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🗓️ 31 August 2019
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Anthony Hanson wrote the book "Burgundy," which was originally published in 1982, and then subsequently revised by him for another edition published in 1995. He is today a consultant for Haynes Hanson & Clark, as well as The Fine Wine Experience in Hong Kong.
Anthony describes his entry into Beaune (via bulldozer) in the 1960s, and his first tasting at the Hospices de Beaune in Burgundy. He discusses his growing awareness of domaine bottled Burgundy at the time, and how he found those domaine wines to differ from the négociant bottlings that were being shipped to England back then. Anthony talks about his tastings at various Burgundy domaines, with personalities like Hubert de Montille, Jacques d'Angerville, Aubert de Villaine, Jacques Seysses, and Becky Wasserman. He then explains why he began to write his book "Burgundy," which was first published in 1982. That book addressed topics such as clones, fertilizers, chaptalization, blending, the influence of Guy Accad, and the growing amount of domaines bottling their own wine for sale. Anthony subsequently revised that book for another edition published in 1995, and in this interview he explains what had changed in Burgundy between 1982 and 1995, described by him as a period of important changes in the region. In addition, Anthony addresses in this interview topics that emerged later for Burgundy, such as premox and a debate around climate change.
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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. Anthony. Anthony Hanson, a wine consultant for Haynes, Hanson and Clark, and also the fine wine experience |
| 0:29.5 | in Hong Kong. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello Sir, how are you? |
| 0:31.5 | I'm very well I'm very much. |
| 0:32.8 | It's very nice to see you. |
| 0:34.0 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:35.2 | So your childhood was in Nottinghamshire and you were born after the Second World War. |
| 0:39.5 | Yes, that's right. |
| 0:40.7 | I was born in 1945, so just as the war was finishing. |
| 0:44.3 | After the war, Great Britain was much impoverished and there was food rationing until I think |
| 0:50.9 | 1954. |
| 0:51.9 | I remember when my when sugar rationing stopped and my |
| 0:55.8 | mother said I'm going to go out and buy 20 pounds because there were no kilos at |
| 1:00.3 | the time in England of sugar. Of course that wasn't the point. It wasn't rationed anymore. |
| 1:04.4 | There was no point buying 20 kilos because you could buy it as easy as possible. |
| 1:08.1 | But you couldn't really get sweets, you had, so the privations were sort of the small luxuries, but they didn't really impinge on me because I guess my parents were a sort of filter between me and that. |
| 1:19.0 | That had been obviously bomb damage in the major cities like London or Coventry or |
| 1:24.0 | Birmingham in the countryside there hadn't been so much of that but it was quite a |
| 1:29.1 | difficult time for my parents to bring up my two elder brothers. |
| 1:33.0 | Both of your brothers were fairly older than you, so they'd been born before the war. |
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