Ep 081 Discovering New Regions

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to listener Kristaps for this week's topic!

After a great listener question on how drinking windows are determined, we give you a few steps you can follow to start exploring a new wine region. In short:

Get a map
Read and research
Narrow down to what sounds good
Figure out how to get the wines you want
Evaluate them, fairly

Enjoy!

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0:35.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio, the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:41.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified silye,
0:46.0	and certified specialist of wine.
0:48.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:51.0	I'm excited because I love when you guys give us recommendations and suggestions for
0:56.3	podcasts and today we have one from Christophs Paddock who we have mentioned before in the podcast because I so embarrassingly called
1:07.6	him a woman because his picture had his fiance right next to him and I didn't know and I just kind of did a wild guess there.
1:19.2	So anyway, this is for Christops who just got married.
1:23.2	Oh, congratulations.
1:24.6	The topic today is how do you explore a new wine region?
1:28.5	It can be really daunting, so I think it's a great topic.
1:31.4	And it doesn't matter whether it's a well established region
1:34.2	or some really small region
1:37.1	and it doesn't matter whether it's a country
1:39.3	or whether it's a small area of Burgundy, whatever it is, we can give you some questions
1:47.0	to ask and some guides that are big into the methodology.
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