{"id":9970,"date":"2011-06-22T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:37:57","slug":"salmon-just-how-much-alcohol-is-in-that-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/salmon-just-how-much-alcohol-is-in-that-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon: Just how much alcohol is in that wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting news snippet: for several years, many winemakers have been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2011\/06\/21\/why-is-wine-getting-hotter\/\" target=\"_blank\">under-reporting<\/a> the alcohol levels of their wine:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Essentially, people like to think of themselves as sophisticates who go to art-house movies, even if in reality they\u2019re much more likely to sit slack-jawed in front of some reality TV show. In the case of wine, they like the idea of buying something grown-up, with a relatively modest amount of alcohol; when it comes to drinking what\u2019s inside, however, the more heat the better. So wine labels consistently show lower alcohol content than what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially true in the new world. Out of 43,908 tested new world wines, 24,561 under-reported their alcohol content, with the reds averaging 14.1% alcohol while claiming just 13.6%, and the whiles averaging 13.5% while claiming to be 13.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the smaller number of wines which either over-reported their alcohol content or got it exactly right all reported pretty much the same levels of alcohol: 13.1% or 13.2% for whites, and 13.6% or 13.7% for reds. On average, it seems, wine will just say that it\u2019s 13% if it\u2019s white and 13.5% if it\u2019s red, but in reality it\u2019s likely to be higher than that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting news snippet: for several years, many winemakers have been under-reporting the alcohol levels of their wine: Essentially, people like to think of themselves as sophisticates who go to art-house movies, even if in reality they\u2019re much more likely to sit slack-jawed in front of some reality TV show. In the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,131],"tags":[661],"class_list":["post-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-wine","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}