– Wine School of Philadelphia –
Welcome to the classic lines minute brought to you by classic wines calm i’m your host Brian Friedman join me as we explore the world of wine with the sommelier instructors here at the wine school of Philadelphia hi I’m here today with Brian Friedman and at the wine school Philadelphia we
Teach the world of wine and today we’re specifically going to talk about French wines that’s right Keith now French wines are close to the heart of every wine lover even if they don’t actually love French wines and that’s because typically French wines are the baseline level of quality when it comes to all
The great grapes that we think of in the New World absolutely for instance Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Pinot Noir crenar sera Chardonnay the list goes on and on all right so now when you have a cabernet or merlot even if they’re not trying to taste like Bordeaux that’s
People will have that in the back of their minds or at least 10 2 or when it comes to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay it’s impossible to have that without saying well that’s completely Burgundian and style or the opposite now you mentioned grenache before and what we have in
Front of us is a bottle of shets enough to pop which is from the southern Rhone and what are the main grapes in this well let’s just talk about the principal good there’s actually 14 okay so helpless but principally grenache is the main grape here and so the first thing I
Knows in this mm-hmm is in hell it’s just as pure gravely in clay notes in that one right um this is very different than say a Grenache you’d get from Australia or California right which would be much more fruit driven and that’s the big difference between the
French style and the New World styles of wine that’s earth over fruit right in fact that’s that’s a divide that we can in general apply to the difference between old world and new world wines own world being the classic wine producing countries of Western and Central Europe absolutely now if it
Reminds me of a very bad old joke you know if if a wine from france smells like dirt it’s expensive if a wine from California smells like dirt send it back absolutely absolutely yeah it’s a big generalization but it’s it I think it gets to the heart of the matter and the
One thing I’d like to point out is that whenever you think of these grapes everyone knows them now in France when you typically you’re going to see as you see something from Bordeaux or from shuffling of depauw or burgundy right they don’t say the name of the
I was a great on the label and that’s because they’ve been growing the same grapes in the same place for so many years fifteen hundred years ago the cistercian monks were figuring out in burgundy which clones of Pinot Noir went best in which vineyard so you don’t have
To be scared of of seeing a french label without a grape you just have to memorize those regions and then you can show off to all your friends and that’s what wine is about isn’t it showing off oh please no no no baby not don’t do
That but don’t do that and join us again as we continue our journey through the world of wine cheers Cheers you