{"id":31,"date":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/about-michael-pinkus-grape-guy\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:00:00","slug":"about-michael-pinkus-grape-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/about-michael-pinkus-grape-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Michael Pinkus : The Grape Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Pinkus (The Grape Guy) is a multi-award-winning wine writer, national and international wine judge, educator, journalist, social-media content maker, host &amp; co-creator of the podcast Two Guys Talking Wine &ndash; plus former President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/winewriterscircle.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wine Writers&rsquo; Circe of Canada<\/a> (2010-2015) and former actor, with his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3909729\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB page<\/a> (thought we&rsquo;d just throw that in for good measure).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His heartfelt and insightful comments, along with his passionate reviews of the wines and the wineries that make them, have earned him praise throughout the Ontario industry and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his writing he&#8217;s been called &#8220;a very knowledgeable and honest taster and writer&#8221;; &#8220;a passionate wine man with a sense of humor&#8221;; and &#8220;a really good wine writer&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his YouTube Channel, he releases two video reviews weekly and is about to embark on his newest endeavour, a monthly whiskey \/ spirits review (wish him luck) &ndash; coming late 2021 or 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael&#8217;s video reviews have been called &ldquo;infectious &#8220;, &#8220;endearing &#8221; and &ldquo;full of passion&#8221;. It has even been said, &ldquo;why this guy has not been picked up for a show is beyond me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his past life Michael was an on-air radio personality, actor and vocal performer (something he still dabbles in today through his company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.customvoicing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Sound Impressions<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through his writing, videos, podcast and everything else Michael does it is his desire to educate, inspire and encourage others to grow their own love, passion and enthusiasm for wine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;__________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact Michael directly: <a href=\"mailto:michael@michaelpinkuswinereview.com\">michael@michaelpinkuswinereview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You can also follow him:<\/strong><br \/>Facebook: (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mepinkus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pinkus<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichaelPinkusWineReview\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pinkus Wine Review<\/a>)<br \/>Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thegrapeguy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Grape Guy<\/a>)<br \/>YouTube: (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MichaelPinkus\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pinkus<\/a>)<br \/>Twitter: (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrapeGuy\" target=\"_blank\">The Grape Guy<\/a>)<br \/>and thru his co-hosted podcast on SoundCloud: (<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/twoguystalkingwine\" target=\"_blank\">Two Guys Talking Wine<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/On_Barrels_-_scaled_for_Website.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"350\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/On_Barrels_-_scaled_for_Website.jpg 350w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/On_Barrels_-_scaled_for_Website-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Michael Pinkus (The Grape Guy) is a multi-award-winning wine writer, national and international wine judge, educator, journalist, social-media content maker, host &amp; co-creator of the podcast Two Guys Talking Wine &ndash; plus former President of the Wine Writers&rsquo; Circe of Canada (2010-2015) and former actor, with his own IMDB page (thought we&rsquo;d just throw [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}