Ep 146: Stephen Bolger of VINIV - Make Your Own Bordeaux

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur Stephen Bolger discusses VINIV, his company that allows people make their own Bordeaux wine using grapes from top vineyards & help from the top winemaking talent in the region. We discuss this cool concept plus how best to explore Bordeaux wine.

Here's an outline of what we talk about:

First we talk about Stephen's meandering path into wine -- from minerals to tech to grapes!
Then we talk about how VINIV evolved, from idea to reality and the challenges and opportunities along the way.
We talk about Stephen's relationship with Lynch-Bages and the Cazes family, who owns Château Lynch-Bages, where VINIV is located.
Although VINIV is really expensive, participating is a once in a lifetime experience and one that can be shared among lots of people. Stephen talks about what his clients get out of the experience.
Then we pivot to general discussion on Bordeaux -- we talk about what it's really like in Bordeaux and the politics/structure of the industry. We talk about how people can people get great wine from Bordeaux if they know nothing and how to best explore Bordeaux.

Enjoy! And check out the winefornormalpeople.com/classes link for our live, interactive classes!

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's the holidays and things are getting kind of stressful.
0:03.4	I want to give yourself a little present you deserve.
0:05.8	A live interactive wine class with me.
0:09.2	There's a bunch of scheduled classes running through the end of the year,
0:11.8	including one for UK and European listeners.
0:16.0	The class is just $40 for two people.
0:18.6	That's 20 bucks a person.
0:20.6	And you need to pick up wine, which you do anyway. It's a total steal. To register
0:25.1	go to wine for normal people.com forward slash classes. Oh and get on it the live
0:31.5	and interactive part of the classes won't be around forever.
0:35.0	Here's the podcast.
0:37.0	Thanks for I'm Elizabeth Schneider a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:55.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:58.0	Well we are very fortunate today to have Stephen Bolger who is the founder and CEO of veneuve. I do not want to explain it in too
1:06.1	much detail because Stephen is going to tell us everything but this is basically
1:10.4	he is like a dream maker for people in Bordeaux who would like to make their own wine.
1:16.5	Stephen had a whole bunch of other stuff going on.
1:20.3	He is American, but he is living in Bordeaux. He's lived in Europe for many many years and he is going to talk to us about this very cool different business that he has started and has successfully cultivated in Bordeaux.
1:36.7	So welcome Stephen.
1:37.7	Thanks so much.
1:38.7	It's a pleasure to be on your podcast.
1:40.5	Well I think it's very cool that your wife was the one who found the podcast.
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