How France Conquered the Wine World (and the Man Executed for Bad Wine) | Rod Phillips

Podcast: The Vintage Passport · Noah Tetzner

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

Why did France become the center of the wine world? Wine historian Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University and author of French Wine: A History, Alcohol: A History, and 9000 Years of Wine, joins host Noah Tetzner to explore how wine shaped, and was shaped by, centuries of history. Rod shares how he bought his first case of wine at 15 in New Zealand, became a restaurant sommelier at 17, and found two bottles of 1950 Bordeaux selling for the price of a hamburger. From there, we travel from medieval Bordeaux and the English market that made claret, sherry...