The inside word on French wine and Paris wine bars
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Meet Tanisha Townsend, a Chicago native who became a wine expert in Paris. She gives us a general info to wine and Paris wine bars, plus her take on wine tastings in the French capital.
Find more about Tanisha (aka Girl Meets Glass) via her website here and her Instagram page here. And here's the link to book a wine tasting with her.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast, and I think it's time we talk about wine. Wine in Paris, where to drink it, how to drink it, wine outside of Paris, where to drink it, how to drink it. What does it taste like? All these questions answered by today's expert, which is Tanisha Townsend, who is sitting in front of me right now. |
| 0:23.0 | Tanisha, welcome to the studio. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm finally here. |
| 0:26.4 | You are finally here. |
| 0:27.3 | It's taken a while, though we went the weird way about it. |
| 0:30.9 | Video first. |
| 0:31.9 | Video first. |
| 0:33.0 | What's all that about? |
| 0:33.7 | On a beautiful balcony in front of the Eiffel Tower. |
| 0:35.9 | Wasn't sponsored by anyone anyone but we can say |
| 0:37.8 | it was parish perfect they hooked us up with a well we did like a blind wine you know what my |
| 0:44.3 | big takeaway was that Lena my wife didn't know the blindfolded if she's drinking red or white |
| 0:49.3 | wine you know it's really hard to figure that out yeah if you're blindfolded, you do not know white or red. |
| 0:55.1 | I mean, I do because I'm the expert. |
| 0:57.0 | That's why I'm here. |
| 0:57.9 | I think that people listening would think that they certainly would know. |
| 1:03.0 | They certainly would not. |
| 1:04.2 | Why is that? |
| 1:07.0 | Because the flavors can be the same. |
| 1:09.1 | Right. |
| 1:09.6 | So, I mean, when you see it clearly, you know. |
| 1:11.8 | But then when you taste it, all you're tasting is fruit. |
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