{"id":418,"date":"2008-11-08T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T12:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2008-11-08T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T12:42:59","slug":"wines-from-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/08\/wines-from-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wines from the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On an April 20<sup>th<\/sup> post I commented on the Front Royal, Virginia Applebee\u2019s display of local wineries\u2019 wines and stock of different local wines. On a recent trip to the North East Ohio wine country we discovered an Applebee\u2019s in Ashtabula. It had a local wine list in addition to the chain wine list. Six wines were offered from five Ohio wineries. These wines could be purchased: by the bottle, by the glass or as a tasting of three. The wine list was titled, \u201cWines from the Neighborhood.\u201d We believe that Applebee\u2019s is on the right track. If they want their image to be your neighborhood grill and bar they should offer local wines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wines included a Meier\u2019s Walleye White and a Firelands Pinot Grigio. Both of these wineries are not exactly local but still in Ohio. Local wines included Debonn\u00e9\u2019s Riesling Reserve, Ferrante\u2019s Golden Bunches Riesling and two wines from Grand River Cellars: a Chardonnay and Austin\u2019s Red a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The \u201ceat and drink local movement\u201d is certainly gaining momentum. One challenge is to define \u201clocal\u201d. How many miles is considered \u201clocal\u201d? Applebee\u2019s wine list mentions 100 miles. Visiting a Maryland restaurant we were told that a winery 3000 miles away was local. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Wines from the Neighborhood\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=418\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an April 20th post I commented on the Front Royal, Virginia Applebee\u2019s display of local wineries\u2019 wines and stock of different local wines. On a recent trip to the North East Ohio wine country we discovered an Applebee\u2019s in Ashtabula. It had a local wine list in addition to the chain wine list. Six [&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":[10,359,46],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wineryevents","tag-applebees","tag-drink-local","tag-local-wines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}