WINE 101: FOR BEGINNERS PART 1

hi i'm julie lynn moray and welcome back to my channel today i have a very special guest simone simone has been 27 years in the wine business he is a wine expert executive wine maker here at chateau lawn as well as vice president of the georgia wine producers welcome well thank you thanks for having me yes so you're going to give us a crash course on wine yeah yeah i'm trying to you know pack in 15 minutes uh the history of the world because okay so tell me a little bit about yourself like what was your path to get here yeah so i was born in a vineyard um basically northern italy is just a huge vineyard like such as all italy itself and then um my it's keep the generation my father didn't want to go into the vineyards and winemaking i i think my grandfather was a little too strict that's why that's why he went down that's right for me and then you know it just passed into me i um i started the you know food science and then i i was just uh you know drive into the winemaking world and of course if you have just a little interest into why making you are in italy then you become a winemaker that brings me to my first question what is the biggest difference between east coast and west coast wines it's like saying the difference between australia and italy or northern italy or southern italy with northern france so we're talking about completely different areas and scenarios so uh in the wine world there are six thousand varieties if you can mention ten you're lucky there is six thousand actually and so everything is adapted to a specific soil and a specific weather so east coast tremendously different from the west coast and therefore also the wine you can find are not only stylistically different but also uh different varieties so um different style i would call the west coast power and the east coast elegance okay that's that's good to know i did not know that and what would you say is different about like the georgia grapes so a region like georgia virginia north carolina south carolina they have the unique opportunity of choosing their path meaning that um these areas are challenging in viticulture so it's harder to grow grapes in the east coast than in the west coast so you really have to be precise when it comes to varieties that you grow so that you can express the full potential of the variety and on the territory in a very good quality wine and you explain to me like what are all the different types of wine like within the reds and within the whites in the world we have six thousand varieties that we said before so these six thousand variety are probably uh 50 50 are white in and 50 are white 50 are reds um and then you find the rose in between and then you find the style port sparkling red young red aged white sweet or dry so i would say the the main differences into the wines are stylistically and then varieties okay so you have this two block a chardonnay doesn't smell like a sauvignon blanc a cabernet doesn't smell or taste like a pinot noir but at the same time they have the same kind of production technique so the wines the probably the most charming factor of the all wine because at the end you know mine is alcohol and water and some color and some flavor right but the charming factor of the wine is that there are so many nuances and so many differences and it's up to the winery and it's up to the territory to recreate and to make something very special and unique so one of my most important questions and i think a lot of people out there have this question is why do some wines give you terrible headaches or hangovers and others don't uh there is one main factor that is actually uh provoking the hangover and the head age sometimes even instant headache you know and i call that sulfites um now people have a different sensitivities to sulfite someone is very reactive like me and someone and some other is not so um you can tolerate more or less but the main reason assuming that you're not drinking a full case of wine which would be responsible for your little angle over the next day but other than that you know it should be in my opinion are the sulfite and when i say my opinion is that after drink and produce uh not drag produced probably close to 25 million bottles in my life i now came to the conclusion that you can produce wine without sulfite ovary with a very very limited amount of sulfite which is not going to give you any hangover is not going to give you any headache unless you're really sensitive so when i'm talking about producing healthy wine the absence or limited use of sulfite is the key player in my old technique and i do believe sulfite are the responsible of the headache tell me what dictates the price of a bottle of wine is it the fermentation is it the grape is the marketing like what should make me buy one bottle over the other okay all the three components are important into uh deciding the price point uh so yes grapes and areas uh viticultural areas so perhaps you're in napa valley and in napa valley because of the appellation because the napa valley is very famous marketing wise then the cabernet sauvignon grapes in napa valley they cost a lot more maybe five times more than the same cabernet grapes coming from 20 miles far from napa valley the reason is that the reason is marketing you can put napa valley in your on your bottle as an appellation and all of a sudden you can sell your wine ten dollars or thirty dollars more because of the appellation okay so that's a good that's a very big reason technique wise uh in the winemaking how that uh has an impact into the pricing red wine are usually more expensive than white wine right because uh number one you keep the wines longer in stock to age so that's a fixed cost that is going to add up to the final price of the wine also you use barrel at least i use barrel on all red wine one barrel produces 30 cases of wine one barrel is about 1300 and you have to buy that every year okay so it's a big that has a big impact in the final bottle not only but barrel uh evaporates so you have to refill each barrel so on 200 barrels you have in your cellar every month you lose one barrel in the air that's just wide gone now the good thing is that what goes in the air um is water contained into the wine right inside the barrel and so the wine concentrate itself and so the reason why we're using barrel although we're losing wine is because it concentrated the good thing of the wine so the wine becomes bet if it's good it becomes better with time in the barrel itself what differentiates one wine versus another it can't always be like the price right because i've had expensive wine not expensive expensive like fifteen hundred dollars expensive like 25 expensive and it wasn't great and then i've had wine that was like maybe 12 and it was phenomenal there's a big limbo of wine between 12 and 30 dollars where you can find anything and everything prices is not actually an indication of quality at that at that stage okay because you can find brands that decided just uh randomly to place themselves at 25 that doesn't mean their wine is better than the twelve dollars wine so long story short you have to know your brand you have to experience yourself there's nothing you can do to understand uh if that is better than this if you don't try and taste it now there is actually a mark and i'm talking about uh retail pricing okay so you go total wine or burn or you go grocery stores etc and you choose you make your choice of wine there is a price point which i believe being 35 for domestic product where if you don't find good wine above that price then it's obviously a mistake from the winery and from the retailer too to have chosen that wine and to replace it at that price point but the probability that you drink well above 35 on domestic wine is very high when it comes to international wine and you want to try italy france spain australia well that even that is different story is a different story um usually those prices are always very high mostly in u.s so you have to be prepared to spend to my my opinion about 40 45 in order to make sure you are drinking a good product um below that it's a guessing it's a guessing game you really don't know unless you know exactly the producer and you made your you know researches okay so explain to me about vintages because you always see the year on the wine bottle what does that mean it's extremely important remember you grow grapes you know outside outdoor and the season can be really unpredictable you can have extremely hot season extremely cold season extremely rainy season or dry so that um you know depending on how the season evolved from march to uh october then you have completely different profile on the grapes you have grapes with more sugar with more concentration or with less sugar less concentration so uh vintages are extremely important because they tell you what to expect from the wine so if you go in the high end area the vintages of the same wine at different prices because some vintages were better than other vintages so if you go in the book of the bordeaux or the barolo you have the last 50 vintages described as a best poor medium high end etc etc and based on that you find different prices too and the quality is extremely different as well so tell me does the color of wine have anything to do with the taste typically 80 of the time when you see a deep intense color then you know that you will expect some powerful and heavy body when you see a light color typically is also a lighter wine so tell me what are tannins tannins are the responsible for uh the big impact of tannins is the astringency so when you drink wine and it's it dries your mouth basically it's very astringent is because the tendons are reacting with your mouth and and so suddenly you need either to eat something or to have a glass of water etc so tanning for the most part do that to uh to whoever is drinking it but tannins also have other activities such as they are natural antioxidant so in replacing the use of sulfite which are antioxidant you can actually enhance the action of the natural tannins contained into the grape so they will do what the chemical would do so they will protect the wine because they are there so tannins yes they give you that astringency and part of the tendency is also the color is just a component of the tannins but tennis are extremely important to me because they are the natural antioxidant component of the grapes itself see you learn something new every day so what do you do here at chateau lawn that makes your wines very unique i think that uh there is two things the wine are unique but the experience is unique too you don't expect coming in georgia to have a choice of 29 wines of very different styles so my decision of making uh very different styles and with very different varieties is was because as i said as i mentioned previously you're free to decide your style in a growing uh winemaking area such as the east coast as long as you guarantee uh the quality of the product at the end so um other than choosing having 29 ones from probably 30 different varieties that i grow both in georgia and in california so that's the unique process everything is processed over here but the grapes are grown in the state and we are the largest producer of georgia grown grapes of wine from georgia grown grapes and then we also harvest in california we transport the grapes over here and we make the wine of india the reason is everything has to grow in the right place in order to for me to give you the best quality so that's pretty unique to find such a diversified offer we also have three different uh program with abroad wineries one is in tahiti so in the middle of the ocean we make wine from pineapple over there yes i'm i'm working together with that company that makes fruit juices from the from the fruit ground in the island and as well a pineapple sparkling wine that we offer uniquely here at chateau island as well i have two other twin programs in italy for the moscato and gotcha also two unbelievable wines that we only have over here so the program is very unique and the way i make wine uh with the extremely low use of sulfite no filter no finding agent vegan certified all the muscadine wine are vegan certified we're the only the first winery in the southeast to have been certified vegan um it's just a matter of healthy and sustainable technique and that's what we do here through gaudi online thank you so much for joining us thank you for educating us please stay tuned for our part two series where simone gives us a crash course on wine tasting have a wonderful day you too thank you cheers my pleasure please don't forget to like subscribe and hit the notification button cheers

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Length: 15min 12sec (912 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020