Ep 538: The Grape Mini-Series - Cabernet Franc Refresh

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Cabernet Sauvignon refresh was episode 535, so I thought that on the heels of that it was time to do a refresh Cab Sauv's parents. This week is the Cabernet Franc refresh and next week will be Sauvignon Blanc, so you can have the full picture of the parents and the offspring.

Cabernet Franc is an underrated grape and things seem to be changing rapidly with it these days. In the past, it has often been used purely as a blending grape, except in the Loire Valley, but today it’s taking center stage. Producers and wine drinkers have realized that if the best wines of Château Cheval Blanc on the Right Bank of Bordeaux, have a higher proportion of Cabernet Franc, maybe there is something to this grape that should be explored.

Although Cab Franc still doesn’t have widespread popular acclaim, it is extremely important in the wine world. Today –it grows everywhere from France, Italy, the United States, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Hungary, Washington State, Croatia, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, Slovenia, Uruguay, and more. Plantings are growing and I see a bigger future for this grape.

In this show I cover:

The origins and DNA of the grape
Cab Franc in the vineyard
Aromas and flavors
Regions:
- France: Loire, Bordeaux, Southwest France
- Italy: Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Bolgheri
- Hungary: Villány
- Canada
- United States: Finger Lakes, Long Island, Virginia, and a little bit on Napa, Sonoma, and Washington
- South America: Argentina, Chile

I cover food pairings and serving temperatures too.

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0:46.5	So I've been making some small incremental changes to the show, nothing big,
0:52.1	but one of the things that I have thought about doing
0:55.0	for a while, and now I'm gonna move forward with it,
0:57.4	is the idea that when I do a topic,
1:01.0	I would like to now do some of the related topics for a long time. I thought it might be more fun to skip around give you something new every week, but I think that the structure of the show would be helped if we made a slight change and maybe
1:16.4	did something where we built on a subject.
1:19.8	So this is a great example.
1:21.5	I just did the Cabernet Sauvignon refresh in episode 535.
1:27.5	And although I've had two shows between that, I thought, you know what, if we're going to talk about Cabernet Sauvignon we should
1:34.0	probably do a refresh also on Cabernet Fron and Savignon Blanc the two parents of Cabernet
1:40.4	7 yon because that really completes the picture. Now of course we could
1:44.3	pull those threads and keep going and keep going but I think this limited
1:48.6	related topics really makes sense. Hopefully that'll be a change that you will enjoy because each
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