Ep 055: Improving and Understanding Your Palate

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk about some tactics for improving and understanding your tasting skills and palate. I’ve been doing a ton of classes lately and have realized that so many people are spooked by describing wine and think they have poor senses of taste. Nah! We tackle four tips that can help you improve or at least understand your palate! 1. Build your “taste pantry” — including a story about me licking a golf club 2. The importance of state of mind when tasting wine (and why not to taste with jerks) 3. Figuring out how to define what standard BS wine terms mean to you 4. M.C. Ice and I do a little battle over nature v. nurture on the palate…you’ll be surprised at who takes what side. And the Grape of the Week: Norton, an American original! As a bonus, here is the picture we mentioned at the end of the podcast. If you like the podcast, please review it on iTunes, drop a comment below, or join the awesome conversation on Facebook (Wine F [...]

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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 Zillmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal personal.
0:23.0	I've been doing a lot of events lately and have been talking to people about their personal
0:29.8	pallets and some of their feelings about tasting wine and the previous experiences they've had with
0:37.0	experts and these people have been terrorized and they're terrified to express themselves and talk about wine in a public forum or even alone.
0:48.8	So I thought that this week we would talk about how to improve your taste both in a practical way and
0:55.8	also in sort of a self-esteem building way. You mean like the way I dress that
1:02.2	kind of taste? I mean like the way I dress that kind of taste?
1:04.2	I mean like the way you taste wine and how you describe it and
1:09.7	how you can kind of build up your confidence and your vocabulary and your experiences
1:15.1	so that you can for lack of a better word and I don't mean to sound like a social
1:21.6	worker but relate better to what you're drinking.
1:25.0	See I used to think that it was purely innate.
1:29.0	We'll talk about some of that.
1:31.0	I think you and I have a little debate going on about that. We do, but my
1:35.2	point is that you opened my eyes or my mouth and nose, I guess. There are things that you
1:41.8	can do and a lot of this has to do with figuring out what the
1:46.1	path is to get you from wondering what the hell people are talking about when they're describing
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