470: Jacques Seysses Knew It Would Never Be Worse Than 68

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jacques Seysses is the founder of Domaine Dujac, based in the Burgundy village of Morey-Saint-Denis in France.

Jacques recounts how he became interested in wine, and what led him to purchase a domaine in Burgundy in the late 1960s. He describes working with Gérard Potel at Domaine de la Pousse d'Or, as well as some of his visits to other Burgundy vigneron, like Henri Gouges, Charles Rousseau, and Pierre Ramonet. Jacques talks about the Burgundy vintages of the 1960s and 1970s in this interview, and explains how the conditions in Burgundy have changed since that time, both in terms of the climate and the market for the wines. Jacques also shares his memories of some of the many people who have worked with him at Dujac over the years, including Lee Hudson, Jean-Pierre de Smet, Ted Lemon, Alain Graillot, James Halliday, and others. And Jacques talks about what he found when visiting California and the Northern Rhône Valley. There is also a discussion of how the current Dujac wines are approached and what Jacques considers the important decisions of his sons and daughter-in-law in running the domaine. Those curious about winemaking technique will find many specifics from Jacques in this interview, addressing topics like whole cluster use for Pinot Noir, cold maceration, wild yeasts, and more.

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0:00.0	And the The interview you're about to hear is with Jacques Seis of Domaine du Jacques.
0:20.2	His son Jeremy Seis was also on I'll drink to that as a guest several years ago and if you would like to hear that interview
0:27.3	Jeremy's episode is number 143
0:31.8	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business. I'm
0:35.6	Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Jock Saste, the founder of domain Dujak in Maurice Anthony,
0:58.9	Hello, sir, how are you?
1:00.9	Very farewell. So you were born in 1941. you? They were very well.
1:03.2	So you were born in 1941 and you were the only child in your family.
1:08.5	And your dad really liked cuisine.
1:10.6	He liked food.
1:11.6	He loved food and what he his father-in-law took him to Solieu where Alexander Duane had already
1:19.7	three-star, became a close friend of Alexandouman in Solieu.
1:26.4	And my dad visits settlers of Burgundi
1:31.4	with Alexandouman every year to buy wine.
1:37.0	Your dad ended up meeting a lot of the smaller domains that had started up in the 20s, 30s, 40s, people like Russo and Guiche.
1:47.0	Yeah, as that time, estate bottling, they were less than 10 people.
1:54.0	As you say, Guje and Russo was major, Romani Conti II.
2:00.0	There was a estate in the so-called Hopito at that time,
2:04.6	was very famous to, and Romine Prudin for sure.
2:09.5	Your dad took you to find restaurants
2:11.4	and you went to Tordar Jean when you were seven years old.
2:14.0	First time, probably seven years old, yes.
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