{"id":17547,"date":"2021-10-01T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:06:07","slug":"wine-sip-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/wine-sip-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Sip Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>This week the focus is on Cortese.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wine enthusiasts are often intrigued not only with the enjoyment of a well-made wine but are interested in knowing more about the makeup of a wine. To help people along the way, we will be writing short notes about wine grape varieties. We are starting off with the grape Cortese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Grape Variety: <\/em>Cortese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Species: <\/em>Vitis vinifera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cortese Wine Styles:<\/em> still white and ros\u00e9 wines, sparkling wines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>History:<\/em> One source notes that Cortese was inventoried in 1614 at a castle cellar. Other sources date Cortese back to the mid 1600s; 1659 (in a document)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Where it grows:<\/em> Italy\u2019s Piedmont<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Synonyms:<\/em> Fernanda Bianca, Raverusto, Cortese deli\u2019 Pastigliano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food Pairing&nbsp;Suggestions: Consider pairing a glass of Cortese with antipasti, salads, shellfish, fish or white meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-or use as an aperitif<br><br>Cheers, <br>Kathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Wine Sip Notes\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=17547\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick notes about the wine grape known as Cortese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[4184,3213,266,98],"class_list":["post-17547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-cortese","tag-piedmont","tag-white-wine","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547","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=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17554,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions\/17554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}