Ep 170: Isabelle Legeron, Leader of the Natural Wine Movement

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What is natural wine, exactly? Isabelle Legeron, Master of Wine and leader of the natural wine movement & founder of the RAW Wine Natural Wine Festival explains it in great detail & talks about why it's so important for us to consider drinking natural.

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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 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	Today I am honored to have Isabelle Lejeune on the podcast.
0:27.5	She is France's only female master of wine.
0:31.1	She's one of only 343 masters of wine. She's one of only 343 Masters of Wine worldwide. Winner of the Madame Boligier Award for
0:38.7	Excellence in Tasting and the Villam Maria Award for Viticulture.
0:43.0	She was named Wine Woman of the Year in Paris.
0:45.0	Her honors go on and on.
0:47.0	She consults for Nichelan-starred restaurants
0:50.0	has hosted her own TV show including That Crazy French Woman and Journey into Wine.
0:56.2	You founded a wine school, a high-end wine club, consulted on wine list around the world,
1:02.2	and then you created Raw Wine, which is on wine
1:03.4	and then you created raw wine which is the UK's largest
1:06.5	artisan wine fair now in Berlin and now coming to New York
1:11.1	which is really exciting.
1:13.0	You're also a writer for Decanter, other publications.
1:16.1	You've written Natural Wine, an Introduction to Organic and Biodynamic Wines
1:20.0	Made Naturally, which has been nominated for lots of awards, and you are all about natural
1:25.3	wine, which is all you drink.
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