Whilst on the subject of Yquem…

Posted on | March 21, 2006

Just a day or so ago we posted our latest podcast from People in Wine. This is an interview with Alexandre de Lur Saluces whose family married into the estate over a couple of hundred years ago and who was running Yquem for thirty years up until the beginning of the new millenium. The questions we cover relate to the history of the domain, the winemaking, the formation of botrytis cinerea. I also ask him about takeover of Yquem by LVMH in the 1990s.

The interview is long because as I say in the programme nowadays you can dip into an audio file for as long as you wish and pick up where you left off but the important thing was for us to cover the ground and to make it as complete as possible. It is always there so you’re not going to miss it. But I hope some of you will be able to get through the one hour and twenty minutes at one sitting since you will then become more absorbed into our conversations and I hope you too can feel yourself at the table with us at the beautiful restaurant of the Hotel San Règis in Paris back in February.

Our main site - Fine Wine (www.finewinepress.com) - has more details, including a competition where you can win a bottle of Château de Fargues, kindly donated by Alexandre de Lur Saluces. Good luck!

Fabian Cobb

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