Learn About French Wine With Elicité

Welcome to Elicite, the new fine wine experience. This is your journey through the world of fine wine. It's beautifully rich culture, distinct heritage, fascinating stories and years of refined craftsmanship. From old world to new world, our goal is to help you explore and experience this world from a new perspective. To start this journey we sent three explorers to France to meet the experts and people that make the wine industry so fascinating. We intentionally chose three individuals that know relatively little about wine. I'm here in Burgundy to learn about the whole process of winemaking. I'm gonna meet a lot of different people to teach me about Champagne. We've got some incredible experts lined up, so let's go meet them. Through their questions and experience we will cover a number of topics, starting with the Essential Series, progressing to the Explorer Series and going all the way up to the Master Series. This journey will help uncover the facts and truth about fine wine whilst also touching upon a number of incredible stories along the way. In this Essential Series we cover the basics of serving, storing and drinking fine wine. We also look at the hidden costs, how to read and understand wine labels as well as a number of other fascinating topics. We will then delve deeper into more advanced and technical information, travelling through three of the world's most prestigious and renowned fine wine regions, Champagne, Burgundy and Bordeaux. Our first explorer, Diego Miranda, is a successful international hair stylist within the fashion world. Diego went to the home of sparkling wine and one of the most celebrated wines throughout history, Champagne, to explore this distinguished region. How do you make Champagne? Good question. You have grapes and after we make fermenting and wine becomes fizzy. Simple. Easy. Not so easy, there is some other tricks. Chebba, our second explorer, is a popular commercial graffiti artist based out of Bristol. Chebba visited the region of Burgundy, the epicentre of France's fine wine trade and home of the most expensive wines in the world, to learn what makes its red and white wines so sought-after. You mentioned toasting, what is toasting? During the making, the copper burns inside the barrels and your wine is impacted with toasty notes. So they actually put flames inside the barrels to affect the taste of the wine? Yes, yes. Finally, Stephanie Jordan, who is an influencer and social media content creator in the spirits industry. Stephanie went off to Bordeaux, one of the most prestigious and perhaps most famous wine regions in the world. How would you sum it up in one sentence? Fresh, vivid, edgy. Kind of like you. Thank you, that's very nice. Elicite's mission is to inspire you to explore the world of fine wine, empowering personal appreciation and learning. Through sharing the amazing stories and facts from the experts within this captivating industry, we aim to move beyond the traditional approach to wine. This is the new fine wine experience.