{"id":245,"date":"2010-03-14T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:22:35","slug":"off-travelling-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/off-travelling-again","title":{"rendered":"Off travelling again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Heathrow Terminal 1, off on some more travels. Just a brief four day trip this time, to Portugal and Spain visiting a number of wineries I&#8217;ve not been to before.<\/p>\n<p>I love travelling and visiting vineyards. I always learn lots. While you could be a wine critic just sitting in your office in London tasting wines, I think this would be entirely unsatisying. It&#8217;s only by visiting the vineyards, looking at the vines, meeting the people, getting a flavour for the regions, that you are able to really understand the wines.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to a wine than what is just in the bottle. But, of course, there is the danger that when you taste wines <em>in situ<\/em>, everything tastes good. It&#8217;s important to aim at objectivity, and with experience you tend to be better at this.<\/p>\n<p>If travelling to vineyard regions ever became a chore, or just a job, I think I&#8217;d stop and go and do something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Heathrow Terminal 1, off on some more travels. Just a brief four day trip this time, to Portugal and Spain visiting a number of wineries I&#8217;ve not been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}