{"id":479,"date":"2016-02-22T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-02-22T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:11:26","slug":"it-doesnt-matter-if-your-red-or-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"It doesn’t matter if your red or white"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"01d4jqw4vcfpd_375x500\"<\/a>Whenever I tell people that wine is what I do, the age old question always comes up, Red or White?\u00a0 And they’re usually not interested in my typical answer of “It depends on what I’m having it with.”\u00a0 Well Oliver twist wineries and historically the German’s have solved that age old question for all of us with this hybrid grape.<\/p>\n

This hybrid is a cross between\u00a0Trollinger (a red variety also known as Schiava grossa or Vernatsch) and Riesling.\u00a0 It was created by August Harold in 1929.\u00a0 40 years later it received varietal protection and was released for general cultivation.\u00a0 Kerner reached it peak of plantings in 1990 with around 8,000 hectares in Germany.<\/p>\n

Located on the Black Sage Bench in Oliver, British Columbia, Oliver Twist Estate winery is proudly run\u00a0 by Gina and Trevor Mitchell.\u00a0 They are proud and humble owners who wouldn’t trade what they do for anything else.\u00a0 Nor would you want them to.<\/p>\n

The Kerner grape has been in the area for over 50 years.\u00a0 The wine itself is straw yellow in color, but on the nose it has notes of has hints of honey and ripe strawberry not commonly found in white wines.\u00a0 On the palate it brings out more of it’s riesling character with honey and spice but that red fruit character still lingers as well.\u00a0 With only a few local producers growing this grape I will definitely be back up to Oliver twist to get my hands on more!\u00a0 It’s the white wine for those of us more confident in red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I tell people that wine is what I do, the age old question always comes up, Red or White?\u00a0 And they’re usually not interested in my typical answer of “It depends on what I’m having it with.”\u00a0 Well Oliver twist wineries and historically the German’s have solved that age old question for all of […]<\/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-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gonewiththewine.ca\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}