{"id":1015,"date":"2018-01-26T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/liquor-up-your-lover-on-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:59:02","slug":"liquor-up-your-lover-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/liquor-up-your-lover-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquor up Your Lover on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/liquor-up-your-lover-on-valentines-day\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dinner-romantic-beach-xl-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"lovers couple share a romantic dinner with candles on sandy sea beach during sunset\" width=\"648\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dinner-romantic-beach-xl-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dinner-romantic-beach-xl-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dinner-romantic-beach-xl-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dinner-romantic-beach-xl.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be chatting with the hosts of the CBC\u00a0radio drive-home shows from coast to coast this Thursday and Friday about wines for Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re going to depart from the usual natter about which wines are most seductive or how to pair them with chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll go straight to the heart of the matter: how do you liquor up your lover on February 14?<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, we&#8217;ll talk about why <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/alcohol-wine-level-high\/\">wines are getting more alcoholic<\/a><\/strong> these days and how does that affect their taste and ours?<\/p>\n<p>Is this just a cultural trend of winemakers responding to the market?<\/p>\n<p>Is it led by the rising popularity of warm climate wines such as Argentina and Australia?<\/p>\n<p>Is is this the liquid equivalent of pouring ketchup on everything you eat?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/liquor-up-your-lover-on-valentines-day\/fire-wine-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/fireplace-wine.jpg\" alt=\"Hot fireplace full of fire wood and fire\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/fireplace-wine.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/fireplace-wine-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we starting to see a backlash in the market and the search for lighter wines, whether they&#8217;re <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/high-alcohol-wine-percent\/\">lower in alcohol or lighter styles<\/a><\/strong> such as rose and some styles of white wine?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post a schedule once the interviews are set. In the meantime, post here or e-mail me your thoughts on the alcohol levels in wine.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Natalie<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/html\/uploads\/image\/cbc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be chatting with the hosts of the CBC\u00a0radio drive-home shows from coast to coast this Thursday and Friday about wines for Valentine&#8217;s Day. But we&#8217;re going to depart from the usual natter about which wines are most seductive or how to pair them with chocolate. We&#8217;ll go straight to the heart of the matter: how do you liquor up your lover on February 14? More specifically, we&#8217;ll talk about why wines are getting more alcoholic these days and how does that affect their taste and ours? Is this just a cultural trend of winemakers responding to the market? Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1059,1338,8,10,335,336,1337,1222,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-in-wine","category-aphrodisac-foods-wine","category-events","category-food-wine-pairing","category-special-occasions","category-valentines-day","category-valentines-day-wines","category-valentines-day-events","category-wine-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26351,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/26351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}