{"id":347,"date":"2008-12-13T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/13\/report-from-wrapped-up-in-the-valley-november-29-30-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:17:51","slug":"report-from-wrapped-up-in-the-valley-november-29-30-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/13\/report-from-wrapped-up-in-the-valley-november-29-30-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Wrapped Up in the Valley &#8230; November 29-30, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI can&rsquo;t get to them all &hellip; honest I can&rsquo;t; but I had every intention of going to the Wrapped up in the Valley event on the weekend of November 29 and 30.&nbsp; But as luck would have it I was called away to help someone move; in retrospect I would have preferred to go to the winery events &hellip; but sometimes you must make sacrifices &ndash; especially if you ever want her to talk to you again, plus it was my foodie, Erica, who was moving, and a wine a food event just wouldn&rsquo;t be the same without someone to bounce opinions off of.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUpon my return I got an email from Fred Couch, a member of the Ontario Wine Society, and in it he wrote: &ldquo;Did you do any of the Twenty Valley &quot;Wrapped up in the Valley&quot; passport events?&nbsp; This, by far, has to be the best-valued passport event.&nbsp; We visited 9 wineries today with friends and all did a wonderful job.&nbsp; Great food and wine pairing and an edible treat to take home &hellip; (slags another festival here) &hellip;&nbsp; We still have 3 more wineries to visit tomorrow to finish off the passport.&nbsp; What a treat.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI emailed back and forth with Fred for several days and finally said to him:&nbsp; &ldquo;seems like I should have gone, for sure next year, but would you mind giving me a little write-up of your experience&rdquo;.&nbsp; I have never known Fred to be as talkative as he is in the article below.&nbsp; Thanks Fred &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/report-from-wrapped-up-in-valley.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:\/\/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; I can&rsquo;t get to them all &hellip; honest I can&rsquo;t; but I had every intention of going to the Wrapped up in the Valley event on the weekend of November 29 and 30.&nbsp; But as luck would have it I was called away to help someone move; in retrospect I would have preferred to [&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-347","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\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}