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Wine for Normal People

Ep 048: Argentina

Wine for Normal People

Wine for Normal People

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week we hit the virtual road again with a trip to Argentina. A bunch of awesome shout outs (you guys are the best!) and a quick story of my childhood trauma of always being the male characters while belting out the libretto of Evita (so my sister could be La Reina!) and we’re off to the Southern Hemisphere! Source: Palm Bay International Here are the notes: We start with a review of the history of Argentinean wine and how it got to be the 5th largest wine producer in the world. Then we talk about the unique climate of the main growing regions, and I dork out on a few wine terms We take a jaunt around the wine regions of Argentina, focusing on Mendoza (because it’s 70% of production! We talk about the sub-areas of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley) and the region of Salta (home of the highest vineyards in the world and some of the best Torrontés). Then we give an overview of La Rioja (different from the historic region in Spain), San Juan, [...]

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0:00.0

Thanks for

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downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,

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the podcast for people who like wine,

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but not the snobbery that goes with it.

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I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Zolmier and certified specialist of wine.

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And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal personal.

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We are heading back on the virtual road today for a little armchair travel.

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Ooh, I love these. Where are we going?

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We are going south, and if I wasn't so embarrassed I would sing you the entire libretto of Avita as I did when I was a small child with my sister.

0:41.0

How about just a couple verses?

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No, but I will tell you a little anecdote about Avita

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because we are going to Argentina today.

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All right.

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So my sister is three years older than I am.

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You happen to know my sister since she happens to be your sister-in-law.

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I do know her, yes.

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She's a lovely woman.

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We love her. We do love her and the nephew's and the whole family. The

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brother-in-law everybody's fabulous. However, being the younger of the two girls, I seem to always get to play some really choice roles.

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Like for instance, Ken, instead of Barbie, or even Skipper, I wasn't even allowed to play that. I was always the boy paper doll because like there were boy and girl paper dolls.

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And I played every male character in a Vita when the two of us.

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What did your sister play?

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