Ep 474: Campania, Italy -- Details on a Splendid Trip to this Underrated Region

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You’ll be able to tell how much I loved Campania/Irpinia by how enthusiastic I am in the show. If you don’t know the wines of this underrated region, you need to begin your exploration immediately. Fiano, Greco, and Aglianico make some of the best wines in the world, and yet for various reasons, they don’t get the credit they deserve. Maybe if we, as wine lovers, show more interest, the mainstream and retailers will get the idea that these are significant wines that need more attention. Grass roots wine love! Let’s change things for Campania!

Here is a list of the producers I visited:

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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	This podcast is sponsored by Wine Access, go to wineaccess.com slash WFMP, get 10% off
0:31.1	your first order, and see things that I am drinking right now.
0:35.3	Listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:38.3	Since I got back from Italy, I have done a lot of patron events.
0:43.1	I have mostly caught up on the trip.
0:47.2	Caught up on sleep.
0:48.6	Caught up on some sleep.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.2	Well, you know that never really happens.
0:52.2	I don't sleep much.
0:54.1	But I definitely feel like this podcast is the cherry on top.
0:58.7	However, we will have producers on the show from the trip because how could we not?
1:04.5	They were so amazing.
1:06.5	And these stories need to be shared directly from their mouths so that you who are listening
1:11.3	can understand why I'm so excited about some of these producers and why they really are
1:17.8	very significant.
1:19.1	Now, I have to say that my trip to Compania is really a culmination of an obsession with
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