{"id":10109,"date":"2014-08-23T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2014-08-23T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:32:29","slug":"pre-harvest-instruction-session-at-messina-hoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/23\/pre-harvest-instruction-session-at-messina-hoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Harvest Instruction Session at Messina Hoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10112\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0378a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10112\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10112\" alt=\"Messina Hof's annual harvest festival in Texas!\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0378a-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0378a-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0378a-1024x663.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0378a.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Messina Hof&#8217;s annual harvest festival in Texas!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Each year at <a href=\"http:\/\/messinahof.com\">Messina Hof Winery &amp; Resort<\/a> in Bryan, Texas near Texas A &amp; M, the winery offers the opportunity for wine lovers to engage in a harvest of the grapes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This morning after breakfast participants went to the event room located over the Messina Hof\u2019s Vintage House Restaurant to receive instructions on how to harvest grapes. A slide presentation was provided by Paul, the son of Paul and Merrill Bonnargio, owners of the winery. Paul opened the session with a Texas \u201cHowdy\u201d and everyone responded.<\/p>\n<p>Paul provided moments of humor during the session and described the wine journey of his parents as well as mentioning the beginning of Messina Hof Winery &amp; Resort and how Paul and Merrill met.<\/p>\n<p>Many items of interest were included in Paul\u2019s presentation including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul and Merrill met while he was trying to sell his house. Merrill was the realtor.<\/li>\n<li>The vineyards were first planted with 50 grape varieties to discover what grapes grow well in the region.<\/li>\n<li>A slide was presented showing the major grape growing regions of Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Paul talked about grapevines, the investment and the hard work involved in vineyards.<\/li>\n<li>Paul noted, \u201cHarvest is the joyest time of the year.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A thorough demonstration of how to harvest a grape bunch was included with safety precautions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our group of between 100 and 200 quickly went to the vineyards and began harvesting Lenoir grapes. These grapes will be used in making Messina Hof\u2019s port-style wines.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Pre-Harvest Instruction Session at Messina Hoff\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10109\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at Messina Hof Winery &#038; Resort in Bryan, Texas near Texas A &#038; M, the winery offers the opportunity for wine lovers to engage in a harvest of the grapes. This morning after breakfast participants went to the event room located over the Messina Hof\u2019s Vintage House Restaurant to receive instructions on how to harvest grapes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2994,1599,782],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-2994","tag-harvest","tag-messina-hof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}