Audio Blog #4: Txakolina, A Basque Wine You Should Know About

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🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Txakolina, also called Txakoli (CHOCK-oh-lee) is an acidic, saline, and floral white from the autonomous Basque region between Spain and France. It's a delicious summer wine that you need to get your hands on and I tell you why.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wine for Normal People audio blog. It's a quick reading of post from the Wine for Normal People
0:15.0	blog to satisfy your wine dorkery needs between our longer podcasts. I'm Elizabeth Schneider,
0:21.5	certified Somalier, certified specialist of wine and chief normal wine person of wine for normal people.
0:28.0	You can find the written versions and links to these audio blogs as well as post comments on wine for normal
0:34.6	people dot com forward slash blog. With that let's get started.
0:41.0	Chocolina a Basque wine you should know about.
0:45.0	I know it sounds mean, but you'll never hear me say, drink what you like.
0:51.0	Why? Because if you do that, you'll never get out of your comfort zone and branch out to things that you may not
0:56.7	have heard of before. Case in point, Chocolina from the Bas country, an autonomous governing region in the western Pyrenees Mountains
1:05.8	that runs along the border of Spain and France, hugging the Atlantic coast.
1:11.0	The Basques have a different culture and language and don't consider themselves Spanish or French but their own nation.
1:17.0	Along with a separate identity, Baskes also have a separate wine tradition.
1:22.0	Chocolina also called Chocoli. Bask also have a separate wine tradition.
1:22.8	Chocolina, also called Chocoli,
1:25.8	traditionally was the province of home winemakers in the region.
1:30.3	But in the 1980s, winemakers made a push to revive the native grapes from which the wine is made,
1:36.0	and by 1989 a denomination de Orijin was granted giving the wine status and global recognition.
1:44.0	So what exactly are those native grapes?
1:47.0	Well, the wines made mostly from a local white grape
1:50.0	called Oondarabi Zori, with some of the red grapes. grape, to be
2:04.0	not to be confused with Hamarabi, the Babylonian king whose code included the
2:05.5	eye for an eye concept and as a total tangent I'll never forget the dude or his
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