{"id":6152,"date":"2012-04-17T02:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:58:11","slug":"2012-drink-local-wine-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/2012-drink-local-wine-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Drink Local Wine Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference takes place in Denver, Colorado on April 28. The Drink Local Wine Conference began in 2009 and each year the annual Conference takes place in a different state. Previous conferences have taken place in Texas, Virginia and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 sessions include \u201cColorado\u2019s Terroir and the Challenges of High Altitude,\u201d \u201cLocal Food, Local Wine, and Why They Don\u2019t Like Each Other,\u201d and \u201cConsumer Perception of Colorado and Regional Wine.\u201d At noon, there will be a Colorado Blind Challenge followed by lunch and then the Nomacorc-Colorado Twitter Taste-off.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinklocalwine.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Drink Local Wine<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0blog was the brainstorm of Jeff Siegel and Dave McIntyre. Jeff is from Texas and writer of the Wine Curmudgeon blog. Dave is from the East Coast and writes a wine column for the Washington Post as well as writing for numerous wine-related magazines. Drink Local Wine focuses on the 47 less known wine states.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the opportunity to join the 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference in Denver, tickets are available\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinklocalwine.com\/purchase-tickets-for-dlw-2012.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">online<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Watch for the location of the 2013 Conference to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you in Denver!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"2012 Drink Local Wine Conference\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6152\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drink Local Wine Conference to take place in Denver, Colorado.<\/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":[110,811,919],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-drink-local-wine-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","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=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}