Ep 466: The Grape Miniseries -- Mencía
Wine for Normal People
Wine for Normal People
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we explore the Mencía grape of northwestern Spain, and northern Portugal, where it is called Jaen. This is a grape variety that hasn’t strayed far from home, as almost all plantings of it are in this corner of the Iberian Peninsula.
Although it is likely native to Portugal, Spain grows more than three times what Portugal grows and the grape has become the flagship of a number of revived regions that are building back their international reputations for exceptional wine from this singular grape that tastes a little like a lot of things but nothing like anything you’ve ever had 🤣.
Silky, fruity, earthy, refreshing, yet perfumed and elegant, Mencía is an unbelievable grape and one that you will have you clamoring for more once you give it a try!
- CC BY-SA 3.0 Mencia in Ribeira Sacra, Spain
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery |
| 0:12.6 | that goes with it. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People Book, and certified |
| 0:20.0 | wine dork. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person. |
| 0:24.2 | The podcast is sponsored by Wine Access, go to wineaccess.com slash WFNP, check out what |
| 0:30.9 | I'm drinking, or go to wineaccess.com slash normal and join the wine club, such amazing |
| 0:37.2 | wines, such a great deal. |
| 0:38.5 | Listen in the middle of the show for more details. |
| 0:42.7 | After two weeks of so much detail on Burgundy and the Coutinouille, I am ready for a change. |
| 0:51.8 | I am ready for something different, maybe a little bit easier, so I thought the great |
| 0:58.0 | mini series might be a good way to get us back. |
| 1:01.5 | So this is just the difference between red and white wines? |
| 1:05.5 | Yes, correct, but remember that I told you that I was going to get those black glasses, |
| 1:09.9 | and you would not be able to tell the difference between some red and white wines. |
| 1:13.7 | Remember we talked about that? |
| 1:14.7 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:15.7 | Where are the black glasses? |
| 1:17.3 | Life gets in the way. |
| 1:18.3 | It's just that kind of thing. |
| 1:19.3 | You have to have the kids' color, they ruin everything else, they might as well ruin |
| 1:24.1 | the wine glasses when they're at it. |
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