Episode 063 Thanksgiving (Winter Solstice) Wines To Match Your Heritage

Wine for Normal People

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

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🗓️ 20 November 2012

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Last year we covered so much in last year’s Thanksgiving episode that we barely left anything for this year. We didn’t just want to do a recap or recite the same old wines that everyone else recommends. So for this Winter Solstice Plus (for our international listeners)/Thanksgiving edition, we talk about how to incorporate your original heritage into the feast this year. After we give thanks to some folks for comments, we address: The basics of food and wine pairing The largest ethnic groups from which most people in the US derive — German, English, Italian, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Austrian — and which wines associated with these countries will pair with the big day. More detail on food and wine pairing. As promised, here are a few of the wines we mentioned: German Riesling (Spätlese, Auslese, Spätburgunder/Pinot Noir) White Bordeaux Fiano d’Avellino, Falanghina, Barbera The white wines of Alsace and Rhône, Rosé (not more tha [...]

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine,
0:12.0	but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Zillma Yea and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal personal.
0:22.8	I've covered a lot of ground in last year's episode on Thanksgiving wines.
0:30.8	And so this year, I didn't want to just do a rehash did you? Is there anything left to cover?
0:36.0	Well there's always more stuff to cover and I guess we can do a slight recap of last year's
0:41.5	podcast and then link to it. But we certainly did go
0:45.5	over the wines that most people recommend for Thanksgiving and with good reason.
0:49.9	I remember suffering through all those pairings with the turkey, the green beans,
0:55.2	the potatoes, the stuffing, the sweet potatoes.
0:59.6	It was a hit parade.
1:01.9	We did really well last year. It was good. But I think this year instead of doing the stuff that everybody else is doing we will try to do something a little bit different what do you think? I'm
1:14.8	game. Well I read this article and I can't even remember where I read it I'm
1:19.3	sorry if you either wrote it or if it was written in something that you read and I'm not sourcing it correctly.
1:26.7	But I did read something about how a lot of people are incorporating traditions from the places that they're originally
1:34.1	from into Thanksgiving and making it really their own. And I think that's such a
1:38.2	wonderful thing to do because it's about giving thanks and although this is a holiday that really represents for
1:46.6	our American listeners the traditions of the United States and basically how our country got started.
1:54.0	You gotta pay homage to where it all came from.
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