Ep 534: Back to Basics...Terms for Describing Wine. Part 2 -Taste & Texture Words

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this show, I continue to take a page out of my own book -- literally! In this back to basics show, I return to review 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...

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.

In Part 2, I cover "taste" and "structure" words, which are some of the most misunderstood 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.

I cover terms for acidity, tannin, alcohol, and sugar/dryness levels. Then I define balance, complexity, extracted, flabby, typicity, and classic.

I hope this review of the basics is helpful! I think it's always great to review the fundamentals of communication about wine so we can get the bottles that will make us happy!

Enjoy this one!

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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. This show is brought to you by Wine Access, which was rated Best Wine Club by New York Times Wirecutter and is the
0:27.8	official partner and wine provider of the Meishling Guide for a reason.
0:32.2	They are a my go-to source for the best selection of
0:34.9	interesting wines you can't find locally. Check them out today. Wine access
0:39.4	dot com slash W. FMP or join my wine club for quarterly shipments, $150 for six bottles
0:46.2	that I pick out, Wine Access.com slash normal, listening in the middle of the show for more details.
0:57.2	This podcast is the second in the back to basic series on wine tasting terms. There are five ses tasting, but there's only three that we really have to pay attention to as we're talking about wine vocabulary.
1:09.9	And those are seeing or looking at the wine, sniffing or smelling the wine, and then also
1:16.8	tasting the wine.
1:18.2	Now I spent a lot of time focused on aromas and bouquet and all the things that you can smell in wine for good or for bad in the last
1:26.1	episode and also some really key points about looking at your wine and why that's important.
1:32.2	And of course the thing that gives us the most
1:34.6	pleasure is tasting the wine, but there's a lot that goes into tasting the wine
1:40.3	that is beyond just, okay you put it in your mouth and do I like it or the the basic of vocabulary or maybe a little bit more than basic vocabulary to try to get up to
1:56.7	speed on what people are talking about when they are describing wine and how these terms are used and should be used
2:04.6	sometimes they're not used correctly necessarily even by me I know that I think it's
2:09.2	really important that we take a separate look at the tasting words because they are really complex and a lot of
2:16.4	them have to do with the structure of the wine which I will describe but as we're talking about
2:22.2	tasting I thought it was important for us to parse it out.
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