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Wine for Normal People

Ep 022: How to Read a Wine Label

Wine for Normal People

Wine for Normal People

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2011

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever stared blankly at a wine label and wondered what the wine was in the bottle? Elizabeth and Rick take you through an easy-to-understand approach to reading a wine label when making your next purchase. Show Notes: Shout-Outs -Awesome reviews on iTunes, posts on the Facebook page, comments on the blog, and replies on Twitter Main Topic - How to Read a Wine Label A cameo from Ellie the dog Information on the Label: Vintage Alcohol Content Warnings Country of Origin Producer/Importer Regions & Appellations “New World” Wine Labels (U.S., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.) European Wine Labels & How to Decipher Them German Wine Labels (Always a Challenge) How a Wine Label Reads Like a Beauty Product Back Labels: Beware of the B.S. Coming Soon - The Q&A Show: Ask your questions on Facebook or the blog Send us questions, comments, and some love on Twitter @NormalWine Drop a comment on the Wine for Normal People blog Dig the podcast? Pleas [...]

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0:00.0

Thanks for

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downloading Wine for Normal People Radio, the podcast for people who like wine but not the

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snobbery that goes with it.

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That's right, this podcast has a strict, no snobs allowed policy.

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I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified sill mooray

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and certified specialist of wine.

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And I'm Rick Breslin, a certified wine-loving tech geek.

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Today's topic, figuring out wine labels.

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Yes, I am very glad that we are going to talk about this because I mean United States

0:36.9

for me at least well it's written in English so I can understand it but some of the

0:42.0

other countries the wine labels are just you know

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to use words that you've used before loaded with information you know behind that label so

0:51.5

I'm glad we're going to break these down we're going to

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kind of deconstruct all the terms and and talk about this. Yeah well I think

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that it's it's not as daunting as it seems once you sort of try to figure out some of the basics.

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And so we will go over them, but of course first we have a couple of shoutouts that we need to address.

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First of all. that we need to address. Yeah, let's do that.

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First and foremost, Brian Levy,

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thanks for the topic idea.

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This is your topic today, so hopefully you're listening to the show.

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That's very cool, yeah.

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Please, if you have ideas or questions, things that you want us to talk about,

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