Hello and welcome to Wines of the World. My name is Anthony Metzger, I am a winemaker
and certified sommelier. Here at Wines of the World I interview winemakers from all
over the planet. I conduct my interviews via Skype and record them live so that I can bring
you face-to-face with winemakers from all over the world. So without further ado, please
enjoy the show. Simon, welcome to the show Wines of the World. Thanks for being on today.
Yea, thanks Anthony its great to be here. Yeah we are glad to have you. So you are a
winemaker from Australia. How did you become a winemaker? How did you get into the industry?
Yea it all started when I was fifteen years old. I had an uncle who had a vineyard in
Hunter Valley. So a couple of days we would go there and work, we would help pruning and
it sort of turned into a career path from there. So I finished high school and went
to university. Very cool and you have done some winemaking over seas correct? Yea I have
done a few vintages overseas. I worked in the Longudoc. An are just outside of Bordeaux.
And also in the Mosul. Oh nice, and did you work in the US at all or did you just go for
your travels? Yea just some travels through the wine country So the US trip was great
we went through the Napa Valley, the Sonoma Valley, Monterey, Past Robels, and right through
Santa Barbra so yea it was a great trip. Nice, and what did you think of California? California
wine and the people, what were your impressions? I was impressed over all. All the wines I
tasted were clean. The alcohol was in balanced especially with the tannin levels. Especially
in the big reds like cabernet and Petit Syrah. And I was impressed with everything I saw
especially the tasting room experiences I thought the hospitality was great the way
they handled the tastings I think it is pretty well done. If you could work anywhere and
do a harvest anywhere in the world, where would you go and do a harvest? I think an
interesting place to do a harvest would be The Republic of Georgia. Yea there is some
interesting things going on at the moment going on over there. So they have been making
wines for the past eight thousand years so there is a lot of history going on over there.
The wine culture over there is huge. Most people make wine in there backyard. Its a
very big thing so I mean It would be great to learn about the qvevri winemaking practices.
Absolutely. That would be interesting and I think they have a huge spectrum of grape
varieties which I would like to see whats going on over there and get involved. in the
industry there. Definitely. Yea that would be a really really cool place to go and learn
some of the historic winemaking ways of the world. So from your travels to Europe to the
US whats like your favorite memory or favorite story from your travels and making wine related
or not to wine but just your wine travels. I finished up vintage in Langudoc We caught
the train and when we got off the train we meet this Frenchmen he is known as Javer.
He had a little Kangaroo, so we had never meet this guy before. He said sum in the back
of my van, so we jumped in the back of this strangers van with our luggage. We drove up
to his house and my wife stayed behind at his house with his family and I went with
Javer to the winery and we went to work because we love working and it was just a great experience
working with this small family production facility and it was interesting place to work
because there was a shooting range are right next door so guys would come in and hunt.
they were hunting deer, and wild pigs and occasionally they would run through the vineyard
with there shotgun hunting game and also the birds flying overhead. So it was pretty crazy.
Yea with the hunters in Minnesota here we are starting to plant vineyards and we never
really had vineyards before and so the thing is we have a lot of forest and corn fields
here so when we plant the vineyards we get a lot of wild life to and so hunters are actually
a friend of the vineyard because with all the birds and deer if your not careful they
will eat all your grapes and than you can't make wine, the hunters are friends thats forsure.
The birds they shot were delicious because they serve them with the wine we made and
it was great. Yea I am sure it went good with the wine there forsure. Nice. So you on your
honeymoon in Las Vegas and you are playing the slot machine and you just won say fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars. You are already celebrating and now you win this money. Now
you are going to go out to a night club and celebrate what kind of wine would you drink
in the night club after winning at the slot machine and being on your honeymoon? It would
defiantly have to be Champagne. That would be the go to wine for me. And you know its
actually a wine I hear a lot when it comes to celebration is Champagne and I totally
agree you know celebrate you drink Champagne. But what is another wine that you would drink
in a moment of celebration? Other than Champagne? Things like Rose are pretty universal you
know it would be great to have it with any sort of food. Yea rose is a good one actually
because the color and the refreshing is really festive too so that could work really well.
So now you are in South Korea and you just ordered some of the local food, its got a
sweet and sour sort of tang to it what kind of wine are you going to have with Asian food
with that sweet and sour tang to it? Once again it would be a sparkling wine whether
is be a Champagne or traditional sparkling wine. They can go well with a whole range
of dishes the east Asian dishes so it works well with the chili in there. Yea another
one I hear to that goes well with the asian foods is Riesling because it has nice acidity
and it also has nice sweetness that can match that sweetness tanginess of the food. I always
end with this one question if you could drink a bottle of wine with anyone on earth who
would it be or anybody from history ya ok I would probably choose someone who is around
today they would have to be someone with a a pretty good sense of humor so I'm thinking
someone like Ricky Gervais he would be a prime time with a bottle of wine and if its any
sort of wine lets go with anything I see and who did you say Ricky who Ricky Gervais the
British comedian oh ok he's done films on the tv show the office documented the American
version of the show he does he hosts so many award shows like the Golden Globes he's hosted
a few times and does a little stand up the one tv show you would really know him from
ya that show the office we get it here in the U.S. and it's hilarious so ya ok is there
anything else you want to share about anything can I ask a question for you is that alright
ya shoot away yes where do you want to do a vintage if you could choose anywhere around
the world anywhere in the world if I could do a vintage I was actually really close to
doing one and I'd still probably like to do is over down underneath pearth there is it
margerete river margerete river ya that actually intrigues because of the fact that its the
most isolated place on earth pretty much and then I've had people I know people who have
gone there ive interviewed people who have worked there and they say its kinda like hawaii
like real tropical and beautiful I think it would be sweet to just be away from everything
and kinda be in the corner of the earth and just kinda chill out make wine sit on the
beach on your days off and just kinda just live in the moment I feel like you could live
in the moment there so I think that would be a cool one ive been to armania and I didnt
work there as a wine maker but I filmed a wine documentary for this website which is
not live yet I havn't released it yet but um so that also part of the world intrigues
me and if I were to open up a winery I think I would like to incorporate the kevry wine
making system I mean I definetely would so I would like to learn about that too but I
think to answer you question theres so many places champaign would be really cool but
margerete river margerete river is probably one I would really like to pursue
alrighty well have a good rest of your day and we'll keep in touch ya thanks good luck
with the series ya apreciate it thank you Simon cheers cheers thank you for watching
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