Ep 085: Inside Bordeaux w Château Palmer
Wine for Normal People
Wine for Normal People
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
For this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jean-Louis Carbonnier, the Director of the Americas for one of the most esteemed Bordeaux château, Château Palmer and the owner of the communications firm Carbonnier Communications.
This is the first part of a two part conversation that you won’t want to miss. You may learn more about how Bordeaux really works from this conversation than from any book you can read, I know I did. In this installment, we talk about:
- The differences and dynamics between French winemaking regions, especially Bordeaux and Champagne, since Jean-Louis has worked in both
- Jean-Louis’s perceptions of how business gets done in Bordeaux
- His thoughts on global climate change in Bordeaux
- How the critics, especially certain American ones, have had a hand in shaping styles in Bordeaux
- The all important French concept of terroir and why it lays at the heart of French winemaking
Stay tuned for next week’s episode when we discuss the 1855 Classification, it’s relevance today, and the nuts of bolt of how to make a wine as outstanding as Château Palmer.
Thanks to Jean-Louis! I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for |
| 0:08.0 | downloading Wine for Normal People Radio, the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person. |
| 0:24.2 | So I'm back from New York, and I have tons of podcast material |
| 0:28.2 | to share with everybody. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm very, very excited for it. |
| 0:32.1 | And the first installment is today's |
| 0:35.5 | podcast and it is with Jean-Louille Carboneer of Carboneer Communications |
| 0:40.8 | he runs a PR firm that specializes in wines of terroix and also he is the |
| 0:48.6 | director of North American sales for Chateau Palmer. So we've mentioned him a few times with regard to some of the best |
| 0:55.7 | wines we've ever had. I've met him. I've had the wines. You are a very lucky person. |
| 1:03.0 | Now let's be clear I didn't get to taste the wines but when we recorded the |
| 1:06.7 | not this time but when we recorded the podcast which was recorded in his office |
| 1:12.1 | in West Midtown, |
| 1:14.3 | so there is a lot of traffic noise, |
| 1:16.4 | so beware that that's the authenticity level. |
| 1:20.2 | We had a wonderful conversation. The conversation's broken up into two parts. The first really talks a lot about Bordeaux and what goes on inside Bordeaux. We also hit on Champagne, which was really cool. |
| 1:32.6 | Why Champagne? |
| 1:33.6 | Well, Jean-Louis is a native of Champagne, |
| 1:36.8 | and Rhe. |
| 1:37.8 | We talk about what he... |
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