Ep 087: The Grape Miniseries: Discovering Riesling w Expert Stuart Piggott

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2013

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Grape Miniseries returns with a very special edition! Riesling expert Stuart Piggott joins us to give the low down on this exquisite but often misunderstood grape. This is a not-to-miss conversation with an entertaining, funny, NORMAL Riesling guru!

After gossiping about why a lot of wine experts are disconnected from normal people we cover stuff like:

The origins of the grape
Terroir's effect on Riesling
Style variation by place (Alsace,Australia, Austria, the US, Canada and more)
Growing Riesling and making it
The "petrol" note and spritz in the wine -- WHAT are they?
The sweetness factor
How to tell if something is sweet or dry by looking at the bottle and how to find a dry wine
Food pairings with Riesling
How to shop for Riesling to get the style you want

Next time we focus on Germany, the home and holy land of the grape!

Thanks for listening! Enjoy!

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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.
0:05.0	Yep, and they can get a free audiobook download at
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	Today I was lucky enough to get Stuart Piggott, who is a resling expert to come on the podcast
0:49.5	after some begging and pleading.
0:51.1	So much for being here. And he's a generally very cool guy,
0:55.8	very wine for normal people. So a little bit of background on Stuart. He was born in
0:59.6	Southeast London, so the accent is not fake right right and he had his first
1:05.8	harvested seven which grapes it was what the Germans called trollinger and the
1:10.9	Italians call vernach. Nice.
1:13.0	Okay, and that was right outside your window in London.
1:16.0	That was growing outside on the back of our house, that vine.
1:20.0	How did that happen?
1:21.0	Did someone plant it?
1:22.0	It was decorative, basically, but in the summer of
1:25.7	1967 was extremely good, the summer of Love.
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