{"podcast":{"title":"David Lebovitz podcast","slug":"david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109","podcast_index_feed_id":5266109,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/112435.rss","website_url":"https://davidlebovitz.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/112435/53daf723309ecb41eaf7e836bf8287ac.jpg","author":"From my Paris kitchen","episode_count":40,"summary":"A tasty mix of recipes, Paris food tips, personal stories, and more... Sign up and get my newsletter delivered right to your Inbox!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T20:17:59.058515+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109"},"episode":{"title":"A Chat with Amy Pasquet about French apéritif Pineau des Charentes","slug":"a-chat-with-amy-pasquet-about-french-ap-ritif-pineau-des-charentes","published_at":"2024-10-16T05:44:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109/a-chat-with-amy-pasquet-about-french-ap-ritif-pineau-des-charentes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109","url":"https://davidlebovitz.substack.com/p/a-chat-with-amy-pasquet-about-french","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/150246412/0346fb67a4078f13a588407333f0a820.mp3","summary":"A few years ago, I visited several Pineau des Charentes producers in a region of France known as the Charente, where Cognac is made. Legend has it that it was originally made by accident when a Cognac producer centuries ago added fresh grape to a barrel of eau-de-vie (a clear distillation of grapes), intended to be aged for Cognac. He let it rest, and age, anyways, and thus, Pineau des Charentes was made. Nowadays Pineau des Charentes comes in white, red, and rosé varieties, with the rosé version aging the shortest, to some of the reds and whites being aged a decade or more, although most Pineau des Charentes is aged for about 12-18 months before it’s bottled. It’s one of my favorite French apéritifs, which I wrote about in my book Drinking French . During my travels for the book, doing research, and diving deeper into the world of French spirits, I was fortunate to meet various producers, and it was gratifying to see what care they took Amy married into a Cognac-making family and I met her on a visit to the region when I was visiting I sort of made a gaffe when I was in the region prior to visiting Amy and her husband Jean, by slipping a cube of ice into my glass of Pineau des Charentes, which shocked a few of the people around me. Amy later showed me an ad from years ago that said “Osez!” (“Dare!”) and pictured a glass of Pineau des Charentes with ice is in. Nowadays, they’re upping the “cool” factor of Pineau des Charentes by showing bartenders putting ice into Pineau des Charentes, which is a great way to enjoy it, but well-chilled, without glaçons is good fine, too. I love Pineau des Charentes and am particularly fond of the apéritif made by Jean-Luc Pasquet, which has a unique freshness that makes it brighter than other Pineaus, and their apéritif infused with ra…","meta_description":"A few years ago, I visited several Pineau des Charentes producers in a region of France known as the Charente, where Cognac is made. Legend has it that it…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2920,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109/episodes/a-chat-with-amy-pasquet-about-french-ap-ritif-pineau-des-charentes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/david-lebovitz-podcast-5266109/a-chat-with-amy-pasquet-about-french-ap-ritif-pineau-des-charentes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}