Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.

I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and certified wine dork.

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taste in the business. Listen to the middle of the show for more details. This week's show is going to be

pretty fun and it is definitely going to be useful. What I'm trying to focus on

is more regional. I'm not going to go for individual wines. Like if you like this particular

producer, you will like another producer. That's just a little tiny but too specific for us

and the breadth of this audience. So instead of doing that, I'm going to talk about

some regions where the wines are traditionally pretty expensive. Now, my definition of

expensive and your definition of expensive are probably going to be different. But for purposes

of this show, I try to look at wines where the average price for a good wine,

like kind of the sweet spot, was around $50 for an expensive wine. I think $50 U.S.

dollars is pricey for a wine. And of course, if they start at 50, they are going to go up and up.

And in the case of Burgundy, which is one of these wines, it will go astronomical.

The idea here is to take these bottles that are expensive and to find wines that are similar,

but more affordable. So I am going to tell you a little about each of the

wines, both the originals and the alternatives. I'll talk about the flavors and I'll talk about

pricing. And for the alternatives, I'll give you some producer names so that you can know what to look

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