Ep 120: Wines of Margaret River, Australia

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

For Australia Day, we revisit this amazing continent and one of its finest wine gems -- Margaret River. As Australia emerges from its post-critter wine era, the country is in need of a reset. If ever there was a region to rejigger people's perception of Aussie wine, this is it.

Here's the link: MARGARET RIVER

We first talk about Western Australia -- its size, location, and the other wine regions here.
We focus in on Margaret River, the area that makes 3% of Australia's wine and 20% of its premium wine.
Margaret River was founded purely as a science project, and it's worked out pretty well. We hit on climate, terroir, soil, and the most successful grapes.

After you hear our description of the flavor profiles of these wines, you're going to want to run out to get some! And you should. It's great stuff.

Enjoy and happy Australia Day!

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0:27.0	The Podcasts for People who want to learn about Wine,
0:31.0	but could do without the attitude that seems to go with it.
0:34.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:40.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:42.0	What's very cheesy about this week I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:42.8	What's very cheesy about this week's podcast
0:46.6	is that it follows the same cheesiness
0:49.3	as last year's podcast in that Australia day is on Monday so I thought that we would do another
0:58.2	Australia podcast even though really at this rate really do one see...
1:02.0	That's not bad. It's a little cheesy. I mean I I do not think Australia or Australians are cheesy so
1:10.3	Neither do I. Oh my gosh. I don't either. Oh man, what I'm trying to say is that I think first of all we don't do a lot of coverage on Australia and that is mostly because we do a lot of coverage on Australia and that is mostly because we do a lot of of
1:25.0	a lot of I want to give a shout out directly.
1:26.8	I'm giving a shout out directly to Sally from Australia,
1:29.7	who is the only Australian listener who ever writes.
1:34.3	So I look at our statistics occasionally.
1:37.1	Most of our listeners, like 98% of our listeners
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