Chris Robinson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But this book about just how that affects all the different wine regions and the characters and stuff.
It's a great, great book.
And, you know, it's funny.
One of the things in the book, you're like, OK, so they're obviously confiscating everything for the Wehrmacht and doing all this stuff.
But they take this โ I might be wrong, but I think it's the Poulet Foussรฉ.
They take this โ this guy has like however many casks or whatever.
And they just take everything and then โ
the guy's upset he's been in his family for 400 years or whatever and he's sitting there with his head in his hands and they're like it's just wine he goes I know it's just wine but they destroyed 300 year old casks the oak barrels that that's the secret to our wine and they chopped them up and threw them on a fire or whatever you know what I mean and that he was more upset about that than the wine itself at that time and he was like they're irreplaceable
Could never, ever have that again.
It's been in my family for, you know, stuff like that really gets my head spinning of, oh yeah, forget it.
It's not just the grape and the person that makes the wine.
It's that, you know what I mean?
It's every, every detail, every aspect.
I mean, could you imagine what that โ I mean, we have no โ I mean, unimaginably โ and by the way, who burned it down?
It was Christian people who ran amok because of something that had โ
happened some sort of crime that was committed or something, and it was the early Christians who burned that down.