Ep 099: What is Tannin?

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

You may think you know everything you need to know about tannin but in what could be our dorkiest podcast yet, we share a bunch of nerdy facts about tannin. And the show outline:

What are tannins?

They're the stuff that makes your mouth feel dry or pucker after you drink a red wine or a white that’s been aged in oak.
They are polyphenols – Chemical compounds in reds that easily bind to stuff, change often
They affect color, flavor, and structure of the wine and act as a preservative – tannic wines can be cellared for a long time
They are Important in food and wine pairing – protein helps minimize tannins

Where do tannins come from?:

Found in skin, stems, seeds or from barrels or wood chips (tannin powder in the cheap wine)
Some words on tanning leather and how tannins impact animal skins
Vineyard management and winemaking

We then cover tannic food and high tannin wines including the big four:

Nebbiolo
Cabernet Sauvignon
Tannat
Syrah

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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	You know, as the truth be told, this was not supposed to be the topic of this podcast.
0:47.0	What was it supposed to be?
0:49.0	It was not supposed to be on Tannin, which is a topic we meant to cover, we do want to cover, because it's an important
0:56.9	one in wine, but it's actually going to be a kind of a fluffy one on wines for the Oscars, is I know like the grouch
1:07.0	No for the Academy Awards
1:10.0	Oh it wouldn't be necessarily fair for our international awards. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
1:13.0	It wouldn't be necessarily fair for our international listeners, because, but I think everybody kind of follows
1:17.8	along with the big award shows.
1:19.8	I think Hollywood kind of dominates the international movie scene.
1:23.4	No?
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1:26.0	Well, it's a mixed bag.
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