A Californian in Burgundy - video

Diana Snowden, aka Madame Jeremy Seysses of Domaine Dujac in Morey-St-Denis, was in London last month to present the wines of her family's Snowden vineyards in the Napa Valley, which she, somehow, manages to make by taking a plane west almost as soon as the Burgundy harvest is over. (I'll include my tasting notes on these wines, imported into the UK by Flint Wines, in an American wine roundup we are working on.)

I grabbed her for a few moments to ask what it was like being a Californian living in a small village in the Côte de Nuits. We discuss vegetables, her son Aubert's favourite word, the DRC Aubert (de Villaine)'s California operation HDV Carneros wines, and what happens when she serves Pinots made by her favourite California producer blind to her Burgundian neighbours.

It may look and sound as though the interview took place in a penitentiary. It was actually in the bar at St John, Smithfield.