{"id":88,"date":"2010-04-12T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:49:52","slug":"nice-wines-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-wines-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Wines Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ChateauBellet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-89\" title=\"ChateauBellet\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ChateauBellet-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ChateauBellet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ChateauBellet.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Connoisseurs of Nice&#8217;s wines are a determined lot. The output from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Vineyards.html\">Nice&#8217;s vineyards<\/a> is discouragingly small and a small drought can wreck the harvest. It happened last year and the vintners lost 30% of their production. Which explains why the wine is so expensive. Count on spending from \u20ac15 to \u20ac50 a bottle. Ouch. But there is a sneaky way to sample Nice&#8217;s wines. Twice a year the local vineyards have an Open House where you can wander from chateau to chateau, sampling the goodies. The next one will be held on <strong>May 8 and 9 <\/strong>and I strongly recommend you head to the hills-of Bellet and Cremat where the vineyards are. The verdict is not yet in on the 2009 harvest but the quality usually ranges from good to excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Vineyards.html\">Nice&#8217;s Vineyards.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseurs of Nice&#8217;s wines are a determined lot. The output from Nice&#8217;s vineyards is discouragingly small and a small drought can wreck the harvest. It happened last year and the vintners lost 30% of their production. Which explains why the wine is so expensive. Count on spending from \u20ac15 to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-wines-open-house\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-nice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}