GRAPE: Unfined/Unfiltered
GRAPE: Unfined/Unfiltered
Right Bank Bordeaux with Jean-Phillipe Saby of Vignobles Saby
National Portfolio: Our lineup from Vignobles Saby is on fire these days, especially Chateau Bertin, Chateau Rozier, and Chateau Hauchat. Jeff gets down and dirty with the always loquacious Jean-Phillipe Saby of Vignobles Saby to break down current releases. We also get a sneak peek at a few new upcoming additions, including Chateau Reindent which will replace our entry-level "Chateau Saby" Bordeaux Superieur. There is a raging party going on in the background so apologies if it is a bit crunchy...
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome back to the creek and find unfiltered. I am your host, John Griffin. Today we're back in the field with Jeff Miller. Recently Jeff attended provider in Germany where you met up with John Phillipe, Sabine of vineyard, be a ninth generation portalets family from the right bank. We pick up the conversation as John Describes Chateaux marine dunk as a declassified million grand crew. There we go.
Speaker 3:So Randall Seto Rondo is just a little little plots call handle because the name of the place and we add a very a surprise thing to do is uh, uh, when you get it, it was a, with a very high density in the plot and the as conclude. So we decided to keep it like this and to produce, uh, sometime you'll conclude in the bottle. She barrier. That's why, uh, the wine is dance and the wine is where each time, each year we produce a wine as a centennial Hong who in Bordeaux[inaudible] sent million grand crew declassified as border disappear. I think you can do that because it's a very identity of of vines and you have a, you have more than 7,000 feet in Pakta, which means it's a, is the same. It's the same density as Santam young yonker and all the process we have in the set is the same process as, as a[inaudible]. It's only difference is for the Chateau Hondo. We use a Bowers of old barrels. We Age in 12 months in Bowers, four years old Bowers. That's a difference. And, and we keep it like that. We keep the fruit, the fruit is just intact without any, any flavor of vanilla or toasted bread. What about the terroir there? How does that, how does the terroir it run on differ than saying, oh, say Emily on ground crew. This is a very famous plateau of ransack. In fact, just at the border of, of a phone side of the[inaudible], it's a deep limestone and clay terroir, which is absolutely wonderful. Uh, if you are very dry, very hard and very sunny summer each time you have enough water deep inside the limestone to afford to the roots. And to the vines enough water that's really important I think for the next year and the future they care to, to have, uh, this kind of terroir against the global warming also. And I'm very confident in the future, thanks to Vista. Wow. We could reach to have enough acidity in our vines. A wonderful balance in our wine also. All right, so let's go a chateau town. So this is new to us. Let's talk about that. Shut up.[inaudible] was distributed by Mike's Family, which is a very famous name in Bordeaux, uh, owner of Chateau Petrus, any producers or Chateau Beta since 30 years. And we first started to Beta in 2005 and when we get this wine in our states, uh, it was an amazing, amazing surprise because it's a very deep sandy soil, very, very old sand. And we match very well with the cabin if home and the mail, oh, it's a mellow base wine. Also bad. 80% of mellow, that 20% of[inaudible] phone, which is, which brings us the signature of the wine. And thanks to wiscat be on the phone. We have a wonderful balance of wonderful acidity, uh, wonderful, uh, ripe Tannin inside and at each time. It's a wonderful balance. Wine, easy to drink, wine or so, very easy to open. When you open it, you don't have to open three hours before you taste it. And that's why you don't have to decant the whiny. It's easy access. That's really important to know that, uh, the little shadow of Bordeaux want to explain to the customer that is not the glasses, calcified grove complex sophisticate wine, but really enjoy enjoying wine, easy to open and completely, uh, they complexify wine. And what about passion arose or shallows? It's, we call that my baby because, uh, when I first graduated my analagist a level and I come back home to my family, a states, my brother and my whole brother was still in the, in the states since, uh, two years ago. And, uh, I just thought in my practice with, with, uh, with one sec and when I imagine what could be classified grove, I was in, in Chateau, in Fonsaka as well, but I imagine the best in this terroir. And, uh, I first start in 1999 with a, with Chateau Osha, a hose. And our first start with 20 new old barrels. We, I have still in, uh, 20 Bowers from, from my brother, from centimeter wineries. And I was like, uh, like a child, like a kid with, with, uh, with my new toy and a at first like that. And I was really proud. I had a lot of, uh, of, uh, awards. A lot of journalists come, came to see me and, and also plenty of gold. Menards, even one, one year I had three Goldman, I on three different contests. Uh, and I put it, I was so proud of me. I put it these three Goldman, I end the bottle. And, uh, it was, it was, uh, it was really funny. It was my beginning in, in the business, in the wine business and, uh, and I knew that he was possible to make a great, great, great gover Info Sec. That was the case. And, uh, uh, I was, uh, I was right.
Speaker 2:And that was a, that was the wine of the year or within the Seattle Times newspaper. Yeah, it's my baby. It's my baby.
Speaker 3:So Shutter Rosia so obviously was, yeah. So is the flagship of, of family wineries. I am the knife innovations of wine grower in Chateau was. Yeah. So my brother and I, we are in charge of all this for 20 years and obviously it is difficult to produce such great wine with such a great history and not to be in the old past stuck in the, in a traditional, uh, uh, knowhow. That's always a balance between modernity and what my grant grant grant grant father made. And that's also, I'm also a great challenge, but I said, uh, when you are the nine generations of wine grower in Chateau Jose, every decision you take, every a choice you make, you know that it's not for you, it's always for your, uh, for, for the next generation because you don't want to be than the last generation in Choteau Hosea. And always when, when, when you decide something, it's always in visa way of life. That's important for the customer also because, you know, I don't want to make a wine with this count, respects the customers who can't respect my tell my terroir because I know that it's not my property. It doesn't belong to me. And uh, it will be one day, another, another generation who will be in charge of, of visit states. I know that.
Speaker 2:And last but not least, so
Speaker 3:Lucania cues, what it's, uh, it's so great story. Luke in the acoustic is the name of the, of the villa of Ozo News, which it was a poet and a, a consumer in a fourth century just after two fourth century. And the name of Luke and accuse means the villa of Lucania. The villa flew Kenya. Uh, Lucania was, was the wife of a offering of Ozo news and it was so in love of his wife that he named a is a villa, which is, was a huge villa with marble, with a marker half a mile bowl and a lot, a lot of states. You are a lot of different things. It was so novel of his wife that he named this, uh, you can accuse, uh, what about the wine? The wine is just, uh, like something brand new because we decided to, uh, to be in the future today and to say, yeah, well we have the cabin if home and we have the global warming and now it's now the time to, to go to the cabin, the phone. That's why we decided to plan it with 70% of cabin if home, which is really, really, really knew, uh, in, in, uh, in the right bank and in a, in, in Lalonde Baumol and, and to make 70% of, of Cabernet fall, that's Maine. You have complexity, you have balance, you have acidity. And even, even if it's a warm and dry and very, very dry, you always are the wonderful balance wine. That's, that's the point. And an amazing, an amazing wine because even in a warm vintage like this, I mean, the alcohol on us wasn't noticeable. It seems like it's pretty low for whiteness as intense and rich. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's also, uh, you know, as CDT slinked with the alcohol and the Tannin and abuse. Lee, uh, when you have in our facility, you are the lower alcohol. We just balance the wine because often when you have more than wine with mellow or capsule, it's always a 15 degree alcohol. The in your face, wine and, and in fact, in culturally, in the private customers taste, even if you don't feel the alcohol in culturally, you don't want this wine to eat with, you don't want this wine for two to share with friends with. That's not my vision to the, to the wine the wine is made to eat with. So wine is made to, um, to, uh, to share and to, uh, to uh, appreciate it for all evening long and for all lunch loans.
Speaker 2:That's important. Glass of water for lunch, not in this country. That's pretty funny about cause John Felipe stealing barrels from his older brother or Charlotte hopeless brothers. Don't listen anyway. I hope you found it informative and interesting. I learned a few things. If you did and you would like to hear more of those type of conversation. We leaving a comment or send us an email and we'll do our best, and don't forget to check us out on Instagram or Facebook. Otherwise, have a great day and see you next time.