{"id":2865,"date":"2016-10-27T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T21:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:55:47","slug":"in-memoriam-scott-pontin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=2865","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Scott Pontin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Pontin passed away suddenly on September 26, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was a business opera<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThJIas7_wcG6wvCTcC1HHDe6d0aFisSZrXPl7AUb-SvDwh11wF\" alt=\"null\" width=\"172\" height=\"174\" \/>tor and owner of Pontin del Roza Winery in Prosser. I met Scott at the very first wine festival I attended in the Tri-Cities in 1985. At the time, there were only a handful of wineries in the entire state, and the event was held, in of all places, the Columbia Center Shopping Mall in Kennewick.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that the original Pontin label was eye-catching, with it&#8217;s florescent silver and pink label. And Scott&#8217;s wines, particularly his Chenin Blanc, were memorable from the start.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on, Scott was a mainstay in the Washington wine industry over the next three decades and up until the time of his death. He was instrumental in helping establish the Walter Clore Wine &amp; Culinary Center in Prosser, and was actively involved in the local business and wine communities.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was a long-time friend, fellow wine lover, and brother. He will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Pontin passed away suddenly on September 26, 2016. Scott was a business operator and owner of Pontin del Roza Winery in Prosser. I met Scott at the very first wine festival I attended in the Tri-Cities in 1985. At the time, there were only a handful of wineries in the entire state, and the [&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-2865","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\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}