Ep 592: The Next Frontiers of Wine Production - New heights, techniques, regions
Wine for Normal People
Wine for Normal People
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week I discuss the current challenges facing wine due to climate change.
I cover some strategies the industry is undertaking to address the major issues -- from vineyard and tech solutions to new varieties (Pilzwiderstandsfahige Reben or PiWi grapes!). Then I cover emerging regions that are doing a surprisingly great job making innovative wines! From Normandy, France to the UK, Tasmania, and countries in Scandinavia, you will get a great idea of what is happening on the cutting edge of wine!
As promised, here are some names of Danish and Swedish Vineyards:
Denmark:
- Skærsøgaard Dons Cuvée Brut is award winning
- Dansk Vincenter
- Frederiksborg Vin
- Vinperlen
- Domain Aalsgaard
- Lille Gadegaard
- Dyrehøj Vingaard
- Nygårdsminde Vingård (northernmost commercial wine production)
Sweden:
- Kullabergs vingård
- Arilds Vingård
- Thora Vingård
- Vejby Vingård
- Lottenlund Estate
- Flyinge Vingård
- Flädie Mat & Vingård
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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 | This podcast is brought to you by Wine Access. |
| 0:23.8 | Go to Wine Access.com slash WFMP to get into the site and let them know you found out about them through me. |
| 0:31.3 | Wine Access is like walking into a wine shop where every single bottle is fantastic. |
| 0:36.6 | Their team of experts curates the selection for us, |
| 0:39.6 | wine access.com slash WFMP or wineaccess.com slash normal to join my wine club. Listen to the |
| 0:46.6 | middle of the show for more details. I think you guys are really going to enjoy the show. |
| 0:52.5 | Now, I don't cover regions or producers or anyone |
| 0:57.8 | where the wine is so difficult to get that none of us has access to it, really. And this show |
| 1:04.3 | is going to be sort of an exception because what I'm covering is the next frontier in wine. So of course, a lot of |
| 1:13.2 | these wines are going to be hard to obtain. Some of them you'll be able to get, but some of them |
| 1:17.5 | are difficult to obtain because we are right on the cutting edge as we're talking about these |
| 1:23.6 | wines and these regions. And I am not just going to cover new regions that because of |
| 1:30.0 | climate change are being developed. I'm also going to talk about other things that people are |
| 1:34.9 | doing to combat climate change. I want to say this. We are very pessimistic in the wine industry |
| 1:42.1 | and we keep saying, well, you're not going to be able to |
| 1:45.4 | get the grapes and the wines that you have now. And yeah, maybe they will change a little bit, |
| 1:50.7 | but there will be other regions that make similar wines to what you know and love today. |
| 1:55.3 | And not all is lost. It is going to be a very long time until we are at the point where Bordeaux no longer |
| 2:02.8 | tastes like what we think of Bordeaux today. And I also want to point out that styles have |
| 2:07.6 | evolved over the years. Champagne used to be sticky sweet and it is now bone dry for the most part. |
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