Ep 098: Listener Q&A/ Grammar Girl

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 24 February 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After a few great questions from listeners, we have a celebrity guest: Grammar Girl, the best selling author, award-winning podcaster, and brain behind Quickanddirtytips.com. She answers dorky questions about wine grammar in her fun, brilliant style!

Listener questions were:

What does it mean exactly when someone says a wine is rustic?
Have you found wine shopping to be like fashion i.e.; certain items are a better bargain at certain times of the year?
Unless I have a specific meal I am planning I tend to buy the same wine to drink and I go through stages. Am I messing up my palate by having a standard that I always go to?
I sought out a Blaufränkisch and I was really surprised by how sweet it was. Is this typical of all Blaufränkisch , a Hungarian style, or just that vinter?

And then we get to the famous Mignon Fogarty, AKA Grammar Girl! She answers three questions for me:

Should wine types (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, etc) be capitalized in writing?
Why are some wine types not capitalized (champagne, sherry) by some wine writers?
What's the deal with variety v. varietal?

Mignon is a great person, brilliant, fun, and I'm thrilled we connected. Find her at: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl

And more about her new project, Peeve Wars here: http://FundAnything.com/peevewars

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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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0:14.7	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 sily-lmyier and certified specialist of wine.
0:39.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:42.0	Well, we do have a featured guest for the second half of this podcast.
0:47.0	That's very exciting because it is for true wine nerds.
0:52.0	And linguist nerds.
0:56.0	Yes, grammar girl who is super famous, best-selling New York Times author,
1:01.0	has written seven books has a wildly popular podcast and blog
1:07.8	quick and dirty tips.com and is just an all-around awesome person.
1:13.7	Her real name is Minion Fog Fog, Fog,
1:15.9	and she is fabulous.
1:18.4	I sent her a tweet and asked her something
1:21.7	that was bugging me in the wine world, especially as I'm writing my book, and
1:26.5	she wrote back and said she'd be on the podcast.
1:28.8	That is incredible.
1:29.8	I look up grammar questions on her site all the time.
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