{"id":643,"date":"2010-06-22T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/22\/report-from-south-africa-lets-celebrate-june-8-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T09:57:18","slug":"report-from-south-africa-lets-celebrate-june-8-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/22\/report-from-south-africa-lets-celebrate-june-8-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; South Africa, Let\u0092s Celebrate &#8230; June 8, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSouth Africa has a lot of celebrating to do.&nbsp; They are currently hosting the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s game&rdquo; in the form of the FIFA World Cup plus they celebrated their 350th birthday (1659-2009) of winemaking history &hellip; not being a soccer fan that&rsquo;s the one that most interests me.&nbsp; They were also here in Toronto promoting wines that will soon be, or are now, in the LCBO system.&nbsp; 18 wines were tasted, plus a couple others that were snuck in by the producer (they were only suppose to bring one).&nbsp; As usual I boil it down to a handful of must have \/ get wines.&nbsp; This time I give you the top 7, six of which are great value wines, the seventh is very tasty: &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/report-from-south-africa-lets-celebrate.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">find out which wines they were here<\/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>South Africa has a lot of celebrating to do.&nbsp; They are currently hosting the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s game&rdquo; in the form of the FIFA World Cup plus they celebrated their 350th birthday (1659-2009) of winemaking history &hellip; not being a soccer fan that&rsquo;s the one that most interests me.&nbsp; They were also here in Toronto promoting wines [&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-643","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\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}