Audio blog 6: What Exactly IS Côtes-du-Rhône?

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🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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I know you were wondering...“What is Côtes-du-Rhône? What's in it? Where is it from?" I've got you covered!

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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
0:25.2	wine person of wine for normal people.
0:29.0	You can find the written versions and links to these audio blogs as well as post comments on line for normal
0:34.6	people dot com forward slash blog with that let's get started
0:40.4	what exactly is Coate-Dorone?
0:45.0	I headed to one of my favorite wine shops the other day and I started speaking with a wine consultant friend there.
0:52.0	I was getting a recommendation on a coat
0:54.3	darone and she mentioned that this category of wine was a great seller for them.
0:59.2	At a time when French wines aren't lighting the world on fire in the U.S. this surprised me.
1:04.8	Why do you think these are such big sellers? I asked.
1:07.8	The consultant posited that it was because the wines tended to be light, fruity, and unoffensive, and easy to ask for.
1:16.1	I can see why she said that, but I wasn't 100% convinced.
1:19.7	To get an answer on why Co-deron is so popular popular I did what I always do. I brought some home to
1:25.3	MC Ice so we could taste it and analyze. He is my focus group of one but is often
1:31.2	insightful on this type of question, so I drilled them.
1:33.4	MCS was familiar with Coates around, not surprising.
1:36.9	I dorkily looked at the official Roan wine website, Roan-Wines.
1:42.4	And it shows that 70% of Americans have
1:46.2	spontaneous recognition of the region's wine compared to the UK's 50%
1:52.1	awareness.
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