Ep 040: Tasting Wine To Get The Most Out of It

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2012

⏱️ 32 minutes

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M.C. Ice and I are so grateful for all the wonderful feedback! As usual, we celebrate and thank you for your support by going through shout outs from iTunes, Facebook, and Twitter — all amazing! We appreciate you all so much. Then, we address a question that I’ve been hearing a ton lately: What kind of additives are in wine? (As a preview, they’re not related to Velveeta or Cheese Whiz, even though the name “additive” evokes those highly-processed foods!). For the main topic, this week we take a practical look at how to taste wine to get more out of your experience. We get down & dirty, giving you new ideas on how to evaluate what you’re tasting. Why it’s important to look at the wine, swirl it, smell it, and what to look for while tasting. Our goal: have you slow down the process of tasting so you can figure out what you like and don’t like, so you can get more of the former and avoid the latter! If you lik [...]

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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.
0:16.0	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 personal.
0:24.4	This week we have a very practical and pragmatic podcast that can be put to use right away.
0:31.1	This is good. I think you're going to clear up a lot of misconceptions out there with this one.
0:35.2	This is something that I use when I teach classes. We are going to be talking today about how to taste wine in maybe a little dorky way but in a way that allows you to really
0:48.3	take stock of what you're tasting and help you slow down the process so that you can get the most out of
0:56.3	your tasting experience. Not just open bottle pouring glass down your throat?
1:01.8	Now there's a definitely a time and a place for that.
1:06.0	Normally speaking, when you're trying to just enjoy something new and trying to gauge whether or not you like it or what you like about it, this process may be able to help you.
1:15.5	So we're going to go through the steps on how to taste wine like a pro.
1:21.1	Exciting. First, how about some shout-outs? How about them? What do we got? On iTunes,
1:27.0	Cincinnati Bob says, is it the best wine podcast? He doesn't know because he hasn't even tried any others. You can just stop right here. That's great.
1:35.0	You rock dude, thank you.
1:37.0	Mom with three in Hawaii. Loved her first podcast with us.
1:41.0	She even mentions the website and Facebook page. She loves the whole package.
1:44.6	Very nice. And she says she can't wait for the video. I can't either. Yeah that's awesome.
1:49.6	We're working on that. It's just a matter of getting an editor on board which has been a little bit
1:54.7	challenging but we have them in the can so to speak so that's kind of cool what else
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