Ep 138: The Finger Lakes Region of New York State

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After a trip to this stunning region full of kind people and delicious wines, we can finally report on it!

To understand this region, you've got to get into a serious dork out mode because the story of how vinifera grapes can grow in this cold place goes all the way back to the glaciers! So briefly, in this podcast we cover:

1. The importance of the Lake Effect and how depth matters to grape growing

2. Weather and what that can do to a vine

3. Grapes and how Riesling is a goddess in the Finger Lakes, and unlike Riesling anywhere else

4. Glaciers, soils, and other nerdy earth-science stuff that relates to grape growing here.

5. History of the region and preview of the soon-to-be-released podcast with Fred Frank, grandson of the pioneer of east coast vinifera winemaking, Dr. Konstantin Frank

6. How to get these wines

After you hear this you're definitely going to want to get your hands on these wines or visit the region. A great story, and a fascinating region! Enjoy!

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0:27.0	The podcast for people who want to learn about wine
0:31.0	but can do without the attitude that seems to go with it.
0:35.0	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.
0:43.0	Someone actually wrote on the Facebook page.
0:46.5	Are you two ever in the same city?
0:49.6	Really?
0:50.1	About us.
0:51.2	Well, we are Skyping right now. No No we're not. I'm looking at you food. Yeah via Skype. We've been very busy I guess.
1:00.0	You've been busy. I was in the Finger Lakes for the wine bloggers, my first ever
1:04.8	wine bloggers conference and really truth be known. A lot of it was just to go see the
1:10.9	bigger lakes and to taste the wine.
1:13.0	You mean talking about that for a long time.
1:14.4	Glad you went.
1:15.2	Yeah, it was beautiful.
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