Ep 007: Old World vs New World Wines - What’s the difference?

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2011

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

You may have heard people reference ‘Old World’ and ‘New World’ when talking about wine. In this episode, Elizabeth and Rick define all of the characteristics to help you figure out which of these wine styles you may like.

Show Notes:

Shout-outs - Some excellent comments on the blog, Twitter friends, and Facebook
Show Topic Ideas - Make sure to post your ideas to the Facebook page
Wine News - Younger wine drinkers (and their tastes) are influencing winemakers
Main Topic - Old World vs. New World (broken down with a normal explanation) How ‘terroir’ helps define old world vs. new world (and what ‘terroir’ means)
Differences in weather between the old world and new world, and its impact on wine

Grape of the Week - Riesling (an incredibly versatile white wine grape)

Riesling growing in popularity; which regions are most popular
The common flavor profiles for Riesling (Dry, Demi-Dry, Semi-Sweet, Sweet)
Regions of the world that grow Riesling

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People Radio, for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:10.0	This weekly podcast is an exploration of a hot topic in wine.
0:15.8	It's an honest, fun, and interesting look inside wine, wine technology, and the wine
0:20.4	industry.
0:21.4	And I'll prove to you that wine doesn't have to be snoddy, condescending or boring.
0:26.2	We're normal people who like wine and we welcome you to Wine for Normal People Radio.
0:30.6	Today's program is sponsored by Hello Vino, a free mobile app that will help you pick a
0:35.2	wine next time you're in the store or the restaurant.
0:38.2	The free app is available on both iPhone and Android.
0:41.4	Check it out at hellovino dot com. I'm Elizabeth Schneider a
0:45.2	certified solier certified specialist of wine wine blogger of wine for
0:49.5	normal people and educator with years of experience in the wine industry, but I'm not an insider.
0:54.2	I can't stand pretense in wine or in anything else.
0:58.0	And I'm Rick Breslin co-host and certified technology lover.
1:02.2	Also the co-founder of Helovino, the Wine App for Normal People.
1:07.0	Today it's Friday, February 18th.
1:09.5	This is Wine for Normal People Radio, and today we're going to talk about the Old World versus the New World.
1:14.3	Then this is something you mentioned a few times during our last podcast.
1:19.3	You sort of say, you know, kind of quickly, old world is Europe and new world is everywhere else so I'm really
1:26.1	glad we're going to dig deeper into what that means and and then also you you have in our show notes that we're going to go through that there's one area of the world that kind of straddles old world and new world.
1:39.0	Yeah, so it's an area that's very near and dear to my heart. I really love it. I've been there and well we'll just get into it in a second.
1:47.5	But before we go any further we do have some show shout-outs for people. We want to thank some folks for giving some lively
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