Ep 054: The Grape Miniseries — Zinfandel

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We haven’t done a grape mini-series in a while so for all those GMS, here you go! This week, after so fabulous shoutouts (thank you so much for the feedback!) we do the “American” grape, Zinfandel. This podcast is FULL of wine dorkery, for those of you who love that stuff. A link to the podcast…HERE Here are some notes: First we talk about what Zin is and the differences in flavor profiles, depending on where the grape is grown Then we hit the history books…and what a storied history this grape has. We reach back 6,000 years and talk about how this grape evolved, where it came from, and how it wound up in California (and my link to its path) We discuss some parental issues with Zin — and legal names it shares with some cousins and possible twins (If you’re looking for the spelling of the crazy grapes we mentioned: Crljenak Kastelansk, Plavac Mali, Primativo) The ZAP event — Zinfandel Advocates and Pro [...]

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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 Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	Even though last week was about a specific wine, I could not qualify it for the
0:30.0	grape mini-series because Rosie is not a grape. It doesn't get the
0:34.0	great miniseries moniker is what you're saying? It does not so. This week we are
0:40.2	returning to the great miniseries which we've left behind I mean we haven't
0:44.0	done that many and we have really slacked off if you were alive in the 80s and
0:49.9	knew that every week there was going to be a new mini series on TV and now you're all
0:56.2	excited about the great mini series and we've totally let you down.
1:00.9	It's over.
1:01.9	No more thorn birds, no north and south. Back to north and south. It's over. No more thorn birds, no north and south.
1:03.6	Back to north and south is what you're saying though.
1:05.8	Really, that's for my sister, the north and south.
1:08.7	Last week was so long.
1:11.3	We did not get to do shout-outs and bad on us but this week we have a
1:15.6	ton so I'm gonna start out on Facebook shout-out Palusa. Shout-Palooza!
1:21.0	Shout-Palooza! This is what we got on Facebook. We have
1:24.1	Kafe. I'm not sure if that's a real name or not it sounds like Cafe but it could be
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