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If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I've said that Wine For Normal People is going multimedia in 2011...and I've wasted no time!
Please check out the inaugural episode of the Wine For Normal People podcast, available at winefornormalpeople.podbean.com AND through iTunes! Or click here to download the MP3 and listen now!
What's the podcast about? It's a weekly 20 to 25 minute look into a basic wine topic with co-host Rick Breslin, a wine/tech enthusiast, and co-founder of Hello Vino, a free mobile wine application that assists wine consumers with recommendations on pairings, and provides lots of basic information about wine flavor
profiles and how to pick wine based on your taste preferences.
Every week we're going to talk about wine and address topics that other wine podcasts may not even think to talk about (because they just assume everyone knows, of course). The first show: Is it varieties or varietals? And what does that mean anyway?
Check it out...and stay tuned for this week's topic, due out Friday: How do I pick a good wine? (amorphous, no? Comes from a real Tweet that was sent to Hello Vino and is a question I get all the time too! We break it down, so don't miss it!).
Oh, and please don't tell me I have a face for radio : )
January 12, 2011
Inaugural Episode of Wine For Normal People Radio: Varieties v. Varietals -- Which Is It?
6 comments:
I'm psyched to be co-hosting the 'Wine for Normal People' podcast with you, Elizabeth! We're having so much fun, and it's refreshing to enjoy wine without the snobbery.
Here's the direct link to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes:
http://bit.ly/winefornormalpeopleitunes
Or, if it's easier to listen on the web and read the show notes, here's the podcast web site:
http://winefornormalpeople.podbean.com/
Cheers!
Rick from Hello Vino
Hi Rick and Elizabeth!
First of all, great Podcast! And then, I'm as Afrikaans as they come and there is no such word as Pinotage in Afrikaans. This is why I quickly Googled it and, wait for it, the word is actually derived from HERITAGE which is wat they called the Cinsaut part of Pinotage back in the day.
Loving the blog!
Bosman van der Merwe
Well, Hermitage actually, but close enough...
B
Bosman,
I thought that it was Hermitage! It does make a difference in pronunciation...Hermitage is pronounced like Pinotage. Heritage is just boring English! So maybe it's not Africaans, but at least now we know it's French so it makes sense it's the "ahhhjhe" sound!
Mystery solved!
Thanks for reading and for listening! Keep up the great comments.
Elizabeth
Bosman,
I don't know if you'll get this in time, but I'm going to give you a shout out on next week's podcast for researching the Pinotage mystery. Hope that's ok! Listen for your name!
Elizabeth
I'm not an Afrikaans speaker nor expert on languages but....
The name Pinotage, like the variety, was invented by a fluent Afrikaans speaker. Dr Perold, as secretary of the Afrikaans Language Society was heavily involved in getting Afrikaans recognised as an official language.
Yes, the name was taken from Pinot Noir and Hermitage, but then a great deal of the Afrikaans language was taken from other languages.
Pinotage was grown mostly by Afrikaans speakers and the pronunciation is definitely not French. The first 2 syllables are pronounced Pinno (not the peee-no of French) and the tage is somewhere between tarzh and tidge when pronounced with a strong Afrikaans accent.
There's a lot more mysteries about Pinotage, which were what I researched for my book.
But no mystery in a glass of good Pinotage!
Cheers
Peter F May
author of
PINOTAGE: Behind the Legends of South AFrica's Own Wine
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