Ep 039: Spain

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2012

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After some fabulous shout outs (thank you so much!) and a great listener question on “why do wines go on sale? (a little inside the industry on this one!), this week we cover Spain. First we brush up on history, covering how the Phoenicians, Moors, and a Facist dictator affected Spain’s wine industry Then we talk about the different quality levels — we explain the differences from table wines to the top quality designation, all of which will appear on the bottle Finally, we do an overview of what you can get expect from some of the top regions. If you are interested in Spain, but don’t know where to start, this podcast is for you! If you like the podcast, please review it on iTunes, drop a comment on the Wine For Normal People blog, or join the awesome conversation on Facebook (Wine For Normal People page) and Twitter @normalwine! Also, if you’ve got a question you want us to answer, post it on any of those places and we’ll include it on the show [...]

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	2012 has just started and we're already off to an awesome start.
0:28.0	Wine for normal people is on fire, and it's all because of you guys.
0:32.0	Thank you guys so much for listening,
0:34.0	for joining the Facebook page and Twitter,
0:37.3	and for dropping comments on iTunes.
0:40.5	Lots of great questions, too.
0:42.3	We've been getting awesome
0:43.7	awesome listener questions and we just want to thank you so much. We are so
0:47.8	grateful for you listening for you What's on tap for today? We've got a couple shout-outs as usual,
1:04.2	and we've got a great listener question.
1:06.4	And then we are going to start our new series,
1:10.4	which I think is very important for us
1:11.9	to start to get into as we're progressing
1:14.8	through the world of wine on our little Odyssey.
1:17.4	I'm really excited about this for my own personal reference more than anything, really.
1:22.0	We're going to talk about Spain today and we're
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