{"id":10867,"date":"2012-10-09T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T10:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:07","slug":"squash-brulee-paired-with-riesling-or-gewurztraminer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/squash-brulee-paired-with-riesling-or-gewurztraminer\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Brulee Paired with Riesling or Gewurztraminer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Travis Oke<\/p>\n

Autumn is my favorite season. Not just because it\u2019s my birthday and I get presents \u2013 but also because of the food. Parsnips, squashes of all shapes and sizes, and it\u2019s now cold enough in the afternoon that I want to slow roast various cuts of animals in my oven.\u00a0 Three cheers for slow cooked meat.<\/p>\n

A trip to the local squash farm is one of my favorite activities. Grey, red, white, stripy \u2013 it\u2019s crazy how many there are at the Goode Family Farm near my place in Guelph.<\/p>\n

My favorite thing to cook is the squash brul\u00e9e \u2013 a savory twist on a French dessert classic.\u00a0 And the best part of it all is that I get to finish the dish with a blowtorch. Very manly indeed!
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What do I drink with a blow-torched side dish?\u00a0 Willm Reserve Riesling. It pairs with the brul\u00e9e and the overall flavour of squashiness (a word that my spell check tells me I just made up). I know Ontario makes some great Riesling but brul\u00e9e is a French word and a French dish so a wine from Alsace seems right.<\/p>\n

If you must drink from Ontario then I think you\u2019ll find Strewn\u2019s Two Vine Riesling \/ Gew\u00fcrztraminer a great match too with its spice, pear, and apple undertones. A little sweeter than the Willm, but enough tartness to pair nicely with the turkey. And you get to say Gew\u00fcrztraminer, which always makes my day.<\/p>\n

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I am a high school teacher by day and a wine writer by night. In fact I believe that I am the only wine blogger with a PE degree from York University (why is nobody ever impressed by that?).<\/p>\n

My blog, PulltheCork<\/strong><\/a>, appears in the online edition of the Guelph Mercury. My primary goal in writing it is to make my brother and me laugh. I don\u2019t take it too seriously \u2013 in fact probably the opposite.<\/p>\n

I have a penchant for aged Rioja, C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne, and Ontario Cabernet Franc but I drink ros\u00e9 when in the south of France. Also, my wife and I regularly drink Cava \u2013 because it makes me feel like we\u2019re celebrating something. Gew\u00fcrztraminer is my favorite wine word to pronounce but isn’t it everyone’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Travis Oke Autumn is my favorite season. Not just because it\u2019s my birthday and I get presents \u2013 but also because of the food. Parsnips, squashes of all shapes and sizes, and it\u2019s now cold enough in the afternoon that I want to slow roast various cuts of animals in my oven.\u00a0 Three cheers for slow cooked meat. A trip to the local squash farm is one of my favorite activities. Grey, red, white, stripy \u2013 it\u2019s crazy how many there are at the Goode Family Farm near my place in Guelph. My favorite thing to cook is the […]<\/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":[16,52,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pairings","category-travis-oke","category-wine-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867","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=10867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12644,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867\/revisions\/12644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}