{"id":4341,"date":"2011-06-29T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2011-06-29T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:23:37","slug":"beaujolais-wine-pairings-for-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/beaujolais-wine-pairings-for-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaujolais Wine Pairings for July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the special Beaujolais twitter tasting event, Red, White, and Beaujolais: Celebrate the 4th with Refreshing Wines. Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverbeaujolais.com\/\">Discover Beaujolais website<\/a> for a replay of Cover It Live. Four different Beaujolais wines were tasted over a 1\u00bd hours. Here on the East Coast the event started at 7:00 pm. We wanted to share the experience with others and invited two other couples to share the wine tasting.<\/p>\n<p>Beaujolais wines are not as well known as other wines. Beaujolais region is located in France south of the Burgundy wine region. The primary varietal grape in Beaujolais is Gamay.<\/p>\n<p>The wines were light to medium bodied and perfect for warm summer days. It was interesting to note that two of the corks were synthetic, rather a surprise from France which is often thought to be steeped in tradition. The wines paired well with salmon, barbecued hamburgers, chicken and sausage.<\/p>\n<p>Our guests enjoyed all of the wines and there were only positive comments about all four wines. The favorite wine was Beaujolais-villages, Chateau Luc du Tracot 2009.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in Beaujolais wines for July 4th or anytime, here is a list of the ones we tasted.<\/p>\n<p>2010 Ros\u00e9 d\u2019 Folie, Terres Dor\u00e9es, Jean-Paul Brun ($14.99)<br \/>\n2009 Beaujolais Blanc, Georges Duboeuf, a Chardonnay ($11.95)<br \/>\n2009 Beaujolais-Villages, Chateau Luc du Tracot ($11.95)<br \/>\n2010 Chiroubles, Damien Coquelet ($18.99)<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to John Slighte from <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediagroup.com\/\">Social Media Group<\/a> who asked us to participate in this Beaujolais wine tasting.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the 4th of July with a glass of wine!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Beaujolais Wine Pairings for July 4th\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=4341\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the special Beaujolais twitter tasting event, Red, White, and Beaujolais: Celebrate the 4th with Refreshing Wines. Visit the Discover Beaujolais website for a replay of Cover It Live. Four different Beaujolais wines were tasted over a 1\u00bd hours. Here on the East Coast the event started at 7:00 pm. We wanted to share [&hellip;]<\/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":[2199,2201,667,133,2202,98,937],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-beaujolais","tag-discover-beaujolais","tag-france","tag-july-4th","tag-social-media-group","tag-wine","tag-wine-pairings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}