{"id":509,"date":"2010-04-28T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:43:23","slug":"in-raleigh-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/in-raleigh-north-carolina","title":{"rendered":"In Raleigh, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived yesterday afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve been to this part of the USA. I&#8217;m not here visiting vineyards, but to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomacorc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nomacorc<\/a>, the world&#8217;s largest manufacturer of synthetic wine bottle corks. Today I get to visit their facility, do a presentation on trends in the wine market (from my perspective) and discuss the oxygen in wines debate that is being held at the trade fair in London next month.<\/p>\n<p>Last night a few of us went out for dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant (Vivace), which had a rather good wine list.<\/p>\n<p>I began by trying a local beer &#8211; <strong>Hell&#8217;s Belle<\/strong>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbossbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Boss Brewing Company<\/a> here in Raleigh. At 7% alcohol it&#8217;s a Belgian-style ale, and it was delicious &#8211; pale and savoury with lovely depth.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had four wines: Planeta&#8217;s Cometa and Jermann&#8217;s Pinot Grigio, followed by Manzone La Gramolere Barolo 1999, and then, for me, the star of the evening: <strong>Reale Cardamone 2006 Colli di Salerno<\/strong>, a blend of 70% Piedirosso and 30% Tintora. This deep coloured red was savoury, intense, bloody and iron-like with dense berry and black cherry, firm tannins and real minerality. And it wasn&#8217;t too expensive either. I&#8217;m going to look out for this on my return to the UK. I&#8217;d give it 93\/100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived yesterday afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve been to this part of the USA. I&#8217;m not here visiting vineyards, but to visit Nomacorc, the world&#8217;s&#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-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}