Chateau Rothschild Lafite Bought one on my 30th birthday for €128 in 1991

The older gentleman on the yellow couch with the handmade blue suit! and the young man in the baggy shorts… both very cool. I love this series. Jancis looks great!

I keep commenting only because I’m enjoying this series so much. It’s a blast from the past and so beautifully filmed and presented. Thank you for making it available.

Everyone in England speaks French! Hahaha 😂

Gotta love her.

I’ve become a late arriving fan of Jancis after binging on this series.That lady in Bordeaux was fabulous!!!

Thank you. All these lovely people, including Janis, have been a great pleasure to meet.

170 pounds for DRC 😅

4:01-5:50 and 7:08-8:37 etc. you missed a wonderful opportunity to offer an English translation, even if you gave a brief summary on the spot would be good. Mon français n'est pas très bon!

1. Italy tinajas and dolia 2. Georgia Kvevri /Qvevr 3. Portugal adorna 4. Spain and Chile) tinaja 5. Armenia karas 6. Greece Amphorae

I no despise NZ Sauvignon blanc. It’s overwhelmingly floral, to the extent it smells and tastes like someone spiked it with a cheap perfume. Compared to Sancerre? Give me a break.

I am grateful for your time and persistence in educating us all on this historical and persevering importance of the gift from God of the humble grape and the soil in which it thrives. Thank you

Pity half of the program gets lost because it is in French. Subtitles would be welcome.

How true. I am watching this more than 25 years after it came out (May 2024) and I mainly drink Cabernet Sauvignon or Chadornnay blends most of the time.

Is not goverment but the Bankers Who regulate the way we live. Hope they can stop wars and let us to enjoy life!

To bad that all these people are a can of élite that is so close, and those prices with no rules. But all these peoplrwalk talk acts the same. By the way Shiraz if not from France. Is a very old grape from Mesopotania.

Enjoyable stuff! I really enjoyed the few seconds that we got of the music that kicked in at around 27:25, and would be grateful if anyone has the name. I'm aware that it might just be a little pocket of original music for the series, but it's worth a try to ask! Thanks.

Chalk, sugar, irrigation, the perfect place to make wine, LOL

I have noticed that women seem to love Chardonnay over men. Is that really true?

Jesus won't be there

What a shame. Another piece of work ruined by no subtitles. I would have thought someone so informed as Ms Robinson would have insisted. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Riesling is my favourite white wine too Jancis , I’ve been enjoying fine German wines now for over 50 years. I have a couple of dozen bottles in my cellar so I’m looking forward to a good summer so I can enjoy them in my garden. I seem to remember Hugh Johnson saying that great German wines are wine for wines sake and food just gets in the way and I totally agree.

Does the wine cellar have too much co2 because of the fresh wine in the barrels is degassing?

Thanks for uploading this. If only it were on the iplayer. In HD.

this is probably happening in November, which is just a month or two after harvest. not to be confused with other methods of aging wines in clay.

Dominique Lafon stated that the wine was badly corked. He was set up by Robinson and was extremely mad at her.

This video is 30 years old. It has tobe taken in perspective

25:30 This is two women, talking about an issue that only women understand in the 90s. How do you break up with a man.

Henri Jayer was making natural wine long before the hipsters

I might be in the minority, but I find supremely well made Cremant de Bourgogne indistinguishable from all but the very finest Champagne.

My iPhone translate captions aren’t working. Grrrrrr….

I have enjoyed reading JR's writings on wine, for years now. But I never realized how proficient she is at what the kids call the 'sick burn.' Here, it's nonstop low-key irony, sarcasm, and sly digs interspersed with educational discourse. Bien fait, madame.

I love the completely idiotic prejudice on the part of both the Frenchman and Aussie regarding the products and methods used by the other. “It is corked?”, as if he was being cornered by an old school 60 Minutes reporter.

That forklift operator 😂

American accent of french sounds like drunk french pronunciation.

Thank you for sharing .🙇‍♀

The best program. So giving.❤

California has such a diverse array of microclimates that the potential for wine making on a superlative level is unrivaled in the world

Absolutely excellent exposé of sparkling wine - nothing equates to Champagne the world over

Thanks!

OMG, I cried when I saw the vineyards being ripped apart. Heartbreaking.

Wonderfully written, and a history lesson as many now have passed on. My fave episode. I'll always remember Burt Williams in his 1978 rainbow suspenders in the old Williams-Selyem winery. I'd love to watch this alongside a group down in Martinborough and Central Otago NZ, where they too show a similar yet humble passion, after producing brilliant PN.

I'm triggered by Didier not letting that ribeye rest before carving it.

Great videos! We can learn so much from them. Thank you so much to go to the places, talk to the producers and explain their problems to the costumers. Some decades later, we can see that the new methods to close bottles are in principle good for the wine, but they are not sustainable. Real cork, and not plastic or metal, is the better option. We should avoid throwing metals and plastic to the garbage and polluting our planet. Real cork is biodegradable and sustainable, so it is the better option, despite the problem of the fungus, which it is in general quite unlikely for the average costumer. Wine stored for a long time in a humid cellar could have the risk, but nowadays we can keep cellars in a better condition. Would other methods be useful like topping the closed bottle cork with bee wax, to be removed before opening the bottle ?

Mmm... I'll take the French approach. I quite like the lack of uniformity. Contrast defines reality.

Looks like they're all here, in order of release! Bravo!! Excellent addition to anyone's souvenir collection of fine wines and their purveyors. A bit clearer now how WSET and others like it have structured wine education. Enjoying with a marvelous Craggy Range Te Muna Road Pinot Noir, from Martinborough, NZ. Mahalo!!

No subtitles?

My favourite episode and with some of the most stereotypically "French" people I've ever seen on TV

In all aspects of life, as globalism and consumerism marches on, there will be a vacuous majority that gravitate towards sameness. But I have to believe that fundamentally, variation is the spice of life and will always have a place in the market simply because enough people get bored with sameness and repetition to warrant niches.

They're so well made these. There's a fine structure, complexity, quite dry and with good acidity.