{"id":1160,"date":"2016-02-20T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:33:25","slug":"what-does-drinking-locally-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/what-does-drinking-locally-really-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Drinking Locally Really Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The locavore movement has exploded over the last few years. Folks are really interested in eating food that is grown and cooked locally. \u00a0It harkens back to the days when folks grew a lot of the food they ate. \u00a0With all of this interest in local food, why not local drink? \u00a0Well, there has been more interest in locally produced beer and now locally produced spirits. \u00a0Local wine is starting to take off too, but is more difficult to find outside of the local winery. \u00a0Let\u2019s take a look at wine specifically and talk about what it means to drink local wine.<\/p>\n

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Local wine is more than just wine produced by a local winery. \u00a0Truly local wine is wine that is fermented, aged and bottled at a local winery, but it is also wine that is made only from local grapes, fruit, or honey. These grapes should come from vines that are planted in North Carolina soil. \u00a0The fruit should come from North Carolina trees, bushes, etc. \u00a0The honey should come from a local bee hive. \u00a0Let\u2019s be clear, a true North Carolina wine is made from a North Carolina product. \u00a0This means that wineries that produce wine from grapes, fruit, juice, or honey from California, South America, and\/or Europe are NOT making local wine. \u00a0They\u2019re making wine locally, but it\u2019s not a North Carolina wine and can\u2019t legally be labeled as such. \u00a0Think about that the next time you visit a local winery. \u00a0Ask where the grapes, fruit, or honey originated. \u00a0Look at the label. \u00a0Is it labeled accurately? \u00a0Inquire as to why local grapes, fruits, or honey weren\u2019t used. \u00a0The \u201cNorth Carolina doesn\u2019t produce quality grapes\u201d line no longer holds water. \u00a0The same goes for fruit or honey. \u00a0Drinkers of truly local North Carolina wine know better! \u00a0 Let\u2019s be sure our voices are heard.<\/p>\n

We must insist that local wine bars and local restaurants sell locally grown and made North Carolina wine. \u00a0Farm to Fork restaurants and the like who aspire to serve food made from locally grown ingredients are quite hypocritical if they don\u2019t have locally made wine on their menus. \u00a0The same would be said for locally made beer and spirits. \u00a0Let\u2019s do our parts to help promote truly locally made wine. Remember the costumer is always right!<\/p>\n

Finally, it\u2019s ok to drink something other than locally made wine. \u00a0However, let\u2019s be sure we do know the difference between a local wine and not. \u00a0And be sure that we don’t use the #NCWine and #NCFineWines to promote a wine that’s not truly local. \u00a0Just remember, drinking locally helps the local economy, which in turn helps you!<\/p>\n

Let us know what drinking locally means to you! Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The locavore movement has exploded over the last few years. Folks are really interested in eating food that is grown and cooked locally. \u00a0It harkens back to the days when folks grew a lot of the food they ate. \u00a0With all of this interest in local food, why not local drink? \u00a0Well, there has beenContinue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[268,271,81,269],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-wine","tag-drink-local","tag-front-page","tag-nc-wine","tag-our-thoughts","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","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=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}