Ep 042: Traveling in Wine Country

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 7 March 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Based on two blog posts, this week we talk about how to travel in wine country and our grape of the week is one of the best stories in the wine world! Here’s a quick summary and the links to the posts: 1. Plan or plan to explore — pick a discreet area so you’re not wasting time driving around. 2. Hit the big names if it’s your first time in the area — the properties are worth the visit! 3. Research and make appointments if you have to. Don’t miss out because you didn’t make appointments ahead of time. 4. Plan no more than 5 wineries for your trip. 5. Eat! 6. Be nice to the tasting room staff! Here’s a link to the post on which the podcast is based: LINK The grape of the week is Carmenere — one of the best stories in the wine world. Here’s a link to the post on Carmenere: LINK. If you like the podcast, please review it on iTunes, drop a comment below, or join the awesome conversation on Facebook (Wine For Normal People page) a [...]

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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	So coming off of our trip to Virginia to go to wine country there.
0:29.0	Which was awesome, by the way.
0:30.0	It was totally awesome, and we will be doing a podcast on Virginia Wine. the wine.
0:35.0	The wine was great.
0:36.0	The scenery was gorgeous.
0:38.0	The weather wasn't even that great when we were there, so I can't wait to get back up there.
0:41.0	Dude, you still want to move there.
0:43.2	I know, I was looking at houses.
0:44.6	I want to buy.
0:46.1	I guess we need money for that, though.
0:47.8	I don't know what we could do with all that land either.
0:50.4	So we did just come back from a trip from Charlottesville, Wine Country, and it was really terrific.
0:56.0	And I'll be detailing some of that on the blog and also we will be doing a podcast on Virginia
1:01.1	wines after we hit some of the Northern Virginia wineries in early May.
1:05.0	That's all coming up, but we thought that we had not done anything on wine country travel.
1:12.0	Just in general. In general general we did a podcast sometime last year on
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