Ep 533: Back to Basics...Terms for Describing Wine. Part 1 -Sight & Smell Words

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this show, I take a page out of my own book -- literally! In this back to basics show, I review some basic wine vocabulary from chapter 1 of the Wine For Normal People book and introduce a new series that I'll be doing now that I'm hosting the show alone...

Taylor Swift has "Taylor's version" of her songs, and similarly, this Back to Basics series is my updated take on some basics, without distraction or interruption, and with the perspective of 20 years in the wine industry and 16 years of teaching others about wine.

This time, I am tackling some essential wine tasting terms that will help you describe what you see and smell in a glass of wine. From science=y to very general, this show covers a lot of ground and will either teach you or remind you of important concepts in wine tasting.

In Part 2, I will be covering "taste" and "Structure" words, which are some of the most mis-understood and incorrectly used terms in wine! I try to explain them in a detailed way, so we are all on the same page when we talk about wine, since descriptions are our best form of communication to get more of the wines we want in our lives!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the Podcasts for People who like Wine for Normal People,
0:09.8	the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:13.2	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider author of the Wine for Normal People Book and
0:19.2	certified wine dork. If you want a great way to learn about wine, drink a lot of it. And the
0:25.1	greatest way to do that is to find a place that has high quality wine at
0:29.1	great prices. You can find that at Wine Access, my exclusive sponsor.
0:34.0	If you want to see what I think are great wines,
0:35.8	you can also join my Wine Club at wine access.com
0:39.5	slash normal.
0:40.6	When you join, you get $25 off your first two wine club shipments.
0:45.6	Visit Wine Access.com slash normal.
0:47.6	Join today and learn more about wine by drinking it.
0:50.8	Listen to the middle of the show for more details.
0:54.0	2024 has been a big year for the show. A major change. I am flying solo
1:00.0	with the help of some cool patrons and guests for the conversations that I have
1:05.4	which have been a staple of the show for a really long time but one of the
1:09.2	suggestions that I got from the patrons and from a few other people was you've had this show
1:14.5	for almost 14 years you're flying solo now why don't you do a couple of
1:18.7	basic shows there's people who have been listening for a really long time.
1:24.3	Those people oftentimes are patrons.
1:26.9	They can go back and dig in the back catalog for some of the basic stuff.
1:30.8	But even if those basic shows are there I have changed in 14 years and so I would like to do some
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