{"id":2465,"date":"2015-09-11T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/report-from-washington-state-wines-dinner\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:19:15","slug":"report-from-washington-state-wines-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/report-from-washington-state-wines-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: Washington State Wines Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2464\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Reds_of_Washington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>(August 11, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> Tonight we learned some interesting facts about Washington state:<\/p>\n<p>The grape make up of Washington is 20% each Riesling, Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.<\/p>\n<p>Syrah is the grape that is making the most in-roads in the state, and is the grape that many would consider the signature of Washington state at this time.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most interesting facts about Washington is that their sandy soils help to combat phylloxera.<\/p>\n<p>As far as their winery stats, they have at present approximately 870 wineries and they are growing at about four wineries per month &#8230; where it levels out, nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/2015\/09\/report-from-washington-state-wines.html\"><em>Click here to see the pictorial evidence and for reviews of the wines tasted.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(August 11, 2015) &#8230; Tonight we learned some interesting facts about Washington state: The grape make up of Washington is 20% each Riesling, Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Syrah is the grape that is making the most in-roads in the state, and is the grape that many would consider the signature of Washington state at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","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\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}