Ep 046: Food & Wine Pairing Revisited

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2012

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, it’s another crack at food and wine pairing. But this isn’t just an overview, we get kind of dorky, talking about chemical reactions and shifts in your perception based on certain combinations. Here’s the outline: We do a quick review of basic pairing rules — heavy with heavy, light with light, follow the flavor Then America’s Wine Test Kitchen strikes again — we talk about the experiment we did with Sancerre (acidic Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley in France), lemons, and sugar. MC Ice was blown away! We address great pairings with acidic wines and the flavors you can expect from pairing Then we hit on tannin, alcohol, and sweet wines and why you have to take these factors into consideration when you’re pairing. If you like the podcast, please review it on iTunes, drop on the blog, or join the awesome conversation on Facebook (Wine For Normal People page) and Twitter @normalwine! If you’ve got a question you want [...]

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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 Zillmie and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal personal.
0:24.0	We've got a cool episode this week, which hopefully the content will make up for the fact that I sound like I have swallowed a frog.
0:32.0	I thought you were just doing your Demi Moore impersonation. that I sound like I have swallowed a frog.
0:32.6	I thought you were just doing your Demi Moore impersonation.
0:35.2	No, I am hoarse this week if you are a regular listener.
0:38.6	It is not your earphones.
0:40.2	I have spring allergies or spring cold or something that's just killing my voice and hopefully I will be able to make it the
0:48.3	podcast without having a coughing fit in the middle.
0:50.8	I like the raspiness though. You may want to go with it. I have no control over it.
0:55.5	However, when I do have allergies, I do get raspy. So hopefully this won't last too much longer, but this week you guys are stuck listening to this 1 900 Elizabeth Schneider.
1:07.0	As long as they don't have to pay for it I think they'll be all set.
1:12.0	Anywho this week we have a very awesome podcast.
1:16.0	Now we have already covered food and wine pairing and this is a reprisal of that topic.
1:22.0	There's been so much written about this topic, so much talked about this topic.
1:26.0	There's a lot of people that say just drink what you want, drink what you like, do whatever you want,
1:30.5	blah blah blah. My philosophy is that is so not helpful. Yep you get so many
1:36.3	questions on Facebook or via email or through your website Twitter about this very
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