Ep 067: The Grape Miniseries — Tempranillo

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 14 January 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Facebook friends voted and the Grape Miniseries won for the topic this week! So for the first podcast of 2013 we tackle the King of the Spanish reds: Tempranillo. It has more…and less… to it than meets the eye. After lots of wonderful thanks and fun comments, we get to this fascinating, native Spanish grape. A few notes on it… The grape is from northern Spanish and gets its name from “Temprano” which means early, since it ripens 2 weeks before Rioja’s other important grape – Garnacha The wine is deep-colored, lower in acid and alcohol, and has amazing ageability but a lot of times it’s kind of bland on flavor. If it’s got any flavor it’s kind of like berries, plum, tobacco, vanilla, leather, and herbs. It can be a lot better in a blend, as the folks in Rioja can tell you. Climate and elevation is everything for Tempranillo — it does best in cool climates and at elevation. Yields HAVE to be controlled to produce a good wi [...]

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
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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	First podcast of 2013.
0:24.8	It's about time, ready to get back into it.
0:27.8	I know, we kind of have been slacken.
0:29.8	Get what you pay for, right?
0:31.0	Is it? Well, we're happy to be back. We had a bunch of great
0:36.8	stuff that is CNN radio interview. Yeah well done that was awesome.
0:41.4	Hey thanks that was very fun. I really enjoy Pat. Yeah, well done. That was awesome. You did terrific.
0:43.0	I really enjoy Pat.
0:45.0	That was our second piece together.
0:47.0	It was very fun.
0:48.0	So if you didn't get to listen to it, go on the blog and there's a link to the CNN radio interview on sparkling wine, but we are
0:56.5	back in the action. All right, so what's a topic for today? Well we let the
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