Sauternes AOC
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Sep 26, 2026
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
I am not a judge of wine, as you may imagine, therefore it is no unkindness to the owners of the beautiful vineyards which we saw the other day to say that I do not like the Australian wines.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
Some of the gentlemen pronounce them to be excellent, especially the equivalent to Sauterne, which has a wonderful native name impossible to write down.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
But, as I said before, I do not like the rather rough flavour.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
We had not a great variety of fruit at dessert.
Abbie BenningtonHOST
Yes.
Abbie BenningtonHOST
And we're finishing, obviously, with your chem and the Sauternes.
Abbie BenningtonHOST
Right, so this wine, okay, we're going to guess.
Abbie BenningtonHOST
I'm going to give you three options and I want you to guess the value of this wine.
Cal LeeHOST
It only applies to sweet white wines.
Cal LeeHOST
And in that really only Sauternes and Barsac, which is sort of in that Graves region there.
Cal LeeHOST
And in terms of the villages, it applies to...
Cal LeeHOST
On the left bank, it's Pouliac, Margaux, Saint-Julien, Saint-Eustephe.
Cal LeeHOST
And then there's Chateau Mouton Rothschild.
Cal LeeHOST
And then in terms of white wines, there's probably the most famous white wine in the world, which is, what do they call it? This is Premier Cru Superior.
Cal LeeHOST
So it's in its own super tier above all the other Premier Cru's, but that is Chateau de Chem, which is Sauternes.
Cal LeeHOST
These are all either going to be in Sauternes or Barsac, basically.
Haley BeaulmonHOST
good one okay now if i were to give you a thousand dollars and you had to spend it on wine how would you go about spending that and we don't need to necessarily know like specific bottles but like are you going for like the big like you know like 500 bottles or are you buying a bunch of cases how would you go about spending that
Dusty JenkinsGUEST
You know, honestly, I'd probably spend it on some grower champagne and a couple bottles of Sautern.
Dusty JenkinsGUEST
Some nice Sautern for my wife.
Dusty JenkinsGUEST
She's a big Sautern head.
Haley BeaulmonHOST
Sure, yes.
Haley BeaulmonHOST
Good answer.
Arnie HortonNARRATOR
There was Fricassee from the Rocher de Cancale; he mentioned méritain of red tongue, cauliflowers with velouté sauce, veal à la Saint Menehould, marinade à la Saint Florentin, and orange jellies and mossaiques.
Arnie HortonNARRATOR
There was Bibulus O'Bumper; he touched upon Latour and Mark Brunnen, upon Musset and Chapmartain, upon Richebourg and St. George, upon Houbrionne, Leonville, and Médoc, upon Barak and Preignac, upon Graves, upon Sauterne, upon Lafitte, and upon St. Péray.
Arnie HortonNARRATOR
He shook his head at Clos de Vougeôt, and told, with his eyes shut, the difference between sherry and amontillado.
Arnie HortonNARRATOR
There was Signor Tintin Tintino from Florence; he discoursed of Cimabue, Arpino, Carpaccio, and Agostino, of the gloom of Caravaggio, of the amenity of Albano, of the colors of Titian, of the frows of Rubens, and of the waggeries of Jan Steen.
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Alan WinterroudNARRATOR
Monsieur Maillard, you have really, I must confess it, you have really made me ashamed of myself." And this was the fact.
Alan WinterroudNARRATOR
"Say no more, my good young friend," he said kindly, pressing my hand.
Alan WinterroudNARRATOR
"Join me now in a glass of Sauterne." We drank.
Alan WinterroudNARRATOR
The company followed our example without stint.
Rick VenaNARRATOR
Condiments such as pepper and salt will be passed to you.
Rick VenaNARRATOR
Sauterne is served with oysters.
Rick VenaNARRATOR
Oyster cocktails have been in vogue in place of oysters.
Rick VenaNARRATOR
These are a mixture of the bivalve with Tabasco sauce and vinegar, and they are said to be excellent appetizers.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
Therefore, it is no unkindness to the owners of the beautiful vineyards which we saw the other day to say that I do not like the Australian wines.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
Some of the gentlemen pronounce them to be excellent, especially the equivalent to Sauterne, which has a wonderful native name impossible to write down; but, as I said before, I do not like the rather rough flavour.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
We had not a great variety of fruit at dessert; indeed, Sydney oranges constituted its main feature, as it is too late for winter fruits and too early for summer ones.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
But we were not inclined to be over-fastidious, and thought everything delicious.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
You can produce it with low alcohol, high alcohol.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
You can produce it in the dry style, medium trust style, low alcohol, light fruity style, you know, up to all the way to high end noble sweet wines as Sauternes, you know, Baron House Laser and Trockenman House Laser.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
And this kind of Very, I mean, high versatility of a grape variety, which I would say there's not many grape varieties which have the same versatility as Riesling.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
Chenin, Chenin Blanc, possibly, and the Loire, you can also dry them.
16 MINS LATER
Ernst LoosenGUEST
early 80s, the majority of the wine, as we do still, you see, we still do our Cabernet, because especially the Mosel always had a tradition for nearly 100 years, you know, to produce this style of wine, which we just taste, you know.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
But the South, you know, but we still kept this tradition and have been fighting for it, you know, even that the reputation for fully Swedish style wines have been going down and down and down and down.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
And in Germany, all the German wine journalists in these days, in the 80s, you know, had been writing very badly, German wine journalists, you know, from the top magazines, had been writing very badly about the German fruity style wines, you know, all the sweetness because, you know, French wines became very fashionable in the, yeah, in the, in the, middle of the 70s into the 80s and then suddenly because the journalists had been only writing about French wines that is the real wines and all French wines the real wines are dry you know because all the French wines had been dry and they said Germany doesn't produce real wine because they keep residual sweetness in there and that's not real which is also bullshit because we have you know Chenin Blancs Demisec Milieu we have Sauternes which are sweet so the French produce sweet wines but But, you know, I mean, these old journalists, most of them are dead, but they have been hammering and hammering, German Riesling, this is not real, this is sweet, this is crap, you know? And the real wine is French wine.
Ernst LoosenGUEST
They are dry, you know, and the real wine has to be dry.
Megan MartellGUEST
come visit us.
Megan MartellGUEST
And we went and bought a bottle of Sautern wine and some foie gras.
Megan MartellGUEST
And we put a cute little table in the entryway on a dirt floor.
Megan MartellGUEST
And we said, please come and do your program at our house.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
Botrytis mold is the mold that's used to make wine grapes shrivel and make them sweeter.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
All the Sauternes wines are made with Botrytis mold.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
It's the noble rot of Bordeaux.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
Now, at the time, I happened to be the head of a wine club, and I was keeping the chapter's wine collection in my house.
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