{"id":293,"date":"2014-03-22T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/?p=293"},"modified":"2014-03-22T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:18:35","slug":"super-duper-tuscans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/super-duper-tuscans\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Duper Tuscans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beautiful-tuscany-italy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-294\" alt=\"beautiful-tuscany-italy\" src=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beautiful-tuscany-italy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beautiful-tuscany-italy-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/beautiful-tuscany-italy.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Forty years ago when one thought of Italian wines one could only imagine cheap light chianti in squat wicker-covered bottles. Strict regulations written in the 1960&#8217;s establishing Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) regions limited the ability to make quality red blends in Tuscany. Instead of insuring quality, they established the mediocre chianti made from 70% sangiovese blended with 30% white wine as the norm. In an effort to bring better quality blends of red wines with &#8220;non-approved&#8221; grapes to the market, Tusan producers decided to buck the DOC regulations in the 1970&#8217;s and started making wines from all kinds of blends including cabernet sauvignon, merlot and other grapes. Thus, Super Tuscans were born. In 1992 Italy introduced the IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipical = typical regional wine) designation to provide a regulated quality region (85% of grapes must be from that region) different from the DOC&#8217;s. After 40 years of evolution Super Tuscans have really stepped up their game and this region produces some of the world&#8217;s finest wines. Join us for a tour of Tuscany as we sample some Super Duper Tuscans.<\/p>\n<p>Super Duper Tuscans<br \/>\nHosted by Jeff and Ann Clark<br \/>\n1909 E Rose Creek Parkway S, Fargo<br \/>\nSaturday, April 12, 2014<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 pm<br \/>\n$25 members per person<br \/>\n$30 non-members per person<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:gregcook@me.com\">rsvp<\/a> by Thursday, April 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago when one thought of Italian wines one could only imagine cheap light chianti in squat wicker-covered bottles. Strict regulations written in the 1960&#8217;s establishing Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) regions limited the ability to make quality red blends in Tuscany. Instead of insuring quality, they established the mediocre chianti made from 70% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aws-event","category-valley-vine","tag-super-tuscan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/rrvaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}