Ep 035: Wine Traditions for New Year’s

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 30 December 2011

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Wine Traditions around the world are pretty interesting. In this episode we discuss the coolest ones. First we take a listener question from @mjgraves on Twitter about when to drink Cabernet Sauvignon. (Write in or call us and you’ll be on the show!!! 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 they’ll answer it in an upcoming episode!) Spanish Traditions and Cava Italian Traditions and Prosecco/Franciacorta Chilean Traditions and gold rings in the bubbles, Portuguese Traditions and Vinho Verde, Germany and Sekt, French Champagne, English speaking countries = boozing it up and fireworks. Grape of the week: Pinot Meunier Listen and you’ll get why I’ll be lugging a suitcase around my block at midnight, while shoving some grapes in my mouth! If you like the podcast, please review it on iTunes, drop a comment on the Wine For Normal People blog, or join [...]

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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're back again and sadly another end to Festivists for the rest of us of course has come and also
0:28.3	Croansica seems to be at an end as well.
0:32.3	Can you get rid of the tree? No, not yet. Not until after the first. It was always terrible.
0:38.7	My hand, oh my god, my parents are going to be listening. But it was terrible because we'd have to take down all the decorations on the first. That's a big hangover time. And working all day...
0:48.0	Was so when you were eight you had a hangover? Oh my God.
0:52.0	10? Stop it.
0:54.0	Anyway, it was always really stressful.
0:56.4	Why?
0:57.4	All right, how about back from college?
0:59.2	Okay, that's bad.
1:00.1	All right.
1:01.1	You go out with your friends.
1:03.0	Have a teen them in a while.
1:04.1	Big New Year's, Eve.
1:06.1	And then you wake up and you're forced, like slave labor to take down all these decorations
1:12.3	with a hangover or just awful awful awful
1:15.0	that's terrible that is why we celebrate Festivist in this house with a
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