Morocco’s wine growing region of Zenata is located on The Atlantic Coast nearby to Casablanca. Its culture reflects influences from not only its French Heritage but also its Arabian + Spanish neighbors. This rich red wine produced from Syrah grape contains spice tones that pair perfectly with native merguez lamb sausage. It is also interesting that Morocco was the 1st country to recognize USaa as a sovereign nation after the 1776 Independence Day. #morocco #moroccanwine #Syrah #merguez #winehistorian
So what’s the graic sport talking about today so we are uh involved in uh explaining different countries and regions but I I’m really wanted to spend some time uh devoting my efforts to uh have educated you on number of wines from France to Italy uh to uh Germany to
Around the world but we’re we’re going to spend a lot of time educating people on countries that they might not be familiar with and uh but I have one magical question that I want to ask all those history Buffs out there what was the first country that in the world that
Recognized the United States after our independence in 1776 can anybody out there guess and we’re going to have some people I know are they going to say was it France no wasn’t France was it Spain no wasn’t Spain what about England oh I don’t think England’s going to recognize us as
A country after 1776 I don’t think that that was too settling for them but there is one country that but I don’t think that a lot of people would guess it’s called Morocco yes Morocco was the first country to be to recognize the United States as a Sovereign Nation in 1777 and
That’s exactly the wine region that we’re going to spend some time on uh today I wanted to explain a little bit about my past again um being an importer uh close to 30 years ago um I was in France uh I had a supplier uh it’s called William pitters very very large
Company was run by Bernard MZ and uh Bernard uh was one of the top uh if you want to call it um Wine and Spirits uh developers and one day we were tasting some wines uh in France and he pulled out some wines from Morocco and I had a
Chance to taste his wines and he had a brand that was called C Brahim and I was quite taken back because I’d never had a Moroccan wine before and we’re going to show you in the map right here uh it’s proximity to Spain so you got Spain is
Right here and of course right across the way here is Morocco and you got Casablanca is right here on the coast which is quite cool and then we’re going to also zoom in on this map so you can actually see uh Morocco and um we want to spend some
Time at least you know talking about this country since ancient times Morocco’s been the ideal location for planting of Vineyards and the bottling of wines uh but over the centuries it’s kind of disappeared because you had a lot of French wine Growers that were there and spending some time but we we
Wanted to zero in on this property because uh this is a property called srao and it was founded by the the late uh vinon Alan grol who is now run by Sun Maxim and Antoine and uh Alan stumbled upon these uh Vineyards in Morocco and
Uh this is 100% s so if you know anything about the gry family they’re in the northern Rome so they make Crow Heritage and um Heritage and beautiful whites but at the same time um there they’re now doing this project which is in Morocco and we picked this up from
One of our clients which is called Best Buy and we want to give a shout out to Victoria at Best Buy in um in Brooklyn she has what I I call one of the best selections of international wines from all over the world and that’s why I
Wanted to zero in on on some of these wines today but what we tried because I I Love Culture I love food and this is a wonderful sausage that we prepared with this wine and it’s called Mez and Mez is an interesting sausage is lamb and you
Can see that we did like a shish kebab here but it brings out all of those spice tones of Morocco and Morocco has a very interesting culture because you have the Arab culture which right now is being run you know it’s Islam country but you also have the influences of
Spain because look how close Spain is to Morocco and you have the influences of France as well so one of my friends once told me many years ago he uh he asked me he said which country uh do you think has one of the leading uh guest
Astronomic countries in all of the world as far as Cuisine and culture and of course I mentioned France and Italy and he said actually Morocco Morocco has some of the finest chefs and some of the finest cuisine in all of the world but think about the culture now you’ve got
That you get the Spanish the the French along with that Arabic kind of um culture and to go with the wine but what I paired today was we we did up some sausage it’s called MZ and Mez Mez and it is a traditional Moroccan sausage
It’s got a lot of spices to it which will fit perfectly with this um with this so we’re going to have a little bit of sausage here oo if you love lamb that is beautiful and this is 100% S and S is a beautiful grape as we talked about in
The room we’re going to try this together oh it goes beautiful together and the the reason why is because the wine has spice tones Earth Tone flavors and everything like that that brings out the flavors of the the Mez and it’s a beautiful pairing again if you ever really want to learn about
Different cultures uh try a bottle from a country I’m recommending you try Moroccan wine but you can’t find too many this is a beautiful wine buy some food from Morocco couscous or whatever and then it’s almost like you’re traveling to this beautiful country called Morocco to have great wine again
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