{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Arnaud Weyrich: The Art and Science of Sparkling Wine","description":"Sparkling wine is one of humanity\u2019s most enduring creative rituals. In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff travels to California\u2019s Anderson Valley to sit down with Arnaud Weyrich, the French-born winemaker behind the m\u00e9thode champenoise wines at Roederer Estate. Arnaud brings a rare, ground-up perspective: trained in agronomy, viticulture, and enology in France, and shaped by three decades of harvests on both sides of the Atlantic. He walks us through the great complexity of sparkling wine\u2014early picking for acidity, blending with intention rather than recipes, second fermentation in bottle, disgorgement, dosage\u2014and why every decision is part science and part intuition. The conversation opens into bigger questions about creativity and adaptation: how climate change is reshaping vineyards and harvest timing, why note-taking and institutional memory matter as much as lab data, and how emerging tools like automation and AI can assist decision-making without replacing the winemaker\u2019s palate. We also explore wine as a cultural artifact\u2014rooted in place, tradition, and shared pleasure\u2014and why sparkling wine, with all its labor and precision, has become the sound and symbol of celebration itself. It\u2019s a conversation about what it means to keep creating something joyful in a rapidly shifting world. ","author_name":"Full Expression","author_url":"http:\/\/www.fullexpressionpodcast.com","html":"