{"id":7591,"date":"2013-02-08T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:41:11","slug":"sparkling-wine-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/sparkling-wine-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Wine for Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7594\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sparklingpointe6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7594\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7594\" title=\"sparklingpointe6\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sparklingpointe6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sparkling Pointe on Long Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While sparkling wine makes a delicious wine to have with meals, it also makes a delightful drink for special occasions. While visiting Long Island, we visited Sparkling Pointe, a unique and elegant winery that concentrates on producing only sparkling wines.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we enjoyed one of their sparkling wines with dinner.\u00a0 Sparkling Pointe Brut, produced using the methode champenoise, offered apple and pear nuances. Many wine enthusiasts would enjoy this wine. Consider enjoying it in celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day or enjoy it with dinner. This sparkling wine would be great as an aperitif, with sushi or caviar. Currently Sparkling Pointe has five different sparkling wines available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The winemaker at Sparkling Pointe is Gilles Martin who is enthusiastic about producing sparkling wines. He has worked at wineries in France, on the West Coast and East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about visiting Sparkling Pointe winery, a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/newyork\/sparklingpointe.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">review article<\/span><\/a><\/span> is available on Wine Trail Traveler.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Sparkling Wine for Valentine's Day\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7591\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sparkling wine makes a delicious wine to have with meals, it also makes a delightful drink for special occasions. While visiting Long Island, we visited Sparkling Pointe, a unique and elegant winery that concentrates on producing only sparkling wines.<\/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":[2809,149,590],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-sparkling-pointe","tag-sparkling-wine","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","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=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}