{"id":35,"date":"2026-10-01T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:45:41","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonwine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_2201.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5525200188412625;width:331px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Photo courtesy of washingtonwine.org<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Greetings Wine Lovers!<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready for some great wines from Washington and the Pacific Northwest? I&#8217;ve got plenty of recommendations to share from this award-winning wine region in a variety of styles, flavor profiles and price ranges that should make any wine enthusiast happy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, my website will give you the latest on the Pacific Northwest Wine Competition, a fundraising event based in Walla Walla, Washington which I&#8217;ve helped produce annually since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition showcases some of the best wineries from within the region and provides participants with medals and point scores that serve as great promotional and marketing tools for their wines. You&#8217;ll find many of these included in the &#8220;New Northwest Wine Recommendations&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com.dream.website\/contact\/\"><strong>email me<\/strong><\/a> at <strong>dan@danthewineguy.com<\/strong> if you have questions, comments, or suggestions. Linger, browse and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>Dan the Wine Guy<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Wine Lovers! Are you ready for some great wines from Washington and the Pacific Northwest? I&#8217;ve got plenty of recommendations to share from this award-winning wine region in a variety of styles, flavor profiles and price ranges that should make any wine enthusiast happy.\u00a0 In addition, my website will give you the latest on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stickyposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}