{"id":2581,"date":"2011-04-12T21:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2011-04-13T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:30:58","slug":"day-2-at-the-iwc-an-enjoyable-day-of-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/day-2-at-the-iwc-an-enjoyable-day-of-tasting","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 at the IWC &#8211; an enjoyable day of tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2586\" title=\"IMAG0281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMAG0281-400x253.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 of the International Wine Challenge has finished, and I&#8217;m beginning to get in the swing of things.<\/p>\n<p>Just as an athlete gets into shape through training, I reckon wine tasters can get their palates sharper through intensive tasting. Not that I&#8217;d claim to be some Olympic-level taster. That would be ludicrous. It&#8217;s just that by the end of two weeks tasting like this, assessing wines quickly and accurately is a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s tasting was great fun, largely because the panel I was tasting on was so engaging. We had some quality banter. I think we also did a good job assessing the 95 wines that passed our table. One of the reasons I think the IWC works well is that the tasters are carefully chosen for their ability to work as a team, as well as for their palates. It certainly felt like teamwork today.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured above: Christos Ioannou, Anne Jones and Ben Campbell-Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the International Wine Challenge has finished, and I&#8217;m beginning to get in the swing of things. Just as an athlete gets into shape through training, I reckon&#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-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","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=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}