{"id":603,"date":"2010-04-16T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T07:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/16\/report-from-hobbs-a-co-annual-portfolio-tasting-april-13-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T07:26:44","slug":"report-from-hobbs-a-co-annual-portfolio-tasting-april-13-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/16\/report-from-hobbs-a-co-annual-portfolio-tasting-april-13-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Hobbs &#038; Co. Annual Portfolio Tasting &#8230; April 13, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis was kind of a big day for me &ndash; I spent most of it sweating the outcome of a mortgage application which finally got approved half-way through this tasting &hellip; did such euphoria affect my judgment?&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t think so &ndash; I still know good wine when I taste it, and I always have an eye for value in the bottle.&nbsp; I made notes on the wines I thought warranted it and left the rest (that&rsquo;s usual for me), therefore it was just another day at the office (so to speak) &ndash; I just have more gray hair, a mortgage and a new home &ndash; hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p>The tasting was broken down by country and I found eight wines to rave about:<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Good News &hellip; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/report-from-hobbs-co-annual-portfolio.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">see what I liked before and after the bank said yes<\/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\">&nbsp;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>This was kind of a big day for me &ndash; I spent most of it sweating the outcome of a mortgage application which finally got approved half-way through this tasting &hellip; did such euphoria affect my judgment?&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t think so &ndash; I still know good wine when I taste it, and I always have [&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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}