Ep 043: France

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week we do a 10,000 foot overview of the motherland of winemaking: France. Here are the notes: First we cover a little about the French wine industry and why it’s so important (big $$ here!) After covering major grapes grown in France, we talk about the history of the country and how it got its start as a wine juggernaut. We re-address the concept of terroir and then get into the major regions and what you’ll find in each. The regions we covered are: Alsace on the German border, which mainly makes whites of Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Muscat, and Silvaner. Then we hop to Champagne — we all know what’s there! We take a jog over to the Loire, covering the Sauvignon Blanc in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume, the Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc in Touraine and Anjou-Saumur, and then talk about Muscadet, the strange name that’s neither a region nor a grape (more on that in this post). Next, we head to Burgundy and talk about three gr [...]

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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.
0:22.8	We got a big one this week.
0:24.8	It's huge.
0:25.8	It's not going to be that huge though, because we are going to do a very, very high-level
0:31.4	overview of the major winemaking regions of
0:35.9	drum roll please.
0:37.0	Very good, France.
0:40.0	I think this is one of the most important ones yet. I agree and only because well you know it is kind of like the motherlands of all
0:48.2	wine making right at least modern wine banking and And you're a francophile.
0:53.2	Well, I think I'm a euro file, but I definitely do have an appreciation for wines all over the world.
0:58.8	So you know, one could also say I was like a South African no file or a New Zealand
1:04.4	Ohio file.
1:06.2	Okay, forget it.
1:07.0	You know what, I really like Nappunson.
1:08.6	I like all wines.
1:09.6	Okay, so before we get started, we are going to really limit this
1:17.8	podcast to just France because there's a lot of information to convey and we are going to break this down in
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