{"id":9188,"date":"2014-01-03T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=9188"},"modified":"2014-01-03T19:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:17:32","slug":"georgian-wines-available-at-restaurants-in-sochi-during-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/georgian-wines-available-at-restaurants-in-sochi-during-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Wines Available at Restaurants in Sochi During Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9189\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/besini4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9189\" alt=\"Mukuzani wine at Besini\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/besini4.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mukuzani wine at Besini, a Georgian winery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Olympic 2014 fans attending the special events in Sochi, Russia will be able to find Georgian (Sakartvelo) wines at various area restaurants. Restaurants can be a wonderful venue for discovering new wines and new grape varieties. Food enhances wine; wine enhances food.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.hvino.com\">Hvino<\/a>,\u00a0in an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia, Levan Davitashvili head of the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwa.ge\/?lang=eng\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">National Wine Agency<\/span><\/a><\/span> of the Ministry of Agriculture said, &#8220;At the moment, negotiations are underway with several famous Georgian producers interested in selling their wine brands during the Olympics.\u201d The wines most popular in Russia include Khvanchkara, Kindzmarauli, Tvishi, Saperavi and Mukuzani.<\/p>\n<p>With the world\u2019s attention focused on the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sochi2014.com\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">2014 Winter Olympics<\/span><\/a><\/span>, this is a great time for Georgian wines to be available. Certainly with worldwide visitors arriving to watch the games, it is a perfect opportunity for wine enthusiasts to discover Georgian wines.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Kathy<\/span><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Georgian Wines Available at Restaurants in Sochi During Winter Olympics\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=9188\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 2014 fans attending the special events in Sochi, Russia will be able to find Georgian (Sakartvelo) wines at various area restaurants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2984,2985,2986,1977,2987,2983],"class_list":["post-9188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-georgian-wines","tag-hvino","tag-national-wine","tag-olympics","tag-russia","tag-sochi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188","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=9188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}