Kladstrups: Wine and War 25th Anniversary

Don and Petie Kladstrup are two of the most accomplishedjournalists to ever turn their lens toward wine.Don is a three-time Emmy winner who covered the fall of theBerlin Wall, wars in the Middle East, and the battle against apartheid for CBS and ABC. Petie won the Overseas Press Club Award and served as protocol officer for the U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO. They moved to Paris in the late 1970s almostby accident — and have been living and writing in France ever since.In 2001, they wrote Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, andthe Battle for France's Greatest Treasure. Twenty-five years later, it's still in print in roughly twenty languages, and it's arguably the most important wine book ever written — partly because it's not really a wine book at all. It's a war story told through wine.In this 25th-anniversary conversation, Don and Petie sitdown with Jon to talk about the accidental Paris move that started it all, how two Americans got French families to open up about a chapter the French themselves wouldn't touch, why the book's second-biggest market is Germany, a 1914 Pol Roger tasting that shouldn't have been possible, a Soweto Christmasparty near the end of apartheid where someone tasted champagne for the first time, and the winemaker who told them: "Our wines evolve slowly and nobly…this gives us a taste of eternity."Guests: Don andPetie Kladstrup — authors of Wine and War, Champagne, and Champagne Charlie.Based in Paris and the Dordogne.Host: Jon Frutkin(@winewithjon) — lawyer turned collector turned wine bar owner, opening PrefaceWine in Delray Beach, FL.