{"id":2151,"date":"2013-11-01T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:02:29","slug":"soave-revisited-grandfathers-white-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/soave-revisited-grandfathers-white-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Soave Revisited: Not Your Grandfather\u2019s White Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"White<\/a>For decades the name Soave was nearly synonymous with white wine from Italy, much like the word Chablis doubled as a catch word for any white wine made in America.\u00a0 And to make matters worse, a hand full of Italian producers monopolized the market for Soave \u2013 a beautiful, personality filled white wine from northern Italy of charm and grace in its pure form.\u00a0 Unfortunately, these industrialized giants homogenized the Soave they produced, reducing it to the lowest common denominator.\u00a0 The result was oceans of eviscerated, innocuous white wine, whose only attribute was that it was squeaky clean, so clean in fact that it was grossly devoid of character and flavor.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, a number of small grower\/producers survived and others have joined them to restore Soave to its proper place among the top echelon of Italian white wines.\u00a0 Some of my favorite Soave producers are Gini and Tamellini, though Anselmi (who prefers not to use the name Soave in protest to past and present abuses), Inama and a number of other artisan producers make world class Soave as well.\u00a0 What I enjoy most is the delicacy and purity of authentic, carefully crafted Soave.\u00a0 No other white wine appears as ethereal as genuine Soave, yet real Soave is capable of captivating the mind as well as the palate, which is something your Grandfather\u2019s Soave could never do.<\/p>\n

Salut\u00e9!
\n<\/i>Don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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