{"id":2998,"date":"2010-11-28T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T05:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2010-11-10T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:09:49","slug":"lookout-ridge-winery-donates-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/lookout-ridge-winery-donates-wheelchairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookout Ridge Winery Donates Wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2009 I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/lookoutridge.com\/\">Lookout Ridge Winery<\/a>, a California winery that focuses on supplying wheelchairs to those in need. Since I was very impressed with what was happening at the Lookout Ridge Winery, I decided to check it out once again. Owner, Gordon Holmes, has a deep interest in helping to provide wheelchairs for the underprivileged. Gordon is also a wine enthusiast and appreciates high-end wines.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the Lookout Ridge Winery estate wines, wines are also available that are produced by a \u201cportfolio\u201d of renowned winemakers.\u00a0 These winemakers include Richard Arrowood, Cathy Corison, Marco DiGiulio, Andy Erickson, Greg LaFollette, Drew Neiman, Aaron Pott and Gerhard Reisacher.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the winery\u2019s website will discover that for every bottle of current releases purchased a wheelchair will be donated. Not surprisingly, these wines are not your $20 or $30 bottle of wine. Many of the wines are available in packs of 3, 4, 6 or cases. The current releases are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lookoutridge.com\/index.cfm?method=storeproducts.showList&amp;productcategoryid=6db37d42-d155-7e12-194c-7262db8081d9\">Lookout Ridge Winery website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great gift, for those who have everything. Even more important, it will help to provide a wheelchair to someone in need. A pdf page on the website ends with \u201cBecause of the generosity of wine lovers like you, someone now has mobility and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Lookout Ridge Winery Donates Wheelchairs\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=2998\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2009 I wrote about Lookout Ridge Winery, a California winery that focuses on supplying wheelchairs to those in need. Since I was very impressed with what was happening at the Lookout Ridge Winery, I decided to check it out once again. Owner, Gordon Holmes, has a deep interest in helping to provide wheelchairs [&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":[15,1730,1731,98,104],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-california","tag-lookout-ridge-winery","tag-wheelchairs","tag-wine","tag-winemakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3002,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}