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Wine for Normal People

Ep 213: Easy, Inexpensive Wine Gifts

Wine for Normal People

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this solo podcast, I give you a bunch of ideas to make gift giving and holiday pairing easy!

Here are the show notes:

1. First I talk about potential all-purpose wines that will work for a lot of different holiday foods:

The reds:

  • Sonoma, California Syrah or Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Chilean Syrah
  • Côtes-du-Rhône (or Gigondas, Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
  • Bordeaux -- specifically Merlot-based, and look for the Cru Bourgeois label

The whites:

  • Santa Barbara, California Chardonnay
  • South African or New Zealand Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc from South Africa or Loire
  • White Rhône blends from California or Rhône

Rhône producers I mentioned: E. Guigal, Chapoutier

2. Then I gift some questions to ask before buying wine as a gift for someone:

  • What do they usually drink?
  • What do they eat?
  • What kind of person are they -- adventuresome or less so?

3. Finally I hit on gift ideas:

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Happy Holidays! Thank you for listening and for you being such an awesome audience!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for

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downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,

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the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.

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I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.

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And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.

0:23.4

Who is in the same boat that I am in?

0:25.8

Where you have not finished your Christmas shopping

0:31.2

and you're trying to come up with gifts for people last minute.

0:35.0

That is where I am and you know why I'm doing this podcast alone today.

0:40.8

Yes, this is a solo effort is because some of these gifts I need to get for

0:46.2

MC Ice and after I finished recording the podcast I'm going to have to run out and get some.

0:51.8

Hopefully if you were in the same boat you will benefit for the list I just made and I will try to make it brief because I know you don't have a lot of time for this stuff either.

1:02.8

We gotta run out, we gotta get our stuff,

1:05.2

we gotta put it in a wrapping paper

1:08.1

and just get going.

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So I am going to motor through some ideas for you for stocking stuffers or smaller gifts.

1:18.4

And by the way, even though I'm putting this in context of gifts you can get for other people.

1:22.6

These are also things you can get for yourself because a number of us are probably

1:26.1

going to receive gift certificates and I gotta tell you the joys of Amazon or Target or other places where you're going to be able or big box

1:35.8

stores in whatever country you live in is that they do carry a lot of items

1:41.0

that I'm going to mention here and some of them are things that you may have that you might

1:46.4

want to replace because they've updated them. Some of them are things that may be a little

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