451: The Aligoté Thread

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Erin Scala speaks with Burgundy vigneron devoted to the Aligoté grape variety and explores the challenges and rewards associated with Aligoté today.

Erin narrates a tour of Burgundy cellars and vineyards, piecing together conversations with multiple vigneron to find a through thread for Aligoté.

This episode contains interviews and commentary from vigneron and wine professionals working with Aligoté, including:

Roland Rapet and Vincent Rapet (Domaine Rapet Père et Fils)

Fanny Sabre (Domaine Fanny Sabre)

Sylvain Pataille (Domaine Sylvain Pataille)

Pierre de Benoist (Domaine A. & P. de Villaine)

Frédéric Lafarge (Domaine Michel Lafarge)

Anne Morey (Domaine Pierre Morey)

Jean-Marc Roulot (Domaine Roulot)

Lauren "Lolo" Brelin (La Dilettante Restaurant, Beaune)

Hai Tran (The Rittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia)

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Rachel Signer (Terre Magazine)

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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, It's time for a word association game. So what's the first thing that pops into your mind when I say,
0:34.0	Aligote?
0:36.0	Did you think, Kir?
0:40.0	By the end of this episode, I hope you'll have a few other knee-jerk words that come to mind when you hear about
0:46.5	Aligote because there's just one goal with this episode and that's to reveal some secrets of
0:52.0	Aligote in the hopes that you'll increase your appreciation of it.
0:57.0	But first, let's step back in time to see if history repeats itself.
1:02.0	We're in the early 1500s and the medieval era is surging
1:06.7	full force into the Renaissance. Opera has not yet been invented. The piano is
1:12.1	still 150 years into the future, and the violin is in its infancy,
1:17.0	just becoming popular.
1:20.0	For the first time, sunflowers arrive in Europe from North America.
1:25.0	The pocket watch is invented and this will go on to revolutionize timekeeping by bringing minutes to each person.
1:31.0	No longer will there be a communal dependence on bell towers.
1:35.8	A giant earthquake disrupts Constantinople.
1:38.8	Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling hasine chapel ceiling has just been revealed.
1:44.0	Leonardo da Vinci is in his stride.
1:46.6	Around this time, Martin Luther breaks with the Catholic Church and founds Lutheranism
1:51.1	and shakes up the religious order of Europe.
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