{"id":2192,"date":"2015-03-09T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/report-from-montes-dry-farming-initiative-tasting\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:48:03","slug":"report-from-montes-dry-farming-initiative-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/report-from-montes-dry-farming-initiative-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: Montes Dry Farming Initiative Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2191\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DryFarmWines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/>(March 2, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Aurelio Montes Jr. came to town, do da do da &#8230; to promote Montes&#8217; newest initiative: Dry Farming, plus an introduction to one of Montes&#8217; newest wines &#8220;Taita&#8221;, which is in such limited production (200-250 cases) that only 36 bottles are being made available in Canada &#8211; not cases &#8230; bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Aurelio stressed that a winery has to still be on the cutting edge, even if they have been around awhile (Montes recently celebrated 25 years); &#8220;must be aware of what&#8217;s new, what&#8217;s happening and trends,&#8221; he said, to remain relevant in these fast and ever-changing times. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Montes has moved to a different level of sustainability in their winery practices, which looks at 4 major components:&nbsp; environmental, energy, workers and community &#8211; for example, Montes reduced 60% of its energy usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/report-from-montes-dry-farming.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>To read more about this initiative and about the new wines, click here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 2, 2015) &#8230; Aurelio Montes Jr. came to town, do da do da &#8230; to promote Montes&#8217; newest initiative: Dry Farming, plus an introduction to one of Montes&#8217; newest wines &#8220;Taita&#8221;, which is in such limited production (200-250 cases) that only 36 bottles are being made available in Canada &#8211; not cases &#8230; bottles. [&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-2192","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\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}