{"id":65309,"date":"2026-09-14T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/dutch-cider\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:52:14","slug":"dutch-cider","status":"publish","type":"drink","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/drankengids\/dutch-cider\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit wine and cider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Before grape wine there was fruit wine, and it never quite disappeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The tradition<\/h2>\n<p>Elderberry, blackcurrant, apple and pear wines were made across rural Netherlands for centuries, because grapes would not ripen and fruit would.<\/p>\n<h2>The Betuwe<\/h2>\n<p>The river region between the Rhine and the Waal is the country&#8217;s orchard. Apple and pear ciders from there have grown into a small but serious category.<\/p>\n<h2>Cider versus appelwijn<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Cider<\/strong> is lightly sparkling and lower in alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appelwijn<\/strong> is still, stronger, and closer to wine in structure.<\/p>\n<h2>What to eat with it<\/h2>\n<p>Pork, aged cheese, and anything with apple in it.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>At farm shops and increasingly on restaurant lists as the local alternative to imported wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before grape wine there was fruit wine, and it never quite disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"drink-type":[],"pairing":[],"class_list":["post-65309","drink","type-drink","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink\/65309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drink"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"drink-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drink-type?post=65309"},{"taxonomy":"pairing","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pairing?post=65309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}