{"id":7755,"date":"2013-03-15T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:56:03","slug":"wines-from-croatia-grand-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/wines-from-croatia-grand-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wines from Croatia Grand Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/iwinetc.com\" target=\"_blank\">International Wine Tourism Conference<\/a> included a tasting of Croatian wines led by Caroline Gilby MW. Ten Croatian wines were tasted along with a Slovenia wine and a wine from the Friuli region of Italy. I continued to keep with tradition by writing haikus instead of typical wine notes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bolfan Riesling 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bolfan Riesling<br \/>\nRefreshing yellow stone fruit<br \/>\nSlightly sweet finish<\/p>\n<p><em>Agrolaguna Festigia Malvazija 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Malvazija white<br \/>\nMinerals dominate taste<br \/>\nWhere is the seafood?<\/p>\n<p><em>Degrassi Malvazija Bomarchese 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lemon, vanilla<br \/>\nVelvet mouthfeel minerals<br \/>\nSweetens then drying<\/p>\n<p><em>La Tunelia Biancossesto 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Friulano blend<br \/>\nRibolla Gialla<br \/>\nNice combination<\/p>\n<p><em>Marof Sauvignon Breg 2009\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Different Sauvignon<br \/>\nVanilla and tropicals<br \/>\nAged Slovinia<\/p>\n<p><em>Kutjevo Grasevina De Gotho 2012\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Grasevina white<br \/>\nMore to offer than others<br \/>\nLonger aftertaste<\/p>\n<p><em>Vina Belje Goldberg Grasevina 2011\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danube produced white<br \/>\nReflects the region in east<br \/>\nFruit and mineral<\/p>\n<p><em>Ilok Cellars Traminac 2011 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Croatia<br \/>\nVery aromatic wine<br \/>\nLike drinking flowers<\/p>\n<p><em>Roxanich TeranRre 2007 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Teran dark color<br \/>\nDark fruits and tannins abound<br \/>\nViolets play around<\/p>\n<p><em>Jako Vino Plavac Mali 2009 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Small blue ancient grapes<br \/>\nBold tannins can coat one\u2019s teeth<br \/>\nDrinking and sailing<\/p>\n<p><em>Korta Katarina Plavac Mali 2008\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tamer than last wine<br \/>\nPlavac fruity with tannins<br \/>\nFood further will tame<\/p>\n<p><em>Capo Aries 2009\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Istria Cab Franc<br \/>\nAn international grape<br \/>\nFinds a home climate<\/p>\n<p><em>Badel 1862 Korlat Syrah 2009\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>International<br \/>\nSyrah shows Badel\u2019s interest<br \/>\nCompare to others<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Wines from Croatia Grand Tasting\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7755\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 International Wine Tourism Conference included a tasting of Croatian wines led by Caroline Gilby MW. Ten Croatian wines were tasted along with a Slovenia wine and a wine from the Friuli region of Italy. I continued to keep with tradition by writing haikus instead of typical wine notes. Bolfan Riesling 2011 Bolfan Riesling [&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":[2609,2360,98],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-croatia","tag-iwinetc","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}