{"id":55,"date":"2008-05-26T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-07-09T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T23:30:35","slug":"pillitteri-estates-takes-gold-for-shiraz-icewine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/pillitteri-estates-takes-gold-for-shiraz-icewine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillitteri Estates takes Gold for Shiraz Icewine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Recently Pillitteri Estates Winery located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada received a Gold Medal from \u201cSyrah du Monde,\u201d for their 2006 Shiraz Icewine. This competition is devoted to Syrah or Shiraz wines. Quality and stiff requirements make this competition highly competitive. The competition itself takes place over two days with wines from 23 countries. This year 128 medals were awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This month I had the opportunity to taste icewines produced from red wines and really enjoyed them. For me there seemed to be more fruit flavors compared to white icewines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you enjoy icewines, which would you rather drink?<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Pillitteri Estates takes Gold for Shiraz Icewine\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=62\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Recently Pillitteri Estates Winery located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada received a Gold Medal from \u201cSyrah du Monde,\u201d for their 2006 Shiraz Icewine. This competition is devoted to Syrah or Shiraz wines. Quality and stiff requirements make this competition highly competitive. The competition itself takes place over two days with wines from 23 countries. This year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[43,62,80],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-icewine","tag-pillitteri","tag-shiraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}