Ep 600: Nine Short Wine Stories -- How WFNP Listeners Got Into Wine

Wine for Normal People

Arts, Food

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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600 episodes of WFNP! I am grateful to you for listening, for reading the book, for learning with me and gracefully accepting the changes over the years, and I'm especially grateful to my sponsors, guests, and travel partners. (thanks Heather and Beppe!) over the last 15 years who have supported this show.

But most of all, as I say every week, I'm grateful to the Patrons – the people who directly support the work that I do week after week and who have become my friends, and who have allowed me to join them on their journeys into wine.

I'm boring and you all know about me so for this episode, I asked the Patrons if anyone wanted to share their story on how they got their start in wine. I culled it down to nine!

Each story is so unique and fun. Please make sure you listen to them all. The last story is with one of my very first listeners and we discuss some of the more philosophical things about wine and the show to wrap it up.

I owe a debt of gratitude to all these brave people (who I definitely did not compensate for doing this NOR for saying all the nice things they said – I had no idea they were going to say this stuff!):

Greg from Colorado
Alissa from Los Angeles, California
Tim from New Jersey
Linda from Maryland
Elizabeth from NYC
Tina from Massachusetts
Lyle from Silicon Valley, California
Shana from Pennsylvania
Claudette from Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Just as a heads up: You'll hear a brief pause between each vignette, and each varies in length. I hope you'll laugh, nod your head, and enjoy this wonderful celebration of wine and the WFNP community.

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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.
0:21.5	This show is brought you by my sponsor, Wine Access, the place to discover your next favorite
0:26.3	bottle. With allocated wines and incredible values, plus free shipping on orders of $150 or more,
0:33.2	you can't go wrong with Wine Access. Check out their amazing selection of curated wines from all over the globe at competitive
0:39.6	prices.
0:40.4	Don't forget to sign up for their daily emails too.
0:42.8	Go to Wine Access.com slash WFMP and listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:49.0	Well, here we are.
0:51.1	600 episodes of Wine for Normal People. I can't believe that this podcast that started
0:57.6	with just a handful of listeners, like just my mom really, has grown to reach people in 60
1:04.6	countries around the world and has millions and millions of listens on the episodes. I'm
1:10.7	humbled and grateful to you for
1:12.8	listening, for reading the book, for learning with me, for gracefully accepting the changes over
1:19.5	the years. And I'm especially grateful to my sponsors, my guests, my travel partners. Thank you,
1:25.2	Heather and Beppe, over the last 15 years, who have supported
1:28.6	the show and made this all possible. But most of all, as I say every week, I'm grateful to the
1:33.5	patrons, the people who directly support the work that I do week after week and who have
1:39.3	become my friends and who have allowed me to join them on their journeys into wine. So I'm boring and you all know about me.
1:48.9	So for this episode, I asked the patrons if anyone wanted to share their story and how they
1:54.7	got their start in wine.
1:57.7	Everyone has a moment or a period of time when the wine bugs seems to bite. And I had more
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