Ep 086: All About Bordeaux's Chateau Palmer

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 18 October 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a continuation of my amazing interview with Jean-Louis Carbonnier of the prestigious Bordeaux property Château Palmer, this week we talk more about the wines of the Château and what makes them so good.

Photo: Chateau Palmer

(WARNING: You may want to brush up on the Bordeaux podcasts before listening -- we get into some nerdy details!)

We weave through a bunch of sub-topics, but here are the main points:

The 1855 Classification of Left Bank Bordeaux Chateaux, where Palmer got the shaft
Is Bordeaux pricing fair? Do the wines measure up?
Palmer: its history, the blend, the terroir, the winemaking, and how it comes to taste that great.
Alter Ego, Palmer's lower cost wine with a slighlty different blend
Then we wrap up with Jean-Louis's takeaways about Palmer & Bordeaux

Photo: Chateau Palmer

Thanks again to Jean-Louis and Château Palmer for their time and for educating us on this historic, classic, and unbelievably delicious wine!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	it's the podcast for people who like wine
0:12.0	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.
0:23.6	Last week we sat down with Jonoie Carbonee from Chateau Palmer.
0:28.3	We, not we, you.
0:29.5	I was not invited again.
0:31.8	You were not invited because you weren't in New York
0:34.4	with me but the interview that we that okay sorry the interview that I did
0:38.8	with him was really phenomenal and I hope that people learned a lot about
0:43.7	bordo and about France in general from the conversation.
0:47.6	Well I did but what do we have coming up in part two?
0:51.2	We split it into two parts because the conversation was just too good not to capture.
0:54.8	Jean-Loue and I talked about Chateau-Pomer and just to give you a little background
0:59.5	on Jean-Loue if you didn't have an opportunity to listen last week.
1:03.0	Jean-Louis is a native of Gremz, France, which is in Champaign.
1:07.0	And he worked for the Champaign Appalachian Organization, the C-I-V-C-I-V-C for many years and then started
1:15.4	Carbanier Communications, which is a boutique communications and marketing company that
1:20.0	does PR for Terwa-driven wine, spirits, and cheeses.
1:25.0	And he's been working with Chateau Palmer since 2003
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