{"id":139,"date":"2007-05-30T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/report-from-wine-a-herb-festival-may-2627-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:48:50","slug":"report-from-wine-a-herb-festival-may-2627-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/report-from-wine-a-herb-festival-may-2627-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Wine &#038; Herb Festival &#8211; May 26\/27, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year, spring and fall, the Wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake (17 of them) band together to showcase the region and the wines. In the fall they have &ldquo;Taste the Season&rdquo; a pairing of wines with seasonal food and treats. In the spring they have the &ldquo;Wine and Herb Festival&rdquo;, where wineries are assigned an herb to pair up with one of their wines. Now I heard three or four different versions of how the wineries get their herb designation: one, is that they are randomly selected out of a hat; another had them submitting wines to a selection committee, who then doled out the herbs based on what goes with what; another said, &ldquo;someone up there hates us, that&rsquo;s why we got stuck with &hellip;&rdquo;. My favourite of all the ways was &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/report-from-wine-herb-festival-may2627.html\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">Read More<\/font><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">To check out the new On the Road With the Grape Guy blog and all&nbsp;the&nbsp;feature articles click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year, spring and fall, the Wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake (17 of them) band together to showcase the region and the wines. In the fall they have &ldquo;Taste the Season&rdquo; a pairing of wines with seasonal food and treats. In the spring they have the &ldquo;Wine and Herb Festival&rdquo;, where wineries are assigned an herb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}