{"id":307,"date":"2008-09-17T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T08:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/report-from-shores-of-erie-international-wine-festival-winemakers-dinner-september-5-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T08:45:32","slug":"report-from-shores-of-erie-international-wine-festival-winemakers-dinner-september-5-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/report-from-shores-of-erie-international-wine-festival-winemakers-dinner-september-5-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Shores of Erie International Wine Festival Winemakers Dinner &#8230; September 5, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe anxious looks on organizers faces could be read from across the room &hellip; this was the &ldquo;first annual&rdquo; winemakers dinner at the festival and guest were arriving, the big night had arrived:&nbsp; the preparation, the hard work all comes down to the next 3 hours.&nbsp; They sold out 15 tables, maxed out seating and the capacity of the tent &ndash; they now awaited the big moment, the start of what they had envisioned months ago.&nbsp; I had been asked to host one of the 15 tables &ndash; with only 13 wineries in the Lake Erie North Shore and a few winemakers indisposed they had some extra tables that needed their guests attended to.&nbsp; So I had to leave my parents (who came down to hear me speak for the first time) and my foodie (Erica) behind to fend for their own dinner (how am I ever going to get a proper take on mushroom and tomato dishes?) and turned my attention and critical eye to this dinner and info-taining the 9 folks at &ldquo;my table&rdquo;&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/report-from-shores-of-erie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Read more<\/span><\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The anxious looks on organizers faces could be read from across the room &hellip; this was the &ldquo;first annual&rdquo; winemakers dinner at the festival and guest were arriving, the big night had arrived:&nbsp; the preparation, the hard work all comes down to the next 3 hours.&nbsp; They sold out 15 tables, maxed out seating [&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-307","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\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}