{"id":1348,"date":"2010-10-05T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2010-10-05T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:38:36","slug":"on-my-way-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/on-my-way-to-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"On my way to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m off to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>As I type, I&#8217;m sitting in the Star Alliance lounge, and it feels a bit naughty because I&#8217;m actually flying economy class.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that I fly so often, my Kris Air Gold Elite status gets me into business class lounges, and lets me jump the queue at check-in. I&#8217;ll still have to slum it in row 65, but will have been pre-mellowed by a few glasses of half-decent wine and a bit of a feed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to have a pre-flight shower. This will mean I&#8217;m a bit less grimy when I hit the road in the morning. Little things like this make the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the visit? I&#8217;m giving a couple of talks at the Sauvignon Blanc Interest Group seminar on Thursday. I think they were short of international visitors, so they used me! Anyway, it looks like being a really good meeting, and on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday I&#8217;ll be visiting some of the cooler-climate regions that I&#8217;ve not been to before. I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I must write my talks. One is on Sauvignon Blanc around the world (I&#8217;ve selected 12 fine examples to taste blind), and the other is on oxygen and closures, as they relate to Sauvignon. Think geeky. Think very geeky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m off to South Africa. As I type, I&#8217;m sitting in the Star Alliance lounge, and it feels a bit naughty because I&#8217;m actually flying economy class. It&#8217;s just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}