Ep 164: Yarra Valley of Australia with Simone Madden-Grey

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

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🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Simone Madden-Grey, our new "down under" correspondent, who will be helping us explore the world of wines from Australia and New Zealand. After meeting her and learning of her fascinating background we discuss the Yarra Valley, an excellent cool climate region of Australia.

Simone's Web site, Happy Wine Woman: https://happywinewoman.com

And a link to her blog, where she discusses her favorites from Yarra: http://wp.me/p3fxzw-Jt

What did we discuss in this episode?:

1. An introduction: Who is Simone? Our new correspondent for Australia and New Zealand and founder of Happy Wine Woman services/writing

2. What is going on in Australia at large? An overview and discussion

3. What is the Yarra Valley and why did we choose to do the first podcast on it?

We discuss the high wine quality, its differentiation from traditional Australian styles, and the importance of it in the revival of Australia’s global image

4. What is Yarra? Overview

1 hour from Melbourne
Some historical details
The reputation as a large, diverse area with many wine styles, although known mostly for restrained Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, along w sparkling
37˚ S latitude -- same as Mendoza in Argentina, southern Bio Bio in Chile. 37˚N -- Santa Cruz, CA, Virginia, Sicily, Peloponnese
Coolest part of mainland Australia
Diversity: Valley Floor v Upper Yarra, Mediterranean v continental climate, rainfall levels

5. Grapes/Wine:

Chard and Pinot 60% of production, but Cabernet and Shiraz big players too.
Simone tells us what to expect from these wines from a flavor perspective.

Here's Simone's full list of Yarra Valley wineries:

Yeringberg http://www.yeringberg.com/

Yering Station http://www.yering.com/

Yarra Yering http://www.yarrayering.com/

Giant Steps http://www.giantstepswine.com.au/

Innocent Bystander http://www.innocentbystander.com.au/

Domaine Chandon http://www.chandon.com.au/

Out of Step http://www.outofstepwineco.com/

Salo http://www.salowines.com.au/

Arfion http://www.arfion.com.au/

Payten and Jones https://paytenandjoneswine.com.au/

Jamsheed http://jamsheed.com.au/

Warramate Wines http://warramatewines.com.au/

De Bortoli http://debortoliyarra.com.au/de-bortoli-yarra-valley.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio.
0:10.0	It's the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.9	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:19.7	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:23.0	Today we are going to be introducing our new correspondent for Australia and New Zealand.
0:30.5	And that is Simone Maden Gray.
0:34.0	So Simone, welcome, and we are so excited to learn more about you
0:39.0	and to learn more about the world of wines from Australia, New Zealand that many of us do not have access to.
0:45.6	Well, thank you. I'm super excited to be here, so thanks for having me on the show.
0:50.0	So let us go into who you are because you are so awesome and you've had such a
0:56.7	you so this is the one thing when we first talked I was like wow this is the
1:01.0	the common thread with everyone that seems to be becoming a
1:06.2	correspondent on the show. You know Ian Renick who introduced us had a life of
1:11.1	corporate and other stuff before his life and wine and now he is opening a wine shop and we will hear his journey as things go on.
1:22.0	But I mean you were a flautist right or do you call it a
1:25.1	fluteist? I just go for the neutral flute player so yeah. I really like that because
1:30.5	flautist is really hard to say but you were a musician you're a
1:33.4	professional musician for a really long time yeah yeah for a number of years I worked
1:38.8	as a professional flute player I worked both in New Zealand where I'm from and I studied there and then I
1:45.6	studied in the US at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and then I did a little bit of
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