{"id":6718,"date":"2012-08-18T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:59:37","slug":"wbc12-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/wbc12-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC12 Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his keynote address at the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference, Randall Grahm suggested a more philosophical approach to wine discussions. Writers could mention the magic the wine works on us. Randall asked if a wine could be powerful enough to move us to poetry. Poetry was an interesting choice of words. At last year\u2019s Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, I began writing haikus about the wines we tasted. At additional conference I followed the same pattern of dispensing with traditional notes and replace with haiku.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6721\" title=\"081812a\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/081812a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>WBC12 White Wine Haikus<\/p>\n<p><em>Riesling red slate<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dry and Food friendly wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mosel mineral\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Torrontes with shrimp<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fresh clean and begging for food<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nice summer drinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Duas Castas white<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Semillon and Viosinho<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fruity finish dry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lake County Pepi<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sauvignon Blanc aroma<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pair with mowing lawn<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Decibel Sauv Blanc<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hawkes Bay New Zealand white wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tropicals citrus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Va De Vi sparkles<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Touch of Muscat enlightens<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s about the wine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oregon Chard wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Butterscotch citrus and bread<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Refreshing with food<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Evolution fun<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Blend of nine white fruity wines<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A walk around wine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Domaine Du Tarquet<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Classic blend of brandy grapes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wonderful tasting<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Milbrandt Riesling<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dry fruity and chewy wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A favorite white<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"WBC12 Whites\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6718\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his keynote address at the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference, Randall Grahm suggested a more philosophical approach to wine discussions. Writers could mention the magic the wine works on us. Randall asked if a wine could be powerful enough to move us to poetry. Poetry was an interesting choice of words. At last year\u2019s Wine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[2680,266],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-wbc12","tag-white-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}