Ep 023 Wine Translations - What Are You Drinking?

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Not only do “Old World” (Europe) and the “New World” (everywhere else) have different approaches to making wine, it carries through right to the way they name stuff. This week, Rick and Elizabeth help explain the reason for this and cover some major European wine names and what’s actually in them… All are grapes you know and love, just masquerading as some other name. Here are the show notes: Shout-Outs -Amazing reviews on iTunes, posts on the Facebook page, comments on the blog, and replies on Twitter Main topic: A quick explanation of why Europeans name wines by place… it’s all about the Romans The whites: Chablis, Condrieu, Vouvray, Sancerre and more The reds: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Cote Rotie, Barolo, Rioja, and more And grape of the week: Torrontes - the floral, peachy, yet acidic white of Argentina Please drop a comment on the Wine For Normal People Blog or Facebook Page. Dig the podcast? Please review us on iTunes and we’ll gi [...]

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:04.7	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio, the podcast for people who like wine but not the
0:08.7	snobbery that goes with it.
0:11.0	That's right, this podcast has a strict, no snobs allowed policy.
0:16.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified sill mooray
0:19.0	and certified specialist of wine.
0:21.0	And I'm Rick Breslin, a certified wine-loving tech geek.
0:25.4	And today we are going to talk about wine translations.
0:30.3	Wine translations.
0:31.5	Now this may not be language translations but sort of like when a wine has the same name it's I'm sorry when the wine is the same juice but it's called something different like if someone
0:43.4	said I have this bordo blend but really you're drinking Cab and Merleau and a couple
0:48.1	other things right?
0:49.1	Yes and I think that this is a big reason why people are kind of put off by drinking
0:56.7	European wines and we just did the label podcast and people were you, excited to see the visuals on Italy and France and stuff like that.
1:07.3	And I think part of it is that it's just so darn confusing.
1:09.9	You don't know what's in the bottle because it doesn't say what we're used to, it's saying likeernet Sauvignon or Merleau. And so today we are going to
1:16.7	decipher much of that. That sounds really helpful. I know that I was listening to
1:22.2	another podcast. This is this is kind of this is what
1:25.2	geeks call getting meta okay this is this is a podcast is a podcast talking about
1:31.0	a podcast that's this is a little we're going to give you some geek terminology,
1:35.0	that's called Getting Meta.
1:36.0	Oh my God, that is so nerdy, Rick.
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