WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.680 I gave you a task the wine Yogi. Yeah, I 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:04.679 gave you a task. A listener sent an email. Of course, 3 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:06.120 if I was a good host, i'd have the email 4 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:08.880 here to read. But I'm not, because we just chatted 5 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:10.679 the entire time about how much we love theme parks, 6 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:13.320 even though we're not going back, like we both love 7 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:13.839 theme parks. 8 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:14.839 No, I'm going back, I. 9 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.480 Know, but I'm talking about Disney too. We both have 10 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.039 a soft spot. Well, yeah, we're not going there anymore anyway, 11 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:21.920 I asked her. A listener sent an email and said, Hey, 12 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.600 I live in a rural area. My only options for 13 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:27.399 wine are at the grocery store. How do I choose 14 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:28.920 the best wine at. 15 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:29.559 The grocery store? 16 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.559 And I want to start there because you wrote great 17 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.399 blog posting that I linked on the blog that everybody 18 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.799 can go read from her. I am thewinyogi dot com website. 19 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.880 But let's talk about the basics of shopping for wine 20 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.320 at the grocery store. Even the same stuff applies though, 21 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.399 I mean the same tip supply wherever you're buying wine. 22 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:47.840 It does. 23 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.159 And I began by prefacing, you have to understand if 24 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.119 the grocery store is your only option, the people who 25 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.520 are buying the wine and bringing it in are not 26 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:01.280 going to be very knowledgeable, and it's probably whatever the distributor, 27 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.079 and it's probably just one rep that's going to come in, 28 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.200 and it's probably a large distributor, and there are some 29 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.319 that are nationwide and so they all have the same portfolio. 30 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:11.439 So that's why you can go into if it's a 31 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.560 grocery store or even just your small liquor store that's 32 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.239 like right next right to the grocery store, or a 33 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.959 state run ABC store red Dot if you're in South Carolina, 34 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.719 those liquor stores, you're going to see the same usual suspects. 35 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:25.480 Nineteen crimes is. 36 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:28.120 You know the Snoop Dogg has a Nineteen Crimes red blend. 37 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:31.719 You're going to see if you're looking at more expensive wines, 38 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:35.599 things like Camus and Marsileat for Shardonay, you'll see these 39 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.439 kind of standard wines and that's because they come from 40 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:43.799 the same portfolio or book and that's from that distribution 41 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.879 company that sells it. And so they're going to have 42 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:49.120 certain quotas, just like any kind. 43 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.159 Of sales rep. Is I have a quota that they 44 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:51.760 got to meet. 45 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.079 So a lot of times when you are stuck dealing 46 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.760 with stores that don't provide kind of that personalized service, 47 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.760 and it's a reality. I definitely have been in those places. 48 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.079 Where I was in Indianapolis, I didn't have enough time 49 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:07.719 to go find a local wine shop and get to 50 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.680 know the wine, you know, the owner's shop, and then 51 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.039 start talking to and maybe have the rep come in 52 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:13.759 and taste them while I happen. 53 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:16.599 To be standing there, which I have a knack for doing. 54 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.280 I just did it in Golden so but you know, 55 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.199 I didn't have that time, so we stopped off, you know, 56 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.719 on our way back to the hotel, because we wanted, 57 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.560 you know, a decent bottle of wine. So I always 58 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.800 begin first with if you have a good idea of 59 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.439 what you enjoy, that's where I would gravitate towards. And 60 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.039 so for me, I'm definitely as I'm getting older, my 61 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:41.039 palette is evolving and continues to evolve. I am much 62 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.719 more of an old World or European style wine drinker. 63 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.360 I don't like the higher alcohol. I don't like a 64 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:51.800 lot of sugar. I like dryer, lower in alcohol wines 65 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.719 that have a lot of nuance, not just big tannin 66 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.479 bombs or big fruit bombs. Want. I want some acidity 67 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.560 and I want different layers of various things in that 68 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.039 class of wine. So I tend to find and not 69 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.159 old Not all Old world wine is like that because 70 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.360 they do cater to the American palette. But there were 71 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.719 some there are some definite go tos for me that 72 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.719 I know that are going to have those kinds of things. 73 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.439 But if you enjoy those other things, if you like 74 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:22.680 Oki shardon ay and you like big cab sab California 75 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.479 style cab sab, then that's what I would look for 76 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.199 when you are going into your grocery store setting or 77 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:30.319 a small liquor store setting. 78 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.719 So I do want to point this out. Let's talk 79 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.960 about AVV, which is alcohol by volume, because I didn't 80 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.360 know this until I read it in your blog today. So 81 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:42.800 you look at the ABV to determine the range of 82 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.520 whether this is going to be a sweeter wine to 83 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.000 a more acidic wine. Explain that that ratio. 84 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.879 So if you kind of just and it's not necessarily 85 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.879 always hard and fast rule. But let's say you pick 86 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.240 up a bottle of prosecco and you don't know based 87 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.159 off of the verbage that they're telling you is this 88 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.759 going to be a dry percho semi sweet or is 89 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:02.479 it going to be sweet? 90 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:03.599 Because I get that a lot. 91 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:07.039 I don't like prosecco because it's sweet, right, and typically 92 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:08.280 because a lot of times. 93 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.759 It is, especially if it's from cupcake. 94 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.960 But if you flip that bottle around and you look 95 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.439 at ABV, and by law, all wine in the United 96 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:18.279 States that is sold in the United States has to 97 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.839 list alcohol by volume and that's ABV, that's that percentage, 98 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.040 and so if it is under that ten percent range, it's. 99 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:26.639 Going to be sweet. 100 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.399 There's going to be residual sugar in that. 101 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.240 Is that because the sugar was not all kind of 102 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.519 consumed by the yeast and that's why it has lower 103 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:35.439 alcohol as well. 104 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.199 Or they halted fermentation to preserve some of that sugar. Okay, So, 105 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:44.240 because the byproduct of yeast consuming sugar is it produces 106 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.560 alcohol and CO two carbon dioxide, and so if it's 107 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.480 a still wine, no bubbles, that just breathes off and 108 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:52.839 then what you're left with is alcohol. Now, sometimes you 109 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:56.480 can't have sweet wines that are going to be higher 110 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.839 in alcohol content because they're pushing more of that fortified wine. 111 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.199 Right, So they're. 112 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.759 Actually adding in it's a sweeter wine that they're adding 113 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.000 in a brandy. It's some type of fortified distilate to 114 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.639 bring up the alcohol to make more of a dessert wine. 115 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:13.759 So if you find instead of it's a seven hundred 116 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.319 and fifty mili liter bottle, which is your standard size, 117 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.839 if it's half of that, that three twenty five and 118 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.000 it says things like late harvest or you know, ice fine, 119 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.439 you may notice that those alcohol numbers might be. 120 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.480 Slightly higher just because of that. 121 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.079 Because it is fortified with something else. 122 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.439 It might be. It might be expressibly, could be. 123 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.399 And I guess the sweet spot or not sweet spot, 124 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:38.879 depending on your palette is between eleven and where I 125 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.759 would say for me personally that thirteen and a half. 126 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.519 I like to stay under fourteen, just because when I 127 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.279 start getting into fourteen and above and a lot of 128 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.920 your bigger California wines, your New World wines could also 129 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:57.680 be South American. They because of the the demographic that 130 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.000 they're targeting, they want those ports pounders is what I 131 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.600 would refer to it as a party which pounders and 132 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:05.560 that's just wine. 133 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:06.399 That you serve to everybody. 134 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.199 Yeah, it's at a party, You're not necessarily eating. It's 135 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:12.839 not the idea isn't to pair this with dinner and 136 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.000 or with this course or that, you know whatever. It's 137 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.079 just a drink and to you know, feel the effects 138 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.160 of the wine. So if you're thinking, like you're at 139 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.240 a party, or you know, you've just had a really 140 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.480 long day and maybe just need something, but you don't 141 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.360 want to drink you know, bourbon or whiskey or that's 142 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.319 kind of you know, spirit. These these wines tend to 143 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.879 be higher in that alcohol content, but it's affecting me, 144 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.079 you know, and just as yeah you've said, but more 145 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.800 so my husband and I have noticed it's just when 146 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.240 we have those higher alcohol wines, we just feel it 147 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.399 the next day. It may affect our sleep, but it 148 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.079 may also just like whether it's stomach or just kind. 149 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:52.519 Of that residual malaise. 150 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.560 And I have just found that that under fourteen, so 151 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.399 like if I can get around thirteen twelve to thirteen, 152 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.360 for me as a sweet spot, I have a lot 153 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:06.279 of lovely nuance. Whether it's acids that I'm looking for 154 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.600 in the wine. Softer tannins often occur in that range, 155 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.399 although it really it does depend on the varietal. But 156 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.240 for me that just seems to be those kind of wines, 157 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.040 and a lot of them are old world wines that 158 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.160 just kind of are more for the wine itself, not 159 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:23.879 the alcohol. 160 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:25.920 I was kind of surprised to see number three to 161 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.480 cork or not to cork, and you came out saying, look, 162 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.560 there's nothing wrong with a screw top. That's become a thing, 163 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.319 because honestly, quark's cause a lot of problems for wine makers. 164 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:37.000 They do. 165 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:40.360 They're expensive. It is because it's a tree, so it 166 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:44.160 has to be harvested. So also a lot of you know, 167 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:48.279 when you start getting into sustainability issues, it's just it 168 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.759 becomes an issue and can be very expensive. We had 169 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.560 recently in the last couple of years, glass was also 170 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:54.279 very expensive. 171 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.279 So you're seeing a lot of wine makers. 172 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.439 The mom and pop, smaller productions moving towards canned wine 173 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:06.079 as well. But the idea of cork, while I love it, 174 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:08.319 you'll see a lot of them are synthetic. 175 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:10.680 That's a less expensive. 176 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.720 It also prohibits the interaction of a little bug TCA. 177 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.759 I'm not going to give the lung scientific version, but 178 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.839 it's a little bug that lives on natural cork and 179 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.800 it affects anywhere from ten to fifteen percent of all 180 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:24.639 wine out there that has natural cork. 181 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.160 And what this bug does. 182 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.839 Is it interacts with the wine when it comes into contact, 183 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.080 and it leaves the wine smelling like wet dog, wet carbuilding. 184 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:33.120 It's skunky. 185 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.440 And I have experienced enough with people when I have 186 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:40.279 said this wine is corked when trying to return something, 187 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.080 to know that they have absolutely no no me what 188 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.080 I'm saying. Of course it's corked, it has a cork 189 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.240 in it. That's not what I'm talking about. And most places, 190 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.720 reputable wine stores will take corked wine back and replace it. 191 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.919 I've never had a problem taking corked wine back to 192 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.000 any place. I've taken it back to grocery stores. I've 193 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.120 taken it back to publics in Florida. 194 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:00.879 Publix is a different kind of grocery. I mean, I 195 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:01.720 know it's magical. 196 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.000 It is a magical question that someone's got. And by 197 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.759 the way, there's more stuff in this blog posting that 198 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.120 you can find linked on my blog at Mandy's blog 199 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.879 dot com. Mandy asked the wine Yogi if the score 200 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:15.480 cards in the wine store actually means something, So if. 201 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:17.919 You want to taste what Robert Parker and it's not 202 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:22.840 even Robert Parker anymore, or you know, whether it's Wine Spectator, 203 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.240 wine Independent, all of these different This is a group 204 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.080 of editors that are going to go in and they're gonna 205 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.679 taste wine and it's their palette. And then also, while 206 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.519 people will deny it, it's who's who's advertising in their magazine, 207 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:42.039 who's got big buys in their magazine yep, and things 208 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:47.159 like that. Yes, the wine score cards can be a 209 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.320 good place to start, but I personally don't pay any 210 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.399 attention to what Wine Spectator says because that's. 211 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.399 Not my palette. I don't really care. 212 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.720 I can maybe look at it to see how they're 213 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.600 describing the wine if if I didn't get a enough 214 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.679 description on like the back of the bottle. But honestly, 215 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.120 if you have your phone right there, google what grenache 216 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.399 should be like? Uh, if you are looking at grenache 217 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.200 to ra mouved blend from the Rhone River Valley, what 218 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.360 are the typical tasting notes of that that particular blend. 219 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.399 Do you use a wine app because I use Levino, 220 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.159 but the vino is for me. Just like Amazon reviews, 221 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.720 you have to read all the reviews and look for 222 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:26.879 the common threads and take everything else out. 223 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:30.360 I would say I used to encourage people to use 224 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.320 Vivino because it is a great place just to snap 225 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.080 a photo of like and get information and get information, 226 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.519 but like you're out of dinner. For me for the 227 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.480 longest time, I just used it just to kind of remember, 228 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:40.559 and now. 229 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.120 I don't really need to do that kind of thing. 230 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:43.120 I will take pictures of. 231 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:44.840 Wines, but then I would I just file that in 232 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.120 a different right, you know, file in my gallery on 233 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.480 my phone. Wine Folly is a great website that I 234 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.080 think does less about because they sell their own stuff. 235 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.759 They sell more like educational wine MESP right right and 236 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:04.399 books like that. But they I think provide a very 237 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:10.200 h fantastic baseline and introduction to different grape styles, different regions, 238 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:11.919 different approaches to wine making. 239 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:16.919 Without all of the. 240 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:19.080 Purchasing power of certain winemakers out of California that influence 241 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:21.840 all of your wine spectator type magazines. 242 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:25.559 It would be lovely if every wine was like the 243 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:30.799 what is it Taska? I Taska wanted? Because the winemaker 244 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.320 of this wine out on the Western Slope writes the best, 245 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.600 most perfect descriptions of her wines. Ever, so I grabbed 246 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.639 the bottle. I want to read this description, just as 247 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.399 if any other winemakers are listening. Where is it? 248 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:44.720 I don't know what I did with it. 249 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.000 You just left a bottle of wine somewhere. 250 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:47.919 I think it's in my bag. 251 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.120 Okay, ang on one second, because I want to see this. 252 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.639 It would be so nice if all winemakers wrote their 253 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.159 descriptions on because sometimes you'll flip because I always look 254 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.279 at the description on the back, and sometimes it's like 255 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:02.200 imagine walking to a field of golden rod. It'll hit 256 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:05.360 your palette like a bright sunshiny ray, and then it 257 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.879 is strong. You won't know what hit you. That is 258 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.679 not helpful. It's like the people who named the odorant, 259 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:12.440 so it has told me what it smells like. 260 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.000 I would like to say, though, I like to make 261 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.159 fun of those kind of reviews, So when I write 262 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.039 my wine notes for my wine classes, I will say, 263 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.360 pair's great with the Broncos getting blown out by sixty 264 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:25.840 points versus Miami. 265 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:26.600 Things like that. 266 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.840 So this one says this wine is tropical, floral and 267 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.679 citrusy with a sharp natural acidity and dry finish, And 268 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.919 that is exactly what it tastes like it is that 269 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:38.360 is exactly what it tastes like. 270 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.559 Well and Jamie, So, Jamie Henderson, she has an amazing palette. 271 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:47.120 This is the storm cellar of her and Paionia in Colorado, 272 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.080 and she and her husband Steve were psalms at Shanahan's 273 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.159 and so they her background is being able to describe 274 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.759 things to customers so that they can understand it's not 275 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.639 just wine, it's the cocktail she's going to create for you. 276 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:06.840 So she's just fantastic at taking, you know, these understandable 277 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.879 vocabulary words and not sat challenging words and to kind of, 278 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.639 you know, convey like what this wine is gonna taste like, 279 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:15.960 what it should taste like to you it may not 280 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.279 and that's please always take that kind of with the 281 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:20.399 grain of salt. 282 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:20.600 That it is. 283 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.480 The scripture, the scriptures that on the talking points that 284 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.879 are from the winemakers themselves. A lot of times, if 285 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.559 they're big and they're in your grocery store, it's a 286 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:31.919 marketing team that has come up with these things because 287 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:36.879 they know that words like strong suppultanins or you know, 288 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.159 uh blovity blogging forward, they know that these things will 289 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.799 capture also ladies I do, and I'm guilty of this too. 290 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.240 They know that we buy based off of what the 291 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:46.000 label looks. 292 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:50.000 Correct and well, I used to, and then I bought 293 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.519 a bottle of gropa in Italy and it ended my 294 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.240 love affair with pretty bottles because gropa is disgusting. Well, 295 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:56.759 that's when you just. 296 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:58.960 Pour it out and you keep the bottle. I turn 297 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.679 it into a camp I still have bad feeling. 298 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:04.279 About that, just really bad feeling about that. What is 299 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.440 it that, I wait, Why is it that I drink 300 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.000 wines in Spain and don't get a headache, but if 301 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.960 I drink spain wines in the US, I do so. 302 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:16.120 Oftentimes part of it is just the experience of where 303 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:16.559 you're at. 304 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:17.279 There is just. 305 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.360 Something to be said for you know, walking in the 306 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:21.639 rolling hills of Tuscany. 307 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.679 Yes, and you know you're sipping on your Kiani. 308 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.200 Class a field of golden rod. 309 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:26.759 There you go. 310 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.679 But there is something to be said with because you're 311 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.279 relaxed already. 312 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.399 You're just you're in that vacation enactment. 313 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.720 Also, if you are drinking like the local produced wine. 314 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:40.559 They don't have. 315 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:44.120 The the the soul fights and the preservatives that wine 316 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.799 that is going to have to be traveled, transported across 317 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:51.720 the Atlantic or from the Pacific and come into a. 318 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.440 Port or maybe sit there off of those ports. 319 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.200 If they got stuck in the traffic jams waiting to 320 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.120 come in and then make their way to Colorado. So 321 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.519 I hate to say it everybody that's like, you know, 322 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.120 I don't drink red wines because sulfights give me headaches. 323 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.399 Your white wines have even more because they have to 324 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.679 be even more shelf stable because they don't have the 325 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:14.559 tannins as a natural preservative. 326 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:16.840 So when there's there's also so many wines over there 327 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.120 that they're never intending for expert exactly. So like in Switzerland, 328 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:21.799 I think like seventy five to eighty percent of the 329 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:25.279 wine produced in Switzerland is consumed in Switzerland, so they 330 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:26.679 don't put any of that crap in it because it's 331 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:27.320 not going anywhere. 332 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.320 And a lot of times the alcohol is slightly lower 333 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.039 because it's not meant to lay down for ten years. 334 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.440 It's not going to be, you know, sitting in a 335 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.039 cellar somewhere. It's meant to be drunk with your payea 336 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.320 or if you're in the Asorus texted Mandy the other day, 337 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.679 I love the Asors. First time I ever had red 338 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.960 wine with fish, I had Portuguese red wine in the 339 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.200 Asors with swordfish and it was amazing and it was 340 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:50.799 life changing. 341 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:51.679 And I love the Asorus. 342 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.879 So this texter just said, Colorado wine is trash, peaches 343 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.559 and corn. That's what Colorado does when I moved here 344 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:00.879 eleven years ago. That was also my experience. Since I've 345 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:02.799 been having the wine Yogi on the show, she has 346 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:08.159 introduced me to an absolute wealth. Would have wines from 347 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.159 Colorado that are outstanding, and you could put them up 348 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.320 against any wine from anywhere in the world. 349 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.720 And I would encourage that texter to follow ted Lasso's advice, 350 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:22.399 and that's don't be judgmental, be curious, and maybe expand 351 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.200 your horizons and try something that isn't from your big producers. 352 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.000 On the Western Slope, there are a lot of small, 353 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.919 mom and pop producers. I talk about them frequently anytime 354 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.200 I bring in I'm doing a. 355 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.519 Whole I'm doing two whole classes that I've sold out on. 356 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.399 Colorado wines, which if anybody calls the Wine Gallery right now, 357 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:41.759 I'm opening up two spots in the one thirty and 358 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:43.000 the three o'clock classes. 359 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.960 But you got to call the Wine Gallery to reserve 360 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:45.759 your spots. 361 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.559 Because they are sold out. Otherwise, what's that phone number? 362 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.639 Oh my gosh, you're you know it's the Wine Gallery 363 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.440 in Colorado Springs and tell them Crystal, just open how 364 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:56.440 many more spots? Two in each class? Okay, but you 365 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.759 have to call. You can't do it online. Now you 366 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.200 know what time it is. It's time for the most 367 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.279 exciting segment all the radio of. 368 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:09.160 Its kind in the world of the day. Well done, 369 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.240 Snide backed away so that I could I did use my. 370 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.880 I could use my command voice, Ryan Edwards does it 371 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:15.480 back away? 372 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:15.880 No? 373 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:16.759 No? 374 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:18.720 Oh, here we go, all right? What is our dad 375 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:19.359 joke with the day? 376 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:19.720 Please? 377 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.279 It's a wine dad joke? Okay? How do you determine 378 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:24.319 how much wine to drink? 379 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:26.920 Whatever's in my glass? 380 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.000 I do not know. It's taking on a case by 381 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.079 case basis. That's a good one. That is a good one. 382 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.200 By the way, Crystal has information about the itask of wine, 383 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.200 her class and everything on her blog. You can find 384 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.920 that at my blog Today's jeopardy or excuse me, oh 385 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:44.559 the day you'll get there. Word of the day is 386 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.960 a verb. Perry P A R. R. Y. Doesn't that 387 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:49.599 mean something to do with sword fighting? 388 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.599 Word counter? Yeah, the counter. 389 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.160 Two basic meanings to perry can be to defend yourself 390 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.960 by turning away from, or pushing aside a weapon, or 391 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.119 to evade something such as a question, especially by using 392 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:02.920 a clever response. 393 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.000 We're giving ourselves credit for that. Yes, I feel like 394 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.799 we got there. What would I know this? And I'm 395 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:08.759 so super excited that I know this answer? What was 396 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.799 the title of Olivia Rodrigo's debut studio album, Absolutely no idea, sour, 397 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:15.720 so good care It's so good. 398 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.319 You know I took fencing in college. 399 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.279 Did you really have never looked? 400 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.480 I bet amazing because you're constantly in that little squat. 401 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:28.240