Ep 174: Last minute gifts, holiday, and New Year's Eve wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

An end of year podcast to help you figure out stuff like: What wine to gift if you're on a budget, or not, what defines a "special" occasion, how to get the host to open the wine you bring, plus quick Christmas pairings & options for New Year's bubbles!

Show notes:

Wine is an ideal last-minute gift -- don't get gadgets unless the person specifies they want them!
1. Ways to figure out what someone may want
2. Budget and non-budget options

How to figure out how to make sure the wine you bring to a gathering gets opened and some other etiquette suggestions

Saving for a “special” occasion – notes on when an occasion is “special” enough

Sparkling wines for NYE -- different options and ideas on drinking order

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! Thanks for your support in 2016! Here's to an even better 2017!

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 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	So I have to admit this is kind of a last-minute thrown-together podcast,
0:27.3	but we really needed to do it.
0:29.0	And it was spurred on by the fact that I was on a friend's radio show, a local radio show, the Dana Barrett show in the city of Atlanta.
0:39.2	Wow, drop names much.
0:41.1	Come on, she's awesome. She is awesome. She's a friend of ours. She had me on and I was talking I will I have
0:47.2	posted it but I'll post my portion of it again on Facebook I'll also put it on the
0:52.2	website so you guys can look at it
0:53.8	wine for normal people.com but it was an appearance about New Year's Eve wines
1:00.3	gifts and all that kind of stuff and I thought that would be a pretty good thing to
1:05.0	talk about last minute on the podcast because she has some good questions
1:08.2	she has some great questions and some thought-provoking ones too. So first of all happy holidays everybody. All of them, all those holidays.
1:17.3	Corwanzaca, as I call it. That's right. Festivist for the rest of us.
1:21.6	Festivist. Yeah, we need a Festivist Podcast.
1:24.4	We do need Festivist Podcast, although I've already...
1:28.0	The airing of grievances could be your reviews of all the bad wines we've had. Here's what I have to say about this year.
1:35.4	We've had a lot of really bad wines but this is all in anticipation of the
1:39.6	soon-to-be-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rege that I'm working on which will come up and it won't
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