{"id":159,"date":"2008-01-29T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/superbowl-wine\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:00:41","slug":"superbowl-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/superbowl-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl Wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/football wine.jpg\" alt=\"Football Wine\" title=\"Football Wine\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Red wine and pizza!<\/h2>\n<p>Ok, it&#8217;s not often you go to a football game and hear one of the vendors bellowing, &#8220;Ice cold Chenin Blanc here!&#8221; Beer is the beverage of choice for tailgate parties, but wine definitely has it&#8217;s place in your Superbowl festivities. What could better with pizza than a full bodied red? It&#8217;s pizza with the guys watching the game though, not fancy dress with your significant other, so you don&#8217;t want to break the bank. My choice would be Lindemans Bin 50 Shiraz, a bargain red that doesn&#8217;t <em>taste<\/em> like a bargain. <\/p>\n<h2>A good white for the game<\/h2>\n<p>Still whites would be harder to fit into a Superbowl party, but if you like whites stick to full flavored ones like Sauvignon Blanc. I just placed an order for the Viu Manent 2006 Sauvignon Blanc based on a good review. I haven&#8217;t tried it yet, but it would be my choice for a still white on game day.<\/p>\n<h2>This relaxed sparkling wine won&#8217;t disappoint<\/h2>\n<p>Sparkling wine seems like on obvious choice, but you shouldn&#8217;t waste good wine by shaking the bottle and spraying it on all your friends. For something a little different than Champaign, try Prosecco. It&#8217;s an Italian sparkling wine that&#8217;s a little sweeter and more fruity than the French variety. A good one to try is il Prosecco, which comes in a distinctive bottle topped with a crown cap (like beer!).<\/p>\n<p>So, by all means, stock up on beer for the Superbowl, but don&#8217;t forget the wine.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evill1\/67204492\/\">Photo<\/a> courtesy of Aaron Edwards who has made it available under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/deed.en\">creative commons<\/a> license &#8211; thanks Aaron!<\/em><br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<h2>Update 4\/19\/2010 &#8211; Find your own superbowl wine by tasting blind<\/h2>\n<p>How do you tell a diamond in the ruff from an overpriced &#8220;bargain?&#8221; Compare it against a wine you know in a blind tasting. It&#8217;s the only way to set aside the mental baggage we all carry and see a wine as it really is. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/easy-blind-tasting\/\">quick and easy way to do your own blind tasting<\/a> at home.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red wine and pizza! Ok, it&#8217;s not often you go to a football game and hear one of the vendors bellowing, &#8220;Ice cold Chenin Blanc here!&#8221; Beer is the beverage of choice for tailgate parties, but wine definitely has it&#8217;s place in your Superbowl festivities. What could better with pizza than a full bodied red? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,34],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-wine","category-competitions-and-events","category-tasting","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}