyard. Lee also discusses his classmates at the University of California, Davis, many of whom have gone on to notable careers in wine in the decades since they were in school with Lee.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the Beverage Business.
0:06.7	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:07.7	I'm Erin Scala.
0:08.9	And here's our show today. Oh, Lee Hudson of Hudson Vineyards and also the Hudson Ranch on the show today.
0:30.1	Hello sir, how are you?
0:31.1	Levy, I'm doing fantastic.
0:34.6	So your dad bred cattle?
0:36.7	Well my dad was an engineer, born and raised in Hoboken, born in 2004, same year as Frank Sinatra.
0:43.3	He was the son of an Irish immigrant and only child
0:48.8	and his family who got educated.
0:51.2	And ended up ultimately starting a engineering firm in the state of
0:56.4	taxes in Houston in 36. I was born in 51. He had bought a ranch in the late 50s right outside of Houston and as a boy I worked there the summers and I found the work to be satisfying in that it was
1:21.0	cyclical and it was repetitive and it was constant and it was direct
1:30.0	it was a direct relationship between what you did and what you got and that that made
1:36.2	sense to me as a young man in that I like many teenagers was looking for some sort of meaning of life and so that it stuck with me.
1:50.3	I kind of think that we're born more or less the way we end up and the sweat and the
2:00.8	toil and the smells and those things
2:05.0	out of clicked.
2:08.0	And you took a high school year in Provence.
2:11.0	Yeah.
2:12.0	67. in Provence? Yeah. 6768. I was 1617 and the school I was going to actually offered a junior year abroad and it was a really a fortunate decision on my part.
2:32.4	I lived with this French family in a town called Valreas of 5,000 people went to the
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