{"id":8564,"date":"2013-08-29T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:01:29","slug":"maryland-wine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/29\/maryland-wine-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Wine News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8570\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sugarloaf1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8570\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8570\" title=\"sugarloaf1\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sugarloaf1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard, a Maryland winery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, September 3, the 2013 Maryland Wine Governor\u2019s Cup will be presented at the Johns Hopkins\u2019 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museums.jhu.edu\/evergreen.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Evergreen Museum &amp; Library<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0This event is by invitation-only. If you are interested in attending, contact Briana Berg at the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandwine.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Maryland Wineries Association<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Wine Governor\u2019s Cup has been awarded for more than two decades with this being the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0annual event.\u00a0 For this year\u2019s competition, three teams of judges selected from restaurants, retail and press judged the blind competition.<\/p>\n<p>Winemakers from the winning wineries will attend the event and pour wine samples. Light fare including Maryland&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyescreamery.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Keyes Creamery<\/span><\/a><\/span> cheese will be served.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent email from Maryland Wineries Association, Kevin Atticks noted, \u201cAl Spoler, competition director, said that this year&#8217;s competition was one of the most rewarding he&#8217;s ever\u00a0been involved in. &#8220;We are\u00a0witnessing an explosion not only in the number of wineries in the state, but in the\u00a0across-the-board quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First Lady Katie O\u2019Malley will be on hand to present this year\u2019s Maryland Wine Governor\u2019s Cup. Numerous wineries won awards for their wines this year. The Double Gold Medalists were Black Ankle Vineyards, Cascia Vineyards and Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard. To find out the full list of awards contact the Maryland Wineries Association.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Maryland wineries for their hard work in creating quality wines.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Maryland Wine News\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=8564\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 3, the 2013 Maryland Wine Governor\u2019s Cup will be presented at the Johns Hopkins\u2019 Evergreen Museum &#038; Library. <\/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":[2909,1568,48,111],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-first-lady-katie-omalley","tag-governors-cup","tag-maryland","tag-wines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","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=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}