455: Jean-Pierre de Smet and the Burgundy Community

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🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jean-Pierre de Smet was a co-founder and partner in Domaine de l'Arlot, the winery based in the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation. Jean-Pierre retired from l'Arlot in 2007, and has since that time been helping his friend Didier Fornerol make the Domaine Didier Fornerol wines, also in France's Burgundy region.

Jean-Pierre provides key insights into a number of Burgundy winemaking techniques, and also about the people he knew and has worked alongside with in Burgundy since the 1970s. Jean-Pierre is very clear about the influences on him of people like Jacques Seysses (Domaine Dujac), Anne-Claude Leflaive (Domaine Leflaive), and Patrick Bize (Domaine Simon Bize), and how he integrated their ideas and help into his own work at Domaine de l'Arlot. There are numerous details provided about topics like whole cluster, the speed of a fermentation, vine training, the vintages of the 1980s and 1990s, the nature of Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanée crus, white vs. red winemaking, and climate change. Jean-Pierre also gives a clear picture of the Burgundy community of the 1980s, and of a group of vigneron who would go on to become famous names in the region and across the world. Those who want to understand the history of Burgundy from the 1970s through to today would benefit from listening to this episode.

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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. Jump here. Jean-Pier de Smet, the founding winemaker and former partner at Domain-Darlau in
0:29.6	Nui St George.
0:30.6	Hello, I'm fine, thank you.
0:33.7	Very nice to see you.
0:34.7	Thank you.
0:35.7	So you had Belgian routes, but you grew up in Nice, where you were born in 46.
0:41.8	That's right. You was born in Nis.
0:44.0	Actually, I was born in England for my parents reasons,
0:49.0	but I went back to Nis when being six months old and then I spent all my
0:54.8	loose by Nis and left the age of 20 to be a student in Paris.
1:00.3	From an early age you've developed a passion for the outdoors.
1:04.0	This is located between sea and mountains and so it's easy to be at sea and in the mountains the same day.
1:13.0	So I started skiing when being four years old,
1:19.0	but only in the mountains, with the skins and no lift and so on, and then I did race a lot.
1:28.5	So when being a student, I did race a lot and maybe more than I studied but.
1:35.0	And you met your future wife who was also a skier.
1:38.0	Yeah, yeah, we met who we have been skiing in the same ski club in Paris and so we didn't meet there and skied a lot together and raced together as well and yes that's where we met in the mountains.
1:53.0	And her name is Lilo.
1:54.0	That's right.
1:55.0	That is a nickname from Lise.
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