{"id":16174,"date":"2018-12-17T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16174"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:11:52","slug":"alternative-holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/alternative-holiday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Holiday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skip the tie and the socks for those on your holiday gift list this year. That is unless you know someone who just really loves ties or wants socks for Christmas. If you know someone who enjoys cheese; there\u2019s a good chance they enjoy wine as well. So consider a gift of a ticket to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artisancheesefestival.com\">13th Annual California Artisan Cheese Festival<\/a>. The event is held from March 23rd to March 24th in Santa Rosa California.<\/p>\n<p><b>SCHEDULE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Saturday, March 23, 2019<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Farm &amp; Producer Tours<\/i> These tours take place at various locations. Transportation is by Pure Luxury Transportation.<\/li>\n<li><i>Seminars and Pairing Demos<\/i> will be held in the morning and afternoon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><i>Cheese, Bites and Booze<\/i> takes place in the evening. This is a competition with the pairing of a cheesemaker with a chef and cheesemonger. Together they will create a bite and the bite will be paired with \u201cregional wine, cider, spirits and beer.\u201d Those in attendance will be able to vote for their favorite.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sunday, March 24, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><\/i><i>Bubbles and Brunch<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Artisan Cheese Tasting and Market Place<\/i> (\u201cIn this banquet for the senses, the Artisan Marketplace brings together more than 100 artisan cheese and food producers, winemakers, brewers, cider makers, distillers and chefs who will offer their hand-crafted cheeses, and delectable products that complement cheese.\u201d In addition, attendees can purchase many of these find products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets are available now and can be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/13th-annual-california-artisan-cheese-festival-tickets-52889913154#tickets\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the right person, this could be a perfect gift.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Alternative Holiday Gift\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16174\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the holidays, give a cheese lover a ticket to the Annual California Cheese Festival.<\/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":[966,449,184,456,911],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-cheese","tag-christmas","tag-festival","tag-gifts","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","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=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16175,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions\/16175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}