Ep 163: Getting to Know White Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

White wines often get dismissed as being less complex than reds but that's hardly the case. In this episode we review aromatic v non aromatic whites and how to navigate whites to find styles & grapes that will give you a new appreciation for these wines.

Specifically we talk about:

Aromatic wines -- what aromas they exhibit, regions you'll most likely find them and how they are made.
We talk about the merits of aromatic v non aromatic wines
We discuss aromatic grapes: Albariño, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Muscat, Torrontés, Viognier, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Fiano and more

A good primer on whites and their breadth and depth!

Transcript

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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.
0:23.0	White wines I feel like don't always get their due.
0:27.2	So I really want to go over in this podcast
0:32.4	kind of how to approach white wines and to talk about the two main
0:36.1	categories of white wines and if you don't like one maybe you can try the other and one will work for you and one may not like you for instance
0:46.8	or you could be like me and just love everything.
0:48.8	What about me?
0:50.0	You don't like aromatic white wines which is one category. I don't like aromatic white wines, which is one category.
0:53.2	I don't like sweet white wines.
0:55.2	Well, aromatic does not mean sweet.
0:57.8	So.
0:58.6	So then what aromatic white wines do I not like?
1:02.0	Well, let's talk about what aromatic white wines so if
1:05.3	so if we can talk about the other stuff so not all aromatic white wines are
1:10.3	sweet no way okay are all are any non-aromatic wines are
1:13.0	sweet. any non-eromatic white wines sweet.
1:17.0	No.
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