Bordeaux wine

One, they wanted to make wine.

Everyone starts with Bordeaux.

It has had wine.

It's

and they wanted to try and replicate that.

The climate just isn't up for it.

But many Japanese, they go and they study in Bordeaux.

Then they started to get a bit more domain-style wineries where they wanted to grow their own grapes, which wasn't possible initially because of land ownership laws.

Yeah.

Well, just the bit where he picks up this little miniature bottle of Bordeaux like they have on planes and he kind of runs it under his nose to sort of smell it as if you can smell the wine through the glass and stuff.

It's great.

Yeah, and he's talking to the stewardesses at one point, and then he kind of just pulls a face and runs off, and they just look on bemused.

but I prefer their Stratus Blanc.

Which is more of a Bordeaux blend, if you

will.

There's not only like Bordeaux grapes, but it's a blend of what performed that year.

So it's not Chardonnay.

It's mostly like Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon.

But yeah, like most of these Huguenots were actually from La Rochelle.

So like further south from the Loire region, like between the Loire and the Aquitaine region.

Chenin Blanc and two new clones of Cabernet Franc, two Italian clones, which is different than, oh, we have Cabernet Franc here that we put in in 1983.

And that's more of a Bordeaux clone.

It's big and structured, whereas the Rucksack clones are much more elegant and fruity.

So they really work well together.

aspirational.

It could be their own wine.

It could be, you know, that bottle of Krug or that, you know, 19, some old, you know, first growth Bordeaux.

No, no. He's going to take grapes, grow them and make them in all the styles.

Nothing over the top.

My husband did get me some Bordeaux wine to enjoy around the campfire.

It's one of my favorite wines.

And honestly, we were just there.

dark.

Bordeaux.

Another red grape variety called St. Vincent.

Love it.

Is it really? I would not go just because of what

I put there.

They are predominantly Bordeaux blends is what they do.

They don't do a lot of white.

Very tasty, though.

I mean, this is a classic Bordeaux blend, and I have a Bordeaux blend for us to finish with, and there's a bit of a price difference, but this is really a good one.

Very good.

I want to go right to the second one.

You can see some of them.

And he pulled out a really old bottle.

And at the time, they weren't even doing tastings in Bordeaux.

He pulls out this really old bottle and everybody got I mean, if I could tell you it was a drop.

Let me read the copy.

You can find, check in and rate a Bordeaux at the same time as a small batch bourbon as easily as your favourite IPA.

I'm like, yeah, this is...

Just such a shit move.