{"id":11372,"date":"2015-05-13T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11372"},"modified":"2015-05-13T05:56:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:56:56","slug":"sagrantino-is-not-sangiovese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/sagrantino-is-not-sangiovese\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagrantino Is not Sangiovese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11373\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11373\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215a.jpg\" alt=\"Arnoldo Caprai Winery's Sagrantino\" width=\"228\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215a.jpg 228w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/051215a-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnoldo Caprai Winery&#8217;s Sagrantino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In our second book, <a href=\"http:\/\/awinetouristsguide.winetrailtraveler.com\" target=\"_blank\">A Wine Tourist Guide Visiting Tasting Rooms<\/a>, we wrote a chapter about wine misconceptions and myths. Arnoldo Caprai Winery in Montefalco, Italy sent\u00a0 us two misconceptions that plagues their tasting room. Many visitors believe Montefalco is in Toscana\u00a0(Tuscany) when it is really in Umbria. The region Umbria does share a border with the region Toscana. The other misconception deals with the grape Sagrantino, perhaps the signature grape of\u00a0 the Umbria region. It is believed by some visitors that Sagrantino is just another name for Sangiovese, the main red grape of\u00a0 Toscana. However, the two grapes are completely different with totally different profiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consorziomontefalco.it\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consorzio Montefalco<\/a> will be present at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/winebloggersconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wine Bloggers Conference<\/a> in Corning, New York. The organization was formed in 1981 to promote the Sagrantino grape. Consorzio Montefalco will be showcasing DOC and DOCG wines from Umbria at the conference. Promoting Sagrantino is a challenge in the United States. It is unknown to many wine enthusiasts. Kathy and I first learned of Sagrantino from the owner of Firelands Winery,<\/p>\n<p>Claudio Salvador. The winery is located in Sandusky, Ohio. Claudio&#8217;s wife and brother own wineries in Italy. Claudio is also involved with distributing wine from Italy. One of those wines was a Sagrantino from Umbria.<\/p>\n<p>Claudio poured\u00a0 a Sagrantino for tasting. I knew after my first taste of Sagrantino that this would be one of my favorite wines. The darker color should have been an indication that Sagrantino is not Sangiovese. I love wines that have outrageous tannins. Sagrantino delivers what I have call &#8220;kissing tannins,&#8221; a reference to puckering your lips. Sagrantino is food friendly and matches many Italian dishes. Perhaps the Wine Bloggers Conference will give wine bloggers, new to this varietal grape, a voice to inform their readers about this grape from Umbria.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Sagrantino Is not Sangiovese\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11372\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our second book, A Wine Tourist Guide Visiting Tasting Rooms, we wrote a chapter about wine misconceptions and myths. Arnoldo Caprai Winery in Montefalco, Italy sent\u00a0 us two misconceptions that plagues their tasting room. Many visitors believe Montefalco is in Toscana\u00a0(Tuscany) when it is really in Umbria. The region Umbria does share a border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1617,1618,98,2194],"class_list":["post-11372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-sagrantino","tag-umbria","tag-wine","tag-wine-bloggers-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372","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=11372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11374,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}