Ep 064: Oak Revisited (Dork Remix)

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2012

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When we first started the podcast, we didn’t know what the appetite for dorkiness was. After almost 2 years of doing this, we’ve realized it’s VORACIOUS!! Yay! That means I can go hog-wild in a crazy oak-a-palooza. After our newly revamped “Listener Feedback” segment, where we ask you if you want to chat and be on the podcast (we want to hear from you!), we hit the main event. This week we’re feeding the beast with 48 minutes of dork-dom. M.C. Ice and I hit one of the most important topics in wine, in detail. Here are the high level points: Philosophies on the use of oak Flavors from oak Some important factors that go into barrel making/oak selection by winemakers — location of the forest, new v. used, size, wood drying methods, and why M.C. Ice only wants wine from “split” wood barrels… After this total nerd-fest, we just keep it going with a fabulous Grape of the Week (yes, we’ve been slacking!): Blaufränkisch [...]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 Zillma Yea and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	We're back from Thanksgiving.
0:25.0	We had a fabulous, successful, very whiny
0:31.0	Thanksgiving with our wine-loving friends and some awesome food.
0:35.9	We did have some awesome food.
0:36.9	We got to give it up to you.
0:37.9	You did a good job.
0:38.9	You did most of it though.
0:40.3	I did a lot of it.
0:41.3	You stirred the soup.
0:42.4	I mean we've got that going for us. I'm a good stir. You really are a very good stir. I think that's why I married you. We had some great pairings. We had some Amanteato, Sherry, The Rosé, a hit all around.
0:53.6	We did Gruna Verclina, the white wine from Austria.
0:59.0	And by the time we got through a bunch of the wines, what else did we have?
1:03.6	Do we have a sparkling also?
1:05.0	We did.
1:05.9	And by the time we got to the dessert course,
1:09.0	we could not even have dessert wine.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wine for Normal People, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wine for Normal People and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.