Ep 584: The Grape Miniseries Refresh - Riesling

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This time in the grape miniseries -- a refresh on one of my all time favorite grapes -- Riesling. This versatile grape has a long history of quality, and is highly misunderstood by most people.

I review the long and noble history of the grape, starting in 1435 and talk about how it wound up in places like the US and Australia, where it makes world class examples. I cover Riesling in the vineyard, in the cellar, and what makes a wine sweet or dry. I even explain a bit about the International Riesling Foundation scale!

I hope this overview gives you a new apprecaition for this grape that can be dry, sparkling, off-dry, sweet, and everything in between.

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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.
0:21.2	This show is brought to you by my exclusive sponsor, Wine Access, the place to discover your
0:26.0	next favorite bottle.
0:27.9	They have such an amazing selection and incredible values, plus free shipping on orders of $150 or more.
0:34.5	And you can join my wine club and get six awesome bottles for just $150,
0:38.9	four times a year per shipment. That includes shipping also. Go to wine access.com
0:44.6	slash normal and listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:49.1	Halloween is behind us. My favorite holiday. Some of you caught my ghoulish pictures and the pictures,
0:56.8	if you're on Patreon of my crazy house. I love Halloween. Very sad to see it go. But the holidays
1:03.0	are almost upon us. I cannot believe it. A couple of things, some shameless plugs. First of all,
1:08.9	you can gift a Patreon membership if you go to patreon.com
1:12.6	slash wine for normal people to one of your loved ones. And you can also buy a gift certificate
1:17.6	for classes. I've noticed some people doing that already. Wine for Normalpeople.com slash
1:22.3	classes. Also, don't forget the food and wine pairing class is coming up. That's great right before the
1:27.8	holidays and the sparkling wine class I'm going to put up this week right before New Year's.
1:32.2	I'm always excited to teach that. This week, I have decided to do the refresh of one of my all-time
1:40.2	favorite grapes. And really, once you get me talking about re reeling, it's kind of hard to get me
1:45.7	to shut up. So hopefully I can be tight on this show and not tell you every single detail that I
1:51.8	want to tell you about reeling forever and ever. I do that in the reasling around the world class.
1:57.2	But I will try my best to keep my enthusiasm in for this refresh of Riesling, which I
2:03.9	haven't done in years and years, maybe even a decade since I've done a refresh on Riesling.
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