{"id":16342,"date":"2007-10-01T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/hunters-little-taste-of-italy-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:28:00","slug":"hunters-little-taste-of-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/10\/hunters-little-taste-of-italy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTER\u2019S LITTLE TASTE OF ITALY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/VINTNEWS\/photo?authkey=z2TXO9lQWUA#5116127184871454690\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.co.uk\/rodeime\/RwAikXf7d-I\/AAAAAAAABRw\/t14jVx71OCk\/s288\/Littles%20Sangiovese.jpg\" align=\"left\"><\/a>THE Hunter Valley\u2019s Little Wine Company has released a wonderfully drinkable Sangiovese under its 2005 Olivine label\u2026 a flavoursome yet light and food-friendly \u201cLittle Taste of Italy\u201d made from the same red grape variety as the classic Chiantis of Italy\u2019s Tuscany region.<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Little who oversees red wine production at the family winery says Sangiovese is particularly suited to the terroir of the Hunter Valley, with the 2005 the company\u2019s fifth year of production of this variety \u2013 and she believes, the best so far.<\/p>\n<p>The wine is full-flavoured with sweet cherry and leather tones and smoky chocolate and mushroom characters; its well priced at $19 a bottle from most independent retailers \u2013 if you can\u2019t find it, give the winery a call on (02) 6579 1111 to find a local outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Being a wine of Tuscan origin \u2013 it\u2019s been made there for over 700 years \u2013 this one\u2019s ideal with tomato-based pasta dishes or most pizzas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Hunter Valley\u2019s Little Wine Company has released a wonderfully drinkable Sangiovese under its 2005 Olivine label\u2026 a flavoursome yet light and food-friendly \u201cLittle Taste of Italy\u201d made from the same red grape variety as the classic Chiantis of Italy\u2019s Tuscany region. Suzanne Little who oversees red wine production at the family winery says Sangiovese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunter-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}