Ep 049: Drink or Sink? (What makes a wine bad?)

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2012

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We had so many topics to banter about before we got to the meat of the show — we talked about some wine flicks we recently saw, how Mad Menmay have stepped on Wine For Normal People’s toes, and my stance on the recent CostCo wine buyer interview with MSNBC that caused a little stir among blog readers/Facebook followers. After shoutouts (with a very special birthday wish for Scott Hoynoski — a fabulous listener), we get to the main topic — what is my definition of “sink” when I do the “Drink or Sink?” portion of my wine reviews…aka, what makes a wine bad. And by bad, we’re talking about wines that are not made well, not ones we don’t like because of personal preferences. We talk about the concept of balance and the three main tenets: tannin, acid, and alcohol and how each can affect the mix. Oak, fruit, and sugar are covered and how they can mess up balance or contribute to it. The grape of the week is… [...]

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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 person.
0:23.0	We've had such an active week.
0:26.0	Been busy on multiple fronts.
0:28.0	How about we start with why when I search for wine for normal people on iTunes, Mad Men comes up.
0:35.4	What's that all about?
0:36.5	How about when you search everywhere on Google right now, Mad Men comes up?
0:40.7	What's going on?
0:41.7	Well, it's a little bit of trademark infringement actually.
0:45.6	Uh oh. And AMC is going to have to figure out what to do about it because in last
0:52.4	week's episode of Madman they were pitching I think very ironically
0:55.7	because our regular listeners know that I'm a big old Jew and proud of it.
1:00.9	They were pitching Manichevitz, not as a Jewish wine, but as a wine for normal people. But
1:08.4	apparently the writers never checked to see if that was a trademarked property.
1:13.0	And it's very confusing, especially people are looking for this
1:16.5	podcast or the site and they're coming up with Mad Mess.
1:20.0	Hey, clearly though they've got good taste.
1:22.0	So I give him credit for that
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