{"id":10013,"date":"2021-09-17T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:35:27","slug":"international-grenache-day-is-celebrated-yearly-on-the-third-friday-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/international-grenache-day-is-celebrated-yearly-on-the-third-friday-of-september\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wine Light \u2013 International Grenache Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_10011\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10011\" class=\" wp-image-10011\" src=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20200907T100857GMT-0400-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grenache growing at Jones Von Drehle Vineyards and Winery\" width=\"299\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20200907T100857GMT-0400-202x300.jpg 202w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20200907T100857GMT-0400-690x1024.jpg 690w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20200907T100857GMT-0400-101x150.jpg 101w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20200907T100857GMT-0400.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grenache growing at Jones Von Drehle Vineyards and Winery &#8211; Photo Courtesy of Jones von Drehle<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/in-the-wine-light\/\">In the Wine Light<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grenache-association.com\/grenacheday\/?fbclid=IwAR10LrG0XvkaEyiih3EzwPmV0zicmfCsD0yeW1u08b0zBLCUC_jyVp7WEAo\"><strong>International Grenache Day<\/strong><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This wine holiday is celebrated yearly on the third Friday in September.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 2021, that falls on <strong>September 17th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Grenache Day celebrates the red grape <strong>Grenache<\/strong> as it&#8217;s known in <strong>France<\/strong>. \u00a0In <strong>Spain<\/strong>, it&#8217;s known as <strong>Garnacha<\/strong> and is one of the most widely planted grapes in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Grenache typically thrives in a hot, dry climate and is believed to have originated in what is now northern Spain. \u00a0It is also widely grown in the southern Rh\u00f4ne Valley in France where it makes up to 80% of <strong>Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape<\/strong> blends along with primarily Syrah and Mourv\u00e8dre. \u00a0Grenache is also used to make ros\u00e9s with is being the predominant variety in the famous ros\u00e9s of <strong>Tavel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Grenache is not widely grown in North Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonesvondrehle.com\">Jones von Drehle Vineyards and Winery<\/a>\u00a0currently uses their Grenache solely for their dry ros\u00e9, Rosa Dia. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverparkwines.com\">Hanover Park Vineyard<\/a> has a small planting used\u00a0for blending. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniuslindsay.com\">Junius Lindsay Vineyard<\/a> uses Grenache as an occasional standalone wine but mostly for blending in both reds and ros\u00e9s. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/menarick.com\">MenaRick Vineyard and Winery<\/a> also grows Grenache and has a single varietal of Grenache available.<\/p>\n<p>What do you like about Grenache?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 Would you like to see more Grenache grown in North Carolina?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>#GrenacheDay #InTheWineLight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[329,328],"class_list":["post-10013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-wine-light","tag-grenache-day","tag-in-the-wine-light","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}