In the latest GuildSomm podcast, Master Sommeliers Chris Tanghe and Jonathan Eichholz discuss the trends, challenges, and highlights of 2024 and consider what might be ahead in 2025.
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Chris is based in Seattle and is GuildSomm’s director of education and podcast host. He spent years working in restaurants across the country and has spearheaded GuildSomm’s seminars since 2016.
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Jonathan lives and works in New York City. As an educator for GuildSomm, he maintains the Wine Law Compendium and teaches on various subjects. Previously, Jonathan worked at The Modern.
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Great listen. On the subject of chardonnay, your discussion about younger drinkers' lack of enthusiasm for chardonnay got me thinking. As a bartender and floor sommelier in his early thirties, I think I agree that many people my age or younger do not order chardonnay. Still, almost everybody loves white burgundy if you can get it in front of them. More than a few do not even realize Chablis is made of chardonnay. I wonder if there is some similarity to the "NO F*****G MERLOT" ideas that pervade a slightly older drinker's memory. People will quote Sideways to death but then love a glass of Saint-Emilion or Pomerol. Is it perhaps in the same vein? Does chardonnay do better when you have the historical cachet of Burgundy or Champagne?