{"id":10321,"date":"2014-09-23T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:08:40","slug":"dinner-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/dinner-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/092314a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10322\" style=\"border: 5px solid transparent;\" alt=\"092314a\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/092314a.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>When we visit our family in Portland, Oregon we often have at least one dinner that has a theme. This year\u2019s theme was Octoberfest. German sausages were grilled and the beer flowed, for the beer drinkers. I was asked to select wines for the wine drinkers that would be in the group.<\/p>\n<p>We started with a bubbly. I poured a Diehl Riesling Extra Trocken that delighted both the wine drinkers and beer drinkers. This was a nice cleansing wine to start. The fizz was floral and\u00a0 apple. There were large amounts of bubbles initially on the pour, then very few after a moment. The wine was quite dry. Most of the people that tried it liked it and had a second glass of the sparkling wine.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the appetizers, I selected a Gew\u00fcrztraminer from Alsace. Although not a part of Germany today, the wine went well with different German cheeses. The 2011 Gew\u00fcrztraminer had a dark yellow color with 14.5%. It was floral especially orange blossoms and also offered yellow stone fruit. The medium-bodied wine was dry with a mineral finish. The wine also matched well with a German curry sausage.<\/p>\n<p>Our third wine was a 2011 Zweigelt. This dark ruby colored wine from Pratsch Dark had 13.0% alcohol. It had notes of spice and dark fruits especially blackberries and plums. The wine had mild tannins and a medium-body. It matched well with the the German sausages. The German sausages and sauerkraut\u00a0were purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edelweissdeli.com\" target=\"_blank\">Edelweiss Sausage &amp; Delicatessen<\/a> in Portland. Different styles of pretzels were purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/fressenartisanbakery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fressen Artisan Bakery,<\/a> a German bakery also in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Dinner Theme\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10321\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we visit our family in Portland, Oregon we often have at least one dinner that has a theme. This year\u2019s theme was Octoberfest. German sausages were grilled and the beer flowed, for the beer drinkers. I was asked to select wines for the wine drinkers that would be in the group. We started with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[34,3192,98],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-food","tag-octoberfest","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10324,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}