464: Russell Hone and the Killer Wine Tasting

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Russell Hone lives and works in Burgundy, France with his wife Becky Wasserman.

Russell is one of the wine world's great characters, and this interview follows along with the various curves, shifts, and turns to the side of his life, going from England in the post-war years to Germany, Bordeaux, and then on to Burgundy in the 1980s until today. He recalls several encounters with a broad cast of characters from throughout his life, and along the way gives an account of how various wine regions and wines have changed over time. Specifically, there are many reminiscences about Burgundy and Burgundians, some famous and some not. Russell also testifies to a few of his other passions, including Sauternes and old vintage Port.

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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. Russell Holmes. Russell Hone on on the show today, O'Bergist for Becky Wasserman Company.
0:28.6	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:29.9	Okay.
0:30.9	So you were born in 1944. Yes. And your mother was a really good cook. Yes, she was trained at the Doe School in Aberdeen and then came down and taught in London and ended up teaching in Cheltenham as governor of the North Gloucestershire Technical
0:47.3	College and training chefs.
0:49.6	But this was during the war years and in the post-war years where there was rationing of food.
0:55.7	Rationing lasted until in England until the mid-50s, which was crazy.
0:59.6	Far longer than it should have been necessary. I remember seeing a news reel later about how
1:05.0	Bonalas in 1947 the first boat that arrived in Liverpool and people going
1:09.6	berserk. Your parents had German friends.
1:14.0	I had started 12 or 13 going to Germany doing an exchange with the family called
1:20.0	von Lutie Schauwerstein and there were four boys. The eldest
1:24.2	Bernhardt was same age as me. And he had a sort of farm around a modern sort of
1:30.4	villa and I used to have fun driving the
1:34.3	Boltzberg and when he went out at night with a rifle to shoot
1:38.6	dear.
1:39.6	Did you speak German as a kid?
1:41.6	I didn't learn German until I went after school, having failed to pass into Oxford, like my older brother,
1:50.0	and he suggested I did something useful, which was to go to a go to a
1:53.5	institute and learn German. So I went in 63 to bad Reichenhardt which is just
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