{"id":2779,"date":"2010-10-04T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2010-10-04T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:38:00","slug":"october-is-wine-month-in-texas-virginia-and-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/october-is-wine-month-in-texas-virginia-and-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"October is Wine Month in Texas, Virginia and NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wine friendly states like to have a certain month designated as Wine Month. Earlier this year the governor of California designated September as wine month.<\/p>\n<p>At least three states have designated <strong>October<\/strong> as Wine Month: Virginia, Texas and New York. So what\u2019s a wine lover to do?\u00a0 Below are just a few ideas to consider.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try a      wine from one of these states that you haven\u2019t tried before<\/li>\n<li>Purchase      a bottle of wine from each state and have an at home tasting party with      family and friends. Take notes and see what the consensus is about the      wines.<\/li>\n<li>Have a      blind tasting and see if you can determine which wine came from which      state. The winner can receive perhaps a corkscrew, stemware or gift      basket.<\/li>\n<li>Travelers      can visit wineries in these states. If you are going to spend two or three      days in a state use the itineraries provided by Wine Trail Traveler to      help get you started. Discover these suggestions at <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/itineraries\/tripitineraries.php\">Trip      Itineraries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>During      the month of October order wine online from any of these states. Remember      that some states are wine friendly and support wine shipping and others do      not. Wineries will be helpful to let you know if wine can be shipped      directly to your home. <em>(Maryland state law makes it a felony to ship      wine to your home.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>For      those who like a little more information, delve into the terroir of these      states to discover what affect this has on the wines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you live in or will be visiting Texas, Virginia or New York, experience the local foods and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing to celebrate Wine month in New York, Texas and Virginia?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"October is Wine Month in Texas, Virginia and NY\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2779\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine friendly states like to have a certain month designated as Wine Month. Earlier this year the governor of California designated September as wine month. At least three states have designated October as Wine Month: Virginia, Texas and New York. So what\u2019s a wine lover to do?\u00a0 Below are just a few ideas to consider. [&hellip;]<\/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":[1656,510,1657,765,93],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-wine-month","tag-new-york","tag-october","tag-texas","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","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=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}