Ep 031: Bargain Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2011

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth and MC Ice are back from hiatus this week. We start with a thanks to everyone for their hospitality on our Napa/Sonoma Harvest trip! Elizabeth is chronicling it on the blog, so check it out for details! Shout outs from iTunes — amazing new reviews! And a shout out from a listener to Ellie, the dog! Main Topic: Bargain Wines Thanks to Leslie Strolla for the topic! Defining what we mean: Cheap v. Bargain The top bargains from Europe: places where people speak Spanish, Bordeaux (yup, that’s right), some Southern Italian gems BAD values…you’ll have to tune in to find out what Elizabeth says aren’t great for your wallet The top bargains from English speaking countries: 1 part of California, and down under… White v. red — which is a better bargain? Elizabeth gives her take Some info on the sausage factory (or the bait and switch business that happens in the world of cheap wine…) Write to Elizabeth if you know of a great bargain: e [...]

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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
0:08.8	snobbery that goes with it.
0:11.5	I'm Elizabeth Schneider at certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:15.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:18.0	It's great to be back. I'm here with MC Ice and we are back from our whirlwind harvest trip to Nap
0:26.0	and Sonoma. Fabulous trip. Weather was much better than last year too.
0:29.8	Yeah, last year the weather kind of sucked. However, they're still having some challenges with the vintage, which we are chronicling on the blog.
0:37.8	Found a lot of really great new smaller wineries, thanks to everybody on Facebook who made the recommendations and a little bit of digging around on my part but we really really kind of hit the jackpot
0:49.2	both in terms of wine and the people that we met too. Yeah, we met some really fabulous, fabulous people.
0:55.6	We only had one crap-ass non-normal experience and funny enough there was a woman there and poor thing she was just
1:06.6	being out-snobbed by this horrible guy again I will talk about it on the blog if you're
1:12.2	interested in in which winery it was.
1:14.4	That being said, the wines were very good and it was beautiful so at least we have that going
1:19.3	for us.
1:20.3	But great trip and so I would like to give a shout out to all the wineries that we're going to be reviewing on the blog
1:26.4	Especially some of the smaller ones acorn and lava vine especially showed us just amazing hospitality Robert B Biali, Frogs Leap was terrific.
1:35.0	Corchetto, Moncelena, always fabulous.
1:37.4	And the big home run, Michelle Schlumberger, and Jim Morris, we did a
1:42.0	podcast with him last week and it was phenomenal.
1:44.7	What a great guy, great wine.
1:46.3	He's great too, I mean he's got a second career in podcasting.
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