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Podcast: The Liquor Store Podcast
Episode: Virtual Tasting With Freemark Abbey
Description: In this episode, Jill talks to Barry Dodds, Wine Historian for Freemark Abbey. For over half a century, America's premier grape-growing state has enjoyed a reputation more or less interchangeable with Cabernet Sauvignon's. It's the king of red wine grapes in California—and also in France—for a reason: the amazing complexity that skilled winemakers are able to coax out of it when grown in optimum locations. They know all about this in the great, old chateaux of Bordeaux, as well as at many younger, but equally prestigious, wineries in Napa Valley. The world's best Cabernet grapes are grown in t...