IDTT Wine 495: Steve Doerner and the Burgundian Bicyclists

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Steve Doerner is Winemaker Emeritus at Cristom Vineyards in Oregon.

Steve discusses working with Josh Jensen at the Calera Wine Company in California, visiting Burgundy, and his eventual move to Oregon to do winemaking there.

This episode features commentary from:

Jacques Seysses, Domaine Dujac

Jeremy Seysses, Domaine Dujac

Jean-Pierre de Smet, co-founder of Domaine de l'Arlot

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0:00.0	I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, you know.
0:13.0	Oh, you know.
0:15.0	Oh, you know.
0:16.0	Oh,
0:17.0	And so,
0:18.0	and you know, and you know, Josh Jensen an American who would later found the Calera Wine Company in California
0:30.2	was on his way to India in the late 1960s when he first met Jacques Seis, a young Frenchman who had recently begun domain du Jacques in Burgundy.
0:40.0	Josh is on his way to India with a Volkswagen minibus and we found the same interest of wine and
0:52.3	when he comes back from India I remember very well he goes to Paris
1:00.6	by two bottles of Chateaui came and two or three pounds of foie gras and
1:06.8	arrived in Saroma at Becky and he want to share that with France.
1:15.0	So I'm there or where is there and we share that.
1:19.5	French Vigneron meeting with a young American
1:21.6	with an interest for wine at Becky Wasserman's house,
1:24.4	honestly that could describe any number of people who did something similar
1:28.1	over several decades. But what made this meeting more unusual was what happened next.
1:34.0	In 1970, Josh Jensen participated in The Harvest at Dujahk.
1:40.0	He comes to my place at Harvest to to help. I remember this minibus next to my onery and he at that time he say I want to make Pinotour one day and
2:07.0	when one day. And when I go to California with my future wife, the future, I visit him and he organized a lunch with Dick Kraft. Dick brings a bottle of 69 from chalone and I have a bottle of 69 too and so we drink and discuss wine and discuss wine and become friend.
2:24.0	And at that time Josh was writing a page of the
2:30.0	chronicle about the restaurant and through the Sunday page on restaurants.
2:36.0	He had to visit, to restaurant a day to be able to write a page on Sunday.
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