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Travel Bites 922: Burgundy: Wine, Vineyard, and Chateau
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France’s famed Côte d’Or, or “Golden Slopes,” is all about fine wine.
France’s famed Côte d’Or, or “Golden Slopes,” is all about fine wine. We learn and taste with the lord of a château, Raoul, whose family vineyards have surrounded their home for 26 generations.
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Travel Bites 922: Burgundy: Wine, Vineyard, and Chateau
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France’s famed Côte d’Or, or “Golden Slopes,” is all about fine wine. We learn and taste with the lord of a château, Raoul, whose family vineyards have surrounded their home for 26 generations.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[music playing] France's rolling hills of the Cote d'Or, or golden slopes, are blanketed by lovingly tended vineyards.
Co-author of my France guidebook, and my mentor in all things French, Steve Smith, knows a great chateau just a short walk from the canal where we can taste some unforgettable burgundy wine.
OK, so while walking in a [french] you can see there is four walls everywhere.
Raul is proud that this enclosure, or [french], with its stony walls, still protects the very best part of the vineyard, as it has since the Middle Ages.
It's all about exposure to the sun and the personality of the soil, the [french].
This is a classic Burgundian scene, and it's a privilege to share it with a man whose family has long been a part of this rich heritage.
So how do you know when to harvest?
So we have to look and also to test.
We take grapes, we taste it, and it has the sugar.
The skin is quite thin, it's not too strong.
And after we also we can do some testing in the lab, in the wine estate, just to be sure with the sugar level.
600 years ago, your great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa could stand here and taste a grape right here.
Exactly.
Ah.
And he would think, the skin is just perfect.
Just perfect.
Here, you see the Chateau de Rully.
So this castle is in my family since the beginning.
That means since the end of the 12th century.
Look at-- Your family?
Yes, my family.
So I am the 26th generation.
This is a very old kitchen.
This is a medieval kitchen.
So this kitchen is in the 12th century tower.
So this is the oldest part of the castle.
There's many, many centuries of wine tasting right here.
Exactly.
Let's continue that tradition.
Of course.
[laughs] So the label, there we have the name of the wine estate, which is very nice, in tasting, this is-- we have the name of the plot.
So the name of land, Molesme.
So Molesme is the name of that little piece of land, like we were just at.
Exactly.
Burgundy is known for its pinot noir, and we're tasting some of Raoul's very best.
First, smell it.
Very nice pinot noir.
Then you can taste it.
Oh, that is a personality.
What would I be tasting?
A bit of red fruit, note of leather.
Red fruit, leather.
And what else?
So this one is earthy.
Earthy?
Yeah.
The French call it [french] or under the woods.
Under the woods.
I like that.
OK, nice.
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