Ep 051: Austria

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2012

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, it’s an episode near to my heart, since allegedly 25% of my family is from here: Austria. I tell an anecdote about traveling there as a dumb college student and “translating” some German. Then, after some great shoutouts (thank you for writing in and reviewing us on iTunes), we move on to the main topic. Since 70% of production is white, we first discuss the main grapes of Austria: Grüner Veltliner (Grooner Felt-LEAN-ah) and Riesling. We chat a bit about the reds of Austria: Zweigelt (SFY-Gelt), Blaufrankish, and St. Laurent. Then we cover the regions. We talk about Vienna and the three super high quality regions of Kremstal, Kamptal, and Wachau (along with it’s classifications of dry whites: Steinfeder, Federspiel, Smargd) We touch on the classification system of wines and what it means — Landwein, Tafelwein, Qualitatswein, and Pradikat. Then we touch on the slightly scandalous, tabloid history of Austria. From the Romans, to Charl [...]

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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.
0:22.8	We are back in action after a week off.
0:27.0	Well, at least it was for a good reason. You've been slammed with events recently.
0:31.0	I have been doing a lot of events and teaching a lot of
0:34.9	classes very fun and great stuff some awesome clients but has made me very
0:40.2	busy. But back to the good stuff now now this week we are doing something cool
0:44.8	again because you know that I love to dork out on the countries oh all right which one
0:51.0	are we going to do this week you know what's really funny for anybody that's listening?
0:55.0	He actually doesn't know because I don't even brief on what we're talking about.
0:59.0	I decided the more I know ahead of time the worse it is.
1:04.0	That's actually true.
1:05.6	Would you like to guess what it is if I give you a hint?
1:08.8	All right.
1:09.8	A quarter of my family hails from this locale.
1:15.0	Italy.
1:16.0	Stop it, although I will tell you that this week
1:18.7	everybody thought I was Greek and Italian.
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