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Sep 9, 2026
406: How Did The Launch of the Super Premium Rosé Whispering Angel from Château D'esclans Change Provence?
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36:25Ben BernheimGUEST
It's that image of water and that life, and you have a little bit of that in every glass of wine.
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36:31Ben BernheimGUEST
And so the problem with Peter Mayle, though, A Year in Provence, is by many definitions, the- By many orthodox definitions, i- in, in the wine world, the parts of Provence that he writes about in his book that make wine aren't considered Provence by a lot of wine professionals because- Part of Integra ... b- b- partly because, so Gordes or Lourmarin, that they're all part of appellations that in the late '90s, I believe, joined Inter Rhône and became marketed as a satellite of Côtes du Rhône rather than part of Provence.
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37:09Ben BernheimGUEST
And there's all sorts of legal machinations that, that, that the wines that Peter Mayle talked about in his books aren't allowed to put the word Provence on their labels.
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37:18Ben BernheimGUEST
And that's, that's, I think for us, it's, we find that hugely problematic because these wines em- embody Provence, and if I'm a drinker buying a bottle of the wine that Peter Mayle talked about, it's for its Provençal connection.