{"id":7454,"date":"2013-01-15T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2013-01-15T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:05:41","slug":"wine-and-wine-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/wine-and-wine-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine and Wine Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we met with a small group of wine enthusiasts to talk about the state of the wine industry in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>We met at the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Four Seasons Hotel<\/span><\/a><\/span> in the Wit &amp; Wisdom boutique bar. Wit &amp; Wisdom offers a sophisticated but very friendly place to enjoy a drink with a small group of people. It was perfect for our meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had a glass of red or white wine but I decided on a ros\u00e9. I glanced through the menu and noted that the list was comprised mostly of California wines. The wine that caught my eye was an Austrian wine. Since I have not had many Austrian wines I decided to try it. It was a Biohof Pratsch Zweigelt 2011. I\u2019ve had Zweigelt ros\u00e9s before but this one stood out with more nuances on the taste. It was bright, cheerful and enjoyable. A Ros\u00e9 wine, the color was a beautiful deep pink. This dry wine was perfect to sip for our afternoon meeting. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pratsch.at\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Biohof Pratsch<\/span><\/a><\/span>, with organically certified vineyards, is located in the Nieder\u00f6sterreich (Lower Austria) wine region.<\/p>\n<p>Topics covered at our meeting included a look at the wine industry from the point of views of consumers, retailers and importers. Part of the focus was how can a European (or any country) winery gain a foothold in the US market.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Wine and Wine Talk\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7454\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biohof Pratsch Zweigelt and wine talk &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,156],"tags":[2794,2793,2058,98],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-austria","tag-biohof-pratsch-zweigelt","tag-four-seasons","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","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=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}