{"id":191,"date":"2015-04-17T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-04-17T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T05:27:41","slug":"this-is-just-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/04\/17\/this-is-just-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Just To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to say . . . we had a leftover bottle of a Tuscan wine made from 55% Sangiovese, 25% Syrah and 20% Merlot (a 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruffino.com\/us\/OurWines\/TuscanReds\/IlDucale\/index.htm\">Ruffino Il Ducale<\/a>, which I&#8217;m pretty sure was brought over here by someone) that tasted great &#8212; great! &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/02\/19\/roasted-chicken\/\">with our bastardized Zuni-style roasted chicken<\/a>. I wouldn&#8217;t have expected it to work because, you know, it&#8217;s red and it&#8217;s chicken and it&#8217;s leftover and we &#8212; or at least one of us &#8212; doesn&#8217;t know shit about wine (really), but this was awesome. When you tasted it with high-heat chicken fatty roasted chicken, the wine&#8217;s flavors jumped out and sharpened into something beyond what what there. One of those revelatory pairings. It turns out that &#8220;Il Ducale Toscana is the perfect accompaniment to herb-roasted chicken . . .&#8221; And, indeed, if you Google something long enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/articles\/wine-101-sangiovese\">you&#8217;ll find some evidence to support that<\/a>: &#8220;Pair Sangioveses with rare steaks, roasted game birds (or wild boar), rich chicken or mushroom dishes or anything with tomato sauce&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;rich chicken&#8221;; I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to say . . . we had a leftover bottle of a Tuscan wine made from 55% Sangiovese, 25% Syrah and 20% Merlot (a 2011 Ruffino Il Ducale, which I&#8217;m pretty sure was brought over here by someone) that tasted great &#8212; great! &#8212; with our bastardized Zuni-style roasted chicken. I wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,46],"tags":[132,131,65],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","category-weekday-dinner-drinking","tag-sangiovese","tag-this-is-just-to-say","tag-zuni-cafe-roasted-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}