Ep 605: The Greats - The Grand Cru Whites of the Côte de Beaune, Burgundy (get to know them so you don't miss out if someone offers them to you!)
Wine for Normal People
Wine for Normal People
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part of "The Greats" series, in which I discuss the greatest wines in the world and what makes them great. This time, I explore the top white Burgundies of Corton-Charlemagne, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, and Chassagne-Montrachet. I address what makes these wines Greats and go into detail on the regions, the vineyards, and the wines.
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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. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and certified wine dork. |
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| 0:31.9 | They are the go-to source for people in the wine industry for hard- find high quality wines at great prices. |
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| 0:43.4 | You deserve great wine. |
| 0:44.4 | Get it from people of the best taste in the business. |
| 0:46.6 | Listen to the middle of the show for more details. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, this week is like the opposite of last week's show. First of all, thank you everybody for the opposite of last week's show. |
| 0:55.1 | First of all, thank you everybody for the feedback on last week's show. |
| 0:58.4 | People really did like the alternatives to expensive wines. |
| 1:03.6 | And I think part of it is I was having a conversation with a friend in the industry today |
| 1:09.0 | about how I feel like the industry has done |
| 1:12.1 | a terrible job of giving us good value wines that are kind of middle price like 15 to 20 |
| 1:19.5 | bucks. And that has been a serious problem. I don't know if it's greed or if they think that |
| 1:25.9 | they can do better so they keep trying to make better and |
| 1:28.0 | better wines, which is fantastic. But there really isn't a whole lot in that mid-tier section. |
| 1:33.6 | And I really like shopping there. I think most of us do. So hopefully some of those alternatives |
| 1:39.2 | that I gave you will be something that you can turn to on a regular basis if you don't want expensive wines |
| 1:45.9 | or you don't want to have to splurge every single time because some of us do really like to |
| 1:51.3 | have wine with dinner and if we're going to drink regularly, then we definitely need things |
| 1:56.4 | that are more affordable for the weeknights. So that is that. And now I am doing a complete pendulum swing this |
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