{"id":24462,"date":"2016-03-18T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=24462"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:10:21","slug":"chocolate-and-red-wine-pairings-at-constantia-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/chocolate-and-red-wine-pairings-at-constantia-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate and Red Wine Pairings at Constantia Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Experience a luxurious winter pairing of elegant Bordeaux-style red wines with handcrafted dark chocolate at Constantia Glen, one of the jewels in the Constantia wine valley just 20 minutes from the city centre.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Careful matching of sweetness, texture, style and weight in both the wines and the chocolate sets this indulgent pairing apart.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The combination of the medium-bodied blend, Constantia Saddle, with a mild 60% dark chocolate reveals a clever play on levels of sweetness.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">A bolder 70% dark chocolate is the perfect foil for the elegant Constantia Glen THREE, a classic blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.\u00a0<\/span>The bold structure and full-bodied profile of the Constantia Glen FIVE, the flagship blend of all five Bordeaux red varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec, with its juicy black fruit and refined tannins, is a natural pairing for a drier and more robust 80% dark chocolate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The Constantia Glen red wine and chocolate pairing costs R90 per person and is served daily at the tasting room. To pre-book, call<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">021-7955639 or make an instant online booking by visiting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constantiaglen.com\/contact\"><span class=\"s4\">www.constantiaglen.com\/contact<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constantiaglen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">constantiaglen.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience a luxurious winter pairing of elegant Bordeaux-style red wines with handcrafted dark chocolate at Constantia Glen, one of the jewels in the Constantia wine valley just 20 minutes from the city centre.\u00a0Careful matching of sweetness, texture, style and weight in both the wines and the chocolate sets this indulgent pairing apart.\u00a0The combination of the medium-bodied blend, Constantia Saddle, with a mild 60% dark chocolate reveals a clever play on levels of sweetness.\u00a0A bolder 70% dark chocolate is the perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}