@michellelawlorwineexpert explains how to pronounce key French wine words:
If you would love to learn how to pronounce French words and terms properly, this is the video for you!
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How to pronounce the 40 most used French wine terms by the time you’ve gone through this you will be able to pronounce everything perfectly first up is alas alas appalation or as the French say app bo b J and as the French Say Bo Bordeaux the x is silent in Bordeaux and
E Au is pronounced o so it’s Bordeaux boronia borgonia is the French word for burgundy sometimes you’ll see on a wine list burgundy and sometimes you’ll see borgonia they both mean the same thing cahor cahor the S is silent you don’t pronounce it it is pronounced
Kahor shab the S is silent in shab and it is always pronounced shabi you never hear the S being said champagne we all call it champagne unless of course we’re French and then we call it champag chard chard the the best white grape in the World shatow e AAU is pronounced o in French so it’s pronounced shatow sometimes you will see the word shatow spelled with an X at the end it is still pronounced shatow the x is silent shatow no to Pap shat n it actually means nine in French d P shatow enough to Pap
Condu condu euu is pronounced u in French so it’s condu co drone coat durone the S is silent in coat durone coat R it’s pretty easy that one hose Heritage a couple of interesting ones about this Hermitage has a silent he so it’s Heritage and Crow kind of have to
Grow your r on that one crow Heritage grav or if you were a friend you’d say grav langard do lir Valley another easy one to pronounce Margo Au ux is pronounced as o in French so it’s pretty easy Margo medok Med do Mero the t is silent in Mero so it’s Mero mus
Day the t is silent so it’s not muscadet it’s mus poak it’s actually quite a difficult one to pronounce and pronounce correctly so POI like soy po p it’s another difficult one from bordo PES and then Leon Leon p p Noir the te is silent in Pino so
It’s p Noir it’s that R sound o i r it’s quite difficult but it’s beautiful when you say it correctly Pino Noir pommerol pommerol kuum and kuus we look at them together because there’s a lot of similarities between how they’re pronounced they’re both delicious Wines By the way pu fum is a sovon Blanc puus is a chardonay pooy the Double L is silent so for both wines it’s pooy pooy
For fum which is a sovon Blanc the E has an extra accent at the end so it’s fum not fum pu fum for f the E also has an extra accent at the end so it’s pu f s the a in sonair is actually a little
Bit more rounded so it’s not sanser it’s s Saturn the S is silent in Saturn so it’s Saturn soan Blan it’s two words so the g n o n is actually quite a tricky one so it’s so and then with Blan the C is actually silent if you’re in French so
If you’re in France it’s San Blan if you’re saying it like I would say it it’s San Blan s a milon s EST St s Julian three very famous French wine producing appalachi you’ll notice that for ailon and a step the team is pronounced that’s because it’s in front
Of a vow you’ll notice with s Julian that it’s in front of a consonant so it becomes silent so you have Santa milon Santa Stef and S Julian next up is Sir s sir and you’ll see on this label it also says VI so we’ll do them both together here VI is a
Difficult one to pronounce it’s that tricky GN sound v v so how do you say it you say V Von Roman s NE e is V the S actually becomes silent romane because it’s a double e with an accent on it that is also emphasized so it is Von
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