Ep 025 Top 7 Wine Myths DEBUNKED!

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 17 August 2011

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week, Elizabeth and Rick play the ‘Wine Mythbusters’ and debunk the top 7 myths of the wine world. Expensive wines, France, and cigars are just a few of the topics covered in this episode. We start with a few shoutouts to awesome reviews on iTunes for the show! Amazing stuff! A new and fabulous piece of “old school” technology for the Wine For Normal People Podcast… Call us!!! Do you have a wine-related question for Elizabeth? Anything goes! Call 800-599-8478 (in the U.S.) or 1-415-226-9105 and dial extension 5 to leave your question for the Wine For Normal People Podcast, and we will play it on the show! Listener Question - from Brandy in the UK Main Topic - Top 7 Wine Myths DEBUNKED! We cover these topics: Flavors in Wine Aging Wines Expensive Wines French Wine Cigars & Wine High Scoring Wines (and Wine Critics) Screw Caps (vs. Corks) Grape of the Week - Tempranillo And a special and amazing thanks to Sean Amann for creating an awesome intr [...]

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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.
0:24.0	Today's topic is wine-mus debunk.
0:29.0	That's right, we're going to play Mythbusters but for Wine.
0:33.0	They do crazy stuff. Those guys are nuts. I love that show.
0:36.0	It's appropriate because today's topic is going to cover all of those myths or things that you've heard about wine that come across as sort of
0:45.9	common knowledge but they're really not they're myths. It's true and we are not
0:50.8	going to be blowing anything up sorry no physical stunts this time
0:53.5	but we will talk about about all this stuff and hopefully it will clear some things up
0:57.7	and some things that I think are surprising and definitely one that's extremely
1:01.4	controversial. I can't wait for that one.
1:04.1	Before we do, should we do some shoutouts?
1:07.6	We should, but we also have something very, very exciting
1:10.8	courtesy of the huge nerd that you are Rick the awesome tech
1:15.6	nerd that you are thank God do you if you have a wine related question Rick has
1:20.6	set up a 1-800 number for you to call in so that you can call in the question
1:26.2	and we'll play it on the podcast. It is 800, 599, 848, and dial extension 5.
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