Ep 034: Wine Gift Ideas

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2011

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for the holidays: Wine Gift Ideas!!! This week, Elizabeth and MC Ice talk about 4 kinds of gifts to get for the wine lover/liker/drinker in your life… Gadgets: The most useful, must-haves (not just random crap you buy just to buy!). Credit to listener Sayle Milne who provided the suggestion on wine charms! Glassware: The three kinds someone really needs and a few recommendations on what to look for and what to avoid. Books. From Facebook friend Brandon Robinson, they cover books: Elizabeth’s aversion to “Fun” wine books, three reference books for real wine dorks, and a shameless plug for the upcoming “Wine For Normal People” book (and shout to Elizabeth’s fabulous agent Myrsini!). And, drum roll…you didn’t think they’d cover all this stuff and forget the WINE, did you? They discuss strategies for shopping for wine as a gift — from in-store selections to wine clubs to the horror of wine shipping law [...]

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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 Silma Yea and certified specialist of wine.
0:15.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:18.0	We are back at it again. Today we are addressing great wine holiday presents for normal people.
0:26.2	I'm very excited because we're obviously going to be talking about all the cool stuff you got me, right?
0:31.3	Yeah, well one thing we're not going to be talking about is we're not going to be
0:35.2	talking about plane tickets to Italy and travel tours to Burgundy on barges and stuff like that because this is for normal people.
0:46.6	This is an episode for people who are actually shopping and looking for gifts for other wine lovers or wine likeers or wine drinkers.
0:56.4	Oh you mean this is actually affordable stuff we're going to be talking about?
0:59.8	Yeah, because it would be nice to be able to afford those trips, but that is not on the docket this year.
1:06.5	Instead, we're going to talk about a couple things.
1:08.5	We're going to address gadgets, which we've discussed before another podcast,
1:12.2	but we've got a couple others to add to the list,
1:15.2	glassware, some books at the recommendation of a couple of people on Facebook and in emails,
1:22.4	and then of course we're going to talk about wine and then we've got a
1:25.2	grape of the week this week for sale millen who has asked me to do this grape of the week several
1:31.4	times so here you go sale
1:33.4	without further ado shall we get started
1:35.9	gadget
1:37.0	you love gadgets
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