An Exploration of French Wines, Episode 158
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Let me tell you a secret, folks. When you come to France and you go buy some wine, you are going to be surprised! Let's say you step into a supermarket in Paris on your way back to your hotel one night. You will not find a section for Merlot and a section for Pinot Noir. Nope, what you will see is words like Corbière and Bordeaux and Loire. But what's in those wines? If you love Cabernet and hate Merlot, how do know which one to avoid in France?
In comes today's guest: French wine scholar Dave Walsh. "French Wine Scholar" is a certification that he took and it's pretty clear he is passionate and knowledgeable about the subject. Dave is better than a sommelier because he's not trying to sell you anything. He is simply trying to help you make sense of it all.
We chat about things like what's a "terroir"? What does history have to do with wine-making? What are the basics you need to understand? How do you know what wine to pick to match your taste? And, of course, we chat about the varieties of wines each French region uses.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's join us in France, French wine regions with a French wine scholar. the The This is in France episode 158. |
| 0:38.0 | Bonsieur, I'm Annie, and today I bring you a conversation with Dave Walsh about French wine |
| 0:47.5 | regions and all the things you need to understand to make sense of the many wonderful wines that are produced in France. |
| 0:56.4 | Our next Paris tour is scheduled for October 1st through the 7th. |
| 1:01.3 | Hello to the folks who've booked already and we need a few more. the a wine enthusiast and want to add to this conversation I'm about to have with |
| 1:15.0 | Dave Walsh please go to the show notes join us in France.com forward slash 158 and |
| 1:21.3 | add a comment you can also leave an audio comment that I'll play on an |
| 1:26.1 | upcoming episode by calling 1-801-806-101-15. In the next newsletter I will send out very shortly I'll be sharing with you something that I think is going to be very handy-dandy for a lot of you. |
| 1:42.0 | As I've mentioned I'm going on a vacation in the |
| 1:45.6 | U.S. this summer, so as I was walking the dog the other day, I was thinking about, you know, planning a trip is wonderful and I love doing it, especially when it comes to France because I know so much about it. |
| 1:57.3 | But it can also be a lot of work and certain things that be done in a certain order. |
| 2:02.4 | A lot of it is time sensitive. So I, you know, I understand how it can be a little bit |
| 2:07.1 | intimidating. So I organize my thoughts into bullet points and in kind of a countdown list that you can just |
| 2:14.3 | refer to to make sure you don't miss anything and that PDF is going to be going |
| 2:18.8 | out to newsletter subscribers in the next few days so subscribe and make sure your copy of the |
| 2:24.6 | newsletter doesn't end up in the trash before you've had a chance to see the |
| 2:28.6 | good stuff that I have included in there. |
| 2:32.1 | Hey Elise, |
| 2:33.0 | Hi Annie. |
| 2:34.0 | We are going to have a tour October 1st through October 7th in Paris. |
| 2:40.0 | Yes we are. |
| 2:41.0 | And you're going soon to Paris. |
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