Ep 257: Screw Cap, Cork, and Closure Experiments with Peterson Winery (Sonoma CA)

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🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week: a live experiment with Jamie and Emily Peterson of Peterson Winery in Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma, in which we drill down into the effect screw cap and cork have on wine in the long term. We discuss all kinds of bottle closures-- a must listen!

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A few brief notes:

1. We discuss screw cap and the developments with it over the last 10 years

2. We do our first experiment with rosé and talk about what oxygen does as we explore screw caps that let in different amounts of oxygen into the bottle!

3. We briefly touch on bag-in-box and the advantages and disadvantages of it

4. We do the screw cap v cork show down with the following wines:

2010 Peterson Winery Zero Manipulation red
2010 Peterson Winery Sangiovese
2010 Peterson Winery Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel

All comments, shock, and awe are real! This was recorded as we were tasting the wines, so the reactions and conclusions were made on the fly. Video will be available on YouTube as well!

Thank you to Emily and Jamie Peterson for sharing this amazing experience with us! To buy their wines: www.petersonwinery.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio.
0:10.0	It's the podcast for people who like wine
0:12.0	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.
0:25.0	Sometimes you just get lucky for this podcast,
0:27.6	it was one of these moments.
0:29.2	I was going out to Sonoma, California,
0:31.8	to visit Laura, who is my partner for Underground
0:35.6	Wine Events. We were talking about 2019. We were going to go see a whole bunch of
0:39.4	people and I got an email from Emily Peterson of Peterson Winery telling me that they were ready to
0:46.3	test out an experiment that they had done with wines from 2010 under screw cap and under cork. Also they were testing out different kinds of
0:57.0	screw cap closures and that will be explained in the podcast. This podcast is something that was recorded as we were going through it.
1:06.2	The Peterson's and my reaction is completely organic. We did not taste these wines
1:11.5	prior to recording. So some of it is a little bit jagged. did not
1:15.0	a hundred percent but it's decent
1:18.0	and I think the learning that we got from it
1:21.0	the conclusions that we made, were really quite interesting.
1:24.8	It's something that as a wine lover, you should definitely know about.
1:28.6	Here's the other cool thing.
1:30.0	While we were doing this, I recorded some video.
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