{"id":250,"date":"2007-12-01T13:27:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T20:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-09-16T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:17:10","slug":"2007-harvest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"2007 Harvest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word I&#8217;ve gotten from many winemakers around the State is that 2007 may go down as yet another superior vintage for Washington wineries.<\/p>\n<p>I know this sounds like a bit of a broken record, since several people said this same thing about the 2005 and 2006 harvests.  The problem with that?  Absolutely nothing&#8230;it just means that Washington is on a roll, and this year should do nothing to lessen its reputation for producing some of the finest wines in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to Washington Wine Commission Executive Director Robin Pollard, &#8220;&#8230;the 2007 grape crop was stellar, thanks to nearly ideal weather conditions and the ability of Washington growers and vintners to work together on optimum harvest times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final results of the 2007 harvest are now in the hands of the State&#8217;s winemakers.  But given their past track record, I&#8217;m feeling confident that we can look forward to this vintage with eager anticipation.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word I&#8217;ve gotten from many winemakers around the State is that 2007 may go down as yet another superior vintage for Washington wineries. I know this sounds like a bit of a broken record, since several people said this same thing about the 2005 and 2006 harvests. The problem with that? Absolutely nothing&#8230;it just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heard-through-the-grapevine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}