Ep 121: Aging Wine Revisited

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's Groundhog Day in the US, which means, according to the namessake movie, we get a do-over! So we re-do the episode on aging -- we discuss what to hold, why, and the history behind it. We talk about ideal storage conditions & why we don't cellar wine.

We hit on:

The history of aging wine
The chemical components that make a wine good for aging
The role of cork in aging
Which wines may age best
The ideal conditions for cellaring and ways to cellar wine -- temperature, humidity, light, vibration
Bottle types and dumb phases
Why we don't cellar wine

Hope you enjoy and learn more this time than the last time we covered this!

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0:00.0	MC Ice, guess what?
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0:19.0	player go get a buck let's get to the show.
0:29.0	Thanks for listening to wine for normal people. The podcast 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. Here we go again.
0:43.8	It's like Deja vu all over.
0:46.8	Let's explain what we're doing because it may not be 100% clear, especially to our international
0:52.0	listeners who don't, I don't think everybody does
0:55.3	ground hug that it's this strange tradition in the United States so there is a
1:00.1	holiday if you're not in the United States called Groundhog Day. Is it really a
1:04.4	holiday or is just a day? It's a holiday. It is? Yeah. But no, when we cook up Groundhog, we
1:11.1	sure it was stuffing. First of all, groundhog is like an American animal.
1:15.6	But there is this little woodland creature, let's say.
1:20.8	It's kind of beaver-esque. They coax it out of its whole layer.
1:27.0	It's whole and if it sees its shadow on that particular day then you will have six more weeks of winter.
1:37.8	If not, then spring will come early.
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