{"id":152,"date":"2008-08-06T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-08-06T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:44:24","slug":"muscadine-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/muscadine-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscadine Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night for dinner, we decided to experiment with a food and wine pairing. We chose to have a sweet wine with dinner as one of our family members likes a sweet, white wine. Our choice was Midnight Magnolia from Duplin Estate Wines in North Carolina. According to the label this is a Mid Harvest White Table Wine. A member of the muscadine family (V. rotundifolia,) Magnolia is an early, bronze grape, suitable for juice or wine. Midnight Magnolia is medium to heavy bodied and semi-sweet on taste.<\/p>\n<p>For dinner we were having tacos and all the fixings. I know what you&#8217;re thinking why in the world would you pair a sweet wine with tacos? We like to experiment with pairings and usually they work out because we are drinking a wine we like. However, in this case the body of the wine was too heavy and the wine was too sweet. Most likely a dry white wine would have enhanced the flavor of the tacos. What food mismatches have you tried?<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Muscadine Wine\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=152\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night for dinner, we decided to experiment with a food and wine pairing. We chose to have a sweet wine with dinner as one of our family members likes a sweet, white wine. Our choice was Midnight Magnolia from Duplin Estate Wines in North Carolina. According to the label this is a Mid Harvest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[229,53,60,98],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-duplin-estates-wines","tag-muscadine","tag-pairing","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}