Ep 061: Halloween Candy Wine Pairings

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2012

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week we bring you a fun episode! It’s super US-Centric (sorry to our international listeners) but hopefully we did a good enough job of describing things so you get the gist. In this short episode, we explore the world of left over Halloween candy and which wines will be ideal matches for what may be laying around after the costumes are hung up and the trick-or-treaters are gone (or in bed and you can raid their stash!). * *Keep in mind, we did not talk about pairings with dark chocolate or bittersweet chocolate. Why? ‘Cause that’s not what you get in a bag of candy for trick-or-treat! This is all about realistic scenarios. How was this “scientific experiment” conducted? Step 1: We got candies: The fruity kind, like gummies, Skittles, and Starburst and the chocolate kind — everything from Kit Kat, Hershey’s, and Mounds to Reeses P-nut Butter Cups and Snickers. Step 2: We got wine, some based on recommendations that we researched i [...]

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0:00.0	Jekyll and High.
0:07.0	Jekyll and High.
0:10.0	Jekyll and High.
0:12.0	Thanks for
0:13.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio, the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:20.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified sololye and certified specialist of wine and I'm MC Ice just a wine loving normal person.
0:28.0	Happy Halloween.
0:30.0	It's my favorite holiday.
0:33.0	I know.
0:34.0	I think it's now your favorite holiday.
0:35.0	Has it always been your favorite holiday?
0:38.0	It is now because of what we just did.
0:41.0	We decided to answer the age-old question what wines pair best with
0:47.3	Halloween candy. We figured that everybody has Halloween candy left over and you probably want to
0:56.0	know what one you need to have with what Halloween candy you have leftover or what
1:02.2	Halloween candy you may be stealing from your kids.
1:04.6	Or neighbors kids or neighbors kids or from work or from whatever so you can hide a
1:11.4	little flask on your desk.
1:12.8	No, I'm just kidding.
1:14.3	I also do want to just do one quick thing,
1:17.0	which is brag about my pumpkin.
1:19.6	Come on, you are looking at us so skeptically.
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