PODCAST. Wines: “There is no Rolland style”, says the star oenologist… Michel Rolland

The consultant oenologist has visited all the most prestigious vineyards on the planet. He is idolized or hated for the influence that is – rightly or wrongly – attributed to him on the style and consumption of wines for twenty years. He explains it here. “There is no Rolland style. I challenge anyone to recognize in a blind tasting the Derenoncourts, the Boissenots, the Rollands… I challenge anyone. I am ready to even organize this tasting, if necessary…”

“Robert Parker? You can say what you want, you can criticize him, but he got people talking about wine and he got people talking about Bordeaux”

Personal journey, evolution of wine tastes, changes in viticultural techniques, terroirs (“You never make great wines on a bad terroir”) and vintages, significant encounters, relations with Robert Parker (“You can say what you wants, we can criticize him but he got people talking about wine and he got people talking about Bordeaux”) and the other wine critics, retrospective look at the film “Mondovino” which made him famous, diagnosis of the situation of wines of Bordeaux and their future, analysis of the prices of great wines: interviewed by journalists Mathieu Hervé and César Compadre, Michel Rolland does not evade any question in this long conversation which will interest all wine enthusiasts. “We cannot say that the phenomenon of speculation is totally negative. The problem is that the wines pass from hand to hand and are not drunk… And in general, whoever sells them makes money… Where we are completely misguided, the media as well as the consumers, it is that we don’t know how to identify and differentiate between good wines and great wines”.

Good listening !