Ep 074: Washington State Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

You know, if we can get to it relatively easily (i.e., it’s in the U.S.), we’ve got to visit a place before we do a podcast on it. You asked, and we went! This week: Washington State in the northeastern part of the United States. Damn! They are making great wine there, and it’s worth seeking out. We get dorky about rocks, soil, and sunlight in this episode. Download us on iTunes or click here for the link to the podcast (and click on the arrow under the “listen now” to hear it) Here are the notes: Stats that you may find hard to believe, given Washington’s relatively low profile Geography and geology, including M.C. Ice’s nerdy turn as an (almost) geology minor We go MISSOULA on you! A bit more modern history The American Viticultural Areas — with a special focus on Yakima, Rattlesnake Hills, Red Mountain, Snipes Mountain, Horse Heaven Hills, and Walla Walla Our best explanation of what the wines taste like There are a fe [...]

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0:00.0	MC Ice, guess what?
0:02.0	Today's podcast is brought to our listeners by audible.com.
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0:08.0	W.W.audible Trial.com, forward slash wine for normal people there's over a hundred thousand
0:14.7	titles to choose from and those are for your iPhone Android Kindle or MP3
0:19.0	player go get a buck Let's get to the show.
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 silye and certified specialist of wine.
0:39.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:42.0	Came back from Washington a bigger nerd.
0:46.0	How is that possible?
0:48.0	You were there, there's so much a nerd out about it.
0:50.0	I mean, this is like...
0:51.0	Yeah, but you are a huge nerd.
0:52.0	I may be a huge nerd, but there's many more things to nerd out about and I
0:56.6	feel like I learned so much there plus it's like a geological hotbed and now David Murph-Murfeld from Dorstar Wines, who we're going to have a
1:09.4	podcast with next week, is turning us on to all sorts of nerdy things including the
1:16.8	Nova special what is it mystery of the mega flood?
1:21.8	PPS you can find on YouTube for free.
1:25.0	Although the buffering is really getting to me.
1:27.0	I know.
1:28.0	You let it buffer for a little while and then you got 42 minutes of bliss.
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