{"id":379,"date":"2009-02-25T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/25\/report-from-cuvee-preview-tasting-february-11-2009-1030am\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T08:02:03","slug":"report-from-cuvee-preview-tasting-february-11-2009-1030am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/25\/report-from-cuvee-preview-tasting-february-11-2009-1030am\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Cuvee Preview Tasting &#8230; February 11, 2009 (10:30am)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBefore the big awards are handed out (<a href=\"http;\/\/www.cuvee.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Gala, February 27, 2009 Fallsview Casino<\/span><\/a>) the press is given a preview of the highest rated wine from each winery.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For those who don&rsquo;t know, Cuvee is the Academy Awards of the Ontario wine industry.&nbsp; Panels of winemakers sit in a room with hundreds of submitted wines, blindly screening the work of their peers.&nbsp; Thing is, because it&rsquo;s blind, y9ou don&rsquo;t know if you voted Slumdog of Benjamin Button until the winners are announced at the Gala event and tasting.&nbsp; Nobody knows the outcome until Price-Waterhouse, or whomever is guarding the Cuvee knowledge, releases it on the big night &#8230; the only thing the press can do is surmise as to who possibly could have won what.&nbsp; Though the wineries do know their top rated wine because they are asked to provide samples for this very tasting.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of wines that impressed me &ndash; full reviews of these wines will be coming to my website (<a href=\"http;\/\/www.ontariowinereview.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.ontariowinereview.com<\/span><\/a>), be featured in an upcoming <a href=\"content\/category\/13\/87\/107\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Weekly Wine Note<\/span><\/a>, or as a Pick of the Bunch in <a href=\"content\/category\/4\/31\/61\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">my newsletter<\/span><\/a> in the coming weeks.&nbsp; All wines that were previously reviewed (before February 25, 2009) are linked for your perusing pleasure &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/report-from-cuvee-preview-tasting.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Read more<\/span><\/a>)&nbsp;\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>Before the big awards are handed out (Gala, February 27, 2009 Fallsview Casino) the press is given a preview of the highest rated wine from each winery.&nbsp; For those who don&rsquo;t know, Cuvee is the Academy Awards of the Ontario wine industry.&nbsp; Panels of winemakers sit in a room with hundreds of submitted wines, blindly [&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-379","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\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}