Ep 070: Chile

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast we cover Chile, a country with some really great wines and some very interesting history behind it in the wine world.

After a retraction and re-giving of thanks to a listener we cover the main topic. We discuss how this long, narrow country’s isolation has led to a bunch of developments — great for wine, less good for politics We talk about the climate, geography, and main grapes

We review the long history of winemaking, starting with the Conquistadores and hitting on some of the key developments (including the influence of Bordeaux) that made the Chilean wine industry what it is today
The grape confusion and the rebirth of Sauvignon Blanc and Carmenere in Chile
Finally, we hit on regions and what to expect from the wines of this long, skinny country.

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0:30.0	Thanks for downloading wine for normal people radio. The podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:35.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:39.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:42.0	Br, it's cold out.
0:45.0	It is, but you know what?
0:47.0	I feel so bad for the people in Boston and New York
0:51.0	who have gotten snow and all over New England and parts of Canada
0:54.6	who have just gotten totally snowed in so I don't know that we can really
0:57.4	complain that much although I will say I was shocked after all I lived in Boston for six years I have a lot of friends up there
1:06.2	my sister is there and our nephews and I was astonished you know the blizzard happened on what Friday they had the whole
1:17.1	thing cleared up by Sunday and she's going at she's going to work nobody stops it for
1:21.3	anything up there I love it I love that that's the spirit we'd be
1:24.6	snowed in till June here I read they had 600 plows on the street in
1:31.0	a day in Boston are you serious I'm serious? They got a problem. No, that's a little, that's
1:36.8	overboard. No, they have a solution. I love it and that's the only problem is and
1:41.6	if you live in Boston or you live in any other
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