{"id":2540,"date":"2012-06-03T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:58:27","slug":"2012-winemaker-magazine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2012\/06\/03\/2012-winemaker-magazine-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Winemaker Magazine Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2541\" href=\"\/index.php\/2012\/06\/03\/2012-winemaker-magazine-award\/p1030631\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2541\" title=\"2012 Winemaker Magazine Gold Medal award\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030631-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030631-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030631-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a great time at the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2011\/05\/29\/winemaker-magazine-conference-2011\/\">Winemaker Magazine conference in Santa Barbara last year in 2011<\/a>, I was sorry to miss it this year.\u00a0 But, the Finger Lakes are not exactly driving distance from San Diego!\u00a0 I did get some great news today &#8212; I won a Gold Medal for my 2011 Cellar Craft Gruner Veltliner!  I only entered 2 wines, I also sent in the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2009\/09\/05\/syrah-harvest\/\">2009 Fallbrook Syrah<\/a>, which <a href=\"\/index.php\/2012\/01\/16\/2011-syrah-tasting-and-the-case-of-the-stinky-syrah\/\">I thought was tasting mighty good<\/a>.  Unfortunately the judges did not completely agree, although the scoring did fall in the &#8220;Pleasant&#8221; category.  I could not argue with their assessments, though.  As happy as I am with how this wine has turned around, I do think the subsequent vintages are much better.  It was great to get the scoring sheets back from the judges, it&#8217;s one of the best parts of entering wines in contests like these.\u00a0 The <em>best<\/em> part, of course, is winning that Gold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at the Winemaker Magazine conference in Santa Barbara last year in 2011, I was sorry to miss it this year.\u00a0 But, the Finger Lakes are not exactly driving distance from San Diego!\u00a0 I did get some great news today &#8212; I won a Gold Medal for my 2011 Cellar Craft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,121,135,60,134,136,4,79,62,27,5,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}