Restaurateur Justin Warner raps about wine at the 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.Restaurateur Justin Warner raps about wine at the 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
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If you're 12.5 in alcohol [FOREIGN]. If Robert Parker loves
you [FOREIGN]. If the GSM refines you [FOREIGN]. Got the
paper coat of arms, I grew up in Avignon, but
up in the northwest, I be chilling in her arms.
It's a nice wine. A little spicy. See these old
vines? A little pricey. What's the Chateauneuf? It's a mystery.
So here's a lesson, in history. Fourteenth Century, Clement V
needs a new home, gives the Rome a try. Avignon's
hot on this riverside. He plants a couple grapes, he
gets some vinifide, what. It's not all easy, the life
of the Pope Sometimes some wine's the only way you
can cope. Came over like rover when the bottle beckons.
Succession. Enter John the 22nd. Builds a caste, sets up
shop and now we're all drinking on Chateau du pont
[APPLAUSE]