Ep 044: Chateau Montelena

Wine for Normal People

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🗓️ 29 March 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a departure from our normal format and MC Ice gets a break! I was so excited to have the chance to host the folks from Chateau Montelena, one of the wineries that helped put Napa on the world wine map as serious winemaking region, capable of rivaling Burgundy and Bordeaux.This podcast isn’t about free marketing for Chateau Montelena. It’s about the historical significance of the place, and about how they do things so differently from a lot of other Napa wineries. We were lucky to have head winemaker Cameron Parry, assistant winemaker Matt Crafton, and marketing diva (and one of the coolest ladies in Napa) Jamie Rothberg around to break it all down for us.If you want some more background on the winery (since we don’t go into detail on some things) please read these two posts (2010, 2011) to learn more!Full of funny, surprising (there is a HUGE wine celebrity cameo in the middle) and dorky moments, here’s a quick rundown of what we t [...]

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Zillmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	Today we have an amazing podcast.
0:26.0	We are so honored to have the folks from Chateau Montelena.
0:30.0	You guys introduce yourselves, please.
0:32.0	Hi, I'm Cameron Perry. I'm the winemaker here at Chateau, Montelena.
0:35.0	I'm Matt Craft and I'm the assistant winemaker here.
0:37.0	And I'm Jamie Rockberg, I'm the marketing coordinator.
0:40.0	One thing that I want to say is that this is the first time we've done a
0:44.0	podcast quite like this. We did one with Jim Morris at Michelle Schlumberger
0:48.2	back in the fall. But this is a really important podcast and part of the
0:52.4	reason is not because we are being a marketing showpiece for Chateau Montelet.
0:58.0	Chateau Monteletna has incredible historical significance, not just for California California which is where they're
1:04.1	based but for the entire new world in terms of anywhere that's not Europe that makes wine
1:09.5	because they were able to bridge a gap between French wine and in this case
1:16.0	California wine that no one else had done previously and this was all set up by
1:21.0	Stephen Spurrier and there's a whole story behind it.
1:23.2	Who wants to recount some of the great story about Chateau Mansellina?
1:27.5	This is Cameron and I'd be happy to.
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