Lunch With America's Cup CEO & Winemaker

The brief video below gives an overview of this week's Vino Voices post.

Lunch and wine with Stephan Kandler, friends and family.

Stephan is a winemaker, sailor and CEO of the French America's Cup sail racing team. He also fabricated his own barbecue grill, which I am encouraging him to produce at scale and sell worldwide! The fuel for his recent barbecue lunch included a heap of dead grape vines, which were about four inches (10 cm) thick and likely 40+ years old. These provided consistent blazing heat—ideal for roasting duck breast.

Lunch

Salad—A Kandler homeade recipe that included cucumber, strawberries, pistachios, croutons, mint, feta.

Meat—Grilled Magret de Canard (duck breast)

Wines—Château Tourril (Minervois) , Domaine des Pentelines (Rhone Valley).

Below are a few Forbes articles I wrote before that mention Stephan, his sailing and wines.

The America's Cup Team Leader And Wine Producer Who Praises Intuition.

Autumn Harvest Lunch Wines To Consider From Four French Regions.

Free Recipe from The Winemakers' Cooking Companion Cookbook—

The Winemakers' Cooking Companion cookbook includes 108 recipes from 18 countries—contributed by winemakers, winery chefs and winery owners. Units are both metric and American, and several recipes are marked as vegetarian or vegan.

Some lively book launch events will take place this summer in my village in southern France—including a dinner on September 16th at 7.00 p.m. at La Cantine du Curé wine bar/restaurant when winemakers and chefs from three restaurants will cook up a storm of recipes. There will also be an event at the Green Cat art gallery.

Recipe—

The free recipe below, from The Winemakers' Cooking Companion, is from France and goes well with Syrah.

More Free Chapters From The Book Vino Voices: Wine, Work, Travel, Life—

I'm continuing to provide all chapters from my book Vino Voices: Wine, Work, Travel, Life for free here during the coming months. Originally written over a decade ago, this book has been revised and is available as an e-book. It is 230 pages long and includes interviews with more than 45 professionals in a dozen countries who work in the world of wine, and explain why they love their work. It includes more than 100 photographs.

Click below to download chapters thirteen and fourteen, about a family who play music at wineries in the Finger Lakes region of New York, as well as a blogger in New Zealand who writes about wine.

What's Next In Vino Voices—

I'll soon feature:

• Unusual wine grapes from Catalonia, Spain.
• Interview with Amy LaBelle of LaBelle Winery in New Hampshire, USA.

Thanks for tuning in!

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