Ep 058: Benchmark Wines of the New World

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2012

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

And this week we complete the duo with the list of benchmark wines from the New World. After shout outs and a great listener question from Facebook on how to live as an ABC (that’s Anything But Chardonnay) guy? We discuss the alternatives to oaky Chardonnay that still have the umph with food. True to the naming structure, and following M.C. Ice’s smart advice, we’ve organized this one by grape…Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Shiraz, and Cabernet Sauvignon are covered…with a few more thrown in. Now that you know them, why should you listen? Because we talk through each and why they’re benchmarks… important stuff to know! Thanks again to Paula Kidwell for the podcast idea. If you like the podcast, please pass it on to your friends, review it on iTunes, drop a comment below, or join the awesome conversation on Facebook (Wine For Normal People page) and Twitter @normalwine! And if you’ve got [...]

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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	Before we get started...
0:24.8	Are you going to apologize?
0:26.8	I am going to apologize for the fact that A, you said that I sound congested.
0:32.2	You do.
0:33.0	And be, I may or may not have had like a sinus infection for the last.
0:38.0	What, four months?
0:40.0	I don't know. I went to a doctor and they didn't say anything about it I need to get a new doctor
0:44.8	You do need to anyway. I apologize in advance for any sniffling that I'm not able to edit out and any congestion but the podcast goes on regardless of
0:56.5	congestion more importantly are you going to tell everyone what you were just
1:01.5	googling okay I just got called out so royally by MCIs.
1:05.0	He was like, let's go because I was on Google looking at whether or not
1:12.0	John Oliver from the D Daily Show was in fact the Geico Gecho.
1:16.1	Which I hadn't thought of it all, but after you said it, I swear it sounds just like him.
1:21.1	Okay, if you don't watch the Daily daily show it's on Comedy Central and in the
1:24.7	US it's a all comedy channel and there's a show called The Daily Show which is
1:30.5	topical political comedy.
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