{"id":15139,"date":"2018-02-27T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2018-02-27T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:37:34","slug":"virginia-governors-cup-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/virginia-governors-cup-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Governor\u2019s Cup Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight in Richmond is the 2018 Virginia Governor\u2019s Cup Gala event. This year 442 wines were entered into the competition from 100 different Virginia wineries. An amazing 99 gold medals were awarded. The gold medal wines fell in certain categories:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 36 gold medals for Bordeaux Blend wines<br \/>\n&#8211; 11 gold medals for Petit Verdots<br \/>\n&#8211; 11 gold medals for Viogniers<br \/>\n&#8211; 8 gold medals for Chardonnays<br \/>\n&#8211; 5 gold medals for Petit Mansengs<br \/>\n&#8211; 3 gold medals for Tannats and three red blends with Tannat<br \/>\n&#8211; 4 gold medals for dessert wines<\/p>\n<p>Many of these gold medal wines will be poured at the Governor\u2019s Gala tonight in Richmond. Kathy and I were invited to attend the event. Yesterday we had an opportunity to taste one of the gold medal wines at Paradise Springs Winery. The PVT was a blend of Petit Verdot and Tannat, two grapes grown in Virginia that I enjoy. The PVT was fruity with a full body and bold tannins.<\/p>\n<p>For a glimpse of the 2018 gold medal winners see below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.07-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15140\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.07-AM.png 656w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.07-AM-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.40-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15141\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.40-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.40-AM.png 660w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.15.40-AM-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.17-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15142\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.17-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.17-AM.png 654w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.17-AM-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15143\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.48-AM.png 652w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-27-at-7.16.48-AM-274x300.png 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Virginia Governor\u2019s Cup Gala\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=15139\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight in Richmond is the 2018 Virginia Governor\u2019s Cup Gala event. This year 442 wines were entered into the competition from 100 different Virginia wineries. An amazing 99 gold medals were awarded. The gold medal wines fell in certain categories: &#8211; 36 gold medals for Bordeaux Blend wines &#8211; 11 gold medals for Petit Verdots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[93,3776,98],"class_list":["post-15139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-governors-cup","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15144,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions\/15144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}