Episode #3 | Grapes, Explained

Yeah, they don't make them with >> [music] >> them though. The soil. The weather, the elevation. Right, right. Yeah, but came this they live ice cream that I wish you Oh, this is a vineyard a picture from a vineyard in Russian River. This is a vineyard for Chardonnay. Russian River. It's a region in Northern California. Okay. The Russian River Chardonnay, one of our famous bottles. So long as I Scam number two. Bordeaux. What's my Bordeaux? I got to decide it. Oh, this is the way So the What is a varietal? Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Franc and Alexander Valley. So do Cabernet, so do Merlot, so do Pinot Noir, so do Malbec, so do Sangiovese, so do Zinfandel, so do Syrah. Verdelho. Verdelho is a small Verdelho. Verdelho. Okay. is all the name of the grape. So do very simple, so do grapes in the mean grape. So you have the grape you have the grape. Apple. So do Fuji apple, so do Pink Lady. The same thing. So do varietals from grapes. Every grape has its own characteristic. All right. Okay. So this is the name of the labels that say Cabernet Merlot. Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Granny Smith, exactly right. That's what the names are. Yes. Bordeaux. So what is Bordeaux? Bordeaux is the name of the grape. In France or the other places is a region. No, I know. So the Bordeaux is doing order to make a wine in Bordeaux is the five grapes that you must make in it. Okay. >> And the grapes is Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, Petit Syrah, Malbec and Petit Verdot. So in the region grow the grapes the best. So Bordeaux wine is not a grape name in the world. >> After they say you grow from making the wine and they decided these are the five of the best of the varietals that grow in the region. If you do this make a Bordeaux must be all the five of the five of the five of the five of the five of the five of the grapes and this is the Bordeaux of the region. Bordeaux might not be a grape name in >> Burgundy is the region from Burgundy. Typically what grows in there Pinot Noir, Chablis. In the region what grows in Chablis? Chardonnay. This is a material in the next video we will do the next episode we will do the more what does it mean in the detail. But the idea is that every grape has its own certain way so it has its own characteristic. If you say the name of the grape you will know you are drinking Cabernet. Oh, in Cabernet is also a material so there is a material between Napa and Sonoma. What makes the material? The terroir. What is the region? The earth, the soil, the weather, the elevation. They all make the material. Hello. So the name of the grape is Cabernet. Cabernet, but it's a different grape. This is a Cabernet, but the region has its own different mean Cabernet. So you make a wine basically with the grapes as grapes. Every grape has its own character. So when you buy a bottle of wine you don't know it's a different grape. The guys who taste a lot of wine making, a lot of anything but they tell you it's a different grape. If you do something blend, a blend means the same thing and you make them taste how you want to make them taste. By the name of the grape. When you do it with a varietal you work with the grape to make the characteristic to make it the best that it can be. When you make a blend you make it okay you want to make it taste how you want to make it taste and it should taste The name of the grape. In our view we don't care. In our view. We don't care about the customer as far as I know. Is made out of bend down package of flip flops. So this is a blend.