Ep 570: 8 Refreshing Red Wines

Wine for Normal People

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

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I discuss eight refreshing red wines that are lighter, fresher, and perfect for sipping on a warm day. I give you ideas for wines that go easy on the oak, tannin, and alcohol, and focus instead on the freshness and lightness. These wines have a multitude of flavors and are from around the world but all of them go beyond the bold and heavy.

The wines pair well with light meals, can take a chill, and are perfect for when you want something easy-drinking.

Think all red wines are bold, heavy, and best served with steak? Nope! From Frappato to Listán Negro, these wines are something totally different.

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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.
0:15.8	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and certified wine dork.
0:21.6	I'm so glad you're listening to this show and you've decided to learn more about wine.
0:25.9	So now you've got to put what you've learned into action and there's no better way to get
0:29.9	high quality wines and shopping at my exclusive sponsor's site, wine access.com slash
0:36.1	WFMP. Now that URL is get you into the site and show you some
0:40.3	wines that I love, but even better, join my wine club and let me pick out six amazing bottles
0:45.6	for you quarterly for just $150, which include shipping. Learn and get great wine, wineaccess.com
0:52.5	slash normal to sign up, Listen in the middle of the show
0:54.9	for more details. I'm excited for this week's show because it is something that in the shoulder
1:02.9	seasons like spring and fall and also in the warmer weather, I use this list nonstop because refreshing reds, which sort of are the trend
1:14.3	right now, although we do see trends, just so you know, in the wine industry, of people
1:18.9	moving back to some of these bigger, fridier wines, which is really interesting.
1:22.7	It's great.
1:23.5	Look, the world is our oyster, so we might as well take advantage of all of the wine
1:27.8	styles that are out there. And of course, I have no judgment about anything that you like to
1:32.1	drink, but I do like to make sure that you know what is out there. And of course, big,
1:37.0	toothsome, hearty, oaky reds are fantastic, but sometimes when it's a little bit steamy
1:44.1	outside, that's not exactly what you want,
1:46.0	but sometimes you still want a red wine.
1:48.0	So that's the goal of this show.
1:50.4	Actually, this comes from a suggestion from Heidi S in San Francisco.
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