Ep 050: Summer Sippers

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

YAY! Episode 50! Thanks to everyone for listening. Very cool milestone! We banter a bit about our experience opening an old bottle of wine (we’ll do a bonus clip of the experience soon), do shoutouts, and then we have a fabulous listener question: If you have a vegetarian diet, what types of wines should you think about? As a preview — vegetarian or no, you follow the flavor of the food! The options are much more varied than most people think. Then it’s on to the main topic: Summer Sippers. Here’s a link to the podcast: Here’s a quick rundown: Reds: We have some specific ideas for grilling out. Then we discuss wines that can “take a chill” and be sipped. High on the top of the list: Beaujolais (NOT Nouveau). Here’s a link to the cool new Beaujolais web site that I love and that will help you figure out which area’s wines will work best for you (look under regions): Discover Beaujolais Rosé: Love it. Nothing el [...]

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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 Zillma Yea and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	We have much to report on this week.
0:26.0	Like what?
0:27.0	Well, if you follow us on Facebook, you know that we opened your birthday wine this week.
0:31.0	Oh, that 15- old bottle of Bordeaux?
0:35.5	I'm not a cradle robber.
0:37.2	The fact of the matter is that we opened a 1972 bottle of Bordeaux that was for MC Ice's birthday. Yes, we're fully aware that it's an
0:48.1	expense of wine and there was some flack on Facebook about is that a normal wine experience I think it is a
0:54.5	normal wine experience every now and then to have a very special bottle now it's
0:59.0	normal to be that this excited about it though it totally is and and yes it's not it's not a regular
1:04.6	occurrence for by any means. This is not like a five hundred dollar bottle of wine or
1:08.1	anything like that it was south of two hundred dollars and that's something that you might spend at a restaurant. This was a second growth
1:15.5	bordel if you don't know what that is. Look it up on the blog. There's a 101 that goes over
1:19.9	that on Wine for Normal People. blog spot. dot com very high quality but let me tell you something
1:25.1	on a per year basis actually is pretty cheap it was pretty cheap on a per year basis that being
1:29.8	said it was not some things get better with age. Other things maybe not so much. Yeah
1:38.7	maybe not so much that wine was nasty. It was worthilled was nast. It was cool to open it up with our
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