Ep 565: Back to Basics – 8 Ideas to Break Your Rut and Discover New Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As part of the Back to Basics series, in which I update previous podcasts on practical topics that can be helpful to everyone, I update podcast Episode 28 from September 2011! Rick was the co-host then and it was a much shorter, less detailed show.

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Some of the suggestions from those many years ago were great, and some have changed or I’ve augmented them.

The goal of this show: to give you some ideas to motivate you to try new wines and new ways to explore. Ideas include: exploring different grapes from the same regions you like, joining a wine club (hint hint: the Wine Access/WFNP Wine Club, going to tasting events, and more! It's a short and sweet re-do of a show from long ago. I hope you get some ideas from it!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.7	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and certified wine dork.
0:21.7	This show is brought to you by my exclusive sponsor, Wine Access.
0:25.7	If you want a great way to get out of your rut and discover new wines, there's no better
0:29.5	way to do that than to join the Wine for Normal People Wine Access Wine Club.
0:33.3	I pick out wines around a theme four times a year.
0:35.8	They're all high- quality bottles that are classic
0:37.8	styles, six bottles for 150 bucks, and that includes shipping. Go to wineaccess.com slash normal
0:44.2	wine, a-c-c-e-S dot com slash normal to sign up. Listen to the middle of the show for more details.
0:50.9	For the last couple of weeks, I've been doing some pretty hard-hitting shows, and there's a few more coming up.
0:57.4	I have a spate of guests.
0:59.9	Some of them will be fun.
1:01.4	Some of them will be more serious.
1:03.0	All of them are going to be really great in terms of learning more about some interesting places that I don't cover that much. So I'm kind of excited.
1:12.5	I'm going to give you the cliffhanger there. I'm not going to tell you exactly who they are,
1:15.8	but it will be great. And then I've got some other shows. Of course, it's June. So the next
1:21.4	installment in the great series about Bordeaux is going to come out. I think that most of you were pretty happy about
1:28.6	the Margot one and this month I'm doing Paulyak. So should be pretty cool. Lots of information there.
1:35.4	And it is definitely one of the greats. Three of the five first growths of Bordeaux are in Paulyak.
1:42.8	This show, however, I was just talking to my friend
1:45.5	Trish, who is a longtime patron and a very, very good friend. Shout out to Trish in Ohio.
1:51.8	And I told her, when I do a lot of these shows that are more academic and dorky, I like to
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