Ep 028 Five Ways to Discover New Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you’re interested in discovering some new wines based on your taste preferences, and you’re not afraid to break the habit of “going with what you know”, then Elizabeth and Rick have five easy ways for you to discover some new favorites. Show Notes: Some fun shout-outs from our friends who left reviews on iTunes and comments on the Facebook page Main Topic - How to experiment with new wines: Follow the grape (the “you might also like” method) Regional similarities and differences Discovering similar wines from different blends Using food & wine pairing suggestions from apps and web sites Your local wine shop (but beware of bad advice!!) Listener Question - Sayle Milne calls in with a question about “corkage” fees Grape of the Week - Muscat (and Moscato is one of the most popular wines this year!) Call us and you will be on the show!!! Do you have a wine-related question for Elizabeth? Anything goes! Call 800-599-8478 (in the U. [...]

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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.
0:11.1	That's right, this podcast has a strict, no snobs allowed policy.
0:16.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified someleier
0:19.0	and a certified specialist of wine.
0:21.0	And I'm Rick Breslin, a certified wine-loving tech geek.
0:25.7	And today we have a great topic for the show.
0:28.7	Five new ways to experiment with wine.
0:32.2	And I don't mean in a chemistry lab.
0:34.0	No, I think this one is is sort of a discovery episode like the discovery channel
0:42.0	for wine
0:43.0	absolutely although no sharks no shark week now you're right this is this is much more fun
0:50.7	we're going to be talking about going into a store and figuring out which wines to try based on your
1:00.0	preferences, what you've had before. You're going to take us through the five ways
1:04.3	we're not doing our number seven but no I wish I tried to think of seven but I
1:10.0	didn't want to just do seven because seven is our number. I thought five is probably
1:15.8	more appropriate for this one because I couldn't think of more. So I love it. No problem. Five ways to experiment
1:22.0	with new types of wine. This is great. So I think we should start with a few shout out. Do you want to lead it off here?
1:27.0	Okay, we have so many awesome shoutouts this week. I don't even know where to start but on Facebook Nina Pryor Jenny Lee
1:35.0	Ramona Rexer and Art Lopez you guys are awesome and Carl Moore has told us on Facebook that we are responsible for giving him some fodder for his most recent date about wine and his date apparently told him that he was fun and approachable about wine but not too snoddy.
1:57.0	Wow!
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