{"id":11329,"date":"2015-05-07T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2015-05-03T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:08:36","slug":"does-franciacorta-sparkling-wine-rival-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/does-franciacorta-sparkling-wine-rival-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Franciacorta Sparkling Wine Rival Champagne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Franciacorta area of Italy is said to be home to some sparkling wines that some say may rival champagnes from France. (Note to self: try to locate a couple of Franciacorta sparkling wines to taste.)<\/p>\n<p>How has a relatively unknown region created such excellent sparkling wines? According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franciacorta.net\/en\/\"><b><i>Franciacorta website<\/i><\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Franciacota has been producing sparkling wines since the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li>In the late 1950s, the potential for the area to\u00a0 produce base wines suitable for sparkling wine was recognized.<\/li>\n<li>In 1967, official recognition was given to the name Franciacorta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Changes have continued to affect the production of Franciacorta winemaking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1990: Creation of the Voluntary Consortium<\/li>\n<li>1993: New regulations stipulate mandatory natural secondary fermentation in the bottle<\/li>\n<li>1995: Consortium approves production regulations for Franciacorta DOCG<\/li>\n<li>1997: First bottles of Franciacorta with DOCG band sold<\/li>\n<li>2010: New restrictive directions increase the rigor of production to reach the highest quality and confirm the Franciacorta method. The directions are the\u00a0strictest in the world for\u00a0this type of wine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Franciacorta sparkling wines have been chosen as the Official Sparkling Wine for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expo2015.org\/en\">2015\u00a0Milan Expo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the opportunity, try a sparkling wine from Franciacorta!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Does Franciacorta Sparkling Wine Rival Champagne?\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11329\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Franciacorta area of Italy is said to be home to some sparkling wines that some say may rival champagnes from France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[175,667,3353,240,3354],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-champagne","tag-france","tag-franciacorta","tag-italy","tag-milan-expo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11351,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}