{"id":18277,"date":"2024-03-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=18277"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:23:31","slug":"wine-ham-easter-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wine-ham-easter-pairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Paired with Ham for Easter and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the classic Easter dishes is ham. Most hams are wet-cured with brine or saline solution and then smoked.<\/p>\r\n

Popular finishes are a sweet glaze of bourbon and brown sugar or maple syrup or orange marmalade. This gives the meat a glistening finish and an appetizing salty-sweet taste.<\/p>\r\n

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The dish is often accompanied by tangy dressings such as cloves, dried fruit chutney or apricot preserves.<\/p>\r\n

All those powerful fruit and spice flavors are delicious, but they\u2019re tough on many wines.<\/p>\r\n

What works best is usually a zippy white with a touch of sweetness, such as an off-dry Canadian or German Riesling like the Volratz Trocken Riesling 2017.<\/p>\r\n

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Volratz Trocken Riesling 2017<\/strong><\/a>
Rheingau Qualit\u00e4tswein, Germany<\/p>\r\n

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Bubbly can also hold its own with ham: but again, look for one that\u2019s softened by some sweetness, such as Moscato d\u2019Asti from Italy.<\/p>\r\n

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Abbazia Moscato D’asti 2017<\/strong><\/a>
Piedmont D.O.C.G., Italy<\/p>\r\n

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A new World pinot noir from California, with lots of sweet cherry aromas, will also work. I\u2019ve posted my reviews of wines to pair with pork<\/strong><\/a>, including ham.<\/p>\r\n

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SeaGlass Pinot Noir 2016<\/strong><\/a>
Santa Barbara County, California, United States<\/p>\r\n

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Here are more tips on Easter Wines<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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One of the classic Easter dishes is ham. Most hams are wet-cured with brine or saline solution and then smoked. Popular finishes are a sweet glaze of bourbon and brown sugar or maple syrup or orange marmalade. This gives the meat a glistening finish and an appetizing salty-sweet taste. The dish is often accompanied by tangy dressings such as cloves, dried fruit chutney or apricot preserves. All those powerful fruit and spice flavors are delicious, but they\u2019re tough on many wines. What works best is usually a zippy white with a touch of sweetness, such as an off-dry Canadian or […]<\/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":[113,1105,362,364,1111,830,125,333,990,321,394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-wines","category-canadian-wine-wine-region","category-easter-wine","category-ham-and-wine","category-italian-wine-wine-region","category-moscato-dasti-italy","category-wine-pork","category-riesling","category-riesling-germany","category-sparkling-wine","category-white-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277","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=18277"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63380,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions\/63380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}