{"id":7052,"date":"2012-10-29T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2012-10-29T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:30:00","slug":"a-wine-pairing-for-hurricane-sandy-pepi-chenin-blancviognier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/a-wine-pairing-for-hurricane-sandy-pepi-chenin-blancviognier\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wine Pairing for Hurricane Sandy: Pepi Chenin Blanc\/Viognier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7053\" style=\"border: 5px solid transparent;\" title=\"102912\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>As we are watching the rains continue and wind blow, we decided to celebrate Hurricane Sandy\u2019s arrival with a Chenin Blanc \/Viognier blend by Pepi. We were first introduced to Pepi at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Portland during August. Pepi is a California winery that specializes in white wines. The Chenin Blanc\/Viognier is a winner. As the trees with leaves still on are rocking back in forth in the wine gusts, we are enjoying a delicious blend. The light yellow wine has a floral aroma. We noticed honeysuckle, pineapple and peaches on the taste and there is a crisp finish with lingering fruit. Virginia Viognier is a favorite of ours and this California blend with Viognier is also very tasty. The wine would pair well with a salad, but we are enjoying it in the late afternoon as the hurricane is showing its punch.<\/p>\n<p>At the Wine Bloggers Conference we tasted the Pepi Sauvignon Blanc. We recall the wine had citrus aroma and taste especially grapefruit. A week ago we tasted the Pepi 2011 Pinot Grigio. Citrus was the predominant aroma and taste.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"A Wine Pairing for Hurricane Sandy: Pepi Chenin Blanc\/Viognier\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7052\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are watching the rains continue and wind blow, we decided to celebrate Hurricane Sandy\u2019s arrival with a Chenin Blanc \/Viognier blend by Pepi. We were first introduced to Pepi at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Portland during August. Pepi is a California winery that specializes in white wines. The Chenin Blanc\/Viognier is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[2742,2741],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-chenin-blancviognier","tag-pepi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","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=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}