{"id":10144,"date":"2014-08-26T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:24:23","slug":"after-grape-harvest-activities-at-messina-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/after-grape-harvest-activities-at-messina-hof\/","title":{"rendered":"After Grape Harvest Activities at Messina Hof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Immediately after the harvest activity concluded at Messina Hof Winery &amp; Resort, the people who harvested were directed from the vineyard back to the winery for the Big Kahuna contest, annual grape stomp and a wine tasting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">The Big Kahuna contest begins with a selection of the most unique grape clusters. After several people were selected they used their talents to impress the crowd with a talent show. Eventually the winner was chosen by the crowd. The winner won a large, colorful cork Big Kahuna necklace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">In the same winery area, participants were encouraged to take off their shoes, dip their feet in the water and then stomp the grapes. The stomping became intense with the encouragement of the staff. Other staff members guided people through the process which culminated with each stomper stamping their grape covered feet on the back of a white t-shirt that left the print. People were given directions on how to make the image permanent. (The grapes stomped will be used to produce a Messina Hof port-style wine.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">After the grape stomping, \u00a0participants were taken on a tour by Paul Bonarrigo. Then people were encouraged to participate in a wine tasting.\u00a0In the barrel area, Karen Bonarrigo addressed the large group and the Messina Hof wines were poured. Later in the evening the Gala Dinner was held.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10186\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10186\" class=\" wp-image-10186 \" alt=\"Grape stamped t-shirt!\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0456-225x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grape stamped t-shirt!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10175\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10175\" class=\" wp-image-10175 \" alt=\"Stomping the grapes at Messina Hof!\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0445-225x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0445-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0445-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stomping the grapes at Messina Hof!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10185\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10185\" class=\" wp-image-10185 \" alt=\"Grape stamping on a t-shirt at Harvest Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0455-225x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0455-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0455-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grape stamping on a t-shirt at Harvest Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"After Grape Harvest Activities at Messina Hof\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10144\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after the harvest activity concluded at Messina Hof Winery &#038; Resort, the people who harvested were directed from the vineyard back to the winery for the Big Kahuna contest, annual grape stomp and a wine tasting. <\/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":[2085,1599,782,765,98],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-grape-stomp","tag-harvest","tag-messina-hof","tag-texas","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","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=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}