{"id":342,"date":"2008-10-15T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:05:49","slug":"discover-local-colorado-restaurants-that-carry-colorado-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/discover-local-colorado-restaurants-that-carry-colorado-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Local Colorado Restaurants that Carry Colorado Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As we travel to wineries we are surprised at the number of restaurants that do and do not carry local wines. II Bistro Italiano in Grand Junction, Colorado has a six page wine list with many wines from Italy, not surprising for an Italian restaurant. A quarter of a page was a listing of local Colorado wines from Plum Creek Winery, Carlson Winery, Two Rivers Winery and Bookcliff Vineyards.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>For dinner we settled on the local wines and I ordered a Cabernet Sauvignon from Two Rivers Winery to pair with Puttanesca, a Southern Italy pasta with a sauce of fresh tomatoes, anchovies, capers and olives. Personally although I can drink and enjoy any wine, frequently I have a Cabernet Sauvignon with meals. This Cabernet didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kathy had the traditional lasagna made with spinach pasta and a meat sauce. She had a glass of Plum Creek Palisade Ros\u00e9 which was too sweet for my tastes especially with Italian food but the wine did work well as a before dinner wine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When visiting a restaurant inquire about local wines and local foods. Try to challenge yourselves to taste the place.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Discover Local Colorado Restaurants that Carry Colorado Wines\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=342\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we travel to wineries we are surprised at the number of restaurants that do and do not carry local wines. II Bistro Italiano in Grand Junction, Colorado has a six page wine list with many wines from Italy, not surprising for an Italian restaurant. A quarter of a page was a listing of local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wineryevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}