{"id":7817,"date":"2013-03-26T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2013-03-25T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T01:09:24","slug":"5th-annual-drink-local-wine-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/5th-annual-drink-local-wine-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Drink Local Wine Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7824\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DLW12images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7824\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7824\" title=\"DLW12images\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DLW12images-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DLW12images-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DLW12images.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from DLW Twitter Taste-Off 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> Annual <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinklocalwine.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Drink Local Wine<\/span><\/a><\/span> Conference is scheduled to take place in Baltimore, Maryland on April 13. This year the primary sponsor for the DLW is the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandwine.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Maryland Wineries Association<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The day begins with registration and light refreshments. At 9am Richard Leahy will moderate Session I \u2013 <em>Creating Maryland\u2019s Wine Identity<\/em>. Session II will focus on the issues of <em>Drinking Local<\/em> and Dave McIntyre will moderate this session. Session III will be Kevin Atticks moderating <em>Maryland\u2019s New Guard<\/em>. A TBD session will take place after lunch. The day ends with the Grand Tasting and Twitter Taste-Off from 3 to 6pm. \u00a0The Twitter Taste-Off wines will be from more than 20 Maryland wines.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not too late to signup. Wine enthusiasts can register <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandwine.org\/dlwc13\/register\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">online<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Drink Local Wine Conference began with its first conference in Texas. Each year a different state is chosen for the event and so far have covered Texas, Virginia, Missouri and Colorado. The conference highlights the local wines of a state. Every state has a winery and these conferences provide the opportunity for attendees to learn about the vineyards and the wines.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Maryland vineyards and wineries is growing quickly. To find out the wine industry in Maryland and taste an array of wines produced in Maryland be sure to attend the Drink Local Wine conference.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"5th Annual Drink Local Wine Conference\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7817\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th Annual Drink Local Wine Conference is scheduled to take place in Baltimore, Maryland on April 13. This year the primary sponsor for the DLW is the Maryland Wineries Association.<\/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":[2835,1273,1809],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-dlw","tag-drink-local-wine","tag-maryland-wineries-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","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=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}