IDTT Wine 459: Jasper Morris Goes Deep on the Burgundy Crus

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🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Jasper Morris is the author of the book "Inside Burgundy: The Vineyards, the Wine, & the People", as well as the website Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy.

Jasper gives both an overview of his own career as a wine importer and Burgundy specialist, and an overview of the vineyards of Burgundy. Jasper goes from north to south along the Côte d'Or, giving his unfiltered opinion about the different communes and crus along the way. Specific vineyards in Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-Saint-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges, the hill of Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, and Chassagne-Montrachet all are talked about in-depth. Jasper also addresses how Burgundy has changed since the 1970s, recalls visits to some of his favorite producers, and discusses some of the important topics in the bigger Burgundy conversation today. Those topics include winemaking style shifts, the market for the wines, premox, clones, and changes in the vineyard work in the region.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Jasper Morris on the
0:25.0	on the show today the author of Inside Burgundy and also website Jasper
0:30.2	Morris inside Burgundy hello, how are you?
0:33.0	Hello, Libby.
0:34.0	Very good to see you.
0:35.0	So in the late 70s, you were studying medieval history at Oxford.
0:38.0	That's right.
0:39.0	It was called modern history, but it stopped in 1485.
0:42.0	After that, America gets invented and it becomes
0:44.6	politics. It began with the venerable bead back in the 8th century we called him
0:49.7	of course the venomous bead and it went through but I really like that period and the later
0:54.7	middle ages because it was a period when people made the difference because you
0:59.4	didn't have a big theme there weren't the religious wars that happened later, it wasn't the Industrial Revolution.
1:05.4	So it actually made a difference when somebody got up one morning and decided to do one particular thing,
1:10.4	and it could change the life of the country.
1:13.0	Oxford was where you really started to taste wine.
1:16.0	I mean you'd had some interest before but...
1:18.0	Yes, because we didn't drink wine as a family at home,
1:21.0	but at Oxford I got a little bit involved. My elder sister Arabella, she was studying for a PhD, and she had got involved in wine tasting and tried to persuade me to join and you don't want to do what your
1:34.4	elder sister tells you to do. So to begin with I said no. But I was lucky enough to have nice rooms
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