French Wine in 1 Minute

James May sums up French wine in 1 minute

Anyway i’ve been testing james’s wine knowledge throughout our trip and we’ve visited dozens of vineyards and tasted hundreds of wines so now it’s time for one final spot test i’m gonna give you one minute to tell me everything that you’ve learned about wine on this trip starting

Now wine is made from grapes in regions of france by communists it is put into barrels where it ferments into the presence of natural yeast on the outside of the grape and sugar inside the grape the flavor of grapes themselves is not particularly distinctive although there are over 2 000 varieties of them

Available to the growth the flavor really comes through the fermentation process and more importantly from something that the french called terwa which is the environment in which the grape grows and it includes everything from the soil to the rocks to the climate the wind and the direction of

The sun and the character of the local people bordeaux is an area full of tops that oz clark knows who live in big shadows and producing extremely wise nice ones but they all cost over 65 pounds a bottle elsewhere in france you have rustics living in sheds who make

Wine in a bucket and it tastes absolutely bloody awful in the new world some of the great varieties that have made french wine very famous are used to grow very nice very consistent wines and these wine varieties appear on the label however in france they don’t do this

Because that would make it too easy they wouldn’t be able to charge as much money and talk quite so much goblins about the subject so as a result of this french wine makers will talk endlessly about terroir and not mention the great variety at all whereas in the new world

They will say this is a cabernet cabernet makes men randy chardonnay grapes calls women’s nipples to become erect helping them to have sexual intercourse when they’re at parties it is a good idea if you’re on a date with a woman to give her chardonnay if you’re

A woman on a date with a man to give him cabernet which will make him sexually aroused very good i could have gave you another 10 seconds i gave you another sentence because you were getting interesting at last