Ep 027 Top 7 Fun Facts About Wine

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2011

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week Rick and Elizabeth give you some awesome and random facts about wine that you can pull out at a party, family function, or anywhere else you need to make small talk! Elizabeth dorks out on wine history and stumps Rick on the Latin name for the Grape of the Week. Here are the show notes: We start with a few shoutouts to awesome reviews on iTunes and fun comments on Facebook And we answer another listener question! We want you to 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 Scott of MA (Rick’s home state!) Main Topic - Fun Facts About Wine (or, Wine Trivia) Aroma v. Bouquet: What are they…really? Wine History: Paranoia about poisoning — the origins of “drinking to your health” — and, the potential origins of the word &# [...]

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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.
0:11.2	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	So today's topic is a fun one, I think.
0:28.5	We are going to stick with our Rule of Seven and do seven fun wine party facts.
0:34.7	I think this is going to be fun too. I think everyone's looking for some fun dinner
0:39.9	party conversation. Of course this podcast is about wine,
0:44.0	so there are plenty of fun facts for wine.
0:47.4	And we're going to take you through our magic number seven.
0:50.7	So we have a few shout-outs, from Facebook which truth be told it's my favorite
0:55.9	medium because I like to be able to talk to people perverbially. Mary Lyon Dare
1:02.4	who is living in France, I think you also put an excellent and really nice post up on iTunes or review on iTunes.
1:10.0	And anybody else that downloads us on iTunes, if you could go on and review us
1:14.1	we would love that it helps us and Patrick Height you've been great on Facebook
1:19.8	also and then Scott from Massachusetts.
1:24.0	That's right, Scott, from Mass.
1:26.0	How you doing, Scott? I come from Mass, you know that?
1:29.0	I grew up there. I grew up there. I grew up there.
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