Ep 140: Wine Travel in France -- A How To

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this short podcast we bring back Ian Renwick, winemaker and former travel planner to answer one of the top questions I get from you: "I'm going to France. What's the best way to explore the wine regions?"

The options are limited, but we tell you what you can do to get the most out of your trip!

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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.
0:35.8	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:39.8	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:43.0	Once again, we are welcoming back Ian Renick, our British friend who is a winemaker in the
0:49.6	Rhône slash Provence region of France. I asked Ian to do a podcast and this is a very short
0:56.6	podcast but I think it deserves its own episode because it is a question I get
1:01.2	all the time from you guys and the question is I'm going to France I'm going to Italy
1:06.8	I'm going especially to France and going to Burgundy or Rhone or wherever and I really want to go to wineries I want to go touring where should I go do you have the
1:17.0	names of some wineries I should go to and sadly I usually have some really bad news for people because as Ian mentioned in our other longer podcast
1:30.7	Europe and especially France is not really set up fabulously well for the kind of tourism
1:37.8	that I think most Americans are used to or Canadians or Brits are used to. So, Ian, can you just kind of riff for a second
1:46.6	on what the deal is with wine tourism in France? Sure. I'll keep this short and simple.
1:55.0	Wine tourism in France sucks.
1:58.0	It's not, it's not, it's not complicated and I we have a different experience so I you know we've been I've been lucky enough to travel to wine regions around the world where it's done properly and you know the best
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