{"id":2594,"date":"2011-04-14T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2011-04-14T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:43:23","slug":"iwc-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/iwc-day-4","title":{"rendered":"IWC, day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2600\" title=\"P1110625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1110625-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very tired after today&#8217;s tasting at the International Wine Challenge. RTL woke me up at 0330, and then again at 0400 &#8211; she was barking like a dog possessed, and we don&#8217;t know why. And I was also quite late to bed after my game of football, followed by a few glasses of Central Otago Pinot Noir.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned a few days ago, for the two weeks of the IWC it&#8217;s like having a normal job. Which means no sneaky lie-ins if sleep the previous night is delayed or disturbed. One of the great joys of freelance life is that, on the days when I&#8217;m working from home, I get up when I want to. Which is usually about 0830, to start work at 1000, following a bath and walking the dogs. Luxury.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had another excellent panel of judges to work with. It made for a very pleasant day. 118 wines today, which didn&#8217;t feel too much, beginning with a flight of Rose Champagne, finishing with four Douro Moscatels. Pictured (<em>left to right<\/em>): Anita Jackson, Julia Sevenich (from Austria) and Yegas Naidoo (from South Africa). I&#8217;m the slightly taller one wearing my colours with pride! Thanks to Helen McGinn for the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very tired after today&#8217;s tasting at the International Wine Challenge. RTL woke me up at 0330, and then again at 0400 &#8211; she was barking like a dog possessed,&#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-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","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=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}