Special Episode! Meet the (Wine) Makers #14: Roman Roth of Wölffer Estate and Jens Honoré Co-Author and Photographer of the Book Rosé Revolution

Sometimes an interview just feels magical. Like, you just happen to find two people who have amazing stories, who genuinely like each other, and who complement the other in terms of their philosophies and approaches, and that is what we found in this interview with Roman and Jens. Roman makes beautiful wine for Wölffer Estate, so beautiful, in fact, that Jens and his partner Rasmus wanted to include him in their amazing book Rosé Revolution. Look, you may not think you are a Rosé lover, but we think that’s because you don’t know Rosé, and this episode, and this book, are fantastic ways to learn more and appreciate more about Rosé. Roman and Jens have some absolute pearls of wisdom to share, like everyone can make wine in a good year, but the real proof of talent is how good their wine is in tricky years. Another pearl from Roman is that the key to a great wine is found in fighting just the right time to harvest it. The other wonderful thing about his interview is that it encompasses the concept of Rosé Revolution, which is that Rosé is a worldwide phenomenon, and in it you have a Dane, a German, and an American all talking about Rosé wine. What more could you want? Please join us for this awesome conversation!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to the Interview with Roman Roth and Jens Honoré
• 0:00 Outro and How to Find Roman Roth and Jens Honoré
• 2:13 Interview with Roman Roth and Jens Honoré

Transcript

Show Notes

Special Episode! Meet the (Wine) Makers #14: Roman Roth of Wölffer Estate and Jens Honoré Co-Author and Photographer of the Book Rosé Revolution 00:00

We are really looking forward to sharing with you our conversation with Roman Roth, the winemaker at Wölffer Estate winery, and Jens Honoré who is the co-author of a brand new book called Rosé Revolution that Roman appears in and is a beautiful, colorful book, worthy of any coffee table!. Stayed tuned to learn more about these two amazing people and their stories related to wine

Introduction to the Interview with Roman Roth and Jens Honoré 00:36

Hello, and welcome to The Wine Pair Podcast! I’m Joe, your sommelier of reasonably priced wine, and for this special episode, I am on my own as my wine pairing partner in crime is busy making cakes for her Baby Cakes micro-bakery, which by the way you can learn more about if you head over to her website lovebabycakes.com.

Now, as a quick orientation to our podcast, what we usually do in each episode is learn about, taste, and review two to three wines that are reasonably priced, which means under $20, and should be easy to find. However, for this special set of episodes, we interview people who are involved in actually making wine. Because part of what we want to do with our podcast is to educate ourselves and you on different aspects of wine knowledge in a fun, entertaining, and unstuffy way, even fun and entertaining as Decanter magazine has called our podcast, and that is what we are doing today!

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Ok, let’s get to the interview with Roman and Jens

Interview with Roman Roth and Jens Honoré 02:13

Hello Roman and Jens - and welcome to The Wine Pair Podcast! 

We are so happy that you are with us today, and we are really excited to learn more about you both. And this is the first time we have interviewed an author and a winemaker together, so this should be really fun and informative for our listeners. We are looking forward to learning more about your book Rosé Revolution, Jens (Yens), and how you met Roman and all that good stuff, but let’s start out with some background on the two of you. 

Interview Questions:

• Tell us a little about yourselves - your background, your family, and any connection to wine in your background. Let’s start with Roman, and then we’ll have you go, Jens.
• Roman, tell us about how you got into winemaking. Was this something you had planned for and pursued, or did it "find" you?
• For Roman, did you have a mentor, or someone who taught you the ropes or was really influential in your journey and career?
• For Roman, what do you think defines you as a winemaker and makes you and your wines special? Do you lean more towards the art or the science of wine (or both)?
• Jens, tell us a little how the idea for the book got started, and how you met Roman.
• Jens, what were you looking for in terms of winemakers? What about Roman fit that expectation or needs you had for the book?
• Jens, what was your experience in terms of photography for the book? What were you hoping to capture and what did you want to show, and what are you particularly happy with?
• Jens, what was your favorite part of the experience of creating the book?
• If we were to invite you to Sunday Night Dinner (a tradition in our Italian American family), what of your wines, Roman, would you bring and why?
• How can people find your wines and the book (your website, social, etc.)?

Outro and How to Find Roman Roth and Jens Honoré 46:28

Thank you very much for listening to our interview with Roman and Jens, and we hope you will take the time to learn more about them, and to find Roman’s wines via Wölffer Estate, and the book Jens co-authored called Rosé Revolution. By the way, we recently found Rosé Revolution at our local Elliot Bay Bookstore, so you should be able to find it a local bookstores, and you can always ask the bookstore to order it for you. It is a big, beautiful book that would look great on a coffee table!

Just in case you are worried about memorizing all the website or email to get in touch with them, don’t worry, you can find out all of this information on our website thewinepairpodcast.com in our show notes for this episode. But so you have it, here again is the information about how to find out more about them

For Roman Roth head winemaker at Wölffer Estate

• Website: https://www.wolffer.com/
• Instagram: @wolfferwine, @roth.roman
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfferestate/
• Email: info@wolffer.com

For Jens Honoré co-author of Rosé Revolution

• Website: https://www.jenshonore.com/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenshonore/ (@jenshonore)
• Simon and Shuster page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rose-Revolution/Rasmus-Emborg/9781623716622 
• Email: jh@jenshonore.com

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