Ep 203: California Fires / Rapel Valley, Chile

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 14 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the wildfires raging in the North Coast of California and give ideas on what that could mean for the industry. Then we talk about one of the best (maybe unknown) value regions for wine in the world, Rapel Valley in Chile and its sub regions!

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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.
0:23.4	We have a lot of things to cover.
0:25.3	Some of it very sad.
0:26.8	We're going to be talking about the fires in Northern California,
0:30.4	a little bit at the beginning.
0:31.6	But then don't worry, we are definitely going to hit something very awesome which is an overview of the Rapel Valley and the two sub areas of it, the Cachau-Pau Valley and the Colchagua Valley, which are full of great
0:47.0	wines and awesome value, and I feel like we've really neglected Chile, and I love it.
0:53.2	I find it to be such an amazing compromise
0:56.9	between New World Opulents,
1:00.0	like the fruit and the big flavor and higher alcohol levels and then some restraint
1:06.4	because it has a lot of influence from France. Is that why you can't tell that
1:11.4	it's 14.5%?
1:13.0	Yeah, I mean a lot of times the alcohol levels are kind of high.
1:16.0	It's sort of like Walla Walla in that way.
1:18.0	The alcohol levels are very high but you won't feel it.
1:20.0	So you do have to be careful.
1:22.0	Yeah, no kidding. it. So you do have to be careful. But before we talk about that, I do want to give a little bit of an update on what's been going on in Northern California.
1:30.0	There is, if you're listening to this much later, it is 2017, October 2017, and the historic
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