{"id":732,"date":"2010-12-06T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/06\/report-from-south-african-wine-society-holiday-dinner-december-3-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:36:49","slug":"report-from-south-african-wine-society-holiday-dinner-december-3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/06\/report-from-south-african-wine-society-holiday-dinner-december-3-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Report From &#8211; South African Wine Society Holiday Dinner &#8230; December 3, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTonight, I attended the South Africa Wine Society&#8217;s (SAWS) annual holiday dinner, food was decent, the people I met were fun and entertaining, but not as entertaining as their keynote speaker (who happened to be me) &#8230; As a wine writer I was very interested in the wines being poured.&nbsp; As I admitted in my address, on the whole I am not a huge fan of South African wine, I have liked quite a few, but many others have left me very cold with a bitter taste in my mouth.&nbsp; So tonight I wanted to see what the SAWS drinks: do they bring in and sample only the best?&nbsp; Turns out it was a very Graham Beck-centric evening, but their cellar was raided for some real gems &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/south-africa-wine-up-ying-yang-december.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(to read about the wines and see pictures of the evening, click here<\/span><\/a>).&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><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>Tonight, I attended the South Africa Wine Society&#8217;s (SAWS) annual holiday dinner, food was decent, the people I met were fun and entertaining, but not as entertaining as their keynote speaker (who happened to be me) &#8230; As a wine writer I was very interested in the wines being poured.&nbsp; As I admitted in my [&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-732","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\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}