{"id":17350,"date":"2021-02-01T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:52:31","slug":"a-special-chocolate-cocktail-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/a-special-chocolate-cocktail-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Chocolate Cocktail for Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is not too early to start thinking about how to celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day with someone special. Despite the pandemic, we can still remember friends, family and loved ones while still being careful not to spread COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Round Barn Winery, Brewery and Distillery in Michigan comes a recipe for a Chocolate Covered Cocktail. You\u2019ll find the recipe is easy as long as you have the ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Chocolate Covered Cherry Cocktail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17351\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Vday_11.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>Chocolate Covered Cherry Cocktail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><br> 3oz <a href=\"https:\/\/roundbarn.com\/products\/wine\/farm-market-wines\">Farm Market Cherry Wine<\/a><br> 12oz <a href=\"https:\/\/roundbarn.com\/products\/beer\">Oronooko Cocoa Chocolate Milk Stout<\/a> (<em>or a&nbsp;Chocolate Milk Stout<\/em>)<br>Chocolate sprinkles<br> <br> <strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rim half of the glass with chocolate sprinkles. Pour in Cherry wine first. Fill the glass with the Oronoko Cocoa (or a&nbsp;Cocoa Stout of your choice).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<br><br>We visited and wrote an article about Round Barn Winery, Brewery and Distillery several years ago. The round barn was built in Indiana.The building is very unique and was saved by the Moersch family a short time before it was to be demolished. The vintage building was carefully taken down by Amish workers and transported to Michigan where it was rebuilt by Amish craftsmen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/roundbarn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/roundbarn1.jpg 314w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/roundbarn1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><figcaption>Round Barn Winery, Brewery and Distillery, MI<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For more about Round Barn Winery, Brewery and Distillery including photos read the <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/michigan\/roundbarn.php\">online<\/a> Wine Trail Traveler article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Future Blog: Later this week discover how some people can celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day in England in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"A Special Chocolate Cocktail for Valentine's Day\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=17350\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this chocolate cocktail for Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/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":[848,583,4168,1044,590],"class_list":["post-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-cocktail","tag-recipe","tag-stout","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350","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=17350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17354,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions\/17354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}