{"id":554,"date":"2012-05-31T19:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-05-31T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:39:28","slug":"live-jazz-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/2012\/live-jazz-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Jazz Tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tasting-5-31-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-555\" title=\"Tasting 5-31-12\" src=\"http:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tasting-5-31-12-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Today's Tasting: Picpoul De Pinet  Coteaux Du Languedoc &amp; I Tre Vescovi Barbera d'Asti!\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tasting-5-31-12-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tasting-5-31-12-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tasting-5-31-12.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Jazz on Thursday nights at Chateau La Vin is quickly becoming the place to be in Columbia!\u00a0 Music starts about 7:30!\u00a0 We have an Italian and French wine to taste while you enjoy the music.\u00a0 See you tonight!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picpoul De Pinet\u00a0 Coteaux Du Languedoc ($14.99) &#8211; <\/strong>100% Picpoul, aka Folle Blanche. Pale yellow color with green tints. Fresh and fine aromas\u00a0 of grapefruit and exotic fruit. Lime flavors, with typical focusing acidity, are hallmarks of Picpoul. Our best value, this wine impresses novices and hardened geeks equally. Known as \u201cthe Muscadet of the South\u201d in France, this is to the Mediterranean coast of France what Albari\u00f1o is to northwest Spain.\u00a0 The Picpoul de Pinet HB 2010, Coteaux de Languedoc, produced by the Caves de Pom\u00e9rols cooperative, reiterates this wine\u2019s status as one of the Great Cheap Wines of the World. Made from white picpoul grapes \u2014 also known as folle blanche \u2014 and seeing only stainless steel in its production, the wine is exuberantly fresh and spicy, exhilarating in its crisp acidity, seductive in its roasted lemon scents and flavors spiked with lime peel and grapefruit and permeated by hints of dried thyme and tarragon and an exotic note of salt-marsh. The soil in this seaside area of Languedoc, just west of the great lagoon of the Bassin de Thau, where the French coast starts its long curve downward toward Spain, is composed of clay and pebbles and fragments of limestone and fossil shells over marl, a perfect mixture for the grape\u2019s dry delicacy, lightness and stony, sun-drenched nature. \u00a0Superb with shellfish \u2014 especially oysters \u2014 but we happily consumed a few glasses with Chinese take-out. 12.5 percent alcohol. Very Good+.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I Tre Vescovi Barbera d&#8217;Asti ($18.99)<\/strong> &#8211; A wonderful Barbera from VVS, \u201cThe Three Bishops\u201d is a testament to the quality of this winery, and at a wonderful price.\u00a0 A step up from Kroara, this Barbera from the smaller Asti zone is both fruit forward and pleasing, and complex. A very nice wine to enjoy with meat or mushroom based pasta sauces, or with a plate of mature cheese.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the rain has stopped.\u00a0 It should be a nice night to enjoy a glass of wine in the Unwine Wine Garden!\u00a0 The weekend looks even better!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on Facebook!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz on Thursday nights at Chateau La Vin is quickly becoming the place to be in Columbia!\u00a0 Music starts about 7:30!\u00a0 We have an Italian and French wine to taste while you enjoy the music.\u00a0 See you tonight! Picpoul De Pinet\u00a0 Coteaux Du Languedoc ($14.99)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chateaulavin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}