{"id":562,"date":"2013-01-11T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:24:41","slug":"masquerade-wine-co-nets-double-gold-at-sf-chronicle-wine-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Masquerade Wine Co. Nets Double Gold at SF Chronicle Wine Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellingham&#8217;s <strong>Masquerade Wine Company<\/strong> earned Double Gold honors at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition for its recently released Effervescing Elephant Sparkling Wine. <\/p>\n<p>Over 5500 wines were judged during the competition. Only eight wines were awarded Best of Class and nine received Double Golds.<\/p>\n<p>A list of winners (along with approximate retail prices) include the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best of Class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Airfield Estates 2011 Barbera, Yakima Valley, $28<br \/>\nBarnard Griffin 2011 Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, $14<br \/>\nGordon Brothers Cellars 2009 Merlot, Columbia Valley, $21<br \/>\nHogue Cellars 2011 Riesling, Columbia Valley, $11<br \/>\nKiona Vineyards Winery 2011 Chenin Blanc, Columbia Valley, $15<br \/>\nMarchesi Vineyards 2010 Nebbiolo, Columbia Valley, $35<br \/>\nSchmidt Family Vineyards 2009 Tempranillo, Southern Oregon, $36<br \/>\nSouth Stage Cellars 2008 Syrah, Rogue Valley, $26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double Gold:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Nicole Cellars 2011 Destiny Ridge Vineyard Grenache, Horse Heaven Hills, $38<br \/>\nBrandborg 2011 Gew\u00fcrztraminer, Umpqua Valley, $18<br \/>\nDel Rio Vineyards 2011 Viognier, Rogue Valley, $20<br \/>\nDiversion Wine NV Riesling, Washington, $15<br \/>\nDusted Valley Vintners 2010 Cabernet Franc, Columbia Valley, $42<br \/>\nMaryhill Winery 2010 Les Collines Vineyard Merlot, Walla Walla Valley, $32<br \/>\nMasquerade Wine Co. NV Effervescing Elephant, Columbia Valley, $35<br \/>\nVerve Wines 2011 Gew\u00fcrztraminer Dessert, Oregon, $22<br \/>\nWillamette Valley Vineyards 2011 Riesling, Willamette Valley, $14<\/p>\n<p>Masquerade Wine Company is located at 2001 Iowa Street in Bellingham and is currently open from 11am to 6pm Wednesday through Sunday. For more information: masqueradewines.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellingham&#8217;s Masquerade Wine Company earned Double Gold honors at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition for its recently released Effervescing Elephant Sparkling Wine. Over 5500 wines were judged during the competition. Only eight wines were awarded Best of Class and nine received Double Golds. A list of winners (along with approximate retail prices) include 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-562","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\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}