Ep 588: The Greats of Bordeaux – Pomerol

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As our last in the series of the Greats of Bordeaux, I tackle Pomerol -- land of the hedonistic, silky, velvety, complex wines. The name of the game in Pomerol is terroir, and what the excellent, dedicated producers do to express it in the glass.

I cover the history of Pomerol, its variable terroir and what that means for the wines, discuss the main grapes in the blend, viticulture and winemaking and then go over some of the top châteaux: Petrus, Le Pin, Château Lafleur, Château La Conseillante, Château Trotanoy, and more!

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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.
0:21.4	It's hard to find the perfect gift for the wine lover in your life, but I have a solution for you,
0:25.8	the perfect pairing. Go to wine access.com slash WFMP by a Wine Access gift card so the
0:32.7	wine lover in your life can pick out whatever wines they want whenever they want them. And if they're
0:36.9	super dorky
0:37.6	and into wine, you can go to Wine for Normalpeople.com slash classes, get them a class gift
0:42.1	certificate. They can use those wines from Wine Access in the class. You'll be the hero of the
0:46.7	holiday. Wine for Normalpeople.com slash classes and Wine Access.com slash WFMP. Listen in the
0:52.7	middle of the show for more details. I hope everyone had a
0:56.6	fantastic Thanksgiving holiday for those of you who celebrate. We had a lively conversation on
1:02.7	Patreon about what the pairings were. I had some fantastic pairings. I make my own tomato sauce
1:09.3	and the garlic flavors with an Elianico de Vultre by
1:14.1	Elena Fucci, the titolo, which I want to have her on the show. I'm going to try to do that next
1:18.6	year. She is wonderful and her wines are spectacular. But it was a perfect pairing. My daughter
1:25.6	loves stuffed shells, so I made some of that with tomato
1:28.4	sauce, and it was spectacular. And then I had a Virginia wine, a sweet wine made from Petit Manseigne in
1:36.2	sort of an ice wine style. It's an interesting way that they make it from Glen Manor Vineyards.
1:40.9	And it went really, really well with a caramel apple pie that I made.
1:45.0	Fantastic pairings. The two wine solution worked for me. It seemed to work for a lot of people
1:49.1	on Patreon. I hope that the podcast was helpful for you. If you missed it for Thanksgiving,
1:54.0	go back and take a listen. You can use it for Christmas too. And I cannot believe that this is
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