{"id":9991,"date":"2014-07-31T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2014-07-31T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:39:36","slug":"focus-on-maryland-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/focus-on-maryland-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Maryland Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9993\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sugarloaf2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9993\" alt=\"Maryland vineyards\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sugarloaf2.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland vineyards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Focus on Maryland Wine<\/p>\n<p>Each year the number of wineries opening up in Maryland increases.\u00a0 While a few are closed to the public, many are open to the public. Wine tourists will enjoy a variety of different types of wine tasting experiences. Look for boutique elegant tasting rooms to the more rustic tasting rooms, each with its own charm. Other winery tasting rooms offer large spacious rooms. Many of Maryland\u2019s wineries offer special public events and private events throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/marylandwine.com\/\">Maryland Wineries Association<\/a> has a great informational website for wine lovers. In addition one of the pages allows wine enthusiasts to sign up to work at wine festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know Maryland wine?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Maryland has 62 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Maryland has six wine trails\n<ul>\n<li>Frederick Wine Trail (5 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Patuxent Wine Trail (9 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Piedmont Wine Trail (9 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Antietam Highlands Wine Trail (5 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Carroll Wine Trail (4 wineries)<\/li>\n<li>Chesapeake Wine Trail (13 wineries)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Red Varieties Growing in Maryland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Barbera, Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Petit Verdot, Norton, Chambourcin, Blaufrankisch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">White Varieties Growing in Maryland<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Vidal, Symphony, Vidal and Seyval<\/p>\n<p>Wine Trail Traveler has visited many of these Maryland wineries and written articles about them. Photos and articles about these Maryland wineries are available <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/maryland\/maryland.php\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Focus on Maryland Wine\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=9991\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on Maryland Wine<\/p>\n<p>Each year the number of wineries opening up in Maryland increase.  While a few are closed to the public, many are open to the public. <\/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":[830,48,98,573,3759],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-grape-varieties","tag-maryland","tag-wine","tag-wine-trails","tag-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","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=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}