{"id":996,"date":"2012-06-08T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/08\/report-from-new-zealand-wine-fair-toronto-may-10-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:56:32","slug":"report-from-new-zealand-wine-fair-toronto-may-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/08\/report-from-new-zealand-wine-fair-toronto-may-10-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; New Zealand Wine Fair, Toronto &#8230; May 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It started with a seminar about New Zealand Pinot Noir and ended with a wrath of Sauvignon Blancs &#8230; but this year I did not fall into the Savvy B trap, I decided that New Zealand must be doing something other than the goosy and grassy grape and so I set my sights on tasting everything but Sauvignon Blanc (and Pinot Noirs during the general walk around tasting) &#8230; this decision made the room much more manageable, the tasting much quicker and I didn&#8217;t need a follow-up appointment at the dentist the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The Seminar &#8230; Pinot Noir<br \/>A comparative tasting of two wines from different regions within New Zealand &#8230; 60% of all the red grapes grown in New Zealand is Pinot Noir and in 2011 they shipped 1 million cases of Pinot Noir globally, so the grape is having an impact on their industry:<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/2012\/06\/report-from-new-zealand-wine-fair.html\" target=\"_blank\">to see how the wines paired up and my take on the rest of the wines at the show, click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/\">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>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with a seminar about New Zealand Pinot Noir and ended with a wrath of Sauvignon Blancs &#8230; but this year I did not fall into the Savvy B trap, I decided that New Zealand must be doing something other than the goosy and grassy grape and so I set my sights on tasting [&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-996","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\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}