Ep 110: How to Tell if a Wine Can Age

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Using M.C. Ice's experience and his "lightbulb" moment in learning about a wine's potential to age, we discuss a recent tasting of a high end Bordeaux wine and how he was able to identify that this wine was a diamond in the rough (and it's not just because it costs $700 a bottle!).

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0:41.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier,
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 like how I get to the wine store a few minutes before you.
0:57.5	I talk to Jean-Louis.
0:59.6	He's a very lovely guy, even better than I remember and the owner of the wine shop comes up to me
1:07.2	you know I'm a bar I'm Joe wine guy I'm super gum he was was kind of a dush. Very snotty and he says
1:16.6	do you know Jean-Loui well I'm the one that brought him to town well let me go
1:21.1	introduce you and I said well actually I do know him and by the way
1:24.5	my wife had dinner with him last night so thank you very much. It's only good
1:30.6	because he was so snooty and I think that's really funny but yes this has
1:35.8	been a great week because if you've been following on Facebook or Twitter I had the
1:39.8	opportunity to once again see now my friend Jean-Louis Carbonier who we did 85 episode
1:46.5	actually I did I'm sad that you couldn't come episode 85 and 86 with Jean-Louis
1:52.2	is the director of marketing and sales for Chateau-Pomer, which is a third
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