Ep. 958 Map 11 Dordogne & South West France | Jumbo Shrimp Maps

Welcome to the Italian wine podcast. This episode is brought to you by Vinitally International Academy, announcing the twenty fourth of our Italian wine Ambassador courses to be held in London, Austria, and Hong Kong, from the twenty seventh to the twenty ninth of July. Are you up for the challenge of this demanding force? Do you wanna be the next Italian wine Ambassador? Learn more and apply now at viniti international dot com. Welcome to jumbo shrimp wine study maps. We have specially created this free content for all our listeners who are studying for wine exams. This has been a journey of development since Stevie Kim discovered Rosie Baker's hand drawn maps on Instagram through two years of work by our in house editorial and graphics team, and now the maps are available to purchase in beta form while they undergo the final briefing and editing by our expert advisory board. It's a three layered project because we know everyone learns differently. We now offer the complete box set of thirty nine maps. This series of podcasts with the maps narrated by our crack team of wine educators. And finally, the study guide book, which will be published later this year. Our map project is in no way a substitute for the materials set out by other educational organizations, but we hope all the wine students out there will find our map project a new, exciting, and useful tool for learning. For more information and to buy the maps, please visit our website at mama jumbo shrimp dot com. Come to the jumbo shrimp wine study maps podcast. This episode, we'll be looking at the Door Dowing and Southwest France map. So these are areas that are close to Bordeaux, but generally experience a much more moderate climate, less influence of the sea here, so less problems with rot and slightly less vintage variation. Due to more reliable weather conditions away from the sea. The Dordyne area as a whole tends to produce wines that are similar to Bordeaux and the Bordeaux blends but tend to be easier to drink a little bit lighter bodied, less tannins, slightly less acidity. Now within the doordine, we have two key appylations. The first is Bergerac, and these are wines that follow this Bordeaux style. So red blends based on merlot, often even a hundred percent merlot here, sometimes with a little bit of carbonate in the best conditions, and then white wines based on dry styles from sauvignon blanc and semillon. The other Kiapalassion here is Mombaziak. Now these are betritized sweet wines that are similar to sotern, but tend to have less new oak influence a little bit more freshness, So you have the body and weight again from semillon, but this acidity from semillon Blanc, there's also slightly less noble rot here. So a little bit less of that noble rot influence in the blend, giving less of that savory character and more of the aromatics. Overall, they produce very good to outstanding sweet wines like Sotun, but without the price tag because they don't have the name and the history that the Sotun Appelacian has. Heading a little bit further south and close to the River lot, You have the appelastion of cajor or cajor. These are very dark intense, almost black, black purple colored wines, high in tannin produced from Malbec commonly called cot in this area. There is also a little bit of merlot and tenet, but really the wines are focused on Malbec. There's been a really interesting progression in the wines here following this success of Malbec wines and Malbec labeled wines from Argentina, there's really a changing of the guard happening with producers in Carl, and we are beginning to see more and more producers using techniques to soften the very intense tannins here and produce slightly lighter fresher styles echoing that oddly of Argentina whereas normally we see new world wines trying to echo the French style. The best wines from Cow tend to be from vines planted on the mid slopes, really taking advantage of as long a ripening season as possible. It's incredibly difficult to ripen Malbec to its fullest extent here, which is why we have very, very harsh tannins and traditionally wines that take decades to age before they become softer. As a result, lots of new French oak influence here in the winemaking in order to soften and integrate wines and add spices such as nutmeg clove and these toasty characters onto the intense fruit profile. Italian wine podcast. If you think you love wine as much as we do, then give us a like and a follow. Anywhere you get your pods. Really, the key to the more intense wines, the wines more suitable for aging, but also those that develop these smooth ripe tannins are these south southeast facing slopes for the longest ripening season possible. While we're talking about dark age worthy wines, let's look at Madoran. This appellation Controlet, which is focused around Tannat, possibly the most Tannic grape variety grown in France, even more Tannic than the Malbec wines of Cowor, deeply colored, and lots of bottle age here used to soften the tannins, lots of long aging. There's a large area to the north of Madoran, an IGP or van der pay area of cote de gascon, which produces dry, light bodied relatively simple wines from uni blanc that just give green apple flavors and aromas, often used to be known on the UK market as flocked to Gascom. Finally, thinking about premium white wines and also white wines that do have some potential for aging, we can look at the Epolacian of Jerusalem. So these are both dry and sweet wines with a focus on pretty men's tsang. It says high acidity with lots of stone fruit flavors, so apricot, peach nectarine also softer citrus, so grapefruit, or lime. But let's see oak aging and therefore you get lovely spices such as cinnamon here. There's no botritus in the duresson sweet wines. It should be noted. But they do often undergo pastillarage, so this air drying to increase sugar concentration and flavor concentration. Overall, the Dordogne and Southwest France, Apelacians, are the home to excellent value for money either unusual, great varieties such as Tenat, pretty men's, even uni blanc, or for styles that echo Bordeaux, but without the price tag, such as the red and white blends of Bershark, The potrieta sweet wines of Mombaziac, and then finally, this comparison we have of the Malbec wines in Cowur to the Malbec wines of Argentina could be a question as to how climate influences the styles in these two areas and why potentially Argentinian wines have been embraced by the international market. Here, really looking for you to think about not just how climate impacts the great variety thinking about this comparison to high sunshine levels and altitude in Argentina compared to cooler climates, more rain and water influence, more marginal climate, in Cower, but also thinking about marketable aspects such as varietal labeling and understanding of market and market techniques. Thanks for listening to this episode of Italian Wine Podcast. Brought to you by Vineetli Academy, home of the gold standard of Italian wine education. Do you want to be the next ambassador? Apply online at benetli international dot com. For courses in London, Austria, and Hong Kong, the twenty seventh to the twenty ninth of July. Remember to subscribe and like Italian wine podcast and catch us on SoundLab, Spotify, and wherever you get your pods. You can also find our entire back catalog of episodes at italian wine podcast dot com. Hi, guys. I'm Joy Living Den, and I am the producer of the Italian wine podcast. Thank you for listening. We are the only wine podcast that has been doing a daily show since the pandemic began. This is a labor of love and we are committed to bringing you free content every day. Of course, this takes time and effort not to mention the cost of equipment, production, and editing. We would be grateful for your donations, suggestions, requests, and ideas. For more information on how to get in touch, go to Italian wine podcast dot com.