{"id":7375,"date":"2012-05-08T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2012-05-09T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T10:38:27","slug":"tempranillo-and-garnacha-red-guitar-spanish-version-of-cotes-du-rhone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/tempranillo-and-garnacha-red-guitar-spanish-version-of-cotes-du-rhone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempranillo and Garnacha Red Guitar: Spanish Version of Cotes du Rhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Travis Oke<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe that anybody can dispute the fact that France is the King of wines \u2013 actually Queen is a better descriptor as it captures the beauty of French wines. Probably the Italians will argue the point, because they like to, but I\u2019m okay with \u201cdebating\u201d my Italian friends.\u00a0 However, lost in this is the role that Spain plays in Old World wines.<\/p>\n

The Spanish lay claim to two great varietals \u2013 Garnacha and Monestral \u2013 and interestingly, the French lay claim to the same grapes calling them Grenache and Mourvedre. However, it\u2019s the Spanish approach to this debate that in my mind defines their approach to wine.<\/p>\n

The Spanish don\u2019t care about the French claims, they don\u2019t care about French wines, and they don\u2019t care if anybody cares.\u00a0 Wine is not there to argue about, debate, or even over analyze (which must seem absurd to the French).\u00a0 Wine is there to drink and it\u2019s either good or it\u2019s bad. The Spaniards would rather get back to watching soccer \u2013 where there is no debate, as reigning Euro and World Cup Champions, that they are better than their French counterparts.
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Try the Spanish version of C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne with Red Guitar<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 rich in Garnacha blended with Tempranillo \u2013from the general LCBO list. Put on a little Spanish music or a little Spanish futbol and enjoy.<\/p>\n

LCBO 54007 | Price: $ 12.95<\/p>\n

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If you are looking for a Monestral then search the pages of your Vintages catalogue \u2013 you may spend $20 but you won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/p>\n

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Travis Oke is a high school teacher by day and a wine writer by night. His blog, Pull The Cork<\/strong><\/a>, appears in the online edition of the Guelph Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Travis Oke I don\u2019t believe that anybody can dispute the fact that France is the King of wines \u2013 actually Queen is a better descriptor as it captures the beauty of French wines. Probably the Italians will argue the point, because they like to, but I\u2019m okay with \u201cdebating\u201d my Italian friends.\u00a0 However, lost in this is the role that Spain plays in Old World wines. The Spanish lay claim to two great varietals \u2013 Garnacha and Monestral \u2013 and interestingly, the French lay claim to the same grapes calling them Grenache and Mourvedre. However, it\u2019s the Spanish approach […]<\/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":[52,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travis-oke","category-wine-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375","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=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}