Ep 115: Long Island Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Following the journey back to my homeland, we discuss the amazing wines of Long Island and how far they've come. We'll give you the lowdown from climate, to vintage, to the best wineries of the area...and yes, we name names.

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person. an Englishman in New York.
0:33.2	Well.
0:34.2	I have decided that the whole podcast will be like this.
0:40.2	In honor of the way I used to tour. I got something else to do. I'll be right back.
0:47.0	Oh, come on. Actually, really nobody... The whole podcast? No, but nobody really talks like that on Long Island anymore.
0:53.0	Really?
0:54.0	We were in the mall.
0:55.0	Yeah, that lady really talks like that at the shoe store, but anyway, we have just returned from a trip to the homeland to visit my mom and stepfather.
1:06.0	They still live on Long Island in the town that I grew up and I grew up in Port Jefferson,
1:09.6	which is a north shore town.
1:11.5	They live in Sittauk as people would say and we took the
1:15.5	opportunity while we were there to visit wine country which we haven't done in a
1:20.1	very long time and we've been meaning to do. I think it's been five years.
1:24.0	Yeah. Even in those five years the evolution has been enormous. I think our evolution of
1:29.0	wine has been enormous but really the change in the area has been quite remarkable as well and the fact that I really have no accent anymore is really quite fabulous.
1:40.5	That's really very nice. They didn't know I was a local. I mean, had been a local.
1:45.0	But you look like them and you could speak their language when it was required.
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