Ep 176: The Many Sides of Australian Shiraz with Simone Madden-Grey

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🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Simone Madden-Grey, our Down Under co-host, talks about the flavors of Shiraz & how it can't be pigeon-holed into one profile or type of wine. A refreshing look at Australia from an inside view, you'll want to run out to producers she mentions!

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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 this is our second podcast with Simone Maden Gray,
0:26.9	our down under correspondence.
0:29.2	Simone welcome again.
0:30.8	Thank you.
0:31.2	I'm super excited to be back again.
0:33.0	I think that this podcast is going to be super interesting to people because we are going to talk about the
0:38.9	grape of Australia, which really, I mean wouldn't you say Shiraz is the grape of Australia?
0:46.0	Oh, absolutely. I think when people think of Australian wine, that's where they go to, it's
0:51.6	definitely Shiraz or Surah as sometimes we're seeing it being
0:54.5	labeled here now.
0:55.5	Yeah and we're going to talk about that the important thing here is that what we're
1:00.5	going to try to do in this podcast is to talk about not just
1:05.5	shuraz or as a grape as an important grape to Australia but to sort of answer the question of, okay, I've never had an
1:16.2	Australian wine before or I've only had really low-end wines before, what can I expect
1:22.4	from where and what should I be looking for as I'm sort of going through and
1:28.0	thinking about dipping a toe back into Australia?
1:30.8	There are some smaller importers right now working very hard to get Australia back on the map
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