Ep 078: Loire Part 1

Wine for Normal People

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🗓️ 29 June 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We’re on a roll — hitting the big regions of France. This week, we cover half the Loire. It’s the largest region in France, so we had to break it in two. But first, we remind everyone of our amazing partnership with Vinport.com, for which I am selecting wines that I think are great examples of their regions. Free shipping on 6 or more bottles, great prices, and descriptions of six kick ass wines that will let you taste exactly the attributes M.C. Ice and discuss on the podcast (and as I say on the podcast, I get a small portion of the proceeds, but I selected Vinport as a partner because they let me pick what I wanted to present to you, not what was on their agenda). LINK to my page on Vinport (which features two awesome Alsace wines this month!): LINK TO WFNP PAGE with Alsace wines for purchase! First a Loire overview, including Cremant (sparkling wine), the “branding” issue the region has, and two of the main areas: 1. Pays Nantais/Muscadet Feat [...]

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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 solmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:22.6	So before we get started on the main event, which will be the l'uire.
0:28.8	That's a big event?
0:29.8	Well, it is a big event, especially because it is the largest wine region in France.
0:37.0	And it's like a snake.
0:38.7	Got a white tail and a white head.
0:40.5	What?
0:41.5	Yeah, like white wines on the front end, and white on the back end and then a bunch of stuff in the middle. Like red? Like red,
0:47.0	rosé, sparkling, sweet. Oh like really a bunch of stuff. Oh my gosh, the lore is so diverse. I mean it's not this is not a straight up thing. This is huge topic and it's interesting because I feel like when I shop there's barely anything available from lore. I mean mean, it's really, I know that a lot of the wines are kept within the region.
1:07.7	It's really hard to find good wines, and sometimes it's hard to find wines at all from Loy. So it's interesting in that
1:15.2	regard that I feel like at least where we are and in other places that I have
1:20.3	shopped it doesn't have the kind of availability that you get from other the main other
1:25.2	regions of France, Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhone.
1:28.9	Why do you think that is?
1:30.7	I think because of the very thing that I just said there's so much diversity
1:36.0	that I feel like people aren't like yeah I know that I think people maybe they
1:40.8	know that poi fume and saun Sansaire are Sauvignon Blanc.
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