Ep 076: Are Wine Reviews BS?

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Based on a popular article that circulated in a tech mag, proclaiming that “Wine Reviews are BS” and a bunch of listener questions we’ve received, we tackle the article and other critiques of the wine review world head-on. Are wine reviews really BS? We let you know what we think! In the podcast we detail the “Exhibits” from the article, debunking or agreeing with each, and using each as a basis for discussion about the world of wine reviews and whether or not the criticism is justified, in our opinions (which is all wine reviews really are anyway). Thanks for listening! We can’t wait to hear from you! If you’ve got a question you want us to answer, post it here or on Facebook or Twitter we’ll include it on the show! [...]

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0:00.0	MC Ice, guess what?
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0:19.0	player go get a buck let's get to the show. Thanks for downloading wine for normal people radio, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the
0:31.9	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	You are full of old. No, you know what I was
0:46.3	full of though? I was full of allergies. I have no voice for the last two weeks. So thank
0:50.4	goodness, or I guess week and a half. So thank goodness I got it back.
0:54.4	It's not 100% though.
0:56.1	You know it's really funny.
0:57.1	You know the story about how when I, well we'll go through my whole history in Boston, yada yada wound up as a waitress in St. John.
1:05.2	Something made me really allergic.
1:07.1	I think there was something in the salt there.
1:09.2	And I sounded, for the entire almost year that I was there I sounded like demymore and people thought that was what my voice
1:16.7	sounded like and then when they heard me when I got back they were like what?
1:20.5	Who are you?
1:21.5	Seriously a really good friend that was like what happened Who are you? A really good friend that was like, what happened to your voice?
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