Ep 033: The Grape Mini-Series — Cabernet Sauvignon

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 7 December 2011

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

They’re back at it — the Grape Miniseries makes a triumphant return! While drinking a rather skunked and old Napa version, MC Ice and Elizabeth tackle the King of the Reds: Cabernet Sauvignon. If you like Elizabeth’s dork out moments… get ready. Here are a few summary points: Elizabeth geeks out on the grape, talking about the history and the viticulture of Cabernet Sauvignon (everything from torrid vineyard love affairs to Pliny the Elder to methoxypyrazines). Elizabeth and MC Ice try to cover everything you ever wanted to know about Cabernet from the most famous regions around the world: - Old World: Bordeaux, Italy, Spain, and other parts of Europe - New World: California (Napa, Sonoma), Washington, Oregon, Long Island, South America (Chile, Argentina), Australia, South Africa They cover food and wine pairing and MC Ice gets really excited about the marriage of Cabernet and food. (the chemical reaction of tannin and filet fascinates him) And here&# [...]

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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	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmamaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:15.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:18.0	We're back from Turkey Day and we were up in New York visiting some family and checking out some of the wine selections.
0:27.0	Pretty good pairings this year, very excited that I reported them on the blog.
0:32.0	I especially liked the pair them on the blog.
0:32.5	I especially liked the pairings with the pizza.
0:35.4	What, the beer and pizza?
0:38.2	Right, right.
0:39.2	Yeah, the pizza restaurant on Long Island,
0:41.8	which has the best pizza ever ever and which we
0:46.2	had it every meal except for Thanksgiving dinner maybe I think we did in fact and
0:51.6	that might have been a new record but it still was not enough.
0:55.2	No, never get enough.
0:56.7	No.
0:57.7	Today we are going to tackle the great mini series again which we really let laughs for a while. I feel terrible about that. Sorry if you like the Great Mini Series.
1:08.0	We are going to tackle the King of the Reds because it's getting cold and it's time for this red to be a regular player in your wine rotation.
1:17.0	It's a big one. What is it?
1:19.0	It's Cabernet Somignon.
1:21.0	Before we do that, let's please address some of the fantastic, fantastic
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