Ep 065: The Grape Miniseries — Malbec

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week we return to the Grape Miniseries…finally! It’s Malbec and I think we have a few surprises to share about this grape. After lots of wonderful thanks and fun comments, we hit three excellent listener questions: 1. What’s the etiquette of sharing good wine with people who may not appreciate it? GREAT question and we have an answer that should provide a sigh of relief for you. 2. What exactly is minerality in normal people terms? We hit on some ideas, and suggest licking rocks… 3. And very importantly, when is “Wine for Normal People” the book coming out? Yes, Virginia, you can put it on your Christmas wish-list next year! Then we get to the matter at hand! And a few summary points: We talk about the grape and its many challenges in the vineyard. We discuss the main styles of Malbec (’cause it isn’t just Argentina) Then we hit on history and the regions where the grape grows or has grown in the past: France: [...]

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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 Zillmie and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.8	It's been a little while, but we're back.
0:25.8	A little while, because a few days, right?
0:29.0	I'm not talking about the podcast, which we make our best effort to record weekly but it doesn't always
0:35.3	happen. Oh what what did I screw up on now? Nothing we just haven't done a great
0:39.2	miniseries or forever we'd be neglecting. Do you even know what this podcast is about tonight?
0:44.6	Yes. Cool. Okay what is it about?
0:47.4	Mabel?
0:48.4	Woo-hoo! Yes. By popular demand, the great miniseries is back.
0:54.0	Thank goodness.
0:56.0	Following up at the dorkery of the Oak episode, I don't really think we could get much darker than that, do you?
1:02.0	No, but we got lots of good feedback from it so it seems
1:05.2	like there are a lot of dorks out there there are and you know that I am a huge
1:09.5	fan of dorkery but you are a huge nerd I totally am a huge nerd and still love that thing I know what we're
1:16.7	referencing is Triumph the insult comic dog yes and there was this thing on... Part of Conan.
1:23.0	And he started on Conan O'Brien.
1:24.0	Oh my gosh, and they went to the Star Wars conference,
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