457: Jeanne-Marie de Champs Does Not Follow the Trends

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jeanne-Marie de Champs is the proprietor of Domaines et Saveurs Collection, an exporter of Burgundy and other wines from France. She is based in Beaune.

Jeanne-Marie discusses arriving in Burgundy from the Loire Valley, and the situation for Burgundy in the 1970s and 1980s. She explains why she started her own business exporting wines, and the changes in the American wine market that were happening as she was developing her own business. Jeanne-Marie highlights some of the vigneron in Burgundy who helped her learn about that region, and recalls notable vintages. She also explains her philosophy for choosing wines, and points out some appellations of Burgundy that she finds particularly appealing today. There is also a sense given of how Burgundy, and the reception for the wines from there, has changed over the years.

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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-Marie de Champs of Exporter Domain at Saverour Collection.
0:28.3	Hello, how are you?
0:29.3	I'm good.
0:30.9	So you live in Bone now, which is in Burgundy, but you grew up near
0:34.0	Sansaire in the Loire Valley. Yes. My family is from the 11 90s in Loire Valley.
0:42.0	We are 20 kilometers east of Saint-Caire along the Loire River.
0:48.0	And in every village we have a tomb with the Daucher family and including the first mayor of Nauver who had been killed by their evolution.
0:59.0	Your family did multiple things.
1:02.0	One of the things they were involved with was forestry,
1:04.0	and the other was raising the cattle
1:06.0	traditional to the area.
1:07.5	Absolutely.
1:08.6	We are a kind of very French traditional family. Part of the family were military. My uncle was the general. Some
1:17.8	uncles died during the war. We had farms, part with corn wheat, the classical cereals, which you found in War Valley,
1:28.0	as well my grandfather and my father developed the Erbuk Charole.
1:35.0	Which is these white cows which is in the center on France all over.
1:40.0	And our job was to select the quality of these cows, to get the best of the cow, the best of
1:49.2	the structure, get the best meat for eating.
1:55.0	And the other part is of course the forest.
1:58.0	We have forests in Loire Valley,
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