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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Welcome to the second bonus episode in our mini-series on food and drink. This week, Lilah demystifies wine with sommelier, winemaker and restaurateur André Hueston Mack at his restaurant in central Brooklyn. The wine world has been historically inaccessible, and over the past few decades it's become younger, trendier and even countercultural. André has been at the forefront of this change. He explains how different wines come into fashion, from Georgian wine to Beaujolais. Then, he and Lilah open two bottles to learn how to smell and taste. A wine can be dry or sweet, but can also taste like an old attic or an oyster by the sea!
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Links:
– Lilah and André were at André’s seafood restaurant Kingfisher in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
– André’s Bon Appétit YouTube show is called World of Wine. Here’s an episode Lilah loves: https://youtu.be/2lsHvoxCqAI
– The Beaujolais André and Lilah tasted was a Domaine Chapel Fleurie Charbonnieres 2020
– The Sancerre was a Noël et Jean-Luc Raimbault Sancerre Blanc 2022 from the Loire Valley
– André is on Instagram @andrehmack. His wine label is called Maison Noir
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This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco.
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0:00.0 | FT Weekend Food and Drink is supported by Plymouth Gin. |
0:08.1 | Hi listeners, welcome to the second episode of our special mini-series on food and drink. |
0:15.4 | Today I'm bringing you a conversation with the Somalié and winemaker Andre Houston Mac. |
0:21.4 | Andre is a pioneer in the wine world. He was a Somalié for the famous restaurant's French |
0:26.7 | laundry in Napa Valley and per se in New York City. And then he went on to launch his own |
0:32.2 | wine label, Maison Noir. These days, Andre hosts a very popular YouTube show on Bon Appetit that explains wine. |
0:40.9 | He's also opened six little beloved spots on one street in central Brooklyn. They're all |
0:45.7 | within walking distance. There's a wine store, a ham bar, there's a seafood restaurant. I live |
0:51.7 | nearby, and the restaurant is where I went to visit him for this conversation. |
0:56.4 | I went to Andre because wine has gotten a lot more accessible over the past decade, and I just |
1:02.7 | wanted to know why and how. Andre is one of the few black Somaliers in a historically very |
1:09.3 | homogenous industry, and he approaches wine in a very open, |
1:14.8 | kind of non-pretentious way. I really think he's part of the reason that its reputation is |
1:19.1 | changing. It was also an opportunity to open a few bottles of wine to learn from him how to taste. |
1:25.7 | Okay, this is F.T. Weekend, the podcast, special edition. |
1:29.8 | I'm Lila Raptopoulos. |
1:31.6 | Enjoy the show. |
1:39.4 | Andre, hi. It's such a pleasure to be with you. |
1:41.3 | Welcome to the show. |
1:42.1 | Pleasure to meet you, too. |
1:43.0 | I'm super stoked to be here. |
1:44.3 | So I am excited to talk to you about wine, how certain wines get cool, what the mechanism is behind that. |
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