Ep 056: Italy Overview

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I’m totally torn about this week’s podcast. I almost gave up and decided not to launch it, but M.C. Ice and some Facebook friends encouraged me to go for it. What’s wrong with the Italy Overview? I think it was such a big topic that I lost steam. I thought it was a little low energy this week and I apologize. That said, I’m launching it anyway. If it’s your first podcast…PLEASE give us another listen. Not our best work. Click here to take a listen: Here are the notes: We hit on some stats about Italy and how I think it’s amazing that people feel any level of comfort with Italian wine, when it’s such a complex, confusing, and inconsistent product. I explain why wine is like breathing in Italy and how it’s viewed differently there than in most other countries. We discuss the staggering number of grapes, a rough overview of geography, and then we DORK out on history — we throw in a little Latin, talk about [...]

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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 Zolmier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal personal.
0:23.0	There are two countries that every year produce the most wine in the world.
0:28.0	Greenland and Zimbabwe.
0:31.0	Close. Not even close.
0:34.0	One's not even in the right hemisphere.
0:37.0	Uh, France?
0:39.0	Right, that's number one.
0:41.0	And if I had to take a wild guess, Italy. Mm, very good.
0:46.0	Oh, right. Do you remember that Spanish CD I had? Yes. At the end of it, it go very good like you or there's something wrong with you.
0:56.0	Yeah, I still wake up in cold sweats thinking about it. It's actually very funny.
1:00.0	So every year, Italy and France are number one and number two and France usually beats out Italy
1:07.2	but the Italians sometimes have a very prolific harvest and are number one or at least tied.
1:15.0	We tackled France first and that seemed like a lot.
1:19.0	The podcast was nearly an hour long and it was just an overview and a lot of people have asked us I know we
1:26.2	mentioned this in our previous past we're going to go over the regions in more detail
1:30.3	and for now we need to hit on the countries and we're going to do Italy and the reason that we have not done Italy is because for me to try to explain Italy is extremely difficult without having...
1:45.0	Because you're rusty on your Latin?
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