{"id":911,"date":"2012-01-30T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/report-from-verona-italy-day-3-winery-tours-sunday-january-29-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:49:32","slug":"report-from-verona-italy-day-3-winery-tours-sunday-january-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/report-from-verona-italy-day-3-winery-tours-sunday-january-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; Verona, Italy &#8211; Day 3: Winery Tours &#8230; Sunday January 29, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Day 3.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s up at the crack of dawn to jump on some buses and tour the wineries of the area.\u00a0 We have three days of this upcoming.\u00a0 We thankfully have broken down into smaller groups of about 7 or 8 so we don&#8217;t descend en-mass at a winery &#8211; many of which, we have found out, can accommodate these small numbers but not many more.\u00a0 This makes it easy for us to taste wine and have more one on 8 conversations with the winery principals, than a gaggle of reporters shouting questions (yes, any more than 10 is considered a &#8220;gaggle&#8221;.\u00a0 The big question about today was the church visits &#8230; on the schedule were 5 churches and only 4 wineries &#8211; made us think the trip was being partially funded by the Catholic Church, so I guess a thank you to the Pope is in order.\u00a0 Interesting to note that all of the churches we visited throughout the day were closed &#8230;a closed church?\u00a0 On a Sunday?\u00a0 It was hard for many of us to believe.\u00a0 Below I will continue my photographic journey through Italy with comments about the pictures and in some cases, between pictures (27,000 words were saved by showing you these).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/report-from-verona-italy-day-3-winery.html\" target=\"_blank\">To see the pictures and the stories from Day 3, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s up at the crack of dawn to jump on some buses and tour the wineries of the area.\u00a0 We have three days of this upcoming.\u00a0 We thankfully have broken down into smaller groups of about 7 or 8 so we don&#8217;t descend en-mass at a winery &#8211; many of which, we [&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-911","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\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}